Bystander Book Report

The year is 1961 at St. Louis University and Sister Rose Thering is in the process of examining how Catholic lessons disrespect other religions, specifically Judaism. She strongly advocated a world without prejudice, challenging her own faith to consummate change. Sister Rose’s work sets a precedent for getting involved. Throughout life individuals are challenged and put into difficult situations, in which they are given a decision of reaming a bystander or becoming an upstander. However, the choice they make might not always be the preferred one because most individuals do not fully understand the reason or by what method they can get involved.

At a young age Eric displayed aspirations of becoming a writer by writing poems and excelling in school. Eric was a talented student, winning a scholarship to St. Cyprian’s, a prestigious boarding school located in southern England (Agathocleous 9). His time spent at this school was rather unpleasant and Blair reflects on his time spent at St. Cyprian’s in an essay called “Such, Such Were the Joy’s,” in which he describes the traumatizing disciplinary systems and the conditions that the young boys lived in while attending preparatory school. His childhood experiences coupled with scarring early school memories caused him to develop a strong hate for authority. Along with the harsh conditions of the school came snobbery from wealthy kids who would single out the non wealthy kids and bombard them with questions (Agathocleous 10), as Orwell later

Fortunately, for everyone’s sake, not everyone was only out to save himself or herself. In contrast to the many examples where betrayal was the norm there are several examples of friends who were genuine and helped to make the situation better for someone even they could not make it better

This research design was an experimental 2 x 2 x 2 mixed factorial study in the form of a survey to test the hypothesis presented. The purpose of the study was to see whether or not the strength of eyewitness evidence affected plea bargaining decisions made by both prosecutors and defense attorneys. The independent variable is eyewitness evidence and the dependent variables are plea bargaining decisions of prosecutors and defense attorneys (Pezdek, 2010-2011).

I had to go there to return my little sister’s books. I got on my bike, put on my helmet, and bike in the hot sun to the library. I returned the books, and when I was starting to leave someone called my name. I turned around it was, Eric.

On November 5th, 2012 in Staten Island, a woman named Glenda Moore had tried to escape the storm of Hurricane Sandy with her two boys -- Connor, 4, and Brandon, 2 -- to try and head towards dry land. On the monday morning Glenda risked driving herself and her two boys to safety in their blue Ford Explorer, only to get trapped in the catastrophic waters. While trying to get her sons out of the car quickly, she soon got separated from them, leaving them stranded and unknown of their surroundings. Frantically calling for help, Ms. Moore goes to her neighbors house yearning for help from him, but, he leaves ignoring her. On Thursday morning, both of the boys bodies were found lifeless. This is why the state of California needs to introduce a bystander law.

Over the entirety of this course one psychological phenomenon has resonated with me more so than any other, this being the principle of Bystander Intervention. My personal connection this psychological principle is engraved into my mind and revolves around a gentleman, whom I have never met, attempting to take his own life. Towards the beginning of March of last year I found myself studying at the Davis Centre working on an essay on the computers. Listening to my music, which as usual was nearly on full audible output, when I began to here loud noises and sounds that seem to pierce my headphones. I turn to see a gentleman, who was not long ago sitting beside me on a near by computer, began to scream uncontrollably and repeatedly strike his

Four people sit in a room, one directly behind the other. In front is the victim, behind is the perpetrator, behind them is the witness, and in the very back is the authority. The victim turns their back to the 3 people behind. On top of the victim's head is temptation. The authority, gets up from their chair, says to the bystander, “Let me know if you need anything”, and steps outside of the room. The perpetrator with a lack of authority, has a chance. The perpetrator grabs the temptation and the victim does not notice. The witness does notice but does not notify the authority and becomes the bystander. With all 4 components, a crime has occurred and will continue to until something changes. The people are stuck in their roles until anything changes. In a quote from Miles Lehrman, a holocaust survivor, he states, “A perpetrator is not the most dangerous enemy.

Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders. These three varieties of personalities are present in places where troubles arise. Daily, innocent human beings are victimized by the unjust actions done by perpetrators. While this commotion is in procession, bystanders are left to watch the situation unfold. All sufferers hope that a bystander will assist them. Now that’s not the case, bystanders fear various circumstances that may arise. Some of these circumstances could mean life or death. They understand that it is their responsibility to help but they don’t help. This point is confirmed in an article form Ponder Pop Culture, written by All Things PR, it answers “Will we intervene? Nope.”

In conclusion, both “The Open Boat” and “The Interlopers” explore how people can become allies in order to avoid a worser fate. Maybe your own friends have become friendly towards you for this very reason. Perhaps they think it will make them popular, make other people leave them alone, or even give them an immunity to criticism. For teenagers, this is the case in a lot of friendships because of the pressure of society and their own peers thinking they must make friends immediately or else be labeled an

by girls, has a job, and has friends like a normal teen. Mentally, Eric is psychopathic;

There’s a lot bad situations that shouldn’t happen and could of been prevented, and people question how is that in their control. Half of any horrible situation could've been prevented with a phone call to authorities or saving someone when they’re hurt and contacting an ambulance. When someone is in need of assistance physically and can’t get help the most common sensed idea is to help them which in humanity should be an instinct. Yet the more bystanders there is the less likely it is that any one of them help.

This essay will be looking at two different cases of bystander behaviour and the similarities between them and differences. How they compare and contrast with reasoning behind why individuals or groups react in the manner they do. Using two examples from Jovan Byford (2014) ‘Living together, living apart: the social life of the neighbourhood’, in John Clarke and Kath Woodward, G. (eds) Understanding Social Lives, Part Two, Milton Keynes: The Open University. These examples cover two approaches the first explaining why people do not intervene to help others when in danger and the second using the discourse approach to the same situation. Using various discussion evidence the essay will put together an outline of the two examples and then provide

He didn’t have trouble talking to females. He wasn’t shy and even had a date for prom. Before prom, Eric had committed a misdemeanor crime with Dylan. They broke into a van a stole some items. They committed more crimes in the future which eventually

The bystanders ambling out front of the town hall were already near a minimum as all of the public offices in the area closed down by 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Inez was thankful for that, but that was also part of his plan all along. Lesser people would mean less questioning eyes on what it was he was doing. It did have a drawback, though… having the town hall empty. It didn’t help when it came to convincing as many minds as possible that their world wasn’t all what it seemed.