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  Studying and Protecting Humans Are human participants studied different? Well, yes. Rather than the classic white laboratory robe and clipboard, executing various electrical inputs at your expense, most human experiments are a pleasant experience for all. Occasionally, participants of the experiments are temporarily tricked or deceived, this can be accomplished by the help of confederates : people who act as participants but are there to collect data. This method of research is only used when it is considered essential to the experiment, like seeing how angry one gets at something such as the other team winning a match. A possible difficulty of telling the participants the whole experiment beforehand is an effect called social desirability bias, where people will change their outputs to try and confirm the researchers hypothesis. One example could be if the participant knew they were studying anger expression, they would attempt to hide it after his team lost.  Previousl...

  As a society, we frown upon disobedience and take action to prevent it. But, what if its actually beneficial to the progress of society? Without disobedient people or groups, many things that we view as normal today might not have ever existed.  One great example of how this world changed because of an act of disobedience is the creation of The United States of America, The Revolutionary War . In the seventeen hundreds, The British Crown was devoted to imposing larger control over their colonies on the other side of the atlantic. To do this The British took control of the colonies government and raised their taxes, This enraged the colonials as they had no control over their laws or government. The colonies then worked together in a massive act of disobedience and fought The British for freedom for over 7 years and ended up changing the course of history in consequence. However, disobedience isn't always a good thing. The Capitol Riot is one prime and recent example. In 2021...

       Many of us don’t see the obvious that is right in front of us.       Now just imagine an average day in your life, where the alarm rings before there is light outside. You lay in bed with your eyes open, thinking “I hate this life”, but you know you still need to go to a grueling long day at school not to mention your after school extracurriculars. You finally get home at 5:30 and pray you can finally plop onto your bed and relax, but as you’re falling you remember your hours of homework waiting in your 30 lbs backpack .       Throughout the day, you are thinking about your deep hatred for school and how you just want to sleep, I know I have. But in fact, it’s not actually your fault for thinking like this, in David Foster Wallace’s speech, This is Water , Wallace highlights the innate (natural) behavior of humans to believe they are at the center of the world and and how our brains are hard wired to focus on the negativ...

       Recently I began questioning what separates the story a memorial tells from that of a textbook.       When learning about historical events like 9/11, The Vietnam War, or even The Korean War a historical textbook is very effective in providing you the facts. Textbooks nowadays provide information about before the event, during it, and even the aftermath. They even discuss the countries emotional state during that time; in short, textbooks teach you everything about said historical event.      So why are memorials important you may ask. Well, there is no short answer. Memorials provide a place for grief and mourning, especially for the people affected. Memorials symbolize the weight and impact that people made on others. Memorials make one feel emotion in a way that isn't possible from reading a textbook, they use features such as empty space, engravings, and size to name a few and they all work together to symbolize history....