Hsi Lai Temple

In 1974 Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tested the obedience of ordinary people. The experiment began with three participants: • The “Proctor” (Milgram’s helper who controlled the experiment) • The “Learner” (The accomplice to the experiment who acted as though he was being shocked upon giving an incorrect answer) • The “Teacher” (This was the unknowing true subject of the experiment. He was the person who thought that he was truly administering shocks to the learner upon receiving an…

lots of important and true information was missing due to the fact that certain parts of the war and America’s actions make America look in the wrong. An example of this is said by Loewen when he writes the quotation by John Kerry speaking of the My Lai massacre during Vietnam, saying “how American troops ‘had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads... cut off limbs ..randomly shot civilians(pg. 250)”. These acts had occurred during the Vietnam war and when the war was talked about in…

killed between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese men, women and children. There was no sign of resistance nor possession of weapons. According to evidence from various informants, the 48th Vietcong infantry Battalion was harbored within the border of My Lai, but in truth only innocent civilians occupied the village. Military officials promptly initiated a cover up attempt, but the scandal soon came to the public’s attention in 1969 and trials were held to determine the fate of the men. Of the…

fire in the United States. People had started calling out against the war, especially after the war crimes that the United States committed against Vietnamese citizens. The prominent and most widely talked about was the My Lai massacre, which opened the eyes of many people. The My Lai massacre was an important event in the Vietnam war that caused the citizens of the United States to have a strong doubt in their military which can still be felt today. The idea of the strategy of war had changed…

line between Vietnam guerrillas and the Vietnam civilians leaving US armed forces with mental disorders (Hochgesang et al). The My Lai massacre reflects the inhuman type of war that had taken place in Vietnam and the changed in US soldiers that went from civilians to heartless killers, this because of their burdens caused by the exposure of War atrocities. The My Lai massacre was a result of the psychological damage caused by inhuman War environment these soldiers lived and in his writing, Josh…

The past few weeks have covered the Vietnam War through many different angles, all of which were attempted to be covered up by the American government. These topics were meant to remain a secret. With events like the attempted cover up of the My Lia massacre in mind, the question that is to be debated is the morality of secret actions in the terms of protecting the American public. The American policy towards secrecy should be to declassify any document that is not relevant in any ongoing act…

It was a clear Saturday night, full of excitement and anticipation. Two teenage brothers, Chip and Zander, were headed to one of the biggest Halloween parties in the county. Chip dressed up as a mechanic, and Zander went as a zombie based from the television show, The Walking Dead. Their mother had given them strict instructions to be home by midnight as she wanted to ensure they would make it home safe before the night became too crazy. Even though the boys were having a great time dancing,…

there is a teacher and leaner. The teacher, the actual subject, shocks the learner for every wrong answer. The volts of electricity start at 15 increasing to 450. Kelman and Hamilton wrote "My Lai Massacre" which recounts the trial and thoughts of Lieutenant Calley, the only officer to go on trial for the My Lai Massacre.They also analyze the three points of social processes . Milgram along with Kelman and Hamilton will try to decipher why Dawson and Downey obeyed the code red knowing that it is…

he describes his experiment that tested the effects of roles and the situation, one could see how in the movie much of what happened came out of a sense of entitlement. An article titled “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience,” written by Herbert Kelman and Lee Hamilton, debates the My Lai massacre, the authority figures there, and orders given as well as the causes for or situations in which a massacre…

another's authority. Following the orders of authority blindly can have many negative effects. My Lai Massacre, Jonestown Massacre, Millgram Experiment and Nanking Massacre are some incidents that have caused negative consequences as a result of obedience to authority. My Lai Massacre took place in 1968. On the morning of March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie company, arrived in the hamlet of My Lai in the northern part of South Vietnam. Over the next 3 hours, 504 Vietnamese civillians were…