...AMO Obey Or Disobedience ROUGH DRAFT In the story by Fromm, his outlook on obedience and disobedience is that we have the ability to obey but the capacity to disobey is something that society has influenced us to do naturally. Obedience and disobedience has always been part of a never ending cycle that is consistently going round and round. Throughout history it has been evident that soldier’s obey their commander’s, that knights uphold the ruling of their king, and that their disobedience is about the shifting of power. So, too, is our nation being part of that cycle and repeating history. Our nation’s soldiers obey orders given by the President. Whether they are right or wrong it is an order they obeyed countless of times. Society may never understand or have a clue of what is going on behind the scene, but society has an imagination of what a soldier should be, obedient. Back in the 1960s when Vietnam War was going on and the draft was implemented, it was difficult for some to adapt to the idea of going to war. Society has never understood why it is different to sign up for the Armed Forces than to be drafted into the Armed Forces. For someone that is volunteering their life for the nation is something they do by choice. They have a firm belief that is what is what they are meant to do for the good of mankind. They are willing to give up their freedom to become defenders and they are the ones that use it wisely. With those that were drafted they were...
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...There are 2 worksheets in this – 1 crossword puzzle and 14 question answers. Worksheet 1: Food Choices and Nutrients Crossword Puzzle n Across | Down | 2. carbon containing and made by living things4. organic, essential nutrients required in small amounts by the body for health6. type of diet composed of purified ingredients of known chemical composition8. nonnutritive compounds found in plant-derived foods that have biological activity in the body10. nutrients a person must obtain from food because the body cannot make them for itself (or cannot make them fast enough) from other raw materials | 1. substances that the body can take in and assimilate that will enable it to stay alive and grow3. the science of foods and the nutrients and other substances they contain, and of their actions within the body5. any condition caused by excess or deficient food energy or nutrient intake or by an imbalance of nutrients7. units used to measure energy from foods9. the foods and beverages a person consumes | Type here your answers to crossword puzzle: Across: Down 2 Organic 1 foods 4 Vitamins 3 Nutrition 6 Elemental 5 Malnutrition 8 phytochemicals 7 Calories 10 Essential nutrition 9 Diet Worksheet 2: Dietary Reference Intakes and Food Composition Tables The Dietary Reference Intakes are a collection of 4 nutrient values used for different purposes. List below the definitions...
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...for much of history and modern times, is no different. A person’s seemingly inherent willingness to obey orders even when they go against the person’s own ethics is affected by the person’s own inherent tendencies, the environment in which they act, and their relationship with the superior. A person starts obeying orders the day they are born. A person, right away, is told what to do by their parents who they trust. Obedience is instantly instilled in a person, whether it is between them and their parent, their teacher, etc. “For a significant part of an individual’s life,...
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...One reason people obey is because legitimate social power is held by authority figures whose role is defined by power held by society or the situation, for example police officers. This usually gives them the right to exert control over the behaviour of others, and others usually accept it. We feel obliged to obey these people because we respect their credentials and assume they are correct in what they are doing. A strength of legitimate authority being an explanation for obedience is that there is supporting evidence from Milgram’s study. When he carried out his experiment in a run-down office block with the experimenter wearing a suit rather than a lab coat, obedience levels dropped to only 48% of participants giving the 450v shock, compared to the original 65% when in the prestigious Yale University setting. This is a strength as it suggests that participants no longer believed in legitimate authority of the experimenter and so were less prepared to obey his orders. A limitation of using Milner’s results is that his research may be culturally or historically biased. Some critics say that the results show more about the historical and cultural climate of the USA at the time -when McCarthyism was at large and people feared being accused of being communist spies- than fundamental psychological principles. The study was conducted when obedience was seen as a good thing and this may be why many of the participants went along with what the experimenter told them to do. This...
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...The introduction of the book, “Slaves, Obey Your Master,” is what really caught my eyes. In the introduction, it was basically like telling me to get the book because it was something very interesting that caught my eyes to even pick it up. Going more in the introduction it was about you picking this book to have your own preconceived notions about things. Also in the introductions if you believe that you are a Christian than this is a good book because it speaks on different things about it. I believe that because I really want to get to the bottom of slavery and God’s say so I chose this book. In part one it was about Christianity and what they believe. If you are a Christian, then you believe that the bible is the world of God and Jesus...
