The Daughter Of A Commandment By Alexander Pusking

In The Perils of Obedience, Stanley Milgram introduces us to his experimental studies on the conflict between one’s own conscience and obedience to authority. From these experiments, Milgram discovered that a lot of people will obey a figure in authority; irrespective of the task given - even if it goes against their own moral belief and values. Milgram’s decision to conduct these experiments was to investigate the role of Adolf Eichmann (who played a major part in the Holocaust) and ascertain if his actions were based on the fact that he was just following orders; as most Germans accused of being guilty for war crimes commonly explained that they were only being obedient to persons in higher authority.

The division of society into bourgeoisie and proletariat in Russian revolution brings conflicts and disputes among the classes .The bourgeoisie annihilated fundamental rights of the

The last Tsar Nicholas II ascended the throne in 1894 and was faced with a country that was trying to free itself from its autocratic regime. The serfs had recently been emancipated, the industry and economy was just starting to develop and opposition to the Tsar was building up. Russia was still behind Europe in terms of the political regime, the social conditions and the economy. Nicholas II who was a weak and very influenced by his mother and his wife had to deal with Russia’s troubles during his reign. In order to ascertain how successfully Russia dealt with its problems by 1914, this essay will examine the October Manifesto and the split of the opposition, how the Tsar became more reactionary after the 1905 revolution, Stolypin’s

Morality in its basic definition, is the knowledge between what is right and what is wrong. In Joan Didion’s essay, “On Morality,” she uses examples to show how morality is used to justify actions and decisions by people. She explains that morality can have a profound effect on the decisions that people chose to make. I think that morality is an idea that is different for every individual based on morals and background.

Four judges and the King’s deputy sat to dinner with us but an hour ago. I —I would have you speak civilly to me, from this out." (Mary Warren, Act 2, p. 57)By the second act, the repercussions of the trials are starting to reverberate out of the courtroom. Mary Warren feels entitled to, asks for, and to some extent receives respect because she is now in a greater position of power. And Mary is not the only one to benefit from the added respect accorded to the afflicted girls, as the next quote demonstrates.Power is used in Soviet by people who say have money or even a football coach over his players it is the feeling of being above someone , ”that allow for independent forms of social causation. The first is fundamentally concerned with the economic structure of a

The Heretic’s Daughter by Kathleen Kent is an evocative tale which tells a fictional story about the first hangings in the Salem witch trials. The book is written through the eyes of Sarah Carrier who was a child during the time of the Salem witch trials. The story begins introducing Sarah’s family as they are traveling under the cover of night in the cold winter months to her grandmother’s house in Andover, a town near Salem. In the late 1680’s smallpox was spreading quickly and the Puritans of Billerica thought the Carrier family to be spreading the virus and forced them to leave the town. The Puritans were not wrong as one of Sarah’s brothers, Andrew, fell sick of smallpox soon after their arrival in Andover. The family was to be

In The Reforming Tsar: The Redefinition of Autocratic Duty in Eighteenth  Century Russia, Cynthia Whittaker argues that depending on the historical, cultural and contextual period, there can be demarcated two types, both distinctive and contrasting, of Russian sovereigns, namely the “good tsar” and the “reforming tsar”. The scholar juxtaposes the two models of monarchs against the backdrop of “medieval” versus “modern” type of governance. According to it the “good tsar” typology, which is typical for the earlier Muscovy realm, defines the ruler as pious and inert, characterized by its liturgical form and static nature of the rule. The “good tsar” is bound to uphold Orthodoxy, preserve and control public order, help the poor and the underdogs

I really enjoyed chapter twelve. Tone of stuff packed into a minimal amount of pages. This book should be a handbook on family social work, I digress. When I first started having children I purchased two books on raising children. One was extremely popular and helpful, Dare to Discipline by James Dobson. In the book, on page 373, it talks about how parents liked to learn about ideas on dealing with their children’s behavior. I agree I believe that having at least some sort of guideline is more helpful than none, even if you don’t agree with everything. It felt comforting to know that some people had tried a certain way in a book and had success in raising happy healthy children. I just went on a 100 word rant on Baby Boomer generation

Hadji Murat, Tolstoy's second book with the Caucasus as its setting can be considered a work of historical fiction that is a beautiful tale of resistance, and a window into not only the Caucasian War of the mid-nineteenth century, but also the culture of the Russian Empire during this period. As a work of fiction the reader must be wary of depictions of actual persons such as Tsar Nicholas I, whom Tolstoy was not enamored with, to say the least, but many insights about the period and its people can be gleaned from the story. The novel is one of great contrasts between Chechens and Russians and also of what life was like during this time.

