The Controversy of Obedience A classic experiment on the natural obedience of individuals was designed and tested by a Yale psychologist‚ Stanley Milgram. The test forced participants to either go against their morals or violate authority. For the experiment‚ two people would come into the lab after being told they were testing memory loss‚ though only one of them was actually being tested. The unaware individual‚ called the “teacher” would sit in a separate room‚ administering memory related
Premium Stanford prison experiment Milgram experiment Psychology
Motivation for Investments Companies make investments for at least three reasons. First‚ companies transfer excess cash into investments to produce higher income. Second‚ some entities‚ such as mutual funds and pension funds‚ are set up to produce income from investments. Third‚ companies make investments for strate gic reasons. Short-Term Investments Cash equivalents are investments that are both readily converted to known amounts of cash and mature within three months. Many investments‚ however
Premium Balance sheet Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Inventory
Traffic in Viet Nam When thinking about traffic‚ I’ve a funny imagination of circulatory system. We need circulatory system to pass nutrients‚ blood cells‚ hormones through the human body‚ so does with the traffic. Traffic is one of the most important thing that every countries must pay much concern. And traffic in Viet Nam‚ what we’ve done in 10 years? 1 Good and bad improvements We should talk about the good first: For 10 years‚ we completed some main roads contributing to the socio- economic
Premium Automobile Road Economy
Leadership Styles Kaye Chipman DeVry University HIST415 Vietnamese History Professor Grimm Summer Session A 2013 May 19‚ 2013 Leadership Styles “Ho Chi Minh ’s Communist ideology was flexible enough to serve his purposes. In any case‚ he was never the doctrinaire‚ and always much more a political activist whose strong will was directed at the goal of the independence and unification of Vietnam.” (Kirkpatrick‚ 2006) Lecture and readings have taught us that Ho Chi Minh was charismatic and
Free Vietnam War Ho Chi Minh Vietnam
Your name is very important. It’s how you identify yourself. It’s how other people identify you. Elton John was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight. Can you image someone famous with the name like that? He had to change it. Marilyn Monroe sounds so much more glamorous than Norma Jean Baker. So how do parents make one of the most important decision in the lives of their children – giving a name Some parents choose names because they are fashionable. Other parents do the opposite and call the children unusual
Premium Marilyn Monroe
Appendix line. A dig. An archaeologist can explain. The walk is slow at first Easy‚ a little black marble wall Of a dollhouse‚ A smoothness‚ a shine The boys in the street want to give. One name. And then more Names‚ long lines‚ lines of names until They are the shape of the U.N. building Taller than I am: I have walked Into a grave. And everything I expect has been taken away‚ like that‚ quick: The names are not alphabetized. They are in the order of dying. An alphabet of
Premium High school Middle school Secondary school
The Vietnam War shook the nation to its core. Ever since the end of World War II‚ American Presidents tried to stop the rise of communism in Southeast Asia. This effort grew to considerable proportions in the 1960s. Eventually‚ the United States sent three million soldiers to Vietnam‚ losing nearly 60‚000 of them. The United States dropped three times more bomb tonnage on Vietnam than all sides had used in World War II. This enormous display of military power did not bring victory. Moreover‚ the
Premium
How effective were the us tactics of search and destroy and defoliation in the Vietnam war? During the Vietnam War‚ the tactic of Search and destroy was overall - an ineffective tactic to use. Though the tactic of search and destroy did manage to achieve some minor successes‚ the overall outcome achieved the complete opposite of the US government’s goal which was merely to prevent the spread of communism. The reason search and destroy was used was because of many things. The major cause for the
Premium Vietnam War Vietnam World War II
By political system we mean the system of government in a nation (Hill‚ 2007). Supposedly‚ Vietnam’s reform approach based on history above followed “step-by-step” migration to more market based mechanisms of political‚ legal and economic environment rather than quick “big bang” changes (Herold‚ 2004). Initially‚ the persistent division among the political among the political elite has so far prevented the leadership from clear direction and objective setting (Herold‚ 2004). A key feature of state
Premium Government Political philosophy Change
of their troops. This was called Vietnamization. After Nixon announced a new eight point plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam the process began and by 1972 almost all American troop were out. Only 1500 North Vietnam civilians were killed during the entire war but Senator George McGovern lied to NBC and said that it was the most murderous aerial bombardment in the history of the world. In the fall of 1969 the Pentagon revealed that during the Tet offence American soldiers had entered a village
Premium United States Vietnam War Cold War