The Shock Doctrine

soldiers led lines of naked Jews to their deaths in gas chambers at grimy concentration camps across Europe while Milgram’s subjects were merely asked to flip a switch and shock a man on the other side of the wall. German soldiers watched their victims die while Milgrim’s subjects were assured by the experimenter that the shocks “may be painful, but they’re not dangerous” (1). But is such an argument actually valid? Most antagonistic authority figures like Adolf Hitler and his fellow Nazis would…

In Milgram’s experiment participants continued to give the shocks to the student even after the student begged the teacher to stop. In some occasions, the teacher stopped for a few moments but continued when the man in the white coat told them to proceede. In a particular moment, the last teacher (one with white shirt and color collar) continued to give the student the shock but not before being reassured that in case that something happened to the student he would…

independent doctrine stating the Western Hemisphere’s independence from European…

The Explosion of an American Superpower At the end of the 19 century, America was becoming a formidable superpower, she had reached the limits of her national frontier, and had achieved the manifest destiny. As any up and coming superpower would do, she turned her interests to the international scale. The sinking of the USS Maine on February 15th 1898, which killed 260 U.S Navy servicemen. This attack on American servicemen gave America the excuse it needed to get involved in a foreign war, and…

In the excerpt from the Truman Doctrine, President Truman speaks of Greece as a nation utterly destroyed by the war and the population suffering greatly in result. He speaks of chaos and political violence. I do not doubt the validity of these claims, however, the anti-communist message…

As the United States produced in domination, so did her thoughts of expansion. The external states were commencing to move out of their landmasses and pursue earth in supplementary countries. The United States quickly followed. They pursued in their founder’s footsteps and endeavored to inhabit fields in the distant seas. Though, in the commencing, this demand for extra earth was shouted Manifest Destiny. This believed asserted that Deity was compelling them to inhabit the new western lands. The…

The Marshall Plan was the idea behind a speech made by U.S. Secretary of State, George C. Marshall that suggested that the United States assist Europe with their economic devastation; however, there was no actual “plan.” Once the plan was approved and became the European Recovery Program it lasted from April 1948 to December 1951. During that time there was approximately $12.5 billion dollars given to 12 European countries. The Marshall Plan did have its faults but overall was a success in…

Bush administration to establish new principles of foreign policy. Very different from the post World War I policies of Woodrow Wilson, the Bush Doctrine minimized the importance of diplomacy in favor of a “go it alone” attitude. This unilateral attitude alienated U.S. allies and enemies…

electric shocks. Being that there was forty men who answered the newspaper advertisement, the Milgram Experiment was to be conducted a total of forty times; therefore, the student (Milgram 's confedetate) was to be put through agonizing pain for forty trials. Although Mr. Wallace decided to participate in this experiment, the morals behind the loud cries for help should not be inflicted purposely on another individual, much less for a total of forty times. Moreover, the range of the electric…

More precisely, Milgram (1963) measured the levels of obedience present in participants whom were instructed by an experimenter to administer electric shocks to another…