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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…

grow the slave population, which in turn would create a larger profit margin. Forced marriages of very young men and women who could be as young as 12 or 13 was possible. Samuel Scott determined that Philip Ceeny and Letty Holland should marry at the ages of 14 and 12. The union of Philip and Letty would be considered an arranged marriage. (Note: Champ Terry…

If the power of the authoritative figure is weakened, then the subject is increasingly likely to disobey. The Stanford Prison Experiment is an example of people conforming to the norm as well as a few instances of individuation. Conducted by Dr. Philip, the Stanford Prison Experiment placed students around the area in the roles as prisoners and guards and tested how people played their role once placed into into a simulated prison. Throughout the experiment, most of the participants, including…

contrasting portrayals of female characters and give us a look into how the male characters and heroes view and react to these women. Carmen and Vivian Sternwood represent archetypal women who are portrayed as weak and subordinate to the male characters. Philip Marlowe is a morally string detective who takes great pride in his work and is loyal to his boss, General Sternwood. Chandler and Zinnemann have contrasting female characters in their respective texts who use their femininity in…

Novelist and Journalist Philip Caputo, has written fifteen books, including two memoirs, five books of general nonfiction and eight novels. A Rumor of War, has been published in fifteen languages, has sold two million copies since its publication in 1977 and is widely regarded as a classic in the literature of war. Philip Caputo has won ten journalistic and literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, Overseas Press Club Award, Sidney Hillman Foundation Award, Connecticut Book Award and many…

The Iraqi prison twenty miles away from Baghdad Abu Ghraib is now infamous for maltreatment. It is unknown how many people the prison held. The vast majority of prisoners were civilians picked up by the military at traffic stops. They were undocumented in the prison or placed under an ambiguous category of "common criminals" or those suspected of "crimes against the coalition". Most were not meant to be in Abu Ghraib, but since many prisoners were undocumented, this went overlooked as did the…

This essay will focus on “A Study of Prison Guards in a Stimulated Prison”, an experiment conducted in 1973 at Stanford University, by one of the most famous Psychologists to date, Philip Zimbardo. Interestingly, the Office of Naval Research sponsored the study as part of an ongoing programme tailored to generate a better understanding of the first principles of psychological processes underlying human aggression (Haney, Banks, & Zimbardo, 1973). A famous experiment widely propagated in the…

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…

Stanford Prison Experiment displayed unethical conduct that would not take place in today’s society and displayed the conforming of roles. First taking place in the 1970’s, the film “The Stanford Prison Experiment” involved a psychologist by the name of Philip Zimbardo who conducted the study. He went on to gather twenty four “healthy” college…

An Unexpected Change The premise of the Stanford Prison was to determine the relationships between guards and prisoners. These conditions were situational and the researchers wanted to study the variables on human behaviors in a prison environment. As many have concluded, the experiment did not go as anticipated, and many questions have arisen as to what went wrong and if the experiment itself was ethical. This purpose of this paper is to understand the true intent of the experiment, examine…