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Here we are friends, the end of a semester and for many of us, the end of our time here at Trent. What a crazy time in the world for us to be wrapping up our undergraduate degrees and our educational year as a whole, but nevertheless we can make do with the situation, copeContinue reading “The End.”

At this point in the semester, we’ve spent weeks looking at evil occurrences, looking for deeper meaning, and ultimately asking the big question; WHY did this happen? We ask this question for many things in life as it allows us to gain a better perspective of the situation, to allow us to understand maybe evenContinue reading “The Big Question”

This week in class we spent very little time talking about our texts, as the majority of the class time was focused on presentations. Despite this however, we still managed to make a small amount of time at the end to wrap up our thoughts about the main theme. We came up with the ideaContinue reading “Social Dimensions of Evil – Week 9”

This week in class we read chapters 5-8 in Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s book The Lucifer Effect. In these chapters, we followed more of the Stanford Prison Experiment, including their visit from a former church Pastor as well as a visitation day with their families. Amongst all of the chaos in the ‘prison’, there is aContinue reading “Social Dimensions of Evil – The Stanford Prison Experiment”

This week in class we read chapters 2-4 of Philip Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect. In these chapters, Zimbardo begins to explain the Stanford Prison experiment in a story-telling fashion. These chapters explore everything that happened from the beginning of it all, the Sunday arrests, to one of the prisoners stating that he needed to leaveContinue reading “How Can Evil Be Propagated?”

As I noted in my introduction I missed the first week of classes so my post will not have any reflections on the discussion had in class on Wednesday, rather I will be just discussing my own understanding of evil and its constructs. The Stanford Prison experiment was actually the first movie that ever gotContinue reading “4720-Week 1”

Hey everyone! My name is Emily Vachon, I am in fourth year at Trent University, finishing up my BSc this semester. My long term career goal is to become a psychotherapist focused on counselling individuals who have suffered through various levels of trauma. This career choice came to me after spending a summer working asContinue reading “Introduce Yourself”