Bilal Philips

You Can’t Be a Sweet Cucumber in a Vinegar Barrel Zimbardo presents a large piece of information about the situations and factors causing people behave violently and the relation between the knowledge of such factors and the ability to judge the Abu Ghraib scandal adequately. The author tries to investigate the causes of evil behavior of some people and attempts to determine whether the initial characteristics of a person make his/her behave in an unacceptable way, or certain conditions,…

The psychologist professor named Philip Zimbardo was the team leader of a group of researchers conducting a psychologist research that is known as “The Stanford Prison Experiment.” The Stanford Prison experiment goals were to observed and identify if an evil situation can become dominant over someone’s behavior, or if a person’s morality, values, and attitude can make a person to raise above a negative environment. I personally believed that the ethics in conducting such experiment is unethical,…

During the Elizabethan Age, the beginning of non-religious dramas came into literature as well as sonnets with dialogue such as “The Nymph’s Reply”, a parody to “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” written by Christopher Marlowe. William Shakespeare, the writer of 154 sonnets but most widely known for his work by the name of Romeo and Juliet, has made his mark on British poetry during the Elizabethan Age/ Renaissance. The two British sonnets being compared and or contrasted are sonnet I (one)…

The bookshop scene from ‘The Big Sleep’, while devoid of extremely noticeable stylistic noir elements, such as harsh shadows and Dutch camera angles by looking at the mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing and sound elements of noir are revealed. From the beginning of the scene the audience see’s Marlowe walking towards a book store. The cinematography uses elements of deep focus as everything in this wide frame is clearly focused even as Marlowe approaches the bookstore. Looking at the…

The human condition questions human morality, the capacity to communicate deceit and the capacity to feel which is manifested in the perception of authentic or deceptive relationships, reflection and realisation and the altering of an individual’s identity. Shakespeare’s King Lear explores the human condition through characters of the play which give insight of the aspects of humanity. Shakespeare’s universality of concepts of deceit, realisation and identity provides relevance to the modern era…

“A Rose for Emily” (1930) is an eerie short story of a strange woman named Emily, a Southern Belle who lived in a large house during the period after the Civil War. William Faulkner tells a tale of Emily whose controlling father passed away, turning her towards a mysterious life of confinement and solitude. Then a man named Homer came into her life and everyone was excited to see that everything seemed to be well at last for Emily. But the reader, along with the people in the story are shocked…

The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment based on the roles of people, and how easily people will fall into those roles. The prisoners were stuck in the basement all day for 6 days, and both the guards and prisoners lost their morals and individuality. The act of dehumanization also provided the prisoners with fear, anger, and helplessness. The Stanford Prison Experiment was not a physical genocide, but a psychological genocide. Genocide is the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part,…

psychological genocide. The prisoners were stuck in the basement all day for 6 days, and both the guards and prisoners lost their morals and individuality. The act of dehumanization also provided the prisoners with fear, anger, and helplessness. Philip Zimbardo was a psychology professor at the University of Stanford. He wanted to operate an experiment that would show how people act in adverse conditions, and the psychological effects. So Zimbardo put offers for volunteers for the experiment in…

Throughout the books The Lucifer Effect and Inside, there is a substantial focus on the state of incarnation, along with narrative accounts that detail the effects of prison. There is a common theme in both of the books that identifies the harmful nature of the prison system, and expounds how a prison can negatively affect the psychological well-being of a prisoner. As detailed by the authors, Zimbardo and Santos, the prison system damages the mental and emotional well-being of the prisoners,…

As Truman proceeds to his car to go to work in a closed form frame (6), a barking Dalmatian charges him. The composition changes at this moment depicting a point of view shot (8) of the neighbor’s Dalmatian through Truman’s eyes. The dog is close to Truman’s face, as if to signify his fear of the animal. This psychological technique allows for the audience to witness an emotion more carefully, in this case, the emotion is fear. The low camera angles exhibited the enlarged action of the dog and…