December 8, 2011 A Comparative Critique of “The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror” and “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism” The subject of obedience to authority to the point where a human would cause physical harm to another human has been greatly debated among modern critics. In his article “The Genocidal Killer in the Mirror”, Crispin Sartwell suggests that the average ordinary citizen will participate in mass genocide. In contrast, “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism” by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak focuses on the response of soldiers in the military to their superiors. Both articles cover ground dealing with man’s response to social consensus and obedience. In contrast, however, Sartwell’s article focuses primarily upon the civilian aspect of obedience, whereas Szegedy-Maszak focuses more upon the military aspect.
The students will be conducting research in a small group setting on some basic facts about the Navajo Indians and presenting their findings to the class when they are done. I will be utilizing a KWL chart and a graphic organizer in the lesson for students to structure their learning and to add any background knowledge they may have on Navajo Indians. The lesson begins with starting a KWL
The ones that are against racial profiling have thought of an alternative solution, which is behavioral profiling. Behavioral profiling, hence the name, means to base the law enforcers' suspicion according to that person’s behavior instead of race. With this more effective system, it balances our protection from both terrorism and violating someone’s civil rights. One reasonable example on why we shouldn’t racial profile is the popular bomber in United Kingdom, Richard Reid, who doesn’t fit the profile that they have created for terrorists. Individuals have also made good arguments about the negative outcome that racial profiling might bring to our society.
Heid 1 Jennifer Heid Professor Harris English 1000 29, February, 2014 Final Draft Do you think there could be another event like the holocaust due to the amount of Obedience to an Authority figure? In Philip Meyers article, “If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You?” A social psychologist named Stanly Milgram, working at Yale at the time, put his theory on obedience to the test. Milgram uses cause and effect to find his theory. Milgram uses actors to act a scene where the “ learner’ gets electrocuted by the “teacher” to show obedience to the authority figure. In addition, in Milgram’s theory of obedience, he uses “teachers,” which are the “subject” to authority.
These experiments offer a powerful and disturbing look into the power of authority and obedience. Milgram’s experiment explains how far people will go in pleasing their authority figure even if it means ignoring their own beliefs and morals. Because the two Marines are brought into situation where obedience is expected, even when it goes against personal morals, Dawson and Downey were ordered to perform an illegal act called “Code Red,” which requires them to assault a fellow Marine. In A Few Good Men, two Marines, LCpl Dawson and PFC Downey, are order to do a “Code Red” by Lt Kendrick. Kendrick was previously been ordered by Col Jessup.
This is exactly what the Nazi troops or the Germans had to do to obey their higher power. The person conducting the experiment has interests to give orders to the teacher to conflict pain on the learner if the learner gets a wrong answer. This is exactly the same orders Hitler would give to his soldiers to hurt or exterminate the Jews. Even is the teacher didn’t want to hurt the learner, the person conducting the experiment would tell the teacher he is not held responsible to the wrong doing on the learner. With that the teachers would proceed.
In Stanley Milgram’s experiments, people torn between obeying an experimenter and responding to another’s pleas to stop the shocks usually chose to obey orders, even though obedience supposedly meant harming the other person. People were most likely to obey when the person giving orders was nearby and was perceived as a legitimate authority figure; when the person giving orders was supported by a prestigious institution; when the victim was depersonalized or at a distance; and when no other person modeled defiance by
In 1964 he was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science's (AAAS) prize for research, and his work was seminal for psychological studies about obedience to authority. However, his experiments were also highly criticized for being unethical. Diana Baumrind was one of the first to argue that Milgram's experiment did not provide adequate measures to protect participants from the stress and realization that they were capable of brutal actions; that the entire experiment should have been terminated at the first indication of discomfort in the participants; and that because of the intensity of the experience, participants would be alienated from future participation in psychological research. Others, such as H. C. Kelman, argued that the use of deception in these experiment were not necessary because other, non-deceptive methods could have obtained similar results. Milgram defended his work, arguing that adequate measures were indeed taken to protect participants; participants could withdraw from the study at any time; and that the deception was explained at the conclusion of the experiment.
Probably” was an experiment that actually lead to people electrocuting a poor innocent man. In the late seventy’s Stanley Milgram decided to do an experiment which would tell the difference in whom was more obedient Americans or Germans. This experiment was held in Yale University. There were two players the old man around his fifties and an outside person. The outsider would strap the old man down to an electric chair and if he got any questions wrong he would electrocute him.
Yolonda Easiley Mr. Philips English 1113 Essay # 4 July 24, 2012 Evil Can peer pressure make a person become evil without them knowing? In this essay I will speak on how easy it is to change a person’s moral conscience. Also are humans just pure evil from birth and if the right person comes along can that bring that evil nature that is in us to the surface? Humans are born to serve, so having an authority figures commanding us to do an evil act, in my opinion, it is peer pressure that most likely will be followed. In the short story, written by ZZ Packer, litter black girls are prime examples of how one can become engaged in acts of evil through peer pressure.