A Comparative Analysis Of Red Reiner's A Few Good Men

While writing "The Power of The Situation" Lee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett explains, there are no indicators on a persons reaction given a certain situation ( 149). Ross and Nisbett continue to say, a person 's past cannot determine how a human 's actions will take place in a future scenario, even if the human has a kind heart, they may not always be willing to help a person in need. Leading into this Ross and Nisbett state, " Social Psychology has by now amassed a vast store of such empirical parables" (Ross and Nisbett 149). Many people believe a past of a person will help them to identify or interpret how a person will act; However, Ross and Nisbett believe for this to be a fundamental attribution error (149). The power of a situation causes people to act in ways they may not have ever dreamed of, for instance The My Lai Massacre. "The My Lai Massacre: A military Crime of Obedience" written by, Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton consists of a small series of crimes committed by our own military ( Kelman and Hamilton 131). During the massacre military soldiers were humiliating and dehumanizing the enemies simply because their leading officer commanded them to do so (140-141). As their once simple actions became an everyday routine, the soldiers never questioned the unjust commands given by the authority (140). Dawson and Downey followed the orders given by their superior in command without a hesitation to stop and think whether or not the actions soon to be taken were

The motion picture A Few Good Men challenges the question of why Marines obey their superiors’ orders without hesitation. The film illustrates a story about two Marines, Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey charged for the murder of Private First Class William T. Santiago. Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, who is known to be lackadaisical and originally considers offering a plea bargain in order to curtail Dawson’s and Downey’s sentence, finds himself fighting for the freedom of the Marines; their argument: they simply followed the orders given for a “Code Red”. The question of why people follow any order given has attracted much speculation from the world of psychology. Stanley Milgram, a Yale psychologist,

* This kind of similar to the experiment because the US soldiers have the same job than the guards from the experiment. However, because the prisoners and the soldiers had been more time together I think other factors influenced the exaggerated actions taken by the soldiers. These factors could hate, pride,

The grandmother and The Misfit of Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' are backward, opposite images of each other. However, the grandmother does have similarities with the character, Ruby Turpin in O'Connor's short story, 'Revelation'.

In the experiment, people were picked randomly and one as a teacher and one as the student. They were told to take a quiz and give electric shocks of increasing intensity as punishment if the student can’t answer. During the experiment, many people were concerned as someone can be heard shouting but only a few people who decided to stop and stick to their morals. But the others kept on going because they were just following orders from a superior (Milgram 77). "The Stanford Prison Experiment” by Philip Zimbardo, is about an experiment that was made to understand the roles people play in prison situations. For the experiment, Zimbardo converted a basement of the Stanford University psychology building into a mock prison. The participants were told to act as prisoners and guards. It was planned to be a two-week experiment but was forced to shut down in 6 days, all because of people quickly getting into their roles and started acting like the real prisoners and guards (Zimbardo 104). To compare both experiments, although they differed vastly in design and methodology, the point of both experiments was to observe how far an individual would go in inflicting increasing pain on a victim. Also how people obey under authoritative circumstances, when given power or different roles, however the writers differ in the seriousness of the fight for individuality and the use of reality.

Humanity will always question the idea of obedience. Two prestigious psychologists, Stanley Milgram and Philip G. Zimbardo, conducted practical obedience experiments with astonishing results. Shocked by the amount of immoral obedience, both doctors wrote articles exploring the reasoning for the test subjects ' unorthodox manners. In "The Perils of Obedience" by Milgram and "The Stanford Prison Experiment" by Zimbardo, the professionals reflect their thoughts in a logical manner. Milgram 's experiment consisted of a teacher, learner, and experimenter: the teacher was the test subject and was commanded to administer a shock by the experimenter. Upon switching the generator on, the learner-who was actually an actor-would jerk, cry, and occasionally seem unconscious. Expecting most subjects to stall the experiment, Milgram witnessed the exact opposite. Zimbardo, on the other hand, staged a mock prison, whereas half the subjects were guards and the other half were prisoners. Every test subject knew they were in an experiment and complied with the two week trial. However, the majority of the test subjects-particularly the guards-found themselves fitting into the mock prison all too well: abusing, insulting, and yelling obscenities at prisoners was commonplace, compelling many prisoners to appear insane. The driving force for immoral obedience is contributed to several factors: As seen in the film A Few Good Men by director Rob Reiner, when obedience causing harm undergoes

