...Marsden’s Tomorrow When the War Began (Marsden, 1993) is a xenophobic narrative that aims to convince the reader of the friendship and courage that would develop in a group of teenagers if they were to be confronted with several life threatening situations. The main theme that is found throughout the novel is the conflict between friendship and the instinct of self-preservation. This leads to many of the situations that affect the group of teenagers. The instinct of self-preservation leads to many scenarios found within both the novel and the movie. For example, at the beginning of the movie, after Ellie is spotted at the showground, Kevin runs off without thinking about anybody else but himself. Another example of this instinct of self-preservation is shown after the snake escapes from the sleeping bag in Hell. Ellie’s instincts tell her to …panic; I panicked. It told me to run; I ran. It told me not to give a stuff about anyone else; I didn’t give a stuff. It was quite a few moments before I looked around to see if they were OK… (Marsden, 1993, Page 36) This is an example of the self-preservation that is found in each of the characters. However, towards the end of the novel, friendship appears to have more effect on the characters than self-preservation. Kevin is willing to take Corrie to the hospital even though he knows that his life will be at risk upon his arrival. This is an example of one of the situations when the conflict between friendship and the instinct...
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...The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram Stanley Milgram’s “ The Perils of Obedience” shows that some people can obey authority even when it requires committing terrible actions within their society. Milgram begins his essay by describing what obedience is and how deeply ingrained of a behavior tendency that it is. He then sets up an experiment at Yale University that will push the limits of human obedience. He has a “teacher” give out a series of simple word pairs for the “learner”. If the learner gets a word pair wrong then the teacher gives out a series of shock ranging from 15 to 450 volts. The teacher who is the real subject in the experiment does not know that the learner is a paid actor who does not receive any actual shocks. The motivation behind this experiment for Milgram was to test just how far people would go to obey the command of an authority figure. Milgram’s theory is that the subject will have total control of what they are doing and will disobey the authority figure when inflicting pain onto a hopeless human being. One of his subjects, Gretchen Brandt, is participating with the experiment when the learner got the word pair wrong she showed the self control to stop shocking to not continue. Milgram thought that this is how the majority of subjects would react, “Her behavior is the very embodiment of what I envisioned would be true for almost all subject”(Milgram, 44). Brandt simply wasn’t worried about rejecting the authority if it meant that she no longer...
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...CASE # 1 THE PERILS OF TEXTING 1. Which of the five moral dimensions on the information system identified in this text is involved in this case? In my opinion in this case we can see many things involved, one of them is the Information rights and obligations, because it is true that the people have many rights and freedom for doing what they want, but it is true also that all of us have the obligations to keep control about ourselves while we are driving and expose others life; and the obligation in this case is not text driving and enforce laws. Just the beep of the message is distracting and people started to think about the recent conversation or message. With the accountability and control the ethical position or the right thing is to pay the harm to individual, collective and property rights, because other people will suffer the consequences and the only way to apply the law and keep a good system quality and the quality of life that everyone deserve. 2. What are the Ethical, social and political issues raised by this case? In this case many states have banned texting while driving so the Ethical, social and political issue have agreed that is the only way to reduce cars accidents, but the problem still and it is to deal with the individual in the ethical, social and political level; which is different for each person and depend on their education, the other thing is there are interest opposed in to do the legislation as usual is with politic. 3. Which of the...
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...Running head: THE PERILS OF SEXTING 1 The Perils of Sexting xxxx xxx THE PERILS OF SEXTING 2 The Perils of Sexting Have you ever thought about sending a nude photo to your longtime boyfriend? Perhaps you even there was no harm because you would be together forever. Think again! There is harm, real harm that may hurt you in many more ways than you can imagine and not many resources exist to help you through the extent of the harm caused. Imagine you and your boyfriend breaking up, he sends that photo you thought was innocent to a friend. That friend sends it to many other friends who send it to the entire high school student body. Not only are you trying to recover from a devastating breakup, but thrown into a world of cyber bullying with everyone at school making comments behind your back. Afraid to tell your parents, afraid to go to school, what do you do? What teens do not consider are the perils of sexting, psychological or criminal. Even though many teens are educated and taught right from wrong, they believe they are invincible and often fail to realize negative consequences to risky behavior. Why do teens not understand the treacherous aftermath of sexting? Teens should know there are the real consequential repercussions of their sexting behaviors. Figure 1: Teenage sexting statistics THE PERILS OF SEXTING 3 Figure 1: Teenage Sexting Statistics (2015) from studies done by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, The Pew...
