Philip Roth

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…

of a person. According to our findings the social place of the prison and the prison wardens change their behavior, thus we rejected the null hypothesis. In our conclusion the research supported the situational theory. Literature Review In 1973, Philip Zimbardo decided to find out a psychological study on how a human would respond while in captivity. He did this as he was a junior lecturer at Stanford's Psychology Department. He took students…

Zimbardo’s research, which was discovered through psychological observations, shows that as long as time keeps passing by, good people will continue to commit evil acts when they are put under certain conditions that test the strength of their morals and personal conscience. His research provides a lens for the explanation of the meaning and causes of these recurring evil phenomenon. Thomas Paine’s famous quote, “These are the times that try men’s souls” strongly relates to the actions that…

the name of Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe is a detective during this era trying to make a living by solving cases but also seeking the truth when solving these cases. In the book The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler Philip Marlowe is given a task by General Sternwood, to take care of the person who is black mailing the Sternwood family. Marlowe takes the task and as the story unfolds he finds out whom the individual is that is blackmailing the family, but it leads to more questions. Philip unable…

In the novel The Big Sleep the narrator shows the corruption that surfaces in Los Angeles and the modern world in general. Reveals issues that include wealth and class, exploitation and corruption play out in The Big Sleep. “Sean McCann has argued that hard-boiled fiction is fundamentally a parable about the economic crisis of the day (i.e the Depression and the New Deal). Specifically he argues: The Big Sleep is an allegory of economic predation in which the vernacular energy of the white preys…

Even though Zimbardo's prison experiment is 46 years old it, the findings were so punctual that it is still talked about today. Zimbardo lead the experiment in 1971 with Craig Haney and Curtis banks. The experiment was conducted in the basement of the psychology building, which they converted into a small prison block.. The Experiment was originally scheduled to be conducted for a 2 week period but due to the results Zimbardo was getting they cut the project at just 6 days. Somewhere of about 75…