Shock

into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it go through it, or work around it.” Being a student in college is no easy task, especially when there are many distractions. Alfred Lubrano, a New York native and author of “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts,” explained how in order to succeed in college, he needed to remove himself from family and friends. Lubrano, also saw how two distinct classes, the working class and the middle class differ vastly when it came…

information on the stimulus of the obedience. Michael Shermer in “What Milgram’s Shock Experiment Really Meant” describes the obedience as being fueled by fear and the unknown of what may happen to the participant. Saul Mcleod wrote “Obedience to Authority” and he also expresses that fear is a key factor. In “What Milgram’s Shock Experiment Really Meant”, Shermer conducted an experiment of an exact replica of Milgram’s shock experiment. One of his test subjects, Lateefah, was stopped in the…

quickly, showing his frantic troubled mind, that propelled him to create works of art. Much like Vincent, Matthew in “The shock of the fall” also came of a troubled mind. Not only do Vincent and Matthew both share the connections of suffering from mental illness, they go beyond and each author, White Smith and Steven Naifeh of “Van Gogh: The Life”, and Nathan Filler of “The Shock of the Fall”; gives a brilliant outlook at the state of life of a person with mental illness, in both the 1800’s and…

peers are contributing factors to desegregation. In the article “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” Alfred Lubrano demonstrates how college students change as a result of their environment and peer influences. Thompson Ford uses concepts of desegregation to explain the idea of “acting white”. Through reading Lubrano’s article, Thompson Ford may develop a new new concept and or debate in regards to “acting white”…

Teetering to Surrender: A Critical Analysis of “The Shock of the Atomic Bomb and Japan’s Decision to Surrender— A Reconsideration” Individuals see “The Shock of the Atomic Bomb and Japan’s Decision to Surrender— A Reconsideration,” by Sadao Asada, as tedious and boring. Including names of different articles and historians can seem useless and insignificant, however I challenge you to see the strengths within this piece. Asada’s academic article puts entertainment and emotional appeal aside to…

Shell shock was a major psychological problem during the first war. It resulted from constant bombings and explosion from the war. The symptoms of shell shock were horrid. In the article “Shell Shock during World War One”, the author Professor Joanna Bourke, concurs , “Symptoms ranged from uncontrollable diarrhoea to unrelenting anxiety” (Bourke). Soldiers…

From a young age, children are asked what they would like to be when they grow up. For many seven-year-olds, the answers are very widespread from veterinarians or lawyers to infeasible careers like superheroes or mermaids. According to my mother, when I was very young, my dream was to become a taxi driver. However, from as far back as I can remember, my unwavering response was always, “I want to be a doctor.” Although the ideas of which type of doctor I would be changed from year to year, the…

maybe a chance of shock, and 1 for no chance of shock. The second minute got a 1 for a chance to get shocked, 2 for maybe a chance of shock, and 3 for no chance of shock. The third minute got a 5 for a chance to get shocked, 2 for maybe a chance of shock, and 3 for no chance of shock. The fourth minute got a 10 for a chance to get shocked, 5 for maybe a chance of shock, and 8 for no chance of shock. The fifth minute got an 8 for a chance to get shocked, 18 for maybe a chance of shock, and 12…

when subjected to shock this is similar to Skinner’s experiment with the rats and they were also subjected to shock. Seligman’s experiment with the dogs included the dogs receiving electric shock when the light appeared for 10 seconds each time. Seligman experimented with the dogs to see if the dogs could escape from the shock completely and he found that the dogs escaped by jumping over the barriers. Seligman found that the dogs learned that the light is the sign of an electric shock and this…

I that soldiers’ mental trauma became more popularly examined. We now know that traumatic events can leave someone experiencing PTSD, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Back in 1914, soldiers fighting in the war had their own version called “shell shock”. In the beginning of World War I, British soldiers began to report medical symptoms after combat such as amnesia, headaches, dizziness, tremors, and hypersensitivity to noise. These symptoms were seen and expected in soldiers after a physical…