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    “Loudon Wainright: A Tale of Human Nature” On March 13, 1964, 38 people watched, 38 people looked away, 38 people did not do anything, only 1 person suffered. That's what happened in "The Dying Girl that No One Helped," an editorial by Loudon Wainright. In the editorial Wainright tells about Kitty Genovese and how she was murdered in front of at least 38 witnesses. After the murder nobody wanted to fess up and explain what happened that night, they did not even want to call the police. This…

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    Emergency Observation

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    In 1968, an experiment based on analyzing the level of people’s intervention during an emergency situation was running. This experiment is studied due to a tragic incident that happened in New York; Kitty Genovese was stabbed by an attacker for almost one and half hour while there are 38 present witnesses observed the whole scene, yet none of the witnesses tried to intervene nor calling 911. This incident has come into researcher’s vision and with a question of will the number of people effects…

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    Bystander Effect

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    The bystander effect refers to the idea that people are less likely to offer help when other people are around. According to the theory, the larger amount of people that are present, the less likely people are to offer help (Cherry). Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of over thirty people and not a single person stepped in or even called the police. The bystander effect is to blame for her murder. When there is an emergency situation, people are more likely to help if there are less people…

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    The bystander effect is a phenomenon where people are less likely to help if others are present. According to a survey done by the US Department of Justice, 84% of police officers have stated that they’ve directly witnessed a fellow officer using more force during an arrest than was necessary. II. Lead into topic: This is a jarring statistic because it shows just how easy police officers find it to use force, and how much they can get caught up in the moment, which leads to cases of extreme…

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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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