As the exercise describes, one of the most shameful violations of research ethics to date, nearly 400 African American men from Tuskegee (later called the Tuskegee syphilis experiment) were not informed that they had been diagnosed with syphilis and were not provided with available, effective treatments for this illness. The aim of this study was to observe and analyze how syphilis proceded when untreated. So, this men were told they were being treated for free.
U.S. history is filled with examples of people actively challenging the power of elites, gaining rights for themselves, and protecting their interests. Are there any redeeming qualities to elitism and any downsides to pluralism? ... There is nothing redeeming about elitism.
There were two main objectives in Aztec warfare. The first objective was political: the subjugation of enemy city states (Altepetl) in order to exact tribute and expand Aztec political hegemony. The second objective was religious and socioeconomic: the taking of captives to be sacrificed in religious ceremonies.
The Chinese Government recently revised
their nation's history curriculum by declaring
that the Chinese Communist Party played a fundamental role in the World War II
victory, defeating Japan. It made no mention of the 30 million Chinese who died
under the communist revolutionary Mao
Zedong's program known as the Great Leap Forward.
