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    treatment of the Jewish prisoners forcibly evoked their instinct to survive and caused them to act as the animals the Nazis convinced them they were. To illustrate the reasons for the…

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    Effects Of Malmedy

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    of death (Edmonds). This is what many prisoners of war had to go through during World War 2 (Edmonds). A prisoner of war is a person held captive by their country’s enemy in war (Pranger). Many prisoners of war in Germany during World War 2 were treated unethically, regardless of guidelines put in place to keep them safe. Germany, along with many other regions in the world contributed to the unfair treatment of prisoners of war. For example, many prisoners of war in Germany were forced to do…

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    Gross Rosen Essay

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    self-sufficient camp. Gross Rosen had about 120,000 prisoner that passed through. About 40,000 prisoner vanished. At first, the prisoner were employed primarily as forced laborers in the concentration camps which the ss-owned granite quarry. Gross Rosen had three commanders who were: Arthur roedl, Wilhelm Gideon, and Johannes hassebroek. Gross Rosen built arm factories ,70 dud-camps (also know as satellite camps) were added ,and the number of prisoner grow. The first Jews to come to gross…

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    days, because the situation had gotten out of hand. Students portraying guards became more violent and degrading towards the student prisoners. The guards were waking the prisoners up in the middle of the night to do counts, cleaning toilets with bare hands, taking blankets, pretending to be Frankenstein’s monster, etcetera. All of the acts the guards made the prisoners do was to dehumanize them. The symbolic interactionism shows social behavior and its subjective understanding. The guards wore…

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    Concentration Camps… the place that tore families apart, the place where Nazi’s torchered, ruined, and killed Jewish prisoners. It all started in the month of May 1949. There were 24 concentration camps. Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, was the worst of them all because of the many gas chambers, poor living conditions, and the death marches that killed millions of Jews. Most Concentration Camps contained one or two gas chambers. But Auschwitz had eight gas chambers. Auschwitz had…

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    all the way up until August 20th. In this experiment, a psychology professor named Philip Zimbardo attempts to form a model prison where he would select participants to either be guards or prisoners. The participants were interviewed, and the ones chosen were randomly assigned their roles of being either prisoners, or guards. The model prison was created in the basement of Stanford University, and it was meant to act as a replica to a real prison. This experiment was meant to show the…

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    into either prison guards or prisoners, this experiment was only to last two weeks. Upon the prisoners arrival at the make shifted prison they were stripped off their clothes and sprayed with disinfecting spray. Each prisoner was issued a dress as a uniform with their prison identification number on the back and front. Putting the men in dress made them feel feminized, they had no protection under the dress. The identity numbers were used as a way to make the prisoners feel unimportant. Every…

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    treatment in prison is determined? How are mental health programs developed along with does prison help prisoners prepare to become law-abiding citizens? All of these question are important and need to be answered. The difference types of cultures and subcultures that are faced in prison. Subculture is the culture of prison society, subculture is also known as the “Convict code”, meaning all prisoners against the correctional officers and staff. Subculture is a group of individuals who share…

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    is it fair to be transplanting the organs of Chinese prisoners without their consent while they are alive? People may think that because they are prisoners, there is nothing wrong with taking their organs. There are other people in the world who need organs more than they do, but all people were created equal and although some people have broken the law, they still have rights that need to be respected. The taking of organs from Chinese prisoners not only violates the Universal Declaration of…

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    Plato has conflicting views when regarding the existence of certainty and doubt in society. In Plato's The Allegory of the Cave, the cave may represent this superficial reality, everything that the prisoners have knowledge of has been conceived from mere illusions created by shadows. Because the prisoners had no sort of contact with the outside world they have become certain that the shadows were real. In Plato's Euthyphro, Socrates has been convicted on charges of impiety and wishes to…

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