Essays on Obedience

​I would first off like to define the concept of orders. Orders are any lawful commands given to a lesser rank by a higher or superior rank of any military or civilian installation. Now to the hard part. Following Orders is the backbone of the…

Rules like a lot of things in life are essential. Rules give structure to many things like schools, government, and the military. In this essay, I will be discussing why rules are important and how I should have followed them as a sailor in the…

Various psychologists have researched why people might harm others. The reasons that individuals might harm others can be obtained both in the aspects of personality and in situational factors. This essay will outline the similarities and differences between Milgram’s and Bandura et al’s approach to…

Milgram announced in the journal a job offer inviting them to be part of a ‘memory and learning’ analysis, recruiting a total of 40 members, who would be paid four dollars per share. There was no other requirement. Yale University represented the jurisdiction and this,…

By definition “Leadership is the action of leading individuals to achieve goals”. Any group certainly needs a leader to maintain order and harmony. Linking this to our dogs, our goal is to coexist both species successfully; it is, by all means, to have a well-behaved…

You may find yourself in situations where you feel you have no other choice than to listen to and obey orders, especially when they are delivered by perceived authority. Humans have been taught to obey orders, since they were children in school, being ordered to…

One of the biggest criticisms on obedience or conformity is the morality. It is believed that conformity or complete obedience may lead a human to commit a crime. Most of the great atrocities of the human history have been described as crimes of obedience. Human…

Women are prominent figures in the narrative of fairy tales. The main characters of fairy tales, perhaps because females originally told them, are mostly women – both protagonists and antagonists. These characters have several recurring characteristics and attributes. In the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales, the…

The Milgram Obedience Experiment Recation The Milgram Obedience Experiment was conducted in 1961-1962 and the ethically disturbing and questionable experimental methods, demonstrated in British TV-host Derrin Brown’s Milgram Obedience Experiment reenactment, caught the attention of many people around the world including myself. During the experiment…

Heaven’s Gate Cult To what extent can conformity, obedience, and pluralistic ignorance be observed in the events involving Heaven’s Gate cult? The Heaven’s Gate cult was one most of the prominent cults in the world because of the events involving it. On March 26, 1997,…

Introduction In The Insanity of Obedience, Nik Ripken seeks to explain how a Christian believer is able to maintain a healthy, personal relationship with Jesus Christ in the face of persecution. Ripken illustrates several examples of Christians maintaining their testimony while suffering beneath the burdens…