This relates back to the experiment, because the participants obeyed even though they knew it was not right to shock the learners, and King probably would have encouraged the participants to stop. Moreover, King strongly disagrees that the government should have the authority to guide people when there are many wrongdoings in the governmental system. His ideal social relations are far from dependent on obedience because he believes everyone to be equal. Also, he knows that total obedience often lead to tragedies like the segregation and racism that African-American are suffering from. Milgram’s conclusion really advocates King’s belief, because the surprising conclusion of obedience to authority is what King does not believe to be the way of social relations.
Jefferson explains that the government should only interfere with religious freedom when it inferences with someone else’s natural right; thusly making the separation of church and state not absolute. Kennedy misinterpretation is unethical because it causes citizens to falsely believe that their religious freedom cannot be taken away. Romney misuses his information when he argues “[w]e should acknowledge the Creator as did the Founders –in ceremony and word. Romney is correct that a one of the Founders, such as Jefferson states [w]ell aware that Almighty God hath created the mind free...”. Jefferson does acknowledge that there is a God or Creator that gave human beings the freedom of thought.
1. In “Corn-Pone Opinions”, Twain’s purpose is to make known his position on how people’s thoughts and actions are tremendously influenced by others. 2. By changing from using the personal pronoun “I” to using “we”, Twain succeeds in first making known his opinion and then addressing everyone as a collective group in order to support his point. 3.
He eventually finds his own morals and tells himself what is right and what is wrong. Part of this realization came from him helping Jim, which troubled his mind because of what society said about helping him. But he then based his decision to help on his own experiences and logic. That is kind of what Fahrenheit 451 puts forth. But instead of trying to gain knowledge it is being destroyed, all because society is trying to promote ignorance which causes sameness in all.
One negative aspect to his essay would have to be his bias toward conservatives and the rich. He deliberately labels out the rich in many of his examples by pointing out how they claim to be Christian but do not wish to help aid the poor. As for conservatives, he not only points out George W. Bush but refers at times to religion as “conservative religion.” This clearly shows his bias toward them and could be a way for him to associate them with the American Christianity problem. I believe McKibben has a great point on this issue. As American Christians, we always believe that if we do good deeds or help ourselves we go to heaven.
As Quoted in Millers book by the Character Mr. Hale, he states:” We must not blame each other but fear god and his Wrath.” This quote helps us to understand that we cannot blame others but must go through what trails an tribulations that god has intended. Mr. Hale also goes onto say that “we must look into ourselves to find what has thy done to anger god.” With all accusations going around our ancient society there is always going to be a minority in society. Lastly the connections with the McCarthy era and the people of Salem portrayed in Arthur Miller’s play of the Crucible are the impact of the government and the opinions of society. The government in tiny ways gives the public an image of what a problem is and then follows public opinion for popularity. A great example of this is given by Miller’s Character Reverend Paris a minister in Salem that is blaming others so that his reputation may not ceed.
How far does the evidence of sources 1, 2 and 3 suggest that the early sixteenth century church exploited people’s religious faith to increase its own wealth? Explain your answer, using the evidence of sources 1, 2 and 3. The 3 sources all differ in the extent to which they suggest that during the sixteenth century the church exploited people’s religious faith to increase its own wealth. Source one agrees with this idea, which we immediately deduce because we are told the writer of the source, Anti- cleric, Simon Fish, attacks the church in his pamphlet making us conclude that the source will be from biased viewpoint, against the church. By describing the priests as ‘ravenous wolves’, suggests hatred towards the church, and due to how bold and vivid this description is, implies really negative connotations of how severe the exploitation was.
The town of Hillsboro knows only of a few ideas: religious concepts and the act of ignorantly following, not leading. A town that lives by religion, they see evolutionists as “sinners and infidels (15).” Like Mr. Drummond says, people are allowed to think. However, when did following the ideas of others actually count as thinking for oneself? Any roaming thoughts are shot down by a group effort connected to one individual. The so-called “leaders” of Hillsboro hide behind the Bible and hold themselves up as symbols of society.
Werking argues that Mather's role in Salem must be reconsidered, not by using the traditional arguments for his relative innocence or guilt, but by exploring the social climate of the times and Mather's own personal struggle for balance (p 283). Werking’s essay is full of analysis of Mather’s texts, and the analysis of others who have analyzed Mather’s text portraying Cotton Mather as a concerned reverend who merely wanted to help his congregation and warn others of a particular ailment -
Relativism In psychology, the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is a cognitive preference whereby a person tends to overestimate how much other people agree with him or her. There is a tendency for people to assume that their own opinions, beliefs, preferences, values and habits, are 'normal' and that others also think the same way that they do. In The Crucible, this false-consensus is relevant. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the town’s religious authorities do the governing. God needs men on earth to do his work of justice, and Hathorne, Danforth, Hale, and Parris are all part of that system.