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    is often accompanied by screams of pain from the learner, who eventually pleads the participant to stop. The role of the doctor is to encourage the participant to continue electrocuting the learner despite the complaints. This continues up to 450 volts, which is enough to kill a large grown man (Source D). Milgram’s Experiment exposed how easily one’s morals can be influenced by an authoritative voice. The results show that people often choose to do what they are told rather than what is right,…

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    Today, 80% of the energy people use come from fossil fuels and about 1% comes from solar energy. This can be seen as not being a very practical use of energy sources since nonrenewable resources are limited. Renewable sources can be replenished and have a much smaller chance of running out than nonrenewable sources. Solar energy is one of the least used energy sources that people have access to in the world; it is also one mother Earth is relying on to save the nonrenewable fuels, such as coal.…

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    that is known externally (Zimbardo, 2008). Systematic a broad influences either by political, economic or legal power (Zimbardo, 2008). “Milgrim is quantifying evil as the willingness of people blindly obeying authority to go all the way through 450 Volts and it’s like a dial on humans nature, a dial in a sense that an individual can make almost everybody obedient down to majority to no” (Zimbardo, 2008). For example, in an experiments, there were people of age 20 to 50. In this experiment,…

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    Police brutality in the United States has become an issue that has gained the public 's attention in countries across the globe. Police brutality has been defined as the use of any force exceeding what is reasonably necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose. Police officers are entrusted with the protection of their community, although recently they have abused their power as a way to brutally assault often innocent civilians and get away with it. As of April 27th 2015 police throughout the…

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    Concept Of Conformity

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    The issue I will be talking about will be on whether human behaviors are determined largely by the situation they are in. The key concepts of Conformity brought by the Asch’s experiment and also Obedience to authority in the Milgram’s experiment along with the key concept of role playing in the Stanford prison experiment will be used to support the issue statement. The concept used to counter the issue statement will be Schema which will be explained using an experiment done by Bransford and…

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    "Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to," says Stanley Milgram in his essay, "The Perils of Obedience" (Milgram 78). As he prepared to conduct a more extreme case of analyzing obedience in which test subjects would read off a group of words while the "learner," who was an actor, would have to pair the two correct words together, only to be shocked in an electric chair if they failed, Milgram hypothesized that the test subjects would listen to their…

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    III Electronic cigarettes are new so obviously there are many questions on whether these devices are safe, if the chemicals used to make the liquid are harmful, and if second-hand smoke is safe to inhale. The only people who need to be concerned about the nicotine levels of the vapor are actually vapers themselves. This is because the smoke can not do harm to anybody else. The exposure to the smoke is harmless because there is not second hand vapor so it is physically harmless (Burstyn 13).…

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    Tensile Test Report

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    frame with a wedge. The one in the lab was an MTS 647 Hydraulic Wedge Grip and an 810 Material Test System. The specimens had strain gages with a Wheatstone bridge to collect data such as time, distance, load, axial strain, and transverse strain in volts which was converted into pounds per force (lbf), pressure (psi), and etc. for data analysis. From the strain gages, evidence can support how and when the specimen material failed under the stress being applied to the specimen. The test would…

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    Resistivity In Wire

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    Materials with higher resistance require more voltage (EMF) to make the electricity flow. The scientific definition of one ohm is the amount of electrical resistance that exists in an electrical circuit when one amp of current is flowing with one volt being applied to the…

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    Exploring Electrochemistry Aim: The Aim of this experiment is to investigate electrochemistry including spontaneity, conductivity, galvanic cells and lead-acid cells. Spontaneous reactions will be explored by observing the two reactions below: Zn(s) + Cu2+(aq) →Zn2+(aq) + Cu(s) Zn2+(aq) + Cu(s) → Zn(s) + Cu2+(aq) Conductivity will be explored through measuring the conductivity of water and water with salts. A galvanic cell will be constructed to investigate the two halves of a redox…

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