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...You should obey your father. He really does know what is best for you. I know this is hard for you. As your mother I know how you feel, I was married and had you at the age you are now. I was so scared to marry your dad, I was super young but deep down I knew it would do me good. Your father is a very smart man and is only looking out for you. Paris is a nice young man. I know Paris will give you a good life. I know you don’t want to marry him but girls your age are already married and having kids. I will be here for you when you are nervous, scared, or just need someone to talk to. You will be make the best wife Juliet. You must be upset right now, and I will try to talk to your father again about all of this. I want you to...
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...Outline and evaluate one or more explanations of why people obey. One of the main reasons that people obey is the feeling of relinquishing personal responsibility. During the course of Milgram’s experiment, many participants enquired about responsibility; who would be to blame if any harm came to the learner? In many cases, informing the participant that the experimenter was completely responsible was reassurance enough to encourage the participants to continue with the deadly electric shocks. In many cases, where harm has come to someone as a result of obedience, the perpetrators have justified their actions by the lack of responsibility. The participants most likely to obey are those who feel they have relinquished personal responsibility to an authoritative figure, and obedience levels are often diminished when the rate of personal responsibility has increased. It has also been suggested that obedience levels drop radically when participants are informed that they must accept full responsibility for their actions. One way that we can prove that this is the case, is by looking at variations of Milgram’s experiment. In the initial experiment, the ‘teacher’ could not see the pain that they were supposedly inflicting on the ‘learner,’ only hear them. They felt responsible when they heard the cries of anguish, but as the experimenter had accepted responsibility, many people continued administering the shocks. However, in a similar experiment where the ‘learner’ was in the room...
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...November 27,2012 Brian Kuczynsky Marketing Plan Letter Business 243 Working in a group with only two people can be difficult as the workload is effectively twice that of a four person group. However, I feel like Cheyann and I did a good job of dividing and completing the assigned tasks. I ended up researching the history of the company and summarized it. This helped me to write the executive summary and the current situation sections. Then I examined the specific market that our company targets and used what I found to write the target market section. I also looked at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the company. Those I then translated into internal and external opportunities and presented with bullet points. Using the information I gathered along with the work done by Cheyann, we decided on the marketing objectives we were going to try. I went on to summarize these objectives and the plans that went along with them. I also wrote out our action plan that we would implement to meet those objectives. I do not really remember or even know what it was that Cheyann did. However, I know that she did a lot of work, and then she did even more over the thanksgiving break. Therefore, I estimate that she completed 55 to 60 percent of the work, leaving me to complete the rest. -Brian November 27, 2012 Cheyann Wittmann Marketing Plan Letter Buiness 243 The marketing plan has been a very interesting experience...
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...Political Obligation First published Tue Apr 17, 2007; substantive revision Fri Apr 30, 2010 To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws of one's country or state. On that point there is almost complete agreement among political philosophers. But how does one acquire such an obligation, and how many people have really done what is necessary to acquire it? Or is political obligation more a matter of being than of doing — that is, of simply being a member of the country or state in question? To those questions many answers have been given, and none now commands widespread assent. Indeed, a number of contemporary political philosophers deny that a satisfactory theory of political obligation either has been or can be devised. Others, however, continue to believe that there is a solution to what is commonly called “the problem of political obligation,” and they are presently engaged in lively debate not only with the skeptics but also with one another on the question of which theory, if any, provides the solution to the problem. Whether political obligation is the central or fundamental problem of political philosophy, as some have maintained (e.g., McPherson), may well be doubted. There is no doubt, however, that the history of political thought is replete with attempts to provide a satisfactory account of political obligation, from the time of Socrates to the present. These attempts have become increasingly sophisticated in recent years, but they have...
