Essays Tagged: "wrong answer"

Pressure.

le grow older, they will be faced with some challenging decisions. Some don't have a clear right or wrong answer, but other decisions are serious, like whether to cut class, try cigarettes, drink, dru ... Some peers influence people in a positive way, whether it would be telling them not to do something wrong, lie, or help them with something. But sometimes peers influence people in a negative way. For ...

(2 pages) 46 1 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Crtitical Thinking for the 21st Century Workplace

that are, by their nature, ambiguous. Critical thinking then is not about coming up with a right or wrong answer. A good definition is, "Critical thinking is best understood as the ability of thinkers ...

(10 pages) 489 0 4.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

"Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes and "Hurt Hawks" by Robinson Jeffers

mbers of different ways. A poem can mean anything one can imagine it to mean - there is no right or wrong answer. You, the reader, make the poem come alive."Hurt Hawks" is about an injured hawk with n ...

(3 pages) 120 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The Practicality of Using Quotas

sed in hiring practices, college entrances, and countless other related areas. There is no right or wrong answer to this issue but there are facts that can help determine the best decision for you in ...

(2 pages) 22 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Concerns about the impacts that a free-flow of US-sourced media products would have on Australian local culture.To what extend are these concerns justified

te in which some cases people are always victims of the media. This shows that there is no right or wrong answer as it all depends on various factors which will be discussed later.In general, media se ... idering the complex ways in which the audience would make meanings from media, there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to the question is mass media influential. Maybe it is to a degree, but t ...

(5 pages) 45 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Summary Paper on The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram Response to his writing Christina Mahoney

er"(3) The learner is then strapped to an electric chair while the teacher asks questions. For each wrong answer the learner gets an electric shock, which progressively grows stronger.The outcome of t ... something we can easily act as if we are not responsible and that by following orders we do nothing wrong.Milgram shows us how if we cannot see the entire situation as it is occurring we can isolate o ...

(4 pages) 115 0 2.6 Jul/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Dual Identities Write an essay exploring the concepts of identity

entity, so if my understanding is correct anything and everything can make an identity. There is no wrong answer. It varies from person to person. For example Andre Dubus, the author of "Witness"makes ... entity, so if my understanding is correct anything and everything can make an identity. There is no wrong answer. It seems to vary from person to person and if any given event, person, action, etc, ha ...

(6 pages) 69 0 1.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Milgrams Obedience Experiment

unteers into a laboratory setting and having them pressing a button shocking the other person for a wrong answer. Most of Milgram's volunteers went through the experiment, not wanting to disobey the a ... s. In Milgram's experiment, people are led to believe that they are shocking the other person for a wrong answer and increasing the voltage after each shock when they really were not. The button that ...

(2 pages) 75 1 4.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Benefits of the Teleological theory of morality

le what morality is they stand there for a minute, and almost every single person will give you the wrong answer. So what is morality? In brief, morality is a basic set of principles that people follo ... acts morally may be acting morally according to their set of standards, but in our opinion are very wrong. This is because we have different systems of morality. There are three major systems of moral ...

(5 pages) 81 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

The Naive Vegetarian

inced that a meat-deficient life is the easier, healthier life to live. This however, is a terribly wrong answer, only leading to many hardships. Eating meals that lack meat products make maintaining ...

(3 pages) 34 0 3.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

"How can I be sure I know something?"

This question is a rather difficult one to answer, mainly because there is no real right or wrong answer to it. It could take a lifetime of thinking to properly answer it, but I don't have tha ... a difficult question to discuss on a difficult subject area, which does not really have a right or wrong answer to it. I enjoyed thinking about this issue and I have, to the best of my ability, tried ...

(2 pages) 15 0 0.0 May/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Evaluation of Asch

yet all the other so-called participants (really actors and confederates of Asch) declared the same wrong answer to be the correct one. Asch believed this was a true test of conformity as any particip ... this was a true test of conformity as any participants who went with the majority and selected the wrong answer too would be denying what they could clearly see to be correct. Asch found that in 32% ...

(4 pages) 46 1 4.7 Oct/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Abortion: Pro-life vs. pro-choice

puzzledAmericans for many, any years. I have heard all the arguments, but isthere really a right or wrong answer to this question? In my opinionno. Sure I lean toward one side of the argument but I ca ...

(5 pages) 47 0 4.3 Nov/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Why People Conform

ee lines. There were several people who were informed to try to make others confrom to an obviously wrong answer. After the experiment when confronted, the people who conformed said that they feared r ... onformed they were 'accepted' into a sort of group, even though they knew that their answer was the wrong one.People also conform to ideal roles in society. A famous experiment called the stanford pri ...

(1 pages) 17 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Hamlet

let was a man who could not make up his mind, others say that he had gone mad. There is no right or wrong answer, it is just basically opinion. Although many people have different assumptions of the s ... azy. Even before Hamlet learns of his father's death, he senses that there is something more deeply wrong than his mother's marriage to her deceased husband's brother. When the ghost appeared to Horat ...

(3 pages) 21 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Kafkas Metamorphosis

son. This is a heavily debated topic and there is really no way to tell if it is a right or wrong answer to the question. It is literally every individual persons opinion. Some different opini ...

(2 pages) 32 0 5.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Lesson Planning

going to anticipate them, or point them out later, or wait until they appear? (There is no right or wrong answer here; it just depends on the structure you are presenting).4.Do I need some extra mater ...

(2 pages) 50 0 5.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Opinions and social pressure

not know that the rest of the group has been instructed by the experimenters to purposely give the wrong answer six out of the eighteen times.Asch and his colleagues placed a total of one hundred and ... ee college males in the experimental situation. Under ordinary circumstances, Asch had found that a wrong answer is given less then one percent of the time. Under these circumstances however, 36.8 per ...

(2 pages) 2053 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

American Dream

The American Dream When asked, "what does the American Dream mean to you" there's no right or wrong answer. It's a goal. And different people have different goals in life. For example a poor man ...

(2 pages) 13 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Fantacy Or Reality

ryone has his or her own opinion on fantasy versus reality and because of this there is no right or wrong answer to this topic. They both have their differences but they also seem to find a way to mee ...

(5 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy