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After the due date/time for the individual response, return to the discussion board to begin the Sharing Circle. You'll begin this by taking the time to carefully read and consider each of your peers' Individual Responses. The specific questions and guidelines for participating in the SC are listed below. The SC is an on-going discussion that will continue from Friday night to Sunday night when the week is over. All SC posts must follow these guidelines:

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Sharing Circle

  • Read the Individual Responses of those in your peer group.
  • Reading others’ writing often leads us to ask questions. What point does your peer make that raises a question for you? Address that question with your peer. As part of your conversation, discuss possible answers to the question that may lead to a better understanding of the topic of the assigned material.
  • Discuss briefly in your conversation one idea in your individual response that differs from the ideas of your peer.


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The BBC documentary on the Stanford Prison Experiment



The Twilight Zone:



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Sharing Circle After the due date/time for the individual response, return to the discussion board to begin the Sharing Circle. You'll begin this by taking the time to carefully read and consider each of your peers' Individual Responses. The specific questions and guidelines for participating in the SC are listed below. The SC is an on-going discussion that will continue from Friday night to Sunday night when the week is over. All SC posts must follow these guidelines: • Create one SC post for each peer in your group • Will focus on the specific questions provided • Will be about 100 words in length • Will be a response that is thoughtful, respectful, but challenging • Upload the reaction posts by replying to each peer’s Individual Response As a classroom courtesy and to work toward earning full credit for the Writing Circle, take some time at the very end of the week to give short replies of acknowledgement and thanks to your peers who have posted to your individual response and joined you in conversation. • Read the Individual Responses of those in your peer group. • Reading others’ writing often leads us to ask questions. What point does your peer make that raises a question for you? Address that question with your peer. As part of your conversation, discuss possible answers to the question that may lead to a better understanding of the topic of the assigned material. • Discuss briefly in your conversation one idea in your individual response that differs from the ideas of your peer. My Discussion: Prejudice continues to affect human societies in different ways. It needs to be noted that prejudice refers to the projections of one’s fears and deficiencies to other people. It is a perspective that comes evident when one looks at the correlational themes which are evident in the sources assigned, and the harm of having prejudicial dispositions. It is evident how prejudices can be influential especially in the film on Maple Street (Twilight Zone - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street). The people who had known one another for one another start a path of self-destruction, and the impact of Prisoner 819 in the Zimbardo experiment. Researchers have argued that most prejudices arise from subconscious attitudes, and the projections from the Ample Street neighborhood is a confirmation of this paradigm. The people use their inadequacies in explaining what was taking place, and seek scapegoats, and this is mainly because of anxiety and uncertainty. In the Stanford experiment, there is an interesting aspect which is evident in the prisoners, of people who have an authoritarian person (Psychology: The Stanford Prison Experiment - BBC Documentary). Such people are said to conform with rigidity, are committed to their leaders without any questions, and have a disdain for the people considered as inferiors, in this case, the guards and the prisoners and how they relate. It shows the impact of conflict theory in which people try to maintain their status, possessions or privilege, which requires having people to oppress and wade off any threats. These two sources latently make this point, while looking at the harmful nature of prejudice in society if not properly checked. Classmate One: Perhaps it is the fictionality of the episode of “The Twilight Zone”, but to me the differences are quite obvious between the episode and the prison experiment. When looking at the Stanford Prison Experiment, you see what happens when the wrong people get in power. What happened was that in a short amount of time, these people who got RANDOMLY selected to be the guards went crazy with power. In “The Twilight Zone”, we saw how an extremely un-natural and stressful event ended up turning a whole group of people against each other, and ultimately solving nothing. Getting into the long-term repercussions and changes for those in these events, we can start by actually comparing the prison victims and the little boy from the street, as those who were treated completely unfair for no reason. The belief systems for both groups of people changed (guards and street people) once power and stress hit. Before these events, these people were living normal lives. It’s really a fact of these people in power doing what is best to keep power or to feel more powerful, because for some people, that is how they like to live. Ask questions: Classmate Two: Both the Stanford Prison Experiment and The Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” deal with the effect that perceived authority has on seemingly good and normal people. In the Stanford Prison experiment, the guards actively humiliated and harassed the prisoners simply because they now felt that they had that power due to the fact that they had been told that their job was to keep the prisoners in line. The guards grew to believe themselves to be above the prisoners, even though the prisoners had done no wrong, they were average every-day college students who had simply joined a study, just as the guards were. This perceived power that the guards felt caused them to act in ways towards their peers that they normally would not even consider to be acceptable. The Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” showed a similar problem. When the people of Maple Street grew fearful, they also grew suspicious of their neighbors. A select few of the characters put themselves into an authoritative position; Steve and Charlie took it upon themselves to lead the group and influence their suspicions. The perceived power felt by the people of Maple Street due to their fear led them to dismiss all propriety and humanity, thus leading to some unforgivable actions. Charlie murdered a fellow neighbor simply for walking down the street in the dark because his suspicion clouded his better judgement. The rest of the neighbors then attacked Charlie, throwing rocks at him and into houses in the neighborhood. These are all actions that were committed by average, nice, every-day people who would, on a normal day, never have considered the thought to do any of those things. Both experiments show that any perceived authority can cloud the judgement of any person, good or bad. Ask questions: Classmate Three: The BBC document and the Twilight zone episode are Both social experiments. Even though made in the olden times, they both carry a deep belief. While the Twilight zone episode wasn’t real the BBC document was an experiment that was done in Stanford University. Both of them are related to human psychology and show how we act and behave when we are out in a certain type of environment. The main belief system that both the experiments carried were that human beings can’t always be positive no matter how calm or nice they look on the outside. With modernization and civilization, we often think that wilderness and insanity is something humans have already overcome but the reality is that we have built an environment that doesn’t force us to go insane or inhumane. If that very environment is taken out of our lives we’ll become just as wild as the other animals out there. In the Twilight zone episode, we see the people of Maple Street go through some abnormal happenings and are concerned about what is going on. Apparently, they believe that it’s an alien invasion which is an opinion of a teen kid living in maple street. Listening to what the kid says, they believe that someone in their neighborhood isn’t human at all. They then accuse each other and turn against their own neighbors who were their friends. Later it is shown in the episode that it was the doing of some people who were experimenting on the people of the maple street. The abnormal things that happen there are a way of instigating a type of unease between people or creating an uncomfortable environment among the people. Later in the episode a character shoots his neighbor thinking that a monster is coming. This shows an extent to which the people are ready to go for their own safety and lives. I think it all comes to Darwin’s theory ‘survival of the fittest”, I think it’s not just a phrase but a universal truth which all the living beings follow naturally. Similarly, in the experiment of prison done by a psychologist. He builds a prison in the basement of the university and brings in some volunteers for participation. He then divides some college students into two groups; Prisoners and The guards. The objective of the experiment was to see how a normal person reacts to an unhealthy, violent environment. During the experiment the participants are seen breaking down emotionally, acting insane and trying to fight back until the guards turn even more violent. The fact that all of them are college students who are given a role in the experiment and that the prisoners haven’t committed any crime also that the guards aren’t real guards yet the prisoners still feel defeated and the guards feel the need to act a certain inhuman way shows our real nature. Here too the belief system they carry has a lot to do with how they react to their environment. The people who have been appointed as guards have a belief system that the other so caller prisoners are criminals and that It is right for the guards to behave in a very violent way because that is what happens in real life. Also, the prisoners have their belief systems that they are playing the role of a prisoner and that they need to do whatever they are told to by the guards. Both the experiments have repercussions for their participants. The participants lose their sense of realization. They lost their connection with reality. In the episode A character shot his neighbor, all the other people were accusing each other just because of some type of unusual happenings, they didn’t even think that there must be something that might be causing it. They lost their rationality and humanity to a point that they were ready to harm and injure their own neighbor with whom they lived for so many years. IN the Stanford prison experiment, the prisoners seemed to forget that it was an experiment and that they could leave anytime they wanted. The guards didn’t seem to get bothered by the truth that the so-called prisoners had done nothing wrong and that they didn’t deserve to be treated that way. They suffered a lot mentally and not just physically during the experiment. I think the first main factor that affected both the participants in the experiment and the characters in the twilight zone was the environment. The environment itself was very confusing but so real that the people were forced to think in a particular way unless someone was very aware with what was actually happening. The second factor is definitely their own belief system and their mentality. In the episode the people looked at everyone around them as aliens or monster and not as their fellow neighbors. Similarly, in the experiment, The Prisoners looked at themselves as criminals and the fake guards as real ones which is why they thought they had to do whatever they were told to do. In conclusion, both the experiments have shown a bitter reality of humans in an alarming way. Even though the experiments were definitely unethical and somewhat violent in nature the conclusions show our reality and bring insight on the terms that we have been live together for so many years. Ask questions:
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Sharing Circle
After the due date/time for the individual response, return to the discussion board to
begin the Sharing Circle. You'll begin this by taking the time to carefully read and
consider each of your peers' Individual Responses. The specific questions and guidelines
for participating in the SC are listed below. The SC is an on-going discussion that will
continue from Friday night to Sunday night when the week is over. All SC posts must
follow these guidelines:


