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    Would you stick up for someone being harassed for their wealth, religious view, or political view? In the text “The Harvest Gypsies” and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” the authors explain what it’s like to have all those things done to you. For that reason, bystanders are guilty if they don’t help a situation because they have the power to change it for the better. In the text “The Harvest Gypsies” bystanders watched as poor families struggled to get by and did nothing to help. For example, as…

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    Martin Luther King Jr. once said “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”. In the texts “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and Elie Wiesel's acceptance speech, they both have bystanders that do not help out when it came to harming humans. People just stand around watching others get hurt and that's why no one believes in good people, that leads me to say bystanders are not innocent. In “The Lottery” people gather around every year to watch or join…

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    In the Documentary “Witness”, Bill Genovese whose sister Catherine “kitty Genovese was fatally stabbed in front of her apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens was very determined to find out what happened the night his sister died. 38 could have prevent the attacks on Kitty Genovese from occurring if they had just intervened or called the police, one person called the police but it wasn’t until after she was dead. In the documentary Bill Genovese sort out the victims to find out why they didn’t take…

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    In 1964, the United States witnessed one of the most influential murders to affect the field of psychology. Kitty Genovese, was raped and murdered on the streets of New York, but that wasn’t the most horrifying part. What stunned everyone was that over 30 people watched and heard the murder, but chose not to help. This situation puzzled psychologists, as they and everyone else asked the obvious question—why didn’t anyone help? Thus, psychologists came to discover the now widely known bystander…

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    By choosing to be a bystander may not always have the outcome you envision . Some times you are faced with death and sometimes you are able to help someone in desirable need. As you will find out, your actions and choices of being a bystander will always have an effect in someone else's future. The choice of being a bystander impacts all parties involved because they can help the situation others are in, or otherwise they can be the cause of people's death. The impact on bystanders is…

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    5. The techniques using reducing uncertainty In innovation weather it incremental or radical there are some situations organization can’t predict. It always has high risk involvement. When the organization not known the addition information that require for the new innovation product it is uncertainty. There are three types of uncertainty. They are technical uncertainty, market uncertainty and business uncertainty. The following factors help to reduce the uncertainty. 1. technological trajectory…

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    Can someone intentionally walk away from a person in distress on the street? People assume that onlookers nearby will help the distressed person by assisting or phoning emergency services. Yet, most people will not lend a helping hand. For example, in 1964, there was a bizarre crime in New York City; a young woman named Catherine Genovese, commonly called Kitty, was murdered and thirty-eight onlookers witnessed the act and yet nobody came to her assistance or phoned the emergency services.…

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    37 neighbors witnessed were present during the attack but didn’t call the police to help the victim.("What Is the Bystander Effect?") This case was lately used as an example to explain the phenomenon of the bystander effect as well known as the diffusion of responsibility. Psychologist began to find an explanation to this effect Hermant…

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    Bystander Effect

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    Bystander Apathy and Effect The bystander effect, bystander effect is a social psychological that refers to a case where people do not offer any help to those who need it or to a victim when other people are around. Most of the time when other people see someone in a situation where they need help, they try to stay away. The bystanders most of the time don't want to be mixed up in the same thing as the victim is. Most of the time the more bystanders, the possibility of anyone helping drops.…

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    is important because everyday people are confronted with non-dangerous emergency situations. Seeing how and when people will help someone is important because it will contribute to going against the stigma that maybe someone else will help first (diffusion of responsibly). The purpose of this study is to see if the bystander effect does inhibit a person’s willingness to help. In an emergency situation, it is predicted that more people present decrease helping. This prediction is based off of…

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