Nobles were a class of people with high political static and Catherine the Great had power over them. When Catherine was in throne the nobles called it the Golden age of Russian nobility, this is because Catherine the great authorized a new law that would free the nobles form compulsory military. She not only did that, she build many mansions for them (and there were designed in western designs due to that that was the main style back then). Finally Catherine wrote manuals for the education for the young noble girls and she also assigned a charter to the nobles. As you can see Catherine’s relations with the noble is strong and you see how much control over she as on them.

She ruled with absolute authority but also desired to reform Russia. In 1767 Catherine formed a commission to review Russia’s laws. She presented with a brilliant proposal for reforms based on the ideas of Montesquieu and Beccaria, and Catherine recommended allowing religious toleration and to abolish torture and capital punishment; however, she never accomplished any of these worthy goals. She began as an enlightened absolutist and she strengthened noble rights and wanted to give rights to serfs and tie serfs to nobles instead of the land they worked on. Catherine previously favored to end serfdom; however, Pugachev's Rebellion would eventually convince her that she needed the support of the nobles in order to keep her power over the serfs.

Leadership and management for many go hand in hand, and may be perceived as one in the same. In the book titled, The Servant (1998), James C. Hunter challenged this mainstream view, and literally turned this concept, which so many are coached on, upside-down. The notions of what characterizes a virtuous leader, as well as what it means to serve others, are the primary focal points of Hunter’s book. He did an eloquent job of revealing his theory concerning effective leadership by using an allegorical approach which, made the content easier to digest and much more personable. The Servant deeply resonated with me, and I gained significant value from the attitudes Hunter presented which, I can apply to my schooling, personal life, and future career paths. I was also able to discern what I felt to be applicable elements regarding the mark of a worthy leader, and arrived at my own theories.

In the early 1900’s Europe there were countless conflicts, especially in Russia. Focusing on the revolutionary era in Russia, particularly the uprisings from the residents in Petrograd. Understanding why these conflicts occurred is essential to analysing how the Russia regime shifts. During the early 1900’s, Russia was ruled by a Tsar (an emperor). The Tsar was able to conduct any laws whenever they pleased with the support of the governmental officials. Majority of Russia’s population was peasants and workers. Due to the terrible conditions they worked and lived in resulted in the rallying of the entire population of Petrograd.

The title of Mikhail Lermontov’s book, A Hero of Our Time, confused readers due to the moral depravity of its main character, Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin. Tsar Nicholas thought the title must have referred to Maxim Maximovich, as he was the only character that the Tsar could see to possess heroic qualities. However, Lermontov did intend the title to describe Pechorin. The title of A Hero of Our Time is a vehicle Lermontov uses to critique the flaws of his contemporary society by linking its problematic values to the unsavoury behaviour of Pechorin. In the foreword to the story, Lermontov clearly indicated A Hero of Our Time is intended to portray the shortcomings of his generation through the unscrupulous Pechorin. Pechorin, with his larger than life adventures and persona, is the “hero” that captures the individual aspirations of high society Russians. However, his heartlessness and unabashed selfishness turns these aspirations on their head to reveal the moral failings of society.

First of all, the class structure was one of the main causes of the revolution in Russia. In the early 1900s, about “90% of Russia’s population were serfs, peasant-slaves” (youtube doc.). They were owned by less than “7% of Russia’s population, the nobles” (youtube doc.). The nobles treated them like currency, even using them for gambling. These nobles were overprivileged and live in the complete opposite way of how serfs lived, dirt poor, illiterate, and virtually without rights. Meanwhile, less than “2% of the population were clergymen of the Eastern Orthodox church” (youtube doc.). They too lived considerably worse than the nobles. The clergy