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    soldiers of Abu Ghraib start becoming increasingly hostile as one unit. In The Lord of the Flies‚ Jack eventually takes over most of the island from the original leader named Ralph. When Ralph goes to visit Jack before a storm‚ thunder strikes. Jack decides to have his

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    Lyman‚ and how the war had ruined their tight bond. In this story‚ the older brother‚ Henry‚ had signed up for the war and was taken away after an enjoyable and memorable road trip with his brother. It was during the war where Henry was taken as prisoner of the Vietnamese and what had occurred during that time was left to reader’s imagination. When he returns‚ he is a whole new person; he is emotionless and stoic. In fact‚ while watching the television with his family‚ Henry unconsciously bites through

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    Conner Wilson 10-23-2012 Composition I The Deindividuation of Society Since the beginning of time‚ mankind has advanced as a society of many; each person and individual a piece in the great machine that is time. This unity‚ this joining of forces‚ has driven mankind forward throughout the dark ages of humanity’s past and into the modern world people live in today. Much has changed with the passing of time‚ but what has not changed is humanity’s primal instinct to create allies and forge relationships

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    Zimbardo concluded from his Stanford prison study that prisoners and guards adopted their designated roles more easily than anyone might have imagined because of deindividuation. * The Indianapolis Colts * Except openness to differing opinions * Finding holes in all arguments that go against the group’s desires * The 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion was the result of groupthink. * Cults are to _______________ as Abu Ghraib is to _______________. C) groupthink; deindividuation

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    Patricia Cornwell‚ a famous writer‚ once said‚ that “I believe the root of all evil is the abuse of power”. To receive power in one’s life‚ they bring out strong emotions‚ such as fear or guilt to persuade the person to obey their commands. But‚ these people are simply exercising their power‚ and only have a relationship with them asymmetrically. The person will authority has the ability to limit the choices of another‚ and uses physically or psychologically pain only to pursue their goal. A person

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    structural e. informal rules and techniques 11. What did the Stanford Prison Experiment study? How did the student’s act during the study? 12 guards 12 prisoners 24 students. Experiment suggest the substantial problem with group behavior. 12. Crank and Caldero suggested that the brutal treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the behavior of the students in the Stanford Prison experiment resulted from what? Group behavior‚

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    Starting in 2004‚ reports of physical‚ psychological and sexual abuse including torture‚ rape‚ sodomy‚ waterboarding (“a prisoner is strapped to a board‚ or submerged‚ or held down and forced to breathe through a water-soaked cloth held over his mouth. All waterboarding produces the physical sensation of drowning and a psychological sensation of panic‚ fear and loss of control[1]”) and homicide of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib become known to the public eye. The acts were committed by members of the

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    Abu Ghraib and Insaniyat Article by: Arshin Adib-Moghaddam “We have met the enemy‚ and he is us” Iraq is a different world than where we live in North America. Canadian values and culture of North America are vastly different from those of the Middle Eastern country that is the subject of an-article by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam titled Abu Gharib and Insaniyat. Following the terrorist attacks in New York in 2001 the differences between these two cultures seemed immense. The stories and images

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    Abu Ghraib Throughout the beginning months of 2004‚ one of the largest military scandals in U.S. history became the center of worldwide controversy. It has been said that the degrading acts by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib were responsible for the suffering of innocent Iraqi civilians‚ the humiliation of the world’s strongest defense‚ and for negatively affecting the United States’ reputation in the world overall. Abu Ghraib‚ located 20 miles west of Baghdad‚ originally was one of the world’s

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    Fact Checker: Berlin Wall versus “The Wall” In this novel‚ the narrator mentions about the Wall that is built across the church which force some people in Gilead getting separate from the others. Margaret Atwood uses the reference of the Berlin wall to describe the wall in this novel. The Berlin wall was built by the Democratic republic to separate Germany into East Berlin and West Berlin. Proves of that will be the similarities of both wall including the barriers that placed around these walls

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