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...Emanuel Coleman Professor Smicialas English 161 9 September 2014 The Perils Of Obedience “Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to.” (Milgram 631). In Stanley Milgram’s 1963 study Perils of Obedience, he finds that human beings, when ordered by an authority, will commit atrocious acts against another human being. He proves this through an extensive scientific study. In this study, he pulls from a multitude of different social classes and cultures. Asking, the subjects to bring bodily harm to another person in the form of increasingly stronger electric shocks, ranging from 15 to 450 volts. The role assigned to the test subjects is that of "teacher" and "learner."The learner is put in a room and strapped to an electric chair, the teacher is in another room where they can see the learner. The teacher is seated next to a huge machine that administers the shocks. The scientist starts commanding from near by. He begins by calmly demanding that the teacher shock the student if the student does not accurately repeat a set of words that progressively advance in difficulty. The results of his 1963 study were shocking, even the people he sought to predict the outcome, which includes a variety of people from psychiatrists to college students and middle class adults. Interestingly enough, Milgram states that, “with remarkable similarity they predicted that virtually all subjects would refuse to obey the experimenter” (Milgram 634)...
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...The reason for to talk about the five moral dimension in the context of these model all ethical social and political issues raise covering these moral dimension. Since here it will be discussed what are moral dimensions and how the moral dimensions have involves with the perils occur due to texting while driving. 3.1.1 Information Rights and Obligations Information rights and obligations means that what information rights are defining by the organization and individuals by themselves in order to coordinate their work flows and protect (Laudon, 2012).So regards to the information system for the purpose of protect themselves organization have practiced to use this methodology. So in the context of the case Ashen Wanniarachchi study, it says that communicating or in other words texting while driving is a kind of manageable risk. This argument is presenting to the stage by the legislators who are a responsible portion of a society. And also the neurologists are also saying that the texting while driving will be help to mitigate the boring situations. So these factors are present by the individuals in order to prove that the getting legal actions against texting while driving is a worthless thing and because of that it is violating the freedom of communicating of the people using the most sophisticated devices. But in the real scenario it should be taken a considerable action in order to mitigate this problem as this has been cause to the number of deaths that destroy the...
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...The perils of obedience "Be quiet! Write this down." How often have you heard this, or something like it? We hear or come across commands, instructions, directions and orders every day. What is it that makes us obey (or disobey) them? Millions of people were killed in Nazi Germany in concentration camps but Hitler couldn't have killed them all, nor could a handful of people. What made all those people follow the orders they were given? Were they afraid, or was there something in their personality that made them like that? In order to obey authority, the obeying person has to accept that it is legitimate (i.e. rightful, legal) for the command to be made of them. Obedience is a form of social influence where an individual acts in response to a direct order from another individual, who is usually an authority figure. It is assumed that without such an order the person would not have acted in this way. Obedience occurs when you are told to do something (authority), whereas conformity happens through social pressure (the norms of the majority). Obedience involves a hierarchy of power / status. Therefore, the person giving the order has a higher status than the person receiving the order. Adolf Eichmann was executed in 1962 for his part in organizing the Holocaust, in which six million Jewish people, as well as gypsies, communists and trade unionists were transported to death camps and murdered in Nazi Germany and surrounding countries under Nazi control. Eichmann was...
