culture- youtube.com

American culture seems too look pretty amusing to to the British audience. Hugh Laurie didn't look to 'clean cut' in his performance. His hair was a mess and he wasn't even dressed well for a performance. The song that he performed was only TWO words and kept repeating the same notes on the piano. It made it look like us in America are not too smart. The audience kept laughing at him because he was only able to sing "America" and "States". He even got punched out during his performance because he was pretty pathetic to watch and the audience burst out into laughter, even though they were laughing throughout the whole performance. The British audience must not think too highly of American culture in this clip.

Stanford Prison Experiment Ethical?

Even though the Stanford Prison Experiment went to the extremes, I do believe that the experiment was ethical. It showed even that good people with a good mental stability can get so much into a role that they will start to believe that it is true reality. The students that had to play the role of the prisoner began to act like a prisoner, and the students that played the role of a gaurd began to act as a gaurd. How do I put this... Instead of playing the role, they ended up becoming the role and thinking that this was reality and there was no way out. The experiment that was supposed to last 2 weeks ended up only going on for less than a week. I think that an experiment like this can help us if anything like this was to happen again, like Abu Ghraib, and so we can prevent and stop it from occuring again.

Wk 1 blog entry: Introduction

Hey everyone! This is my second year at NVCC. I'm majoring in Psychology and I plan to transfer to George Mason. I plan to become a substance abuse counselor when I'm done with school.
For my interests and hobbies, I love playing the piano. I have been playing for about 13 years now. I also love to sing. I've been in chorus since I was in 5th grade and have been in Advanced/Select chorus classes for many years throughout middle and high school. I graduated from Chantilly High School in 2008 and I'm definitely very happy to be out of high school. I love going to the movies, especially horror and comedy. All of my classes this semester are online except for one. I've been busy taking care of my mom who is going through chemotherapy for breast cancer. I always wear pink on her chemo. treatment days.
I'm taking Soc200 because I've always found it fascinating to see how people in groups act and because it was one of the general electives listed that I could take for my major. I look forward to getting to know/work with you guys.

-Kristin Spring