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...explanation milgrim put forth as to why people obey is that they shift from an autonomous state to an agentic state, so they see themselves as an agent for carrying out someone else's wishes. This could mean they avoid the costs of obeying and the costs of disobeying to an extent. Milgrim came up with this hypothesis after his study where participants were given the role of electrocuting a 'learner' 'for the name of scence' with an experimenter pressing them on. 62.5% of them went to maximum voltage and obeying the experimenter. It would make sense that agentic shift was a factor to the participants obeying in this situation being told it was in the name of science and with an experimenter pressing them on. If agentic shift was the only reason why people obey then its probable different events would have occured during historical events where people dosobeyed, like in the holocaust where there were unnessessary acts of cruelty against jews. That could be explained in terms of conformity rather than obeying though. This explanaton doesn't explain why it matters to people to obey so its a reductionist explanation. It makes cognitive sense aswell for it being a reductonist explanation from knowledge f people being scared and consequently obeying and other human nature knowledge. Another explnanation is that people obey because they start to obey a little they have chosen the path of obeying and it takes less effort therefore to obey there on in than to disobey. This is called...
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...There are various theories explaining the development of discipline and obedience in early childhood. Montessori perspective establishes a link between these two concepts and how their maturation is dependent on the maturation of the will of the child. This essay will attempt to explain the relationship between discipline and obedience in the developmental stages of a child. Attention will be paid to how the environment helps the child in his development through the stages according to Montessori. According to Oxford dictionary, ‘to discipline is to train to obey rules and code of conduct, using punishment to correct disobedience’. In the traditional sense of discipline much emphasis is placed on the use of external stimuli including rewards and punishment to ensure conformity with a certain required behavior. Discipline is thus exacted with a bait of reward or punishment. Usually discipline is achieved through among others threats, bribes, coercion and fear. In the perspective of Montessori however disciple is described to be active and comes from within the child as a result of his own internal motivation. A child’s discipline emerges as he works in a purposeful manner in a prepared environment (Montessori 2007a). According to Montessori (2007b, p51) ‘ the discipline we are looking for is active. We do not believe that one is disciplined only when he is artificially made as silent as a mute and as motionless as a paralytic. Such a one is not disciplined but annihilate’...
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... Do we have an obligation to obey the laws of the state? Why? Are we being legitimately coerced? But we agreed Morally right thing to do Political obligation is the obligation to obey the law because it is the law because there is some independent moral justification for doing what this or that law requires We could argue that we shouldn’t drive recklessly, because it endangers the lives of other people (moral) It is different from arguing that we shouldn’t drive recklessly because it is against the law. Political obligation is whether we have a general obligation to obey the law, or just an obligation to obey this law or that law? Why do we have this obligation? Some argue that it is rational to obey the law But is it? Consider this We take individuals to be free and equal. ...
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...The learner (a confederate called Mr. Wallace) was taken into a room and had electrodes attached to his arms, and the teacher and researcher went into a room next door that contained an electric shock generator and a row of switches marked from 15 volts (Slight Shock) to 375 volts (Danger: Severe Shock) to 450 volts (XXX). Stanley Milgram is a Yale University social psychologist who wrote “Behavioral Study of Obedience”, an article which granted him many awards and is now considered a landmark. In this piece, he evaluates the extent to which a participant is willing to conform to an authority figure who commands him to execute acts that conflict with his moral beliefs. Stanley Milgram discovers that the majority of participants do obey to...
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...Frequently, people obey authority even when they are not in agreement with their motives or reasoning because we see authority as legitimate or superior to ourselves, thus seemingly of higher importance, we feel doing what they propose will not count as our individual responsibility and must be correct or beneficial in any way. People often believe that they are not held accountable for carrying out authorities' orders even if it goes against their own moral concepts and principles. When people obey authority they tend to feel like they are not acting on behalf of their individual reputations but just following orders from superior figures and assisting with their...
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...your neighbor. If you commit murder or steal there are consequences. If you file a false police report or are untruthful when testifying in court there are consequences. There are some other commandments that may not have anything at all to do with natural law, however. Such as not having any other god before God and not having idols. These commandments are considered illegal or a man-made law, but they are wrong in the eyes of God. There are some man-made laws that we do not necessarily see listed in the Bible or as a natural law. Take for example, speeding. It is indeed a man-made law, but the Bible says in Romans 13:1 Obey the government, for God is the one who put it there. All governments have been placed in power by God. 2 So those who refuse to obey the laws of the land are refusing Bible, we must still obey is because the Bible teaches us to obey those who have rule over us. I conclusion, natural laws should be determinants of what is just or moral regarding...
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