Philip Larkin

American Pastoral, a book painting a vibrant picture of American ideals revealed over time to be unattainable, ends its tragic story with some of the most contradictory elements possible: a scream, a laugh, and finally, a question. The scream takes place at the dinner party, uttered by Lou Levov, who has been in the kitchen of Swede’s house doing his awkward best to stop the inebriated Jessie Orcutt from, in his view, making a complete fool of herself. Distressed by his arrogance, she stabs him…

My name is Hank E. Anderson and I’m a professor and sociologist at Harvard University. This year I was sent to observe the unusual behavior of settlers in loochs for a weeklong. As the settlers arrive they are forced off a moving container and enter into the prison. Some settlers go left and some go right but they all seem to have to arrive to their assigned rooms before the alarm sets off. Settlers that arrive late are forced into rooms on separate days as torture. As the day starts a video…

Cloudy Judgment In 1971, Professor Phillip Zimbardo Ph.D. from Stanford University devised an experiment to test the willingness of people to conform to social roles in a simulated environment (McLeod, S. A. 2016). There were tons of applications the research team had to sort through settling on 24 college students who were broken up into two groups. The prison guard group who had no formal training on how to work as a prison guard or utilize law enforcement tactics, and the prisoner group. The…

manipulation and the exploitation of prejudices to ascend to power? This is a question which is addressed in the novel Plot Against America by Philip Roth and the mockumentary Bob Roberts starring, directed by, and written by Tim Collins. These works of art explore the nature behind demagogues and populist candidates and how they rise to political prominence. Philip Roth’s fictional representation of Charles Lindbergh and Tim Collins fictional character Bob Roberts portray how Demagogues manage…

Essay 2: Was Jon Nobles Rehabilitated? The word rehabilitate means to bring back to a normal, healthy condition after an illness, injury or drug problem. By that definition John Nobles would be considered rehabilitated. The beginning of Jon Nobles road to recovery was his confession to the murders and stabbing; from there, Jon sought ways to improve himself. The following facts will serve as proof of his change and rehabilitation. Jon’s early days in prison were rather violent evidenced by…

at the Art and Architecture School there. Yale helped change his focus to photorealism. In the late 1960’s Close’s photo realism were ingrained in New York city. In 1969 one of his most known art pieces was shown, this was his portrait of composer Philip Glass. By the time the 1970’s rolled around his artwork could be found in some of the world’s finest galleries. He was also considered one of America’s best contemporary artists. In 2000 President Bill Clinton named Close one of the people to…

Christopher Chabris and Danile Simones documented some of their real life experiments in The Invisible Gorilla How Our Intuition Deceive Us. This book explains how and why these events took place and connects to our everyday lives. These studies portray mental blindness. In addition, it contains six key illusions: attention, knowledge, memory, cause, potential and illusion. The books open up with the first research project the men did. This included two groups of kids wearing black or white…

The story of the Jellyfish is a story the Ishmael told the student to illustrate how the appearance of human into the world was just as influential as the occurrence of the jellyfish. He starts off the story explaining how the world began and how jellyfish emerged and the student was confused about how much emphasis that was put on the occurrence of the jellyfish and then Ishmael points out that that is how humans make their own occurance sound. The lesson here was that Ishmael wanted the…

One of the studies that we covered in class during the Social Psychology unit was the Stanford prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo. This study has the broad design of an experiment. It is an experiment because Zimbardo set out to see the effects of prison and social roles. The idea is that he was experimenting with a group of people to see how their social roles would change once put into the controlled environment of the mock prison space. It is more specifically known as a Quasi…

The general topic that the article is addressing: The rule of "guards" and "prisoners" in the context of an experimental simulation of a prison environment, and the research purpose is to help to identify and isolate the various processes which motivate aggressive/submissive behavior within a 'total institution' such as a prison. The author hypothesis might be called the dispositional hypothesis, that the state of the social institution of prison is due to the "nature" of the people…