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In 1971, an experiment took place in Stanford, California. It was named the Stanford Prison Experiment, lasting what was meant to be two weeks, but due to the brutality of the trial, lasted a mere 6 days. Its purpose was to conduct a study on humanity and show just how evil a human can get when given a position of power. To summarize the experiment, a random 18 men were chosen, all innocent, good people who’d never committed a crime. They were divided into two groups erratically: 9 being…

In this section, Chen and Yang describe their experimental treatments and discuss how they measure and translate the outcomes. In the experiment, all participants are students from a top university and an average university in Beijing. Among these participants, Chen and Yang let students who have already regularly use tools to bypass censorship be benchmark to interpret the treatment effects. They randomly assign the rest students to either a control condition in which they are subject to…

REVIEW The Stanford Prison Experiment was intended to show the pitfalls of the judicial system regarding the treatment of prisoners and the lasting effect going to prison has on a person. They believed that when a person is sent to prison, they should be rehabilitated and then sent back out. Instead it seems that being sent to prison is not enough; it just makes the prisoner angry with the system of authority that put them there. According to the following information it seems that they were…

Human beings having an absolute free will to choose their moral and spiritual path were taught by Pico della Mirandola. I do not agree with what Pico della Mirandola had taught because human beings do not have absolute free will to choose their moral and spiritual path. Pico della Mirandola once said “therefore, every human being has absolute freedom to choose whatever place in the “great chain of being” he or she may choose.” By saying “great chain of being” Pico della Mirandola is using that…

This movement started in Italy and later showed itself all over Europe. From this period of time a lot of artistes appear with great artwork growing the perspective of this movement. Jan Van Eyck, Wedding portrait of the Arnolfini, London – Leonardo DA Vinci, The last supper, Milan – Michelangelo, Creation of Adam, Vatican – Raphael, School of Athens, Vatican – Titian, Venus of Urbino, Florence – Giorgione, The Tempest, Venice are some…

In a time when ideology and convictions were shaped by the church, a new ideology was on the horizon that would begin the revolutionary transformation of the western world into what we know as the renaissance period. This new way of thought was brought about due to certain doctrines of the Catholic church that was viewed as uncanonical and dogmatic. The idealistic movement of Renaissance humanism’s spread throughout first Florence and then western Europe was greatly due to men with common…

Throughout the course of Cultural Perspectives, many texts and authors who have contributed to the Great Conversation have been discussed. Ultimately, each author is attempting to find his or her summum bonum or “highest good.” Although each author has a different definition of summum bonum, the majority agrees on the method required to attain the highest good: balance. Whether that balance be implicitly or explicitly accredited for the summum bonum differs for each author. Lao Tzu’s thoughts…

The European Renaissance and Reformation was a pivotal time in history; numerous artists and thinkers from that time had created a new set of ideals that shaped the works of playwrights and poets. The new set of ideals were created by Humanist philosophers and were vastly different from the Medieval and Deterministic ideals that were previously popular. Medieval and Deterministic ideals coincided with the ideas that man was the scum of the Earth and that man would never amount to anything. Man…

Lost In The Forms, Forever In The Intelligence During the Renaissance period in life, a man by the name of Leonardo Da Vinci was doing many things that helped change the views of man. Leonardo was born out of wedlock between a respected notary and a peasant woman in 1452. During his child and teen years, Leonardo was under the care of a sculptor by the name of Andrea Del Verrocchio, who helped him kick off his art career. Like all people, Leonard had his fair share of thoughts and opinions, he…

their craft the best they can. The concept of perspective was an example of the efforts that artists made in order to make their art as best as they possibly could. This practice was used in art works by Renaissance men like The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and The School of Athens by Raphael to express architectural perspective with a central vanishing point to make it look like it is live in front of you. Artists also came up with the idea of making their paintings realistic which was…