Philip Larkin

Oscar Wilde implements a heavy focusses significant attention on class in The Importance of Being Earnest. People with and without money behave very differently, though strive for the same response and impressions from their peers. The characters in this novel are exaggerated to the point of absurdity when it comes to their obsession with class. Victorian upper class demands its members to keep up an important image in society and value money and appearance above all else, including people.…

Every day, we hear the term ‘love’ in a plethora of situations. So, what is love? According to Shakespeare, in sonnet 116 - The first quatrain describes love as an unchangeable force in the lines “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” Shakespeare enforces the fact that true love always perseveres, no matter what it’s up against by using the metaphor, “That looks on tempests and is never shaken” in the…

experiment showed how situational journey can cause an individual to “compromise” their beliefs. This change in behavior lead to psychological conflict among the “guards” and “prisoners.” The main psychologist that conducted this experiment’s name is Philip Zimbardo and he was one of the psychologist’s at Stanford University. The people that took part in this experiment were all students at Stanford and they got paid $15 a day if they did the experiment. The main psychologists in this…

Abusive Authority: Prison Guards and Pimps Cana Rainwater Charleston Southern University Abusive Authority: Prison Guards and Pimps In 1971, a psychologist by the name of Philip Zimbardo created a “prison” in the basement of a psychology building to study the behavioral and psychological consequences of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard; the results were unexpected. Participants in the program showed evidence of psychological changes within thirty-six hours, and the experiment…

ebscohost.com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/eds/detail/ detail?vid=3&sid=b1dab58b-8db0-4bc5-9f6c-8a1c9a40774%40sessionmgr4009&bdata= JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=89475915&db=ers Drury, S., Hutchens, S.A., Shuttlesworth, D.E., & White, C.L. (2012). Philip G. Zimbardo on his career and the Stanford Prison Experiment’s 40th Anniversary. History of Psychology. 15 (2), 161-170. doi: 10.1037/a0025884. Retrieved from…

priest was brought in and he questioned them about whether they’ve contacted their lawyer and thought of ways to get out of this prison. The 2015 movie “Stanford Prison Experiment” is a dramatized re-enactment of the original experiment carried out by Philip Zimbardo in 1971, to discover the effect of an institution and social roles on the behaviour of an individual. The movie begins with an advertisement placed in the newspaper to recruit college students as subjects. These students then…

In the article “Leveling the Field”, Christopher Beha goes undercover as a college student at the University of Phoenix and makes effective claims about the corrupt nature of these institutions and the increasing push for degree attainment by the American government. He reports his experience at the University of Phoenix and how he started to question the integrity of the concept. He addresses the origins of the college and how it has evolved from its original intent. Beha makes his claim by…

The femme fatale became a very popular character in crime fiction in the United States during the mid-twentieth century (Jaber, 1). This character is a woman who is portrayed to be hyper-sexual and is manipulative towards men. The femme fatale appears in hard-boiled crime fiction and film noir. She also was featured on many pulp covers making seductive poses because of the rise of sex in books (Horsley). Throughout the mid-twentieth century, the femme fatale character changed. Throughout this…

People all over the world tend to toss their morals aside in order to conform to the influences of society or a higher superior. However, people below the chain of authority, especially the youth, struggle the most in attempt to triumph over these types of situations. Although conformity often helps society function correctly, there becomes a problem when a person’s identity becomes too infatuated within a higher authority that they disregard their own personal morals. So why in a society…

The movie, A Few Good Men, is a portrayal of a military courtroom where Privet Dawson and Downey are on trial for killing a colleague, Private Santiago. Milgram wrote "The Perils of Obedience ", which describes his experiment where there is a teacher and leaner. The teacher, the actual subject, shocks the learner for every wrong answer. The volts of electricity start at 15 increasing to 450. Kelman and Hamilton wrote "My Lai Massacre" which recounts the trial and thoughts of Lieutenant Calley,…