Though this was just an experiment many of the test subjects were quickly pushed to their limits and the ones in authority took their roles to the extreme. Eventually, this caused an early shut down of the experiment. There was a total of 9 students who were willing to be the prisoners in this experiment. The study issued that the guards would be forced to give brutal and cruel torture upon the prisoner. The experiment was known as one of the most controversial studies in the history of social psychology because even though it was an experiment, the prisoners went through major psychological changes and one prisoner even succumbed to a short period of insanity. Through deindividualized torture, exploitation and manipulation many of the test subjects underwent the same torture as those who were imprisoned at Abu Ghraib. It was finally shut down by a woman by the name of Christina Maslach but similarly to Abu Ghraib no one was held accountable for the short period of torture. Also like Abu Ghraib, the men who played the role of the guards in The Stanford Prison Experiment underwent psychological changes where they became evil, relentless and manipulative all while blaming it on the fact that they’re “just following orders.” In many cases when a person is given authority, they abuse it

A Few Good Men depicts the court case of two marines, Private First Class Louden Downey and Lance Corporal Harold W. Dawson, who had been ordered to perform a "Code Red" on a fellow marine, Private First Class William T. Santiago. Stanley Miligram, a 1970's psychologist who wanted to test obedience in

In the article “Too Much of a Good Thing,” Greg Critser argues that despite acknowledgement of obesity as a growing epidemic, important authorities on the subject are being ignored and silenced due to societal precedents, both in the media and the psyche of the populous (161). He uses this article to advocate for readers’ awareness of their own biases and misconceptions on weight and diet. Throughout his argument, Critser makes an effort to any credibility that these misconceptions have, pressuring his audience to reforge their views on weight and diet. He prompts the reader to reject society’s image of health and weight and adopt more strict ideals on diet. In doing this, he sets up for an inneffective counterargument against the notion that children internalize bad eating habits, reveals a crippling lack of understanding on the effect of health campaigns on the public, and unwittingly bares the flaws in his analytical thinking when he describes and refuses to elaborate on the French puericultura (or childcare) movement’s effects on the French populace.

Violence is among the leading causes of death, one way to look at all of this violence is to blame human nature. But violence never simply “break out” and if we're so naturally violet why does the military have to go to such great lengths to break down an example will be the soldiers or marines.

6/03/2015: O’Connor’s short story “ A Good Man Is Hard To Find” symbolizes a theme of religion which questions me to think how O’Connor was raised? In my intention of this story every character seems to play a key role of religion. As for the Misfit can be seen as Satan himself as he encounters the family and kills them all. Yet he does it so politely saying “he is not a good man”, and how he only shoots just 3 bullets into the Grandmother. This gives me a sense of how O’Connor is conveying a message in this short story by implanting key points throughout this story. This story almost teaches by a negative example, for instance The Grandmother is conveyed as a Self-righteous character, and for the Misfit is carried out as the Grim reaper. I say the Grim reaper because the Misfit is characterized as the meaning of death. According to Kacie Regale “O’Connor’s fiction story carries out a sense of religious endowment and all the characters, especially the Grandmother are concerned only with their wants and desires”. This statement supports my ideas of how O’Connor is conveying a message in “A Good Man is Hard To Find” because it 's stating that desires and wants are just the lavish sense of pleasure, but rather O’Connor is announcing love and affection towards others. This is shown towards the end of the story when the Grandmother tells the Misfit “You’re one of my own children!” and recognizes her own mortality, her own sinfulness, and her relationship to other “children of

The representation of female lawyers in movies is perceived negatively, and greatly differs from the representation in television series. The film, A Few Good Men, follows a military case involving marines in Cuba. The culture of the movie is already biased in the sense that the setting is dominated by men. The introduction of Lt. Cdr. Joanne Galloway, the female lawyer, offers another dynamic to the strategy of the case, as well as the plot of the film. Her role and interaction with other characters in the case can be examined to demonstrate how movies can negatively and positively display women lawyers.

In class are shown the Milgram experiment which was an enforcer telling the teacher to shock the learner if the learner did not get what the learner was supposed to memorize exactly right the learner got shocked. In this study the learner was in no real harm because he was an actor but this experiment showed about 65% of people will kill someone if instructed to do so. Milgram was trying to understand why normal people in Germany would kill so many Jews. Milgram's results from this study show if people are instructed to do heinous acts 65% will go all the way. There is also another study called the Stanford prison study where they had normal people that were pertaining to be criminals and guards no real instructions were in place and we see from this experiment that people will push the limits and this is a great debate of good

In, “A Good Man Down,” Lee Jenkins expresses the great respect a small town in Iowa has for their fallen high school football coach through the use of pathos, tone, and word choice.

In 2004, seven United States soldiers were convicted for abusing Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib Prison. Reports disclosed that prisoners were forced to undergo physical abuse such as beatings and acid burns. Prisoners were also subjected to sexual abuse, performing sexual acts on display before prisoners and guards. After the reports were made public, people tried to assign the causes behind the guard’s behavior (Paper 2 Prompt). This is process referred to as social attribution (lecture 9/10/15). There are two types of social attribution that serve as an explanation for the soldiers’ actions: dispositional attribution and situational attribution.