Examples Of Big Crimes

Like Mr. Paul said, ¨Folks sometimes do ugly things, Hiram, but that don't necessarily make them evil. A lot of good folks just make stupid decisions or get themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.¨ (Crowe 221) What a reader can learn from this is that sometimes, people make

It is a very arguable subject on whether or not people are born with good intentions, and therefore taught by others the ‘evil’ side of their personality. Whether it is the absence of ethical conduct in human nature, or just the way one perceives a situation, evil seems to be prominent in our everyday lives. Humans seem to have a moral code that follows them with every decision they make, yet despite the laws of morality and society, people of this world still seem to behave inhumanely because of the act of self-preservation, human interest, and who exactly the authority figure is at the time.

I think that people do bad things because they want to follow what others do and that person don’t want to get judged and that person is probably scared to go for what’s right. Some people do bad things because they think it is alright and all cool. Then the people that are doing hateful and cruel and bad things are always trying to draw attention.

Those subjects either played the role of a student or a teacher. The Teachers were told to administer increasingly severe electric shocks to the learner when questions were answered incorrectly. The shock levels were from 15 to 450 volts. In the Milgram Obedience Study Video, it states that” Many if not most subjects were troubled by it and found it a highly conflicted experience... Some were laughing hysterically after inflicting damage upon them,” meaning that this quote not only presents how the experiment gave too much power to the experimenters but also shows the misuse in power (Milgram, 6:40-7:00).

 Module Overview: Part 1 Why people do harm to others? •

If a person of authority ordered you inflict a 15 to 400 volt electrical shock on another innocent human being, would you follow your direct orders? That is the question that Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University tested in the 1960’s. Most people would answer “no,” to imposing pain on innocent human beings but Milgram wanted to go further with his study. Writing and Reading across the Curriculum holds a shortened edition of Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience,” where he displays an eye-opening experiment that tests the true obedience of people under authority figures. He observes that most people go against their natural instinct to never harm innocent humans and obey the extreme and dangerous instructions of authority

“Human nature is evil and goodness is caused by intentional activity” - Xunzi. Humans by nature have natural tendencies to evil however not everyone acts on those emotions.

People are always getting into situations that have two possible ways to go. That person can choose the right thing to do or the worse. There have been numerous amounts of people asking the question “what is good and evil?” Many have tried conducting experiments to try and find the roots of what makes people good/evil? Evil acts and evil itself can be shown through the social, economic, and mental environment.

Stanley Milgram writes about his shocking experiment in “Perils of Obedience.” Milgram writes on the behaviors that the people had during the experiment. Milgram had an experiment that involves two people. One person was a student and the other a teacher. The student was strapped into an electric chair and was required to answer certain questions. The teacher asked a certain word, and the student must know the pair that goes with it. If the student answered the question incorrectly, the teacher must shock the student. Each time the student answered a question incorrectly, the volts increase. Milgram was expecting the teachers to back out of the experiment once they saw the student in pain for the first time, but surprisingly enough, more than sixty percent of the teachers obeyed the experimenter and continued on with the experiment, reaching up to four-hundred-fifty volts. After three times of the four-hundred-fifty volt shock, the experiment was called to halt.

In everyday life you are exposed to media. The media uses techniques such as: propaganda, product placement, and facts to alter how you view a certain thing. You may not realize how the media twist and turns such little details to change your perception. My personal view on many things were changed in time as little as a week. We watched Affluenza, The Truman Show, and many documentary’s that showed how the media can change how you think.

1. Irony is the style use to say something by expressing its opposite. For example the irony from “My Papa’s Waltz” Poem: “We romped until the pans “ 2. Metaphor is a figure of style used in literature to express an idea by using comparison. For instance, in “To His Coy Mistress, in the stanza “My vegetable love should grow”, the speaker make a comparison between his love and the vegetable.

Why is it that the most morally well rounded individuals will eventually succumb to evil and do terrible things? Looking throughout history, performing evil deeds has seen a trend that is present in every era. From the beginning of America, to even today, scandals occur intentionally hurting others. Presidents who have the most power in the country, have shown their darker side when put under pressure. But what really causes it?

People have the ability to do bad things and sometimes it’s scary to think about those things. If a person is going to kill someone they probably will show signs at early childhood. For example, a murderer will not wake up and think to himself oh I’m going to kill somebody today. He probably already had the anger in him and when he is ready to kill somebody that anger will grow and just shatter. People will have the signs that they are capable of killing people. All people are capable of killing. Some people don’t need to do those things though, it depends on the person and how they are raised. If they grow up in a good environment with loving people around them that’s good. Many peoples parents behave badly and not all of those kids become killers. If those people are influenced into doing bad things, they have the option to go and follow those bad habits, or to choose the right path and to not do those evil things. Some people had the lack of compassion in their childhood and that could lead to loneliness. If a child is neglected in their childhood that could lead to many possible differences. Those things could lead to committing

To come to understand why people act with deviant behavior, we must comprehend how society brings about the

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