The Guard

Read About These Things in Books” and “The Guard” are about children experiencing life during the holocaust. After reading these three exerts its obvious that these have a few similarities and differences Two similarities are that they were scared and They were all with family or someone important. Both “The Guard” and “Until Then I Only Read About These Things in Books” showed that the characters were scared. From “The Guard” it says “... because the guard is lifting up his arm (to shoot his…

dead body of Jeffery Miller after he had been shot. Among Miller were three others who died after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a chaotic protesting group of students on Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May 4, 1970 will forever be known as the Kent State Massacre (Thomas and Hensley). Several incidents led up to the shooting, however, the Ohio National Guard should not have opened fire on the students protesting on the campus of Kent State University. The students…

China, which took place from 1966 to 1976, Mao Zedong mobilized groups of devoted young people who called themselves “Red Guards,” whose goals was to spread the idea of socialism across China or to protest against the democratic society. This gives rise to the question “Who were the Red Guards and what major impacts did they have during the Cultural Revolution?” The Red Guards have affected schools and its students, as well as the economy and its citizens, and dramatically changed China’s…

uniform of the guard and put it on. Task one complete. Quick, is what Villain had to be. Soon enough someone was bound to notice an unconscious security guard on the floor.Sin Rostro walked swiftly into the White House and headed for the President’s office. While walking in the corridor another security guard approached him and said ‘ Bob, remember that thing that we have to do, let’s do it now,’ Sin Rostro was lost for words and said nothing and silently walked away. The other guard was utterly…

dangerous and violent prison escape attempt in Alcatraz history. It was considered the unescapable prison in that that. Although a few prisoners would challenge that claim. In the middle of all the mayhem, one inmate was injured and fourteen other guards as well, while three inmate and two correctional officers died from a bullet wound. Bernerd Paul Coy who robbed a bank, he was sentenced to twenty-six years in prison for robbery with a possession of a shotgun, made a plan to escape the prison…

Experiment to pursue an enhanced comprehension of the tension and conflict between military prisoners and their guards (“Stanford Prison Experiment,” 2015). In this infamous psychology experiment, participants were arbitrarily allocated to the role of prisoner or guard: prisoners stayed in the cells of a Stanford University basement while the guards worked eight-hour shifts. The guards developed authoritarian and draconian manners; the prisoners were cruelly treated and pitted against each other…

An Unexpected Change The premise of the Stanford Prison was to determine the relationships between guards and prisoners. These conditions were situational and the researchers wanted to study the variables on human behaviors in a prison environment. As many have concluded, the experiment did not go as anticipated, and many questions have arisen as to what went wrong and if the experiment itself was ethical. This purpose of this paper is to understand the true intent of the experiment, examine…

carries with it a degree of social rank or value” (Andersen, Taylor, 106). This relates to an individual's personality altering when they are given the position of authority. In the experiment the guards are given authority by having control over the prisoners. Although they may not use physical violence the guards use emotional and mental violence against the prisoners by yelling at them and waking them up at 2:30am to do things such as cleaning. Another concept is groupthink. “Groupthink,…

In Jim’s jail cell, Jim was thinking about strategies to get past the guards and escape this horrible place. His mind was making calculations, what it would take to escape this jail. Then he drifted to sleep. What was very unique about Jim was the only person in the whole universe that could control his dreams and wake up whenever he wanted. Jim could give memories to people but, there was a big chance that, that might kill him. Rarely Jim his dreams predict the future. But in this dream Jim was…

character, Andy Dufresne, after he is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover and he is sentenced to life in jail. While he is serving his sentence, he becomes friends with another inmate, Red. He also finds himself being protected by the guards after the warden of the prison begins using him for an illegal money operation. The cinematic effects in Shawshank Redemption are powerful in the way they draw the audience attention in. The director uses different camera shots quite…