choice because of the events that occurred during the short time that experiment ran in. The experiment ran and quickly became more than expected by the research team; prisoners became children‚ guards became sadistic monsters and hell itself happened. The connection between reality and role-playing quickly happened as guards and prisoners alike assumed their roles in the simulated prison life. Peer pressure played a major role in the experiment for it showed that within the conditions it could control
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experiment was a study of psychological effects and what the effects could do to a prisoner and prison guard. The experiment was taken placed at Stanford University from August fourteenth to the twentieth in 1971‚ which was led by a professor named Philip Zimbardo. US Navy and Marine Corps was very interested in the experiment and wanted to know the cause and effects it could have on a military guard and prisoner. So the US Office of Naval Research funded money toward the experiment. Out of seventy-five
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see if people’s behaviors are affected by their social situations or by their morals and personalities. Zimbardo’s hypothesis was that prison guards would be brutal due to their mentality of being prison guards. The prisoners likewise would be rebellious due to the fact that prisoners are people who broke the laws in the first place. There are several weaknesses in the way that Zimbardo designed his study experiment. One was that his sample didn’t successfully represent the population. There were
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and Communities Prisoners and Families: Parenting Issues During Incarceration Creasie Finney Hairston‚ PhD Jane Addams College of Social Work University of Illinois at Chicago December 2001 [ Project Home Page | List of Conference Papers ] Contents * The Importance of Family Matters * Family Definitions * Financial Difficulties * Parent-child Relationships and Children’s Care * Emotional and Social Issues * Information Needs * Prisoner-Family Communication
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Prisoners in the Stanford Prison Experiment are ethically required to have the option to leave the experiment‚ but are nonetheless trapped because they are in a simulated prison with small cells. To quote the website Zimbardo and others designed‚ the “prison was constructed by boarding up each end of a corridor in the basement of Stanford’s Psychology Department building. That corridor was "The Yard" and was the only outside place where prisoners were allowed to walk‚ eat
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Plato establishes a cave in which prisoners are chained down and forced to look upon the front wall of the cave. In "Allegory of the Cave" there there are two elements to the story; the fictional metaphor of the prisoners‚ and the philosophical opinion in that the allegory is supposed to represent‚ hence presenting us with the allegory itself. The complex meanings that can be perceived from the "Cave" can be seen in the beginning with the presence of the prisoners who are chained in the darkness
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The Nazi’s took advantage of every aspect to having prisoners in their camps‚ whether they took away lives or put people to work. In the article A Tortured Legacy‚ written by Andrew Nagorski explains‚ “Auschwitz was both a death camp and a complex of labor camps‚ which accounts for a relatively large number of survivors.” (“Nagorski”) Auschwitz camps murdered million people‚ but the prisoners put aside that worked survived through the harsh conditions and ended up living
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perceived as the enemy likewise‚ the prisoners at Stanford were also seen as a threat. At Stanford‚ guards felt the need to maintain everything under control. Upon arrival‚ the prisoners at Stanford were stripped down‚ given a dress as a uniform‚ and given ID numbers. Each prisoner had to be referred to and can only refer himself by number. Unlike the military‚ a stocking cap was placed on the head as a substitute for having the prisoner’s hair shaved off. The prisoners were to wear a heavy chain on there
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Birkenau was the site of mass killings of inferior races‚ and ultimately became the site of the largest mass murder in history. There were three major camps‚ Auschwitz I‚ II‚ and III‚ and each had a different purpose (“Auschwitz”‚ USHMM). Life for prisoners was very harsh in all of the camps‚ and life expectancy was short. Auschwitz Birkenau was abandoned as the Soviets closed in on the camps in January 1945. Once liberated‚ the true horror and statistics of the camp’s mass killing was revealed. In
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of a fire behind them‚ and begin to designate names to these shadows. The shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all‚ as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners. The allegory may be related to Plato’s Theory of Forms‚ according to which the "Forms" (or "Ideas")‚
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