In the wake of the attacks on September 11‚ 2001‚ the United States faced many challenging decisions. The consequences of these decisions would shape the country from that day forward. However‚ there was one decision that made the rest infinitely simpler by providing information to key government officials. That was the decision to use Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) on those detained as suspected terrorists. EITs take many forms such as waterboarding‚ forced stress positions‚ and humiliation
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Power in Play Isabel Allende‚ a contemporary writer‚ stated “what [she] fear[s] most is power with impunity. [She] fear[s] abuse of power and the power to abuse.” (Tales of Passion‚ IsabelAllende.com) I understand her fear as throughout the plays and articles we have read‚ there was a pattern of abuse of power with those whom had it. When someone (or an entity) is given unlimited power‚ is he asked to sign that he will use abuse that power and disregard what’s right? With the help of four plays/essays/articles
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Week 1: Thursday September 4‚ 2014 Diversity: Reality‚ Concepts‚ History and Perspectives Concepts and Reality of Diversity Meaning of diversity Mixture Assortment Difference (deviation from the ‘normal’ or ‘expected’) Variety (of something) Cultural heterogeneity Social inclusivenessNote: Commitment to diversity management is important. Reality of diversity A changing world (different groups living together) Aboriginal people’s demands (rights‚ political communities etc.) Quebec’s
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The Standford Prison Experiment Introduction Professor Philip Zimbardo led a team of researchers in conducting an experiment on prison life at Standford University in 1971. Zimbardo wanted to test his hypothesis that it was the prisoners and guards inherent personality trait that leads to abusive and violent behavior in the prisons. Twenty-four predominately white male middle class men agreed to participate in a 7-14 day experiment in return for $15.00 a day‚ the equivalent of approximately $90
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to be “torture” per se‚ but for the sake of argument will consider them so. Personally‚ I believe I would have to take a Christian-principle based approach to the issue according with my faith. I believe that if I were to rank the morality of each situation‚ torture and the potential loss or saving of life based on the information I could acquire‚ I would place the lives of the innocent above the moral quandary of torturing another. I do not believe it would conflict with my faith to torture the terrorist
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Led by Mr. Bernstein‚ the group of individuals heading the project had made repeated claims of torture at Guantanamo Bay‚ and generally undermined the efforts the United States. The political biases of these men were profound and apparent in their careers and interests. Tom Bernstein founded the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex
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In Hannah Arendt’s book Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ Arendt gives an account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann and provides analysis of the case‚ focusing on the question of Eichmann’s conscience. Arendt believes that the judges missed the “greatest moral and even legal challenge of the whole case”: Eichmann’s inability to tell right from wrong. Her argument that Eichmann’s conscience was “quieted” due to the influence of his social environment‚ peers‚ and superiors is convincing‚ and as I read Eichmann in
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Watergate Paper April Overstreet HIS/145 October 24‚ 2011 Jerome Reilly Watergate Paper “On Oct. 20‚ 1973‚ in the so-called “Saturday Night Massacre‚” President Richard M. Nixon abolished the office of special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox‚ and accepted the resignation of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson and fired Deputy Attorney General William B. Ruckelshaus for their refusal to fire Mr. Cox. The president took the action to prevent Mr. Cox from obtaining audiotapes of White
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Throughout history‚ war has been in direct relation to the patriarchal noble duty and thus to the masculine central character which goes back to the "White man’s burden". That figure depends on a secondary character more vulnerable and backward. This stereotypic division legitimizes the intervention of the masculine character to civilize the lands of the secondary character instead of soldier’s protection of his homeland as the true mission of the soldier. In a highly controversial article entitled
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Essays on Terrorism Benjamin Kuipers‚ PhD‚ Professor‚ Computer Sciences‚ University of Texas at Austin The following three essays discuss the causes and cures for terrorism. They were written at particular points in time and include references to specific events‚ but the principles they describe are timeless‚ I believe. “How to Defeat Terrorism” was written in May 2004‚ at a time when the U.S. occupation of Iraq could see no light at either end of the tunnel. “Identifying Terrorists as a Diagnosis
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