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    Plato establishes a cave in which prisoners are chained down and forced to look upon the front wall of the cave. In "Allegory of the Cave" there there are two elements to the story; the fictional metaphor of the prisoners‚ and the philosophical opinion in that the allegory is supposed to represent‚ hence presenting us with the allegory itself. The complex meanings that can be perceived from the "Cave" can be seen in the beginning with the presence of the prisoners who are chained in the darkness

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    Life of Ivan Denisovich‚ the prisoners have been physically imprisoned in a Russian labor camp. The main character‚ Ivan Denisovich‚ has been sent to serve for eight years . In the camps‚ prisoners have no rights; it is cold; there is much intense labor; they are not fed sufficiently; and their lives revolve around survival. The prisoners work hard without any freedoms and gain nothing but personal satisfaction from the hard hours of labor. Everyday‚ the prisoners must fight for their survival

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    placed by a munitions factory by the city Dachau. It is nearly 10 miles from Munich‚ Germany. In the first year there were 4‚800 prisoners. The first prisoners were German Communists‚ Social Democrats‚ Trade Unionists‚ and other opponents of the Nazis. During 1937 the SS made the prisoners construct a large group of buildings on the grounds of Dachau. The prisoners were forced to do this‚ they began by breaking down the old munitions factory. They finished building the complex in the middle

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    the prisoner’s medical care and providing equal protection. However‚ prisoners should not be given unlimited privacy or communication with others outside of the prison. A potential legal issue that could arise when taking an individual into custody is the grounds for the arrest and the rights of the prisoners being violated. From

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    of guard and prisoner. Participants: 21 males from over 70 volunteers were chosen and paid $15 for each day. Students were randomly assigned to play a different role. Procedure: Zimbardo converted the basement of the Stanford Psychology building into a mock prison. Advertised for students to play either a role of prison guard or prisoner for 2 weeks. Guards were also issued a khaki uniform‚ together with whistles‚ handcuffs and dark glasses‚ to make eye contact with prisoners impossible.

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    choice because of the events that occurred during the short time that experiment ran in. The experiment ran and quickly became more than expected by the research team; prisoners became children‚ guards became sadistic monsters and hell itself happened. The connection between reality and role-playing quickly happened as guards and prisoners alike assumed their roles in the simulated prison life. Peer pressure played a major role in the experiment for it showed that within the conditions it could control

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    experiment was a study of psychological effects and what the effects could do to a prisoner and prison guard. The experiment was taken placed at Stanford University from August fourteenth to the twentieth in 1971‚ which was led by a professor named Philip Zimbardo. US Navy and Marine Corps was very interested in the experiment and wanted to know the cause and effects it could have on a military guard and prisoner. So the US Office of Naval Research funded money toward the experiment. Out of seventy-five

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    perspective of a guard ordered to take a prisoner to the gallows for hanging as a result of an unknown crime. Throughout the essay Orwell uses symbolism of life and death to convey his animosity towards the capital punishment through the perspective of a guard in Burma during British Imperialism. “A Hanging” a hanging by George Orwell uses examples of life and death to assert Orwell’s distain towards capital punishment before the hanging of the prisoner‚ at the gallows‚ and after the hanging.

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    Prisoners in the Stanford Prison Experiment are ethically required to have the option to leave the experiment‚ but are nonetheless trapped because they are in a simulated prison with small cells. To quote the website Zimbardo and others designed‚ the “prison was constructed by boarding up each end of a corridor in the basement of Stanford’s Psychology Department building. That corridor was "The Yard" and was the only outside place where prisoners were allowed to walk‚ eat

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    The freed prisoner is often interpreted as a direct representation of a philosopher. After the freed prisoner escapes from the darkness of the cave‚ he witnesses the sun‚ which is seen as a notion of knowledge and enlightenment (Meinwald). Like a philosopher‚ the prisoner learns to set aside their prior beliefs in order to contemplate their new version of reality. After becoming fully acclimated with the nature of the sun‚ the freed prisoner reaches the conclusion that the sun

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