Create one SC post for each peer in your group



Will focus on the specific questions provided



Will be about 100 words in length



Will be a response that is thoughtful, respectful, but challenging



Upload the reaction posts by replying to each peer’s Individual Response

As a classroom courtesy and to work toward earning full credit for the Writing Circle,
take some time at the very end of the week to give short replies of acknowledgement and
thanks to your peers who have posted to your individual response and joined you in
conversation.


Read the Individual Responses of those in your peer group.



Reading others’ writing often leads us to ask questions. What point does your peer
make that raises a question for you? Address that question with your peer. As part of
your conversation, discuss possible answers to the question that may lead to a better
understanding of the topic of the assigned material.



Discuss briefly in your conversation one idea in your individual response that differs
from the ideas of your peer.

My Discussion:
Prejudice continues to affect human societies in different ways. It needs to be noted that
prejudice refers to the projections of one’s fears and deficiencies to other people. It is a
perspective that comes evident when one looks at the correlational themes which are
evident in the sources assigned, and the harm of having prejudicial dispositions. It is
evident how prejudices can be influential especially in the film on Maple Street (Twilight
Zone - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street). The people who had known one another
for one another start a path of self-destruction, and the impact of Prisoner 819 in the
Zimbardo experiment.
Researchers have argued that most prejudices arise from subconscious attitudes, and the
projections from the Ample Street neighborhood is a confirmation of this paradigm. The
people use their inadequacies in explaining what was taking place, and seek scapegoats,
and this is mainly because of anxiety and uncertainty. In the Stanford ex...


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