Francesca da Rimini

Saint Joan of the Stockyards, play by Bertolt Brecht attempts to represent drama of life with regard to financial issues of 1930’s. He makes an attempt to dramatize the complex economic situations with the help of his study of Marxism and capitalism. This play portrays the depths of suffering which has a moving effect on audience. In Saint Joan of the Stockyards everything eventually comes down to the question of meeting ends and means. It also portrays the socio-economic difference in classes…

Ethical Issues within the Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford prison experiment was a controversial experiment in human behavior conducted at Stanford University in 1971. The experiment took twenty-four voluntary students and placed them in the role of either prison guard or prisoner, in a make shift prison that was constructed in the basement of the psychology department of Stanford University. The experiment was to last fourteen days but was terminated after six days due to the negative…

Attitudes vary from strong to weak, confident to unsettled, extreme to mild, and they are as diverse as the behavior they influence. Social scientific research has aimed at tackling the age-old questions of how and when attitudes influence behavior. What kinds of attitudes influence judgment and behavior most? Under what circumstances do attitude-behavior correspondence occur most often? What processes and pathways do attitudes follow to influence behavior? The MODE ((Motivation and Opportunity…

Chris Rock once said, "Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it 's about having a lot of options". Having options are essential building blocks for a coach to create an environment for client development. Brainstorming reveals options that may assist the coachee in achieving their goal. This paper will discuss the preplanning, "O" in the GROW model, rules of brainstorming, and reflection of this live case study. Preplanning My goal for this session is to get the coachee to commit to a…

The goal of the guns, testosterone, and aggression research report was to test whether interacting with guns increased testosterone levels and later aggressive behaviors. The researchers used 30 male college students from the age of 18 to 22 as their subject, getting extra credit in return. To protect the results of the experiment, subjects were told they would be participating in an experiment that examined taste sensitivity in males. Since their saliva would be taken for hormone analysis,…

The Stanford prison experiment was an investigation of the mental impacts of turning into a detainee or jail monitor. The investigation was directed at Stanford University on August 14–20, 1971, by a group of analysts drove by brain science teacher Philip Zimbardo utilizing undergrads. It was subsidized by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and was important to both the U.S. Naval force and Marine Corps as an examination concerning the reasons for strife between military gatekeepers and detainees…

Stanford Prison Study This study shows how an institution, such as a prison, can encourage unsuitable behavior among inmates and guards. The United States Navy and Marine Corps had plans to use this and other research to increase their training to eliminate conditions that perpetuate this behavior in their own prisons. Basically, the hypothesis of this study was to understand how prisoners responded to antagonistic behavior by becoming passive, chiefly, just another faceless inmate which only…

The Stanford Prison Experiment consisted on choosing 24 men of University of Stanford to play role as guards and prisoners in a fake prison built in the University basement. The experiment was conducted by the psychology professor Phillip Zimbardo, who wanted to investigate the difficulties caused in America penal system. He wanted to find out if the negative environment such as the prison would lead people with good personalities in acting different of what they usually do. Therefore, he would…

Winners and losers A capitalist society is based on the idea that you can’t get ahead in life without stepping on someone else’s back. In Ursula Le Guin’s story “The ones who walk away from Omelas”, written in 1973, show a society where everyone is happy and full of life. This town is an almost utopian society when the story begins. Children are running and playing, and the narrator talks about how great the city is. However, the city is not as good as it seems. This is because the source of…

Karl Marx and Adam Smith are both economists with theories of capital accumulation. Karl Marx was a German doctor of Philosophy. Adam Smith who was a Scottish moral philosopher developed a similar theory. The theories differ in the way they perceive labor value. Smith’s theory has a clear argument on capital accumulation such as his explanation for unproductive/productive labor in comparison to Marx. Marx’s explanation of productive labor, critique of abstinence theory, exploitation, and the…