Blog #10: Research with included works cited

I am choosing to research the question of how the positions of authority and power affect or cause the loss of humanity. Humanity is often defined as sympathy, kindness, and goodwill. I chose to research different events in today’s world both past and present that help to show how positions of authority can really change a person for the worst. Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghradi, and the Stanford Prison Experiment are a few of the events that involve authority positions and the lost of humanity. I chose these to research because Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghradi are current events that involve authority, power, abuse, and human rights issues that often deal with humanity. I will have to do more research on them, but from what I know that the authority positions at both of these prisons and the fake authority positions in the Stanford Prison Experiment prove to have lost their humanity. This is proven because of the way they treat other humans and do not seem to flinch when abusing or directing orders.

            I hope to find that with these articles that my research question is answered and that with these articles that authority positions and the episode are able to be connected. I hope that I learn more about how authority and power can cause the loss of humanity. I hope to learn to true meaning of humanity and what it means to have a good human nature. I also hope to get a better insight into how the episode and this real world issue are connected.

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            Transformation of Ordinary People Into Torturers." Aggression & Violent

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