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...CASE # 1 THE PERILS OF TEXTING 1. Which of the five moral dimensions on the information system identified in this text is involved in this case? In my opinion in this case we can see many things involved, one of them is the Information rights and obligations, because it is true that the people have many rights and freedom for doing what they want, but it is true also that all of us have the obligations to keep control about ourselves while we are driving and expose others life; and the obligation in this case is not text driving and enforce laws. Just the beep of the message is distracting and people started to think about the recent conversation or message. With the accountability and control the ethical position or the right thing is to pay the harm to individual, collective and property rights, because other people will suffer the consequences and the only way to apply the law and keep a good system quality and the quality of life that everyone deserve. 2. What are the Ethical, social and political issues raised by this case? In this case many states have banned texting while driving so the Ethical, social and political issue have agreed that is the only way to reduce cars accidents, but the problem still and it is to deal with the individual in the ethical, social and political level; which is different for each person and depend on their education, the other thing is there are interest opposed in to do the legislation as usual is with politic. 3. Which...
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...Mackenzi Nichols American History Long #1 Andrew Jackson: American Ceasar? Andrew Jackson left a permanent imprint upon American politics and the presidency. Within eight years, he combined the form-less coalition of personal followers who had elected him into the country's most durable and successful political party, whose organization and discipline would serve as a model for all others. At the same time, his controversial conduct in office shocked opponents to organize the Whig party. Jackson's drive for party organization was spurred by his own difficulties with Congress. Unlike other famously strong Presidents, Jackson defined himself not by enacting a legislative program but by creating one. In eight years, Congress passed only one major law, the Indian Removal Act of 1830, at his command. During this time Jackson vetoed twelve bills, one of these was the first "pocket veto" in American history. The Maysville Road and Bank vetoes stood as enduring statements of his political philosophy. Jackson strengthened himself against Congress by direct links with the voters. His official messages, though delivered to Congress, spoke in plain and powerful language to the people. Reversing to legislative supremacy, Jackson boldly proclaimed himself as the people's leader, their sole defender against special interests and their preferences in Congress. In other ways, too, Jackson expanded the scope of presidential authority. I think Jackson may have given himself too much...
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...BUSN311 – Quantitative Methods and Analysis Instructor: Dr. Bari Courts Regression Analysis DB5 Tracie Tindsl Correlation is when there is a relationship between variables that will vary or be associated together in one way or another (Segal & Cernauskas, 2011). This type of variable is very popular, it used in many different ways. There is a wide spread of use when using the correlational research and many industries are very favorable to it. This is very reliable method and it supportive. However, it is not known to prove a relationship. There are three possible results of a correlational study: positive correlation, a negative correlation and no correlation (New York Times, 2012). One variable from the AIU course data set would be gender. Male and female is a basic variable with a positive outcome. Tenure is a variable that may be used in the workplace, the length of time an individual is an employee at a company or business. The questions that others would ask would be “How many males or females stay as an employee with any company. There correlation research between gender and tenure, along with male to female. I feel that these two variables is a way that companies would review that equal opportunity Act. As we all are knowledgably to the fact that there are issues in this area. Reviewing the tenures and coming to a decision that males and females would be comfortable in the workplace. Females should never feel that males are more respected...
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...Summary of ‘Avoid the Four Perils of CRM’ Different managers may define CRM in many different ways. Some may say it is the use of technology and software to achieve a better relationship with their customers, however the right way to define CRM is that CRM aligns business processes with customer strategies to build customer loyalty and increase profits over time. The difference here with this definition is that the terms technology and software don’t play an important role in defining CRM. Research has shown that many managers stumble upon one or more of the four perils while trying to implement CRM. All these perils are basically caused due to a basic assumption that CRM is a software tool that will manage customer relationship for us. The truth however is that it isn’t all about that CRM is actually the combination of customer strategy and processes, supported by the relevant software, for the purpose of improving customer loyalty and, eventually, corporate profitability. The following are the four perils of CRM. 1. Implementing CRM Before Creating a Customer Strategy 2. Rolling Out CRM Before Changing Your Organization to Match 3. Assuming that More CRM Technology Is Better 4. Stalking, Not Wooing, Customers 1. Implementing CRM Before Creating a Customer Strategy: It is very crucial to create and understand the strategies that the company plans to implement before trying to put a CRM system into practice.CRM will be very effective for an organization only...
