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    the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Tuskegee city officials redrew the cities boundaries unconstitutionally so that the white candidates in the cities political race could win and the blacks’ votes would not count. This case laid the framework for the passage of the 1965 voters rights act which outlawed discrimination in voting. The case was named after a Tuskegee university professor Charlie A. Gomillion who was the plaintiff and the defendant was the mayor of Tuskegee Phillip M. Lightfoot. Gomillion

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    In Stanley Milgram’s experiment‚ The Memory Project- effect on punishment on learning‚ the concept of staging in terms of what is real and not real in relation to the photographs objects and subjects‚ which is conveyed through the facilitator and the learner parallels Sontag’s concept of framing and representation In Plato’s Cave‚ and Barthes idea of posing and theater in Camera Lucida. Sontag and Barthes’s understandings of photography’s “reality” intersect in that their notion of the object in

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    unethical experiments on human subjects; regardless of what their condition is or if they have been diagnosed with a disease. Although‚ the use of humans for experiments to further develop cures for diseases‚ or to improve weaponry in war has always been a questionable practice. Hundreds of medical experiments have been performed by various doctors such as: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study by the U.S Public Health Service‚ the experiments conducted in Nazi Germany by Josef Mengele‚ the experiments performed

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    The milgram experiment. The three people involved were: the one running the experiment‚ the subject of the experiment a volunteer‚ and a person pretending to be a volunteer. These three persons fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter an authoritative role‚ the Teacher a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter‚ and the Learner the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher. The subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles‚ but unknown to the subject‚ both slips

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    ‘One pinched her‚ another walked round her; one gentleman poked her with his cane; and one lady employed her parasol to ascertain that all was‚ as she called it‚ “natural.” This inhuman baiting the poor creature bore with sullen indifference‚ except upon great provocation‚ when she seemed inclined to resent brutality [...]. On these occasions it required all the authority of the keeper to subdue her resentment. At last her civilized visitors departed […].’ Taken from her native land of South Africa

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    An Analysis of Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee When a person‚ who is a citizen of this country‚ thinks about civil rights‚ they often they about the Civil Rights Movement which took place in this nation during mid 11950s and primarily through the 1960s. They think about the marches‚ sit-ins‚ boycotts‚ and other demonstrations that took place during that period. They also think about influential people during that period such as Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Medgar

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    A. Stanford Prison Experiment- In this experiment‚ students volunteered to be a part of a psychology experiment that was being conducted at Stanford College. Because of the situation around them‚ they conformed to the environment‚ even though it was only a simple experiment in a Stanford hallway. Embarrassed and yet impressed‚ the experimenters stated this‚ “The negative‚ anti-social reactions observed were not the product of an environment created by combining a collection of deviant personalities

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    medical experiments on children‚ women‚ minorities‚ homosexuals and inmates? Think again: This timeline‚ originally put together by Dani Veracity (a NaturalNews reporter)‚ has been edited and updated with recent vaccination experimentation programs in Maryland and New Jersey. Here’s what’s really happening in the United States when it comes to exploiting the public for medical experimentation: (1845 - 1849) J. Marion Sims‚ later hailed as the "father of gynecology‚" performs medical experiments on

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    Monica Perez Experiment 8: Acetylsalicylic Acid Experiment 01/25/2013 CHM Lab- 2211 Sec 0016 Instructor: Jennifer Reed Introduction: Commonly used as Aspirin‚ acetylsalicylic acid is an analgesic (pain reliever)‚ which is one of the products of the esterification reaction between salicylic acid and acetic anhydride. This esterification occurs since the hydroxyl group from the salicylic acid reacts with acetic anhydride to form an ester. In this experiment‚ we will be able to recreate

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    Experiments: Doctors‚ Experiments‚ and Results Melissa Anjeanette Edwards POLYTECH High School of Kent County‚ Woodside‚ Delaware Abstract During World War II experiments were done on the prisoners of war in Nazi Germany. Doctors for these camps came in all shapes and sizes including former S.S. Troops‚ Women‚ and a variety of prisoner doctors. The experiments differed as much as the doctors themselves; however they stayed the same in one factor‚ medical curiosity become killing in atrocious

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