Pernel Adonis

  1. Homework 12/16/09

    adonis10:

    PART 1:

    Go to www.prisonexp.org

    Read until the “Grievances” section.

    While reading, you can watch the videos, too. They are helpful for understanding.

    PART 2:

    Answer the discussion questions:

    1. How do you think you would have behaved if you were a prisoner in this situation? Would you have rejected these privileges in order to maintain prisoner solidarity?

              If I were a prison in basically in this situation I don’t really know why I would do, because I’m kind of person that don’t like people manipulate me like animal. It’s for the reason I never being selfish, and making stupid stereotypes over others. These is even happened in our school, I mean the all building because some students being discriminated by the other students from the other floor. I wish our school is very friendly respected over others some meaning we are innocent and suffers over others even he don’t really affect me, especially for my feeling. But the others I feel so sorry because they can controlled themselves to have some metrised. Therefore I don’t really know what I should do if I was those prisoners, maybe I would try the fight and they might kill me too. Briefly I might say I answer is unclear.

    2. Most prisoners believed that the subjects selected to be guards were chosen because they were bigger than those who were made prisoners, but actually, there was no difference in the average height of the two groups. What do you think caused this misperception?

                The prisoners thought this because, how the guards have this authority they can really kind of feel powerful and always being with their faces up and feel more confident in their self on front of the prisoners. This prove that they prisoners was so scare of the authority. In this situation they feel less with no power and kind of an obligation to have respect for the guards. Therefore they feel unsecured and those kind of people tend to being like bend all the time or on some situations so I think that is why the feel indifferent over the guards so they would anymore options it just to cool down.

    3. Do you see any connections to the readings we have done in class? 

               Actually, there is connection because as authority the Jews look the Nazis as monsters and they make them bigger to what they really were. The treatment the taste of the power is too much for some people that they tend to be so cruel with other people. Hitler got his power above their imaginations therefore he thought that because he deserve it and he had it then everything he though, said or do was right because he was the authority and he knew what was right. Also, Pozzo was very cruel for me with lucky and lucky as the prisoners obeyed him, as his authority.