Negotiation: a joke

Negotiation is supposed to be a tool used to compromise between two parties to resolve an issue. It is usually the step before war in the case of countries. However, most times, politicians use it as an excuse to go to war. They may say that it was not possible to negotiate and therefore war was inevitable. In the case of the Vietnam War, Kennedy and Johnson both turned away many documents attempting to appease the situation with Vietnam. This leads one to believe that these leaders wanted to go to war with Vietnam because they did not try to negotiate contrary to what some textbooks read. The "prisoner's dilemma" may be one explanation of why negotiation is bypassed. It explains that one party does not know what the other party is going to reveal, and so it becomes a guessing game and no one wants to let too much information out or wants to give more than the other, and so instead of having to deal with that, they would rather go to war and risk many lives being taken. However, it is possible for lawyers to negotiate every day. Should they be the ones running the country so that war does not happen? That may be an option because they have an organized plan of how to successfully negotiate with both parties leaving happy.

Propaganda is a form of brainwashing

Propaganda is a form of brainwashing. Germany used many forms of propaganda during WWII to convince the German people that their country needed to go to war. They constantly reminded the Germans of the hardships the country had gone through economically and socially through radio, posters and media. Researchers who examined interwar propaganda found that is was extremely powerful and persuasive to those who were exposed to it. Media had a huge impact on the opinions of the people of the different countries involved in the wars. If it were not for the messages and ideas being sent out by authorities, people's mindsets would be different and the wars may not have happened because of protest to the idea.


http://www.economicexpert.com/3a/Propaganda.htm

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=N8bboeJktz4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA6&dq=%22Curran%22+%22The+study+of+the+media:+theoretical+approaches%22+&ots=E2bvYIn_wf&sig=0nnnd8T34NeyzQ8PPv43FXUCz_o#v=onepage&q=%22Curran%22%20%22The%20study%20of%20the%20media%3A%20theoretical%20approaches%22&f=false

Aggression is genetic

In class we spoke of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and how aggression and defense is an adaptation developed over the years of the human race. I'd like to take that idea even further to say that aggression is largely influenced by genetics. Behaviorists may say that aggression is a learned behavior, and to an extent it is. C.H. Phoenix, R.W. Goy, A.A. Gerall and W.C. Young found in 1959 that hormones are important in aggressive behavior, but researchers are finding now that sex chromosomes affect how aggressive someone is. Take Hitler for example. He was an art student not exposed to extreme aggression and we all know that the Holocaust was one of the bloodiest events in history, killing millions of people. Although he may have had exposure to aggression at his time as a soldier, however it was not prominent in his early years in life. In the study attached, mice that had their SRY chromosome removed reacted in less time aggressively to another mouse being placed in their home territory. Even the females became more aggressive when the SRY chromosome was removed. This proof of altered behavior supports the theoretical perspective that aggression is somewhat genetic.

References

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VH7-4SR71B4-1&_user=2139817&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1028560582&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000054277&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2139817&md5=43f69c8f044fbce66fc1da9e86488596

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WGC-4RSRDMM-1&_user=2139817&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=full&_orig=search&_cdi=6819&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1028573261&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000054277&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=2139817&md5=21cbf7d83af3cdb259ed9abb179e12c0#bib14

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060306214707.htm