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...Evil in the World Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech “The Perils of Indifference”, argues that indifference is a punishment to the victims and dangerous to the world because the “lines blur” between “good and evil.” He supports his claim by first stating what indifference is which is when the “lines blur” between right and wrong, then Wiesel questions indifference and how someone could possibly see it as a “virtue.” Finally, he explains how indifference could seem easier to some even though it's bad, but at the same time “seductive.” Wiesel’s purpose is to inform the audience that indifference is an aggressor to the world in order to prove that the world would be better if people weren't indifferent. He creates a serious yet hopeful tone for “Mr.President, Mrs.Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends.” Ultimately, Wiesel strongly disagrees with indifference and believes it's an “end”, “not a response”, a “sin” and “punishment.” He thinks without indifference the world would be better. This is important because the innocent people wouldn't be in pain for no reason. The general argument made by author Elie Wiesel in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, is that indifference is a “sin.” More specifically,...
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...The Perils and Promises of Praise In her article, “The Perils and Promises of Praise,” Carol Dweck provides a lot of research to prove her claims that student praised for being wise, which according to Carol many educators belief that it will build confidence and further motivate students’ to learn, is untrue, whereas students praised for effort (works-hard ) get a boost in their performance. Indeed, the author has a reasonable point, I strongly agreed with her assessment that by giving students’ the label of “smart” does not prevent them from underperforming, but rather it might actually be causing it. In addition, I believed in her study that student who has fixed mind-set does become extremely anxious with their studies that they sometimes tend to push their limits, just to prove how smart they are. On the other hand, I liked the part when the author points out that even Einstein or a Mozart have focus on effort, not talent. I also like the idea of Alfred Binet, who is the inventor of the IQ test, to have some kind of test that will identify students who were not benefiting from public school curriculum, which I strongly agreed! I also like the fact that Dweck mentioned the behavior of the current generation students. As a reader, I was fully able to understand more the setbacks and the problems in our today’s society. Furthermore, what really amazed me is that how the author was able to include in her research the anatomy of brain, and the relation of the brain to motivate...
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...Many Asian immigrants journeyed from their homelands to a culture, which did not always accept immigrants fondly. As many immigrants, cultural communities formed, thereby creating unique ethnic Asian groups. Often, American culture and traditional Asian cultures intertwined, thereby creating conflict within communities. The Japanese and Chinese women experienced westernization through various means of achievement, however subjected to the Yellow Peril, which ravaged American society’s fear of the Japanese and anyone of Asian descent. Judy Yung describes the “social awakening” of Chinese women in the early twentieth century. Chinese and Chinese American women began to participate in the elimination of detrimental cultural practices, education and women’s rights. Women who were subjected to foot binding were believed to possess gentility, thereby increasing their marketability for marriage. The practice “prevented women from ‘wandering,’ as women with bound feet generally found it difficult to walk unassisted,” therefore forcing them into a life of “strict confinement, inner apartments, a virtual living hell.”...
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...“The Perils of Indifference” is a speech that was delivered by Elie Wiesel in Washington D.C. It reflects about his time as a holocaust survivor. World War II took the lives of around 11 million people from 1939 until the last surrender in 1945. This was also the time of the Holocaust that was led by Adolf Hitler of Germany. If Hitler wanted something done it instantly became a plan for the German army. The Nazis forced families out of their homes, and took them to live brutal concentration camps to become slaves, or dead. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, spoke at the White House to share his story. Wiesel’s used literary devices to reach his main point that was not to forget what happened in the past, but to not allow it to happen again. Wiesel’s tried to reach the emotions of the audience saying that “he was finally free, but there was no joy in his heart” as he started out his speech. Buchenwald was the camp Wiesel had been forced to live in during the war. He tells about the day he was set free from his concentration camp by the American soldiers, as he talked about remembering the look in the eyes of the American soldiers. He knew that soldiers saw what the people in the camp had suffered, and saw hope. Wiesel starts multiple phrases with the word “gratitude” to show his thanks to the...
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