Author Archives: s.minsariya

Pfanner, Eric. “Japan Pitches Its High-Speed Train With an Offer to Finance.”The New      York Times. The New York Times, 18 Nov. 2013. Web. 07 May 2016. Eric Pfanner published this article for the New York Times regarding the … Continue reading →

Chandra Bozelko’s personal experiences in a women’s prison distort her views on the basic amenities awarded to female prisoners. I will be discussing the actual issue of the withholding of menstrual pads as a common tactic in female prisons and … Continue reading →

Milgram’s study was troubling to watch but enlightening as well. Through his experiment he was able to portray why people choose to obey authority figures even in instances they know to be morally wrong. Milgram conducted this specific experiment because … Continue reading →

“The majority of mankind have lived under a load of poverty and suffering and cruelty, and have felt themselves impotent under the sway of hostile or coldly impersonal powers”. I believe this quote captures the main idea of fourth lecture … Continue reading →

The authority at my workplace is not dependent on position or experience but is distributed based on knowledge because of the emphasis on strict standards. 2. Having an older sibling with a large gap, has always meant having a sibling … Continue reading →

I work at a food establishment where the power is divided among six different managers who share different levels of power. The other day I watched the second-highest ranking manager push one of his tasks onto one of the lower … Continue reading →

One argument that Bertrand Russell makes in Authority and the Individual is that loyalty among people has grown from loyalty based on association and fear to loyalty by creed. The creed he identifies in this case is religion. He gives the example … Continue reading →

The article about the lesson on islam taught in Augusta County showed the outcry of parents and students after a local geography teacher used muslim scripture to teach her students about calligraphy and had students wear a traditional Islamic headscarf. … Continue reading →