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    In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘The Bell Jar’ emotional distress is exemplified through tears and exclamations over liquid. Within both literary texts the authors utilises liquid in relation to emotional exclamations in regard to personal self-awareness. Blanche DuBois, throughout the play, is intensely worried about her appearance and self-perception. This often manifest itself as a fear of bright and harsh light. However, Blanche also relies on liquid during her moments of self-awareness:…

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    out. Taking the curse words out of the movie made the scenes a little bit watered down, meaning the excitement was taken out of it to make it more appropriate. For example in scene two when Stanley was accusing Blanche of a scandal, the argument played a part in affecting the theme of the book. Instead of Stanley being the bad guy he was made out to be in the book, he seemed nice and sometimes seemed like he wanted Blanche there in the movie.…

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    by Tennessee Williams, takes place in New Orleans around the nineteen-forties at the home of Stella Kowalski and her husband, Stanley Kowalski. Stella and Stanly live a very simple life in New Orleans. They have a very codependent and unhealthy marriage. Blanche Dubois arrives at her sister Stella 's apartment and comes off as being slightly judgmental at first. Stanley takes an instant dislike to Blanche and feels threatened by her because she really wrecks their marriage and the relationship…

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    Synthesis Essay Society plays a significant role in our lives today, it raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad. Stanley Milgram is well known for his experiments on obedience, they are considered to be the "most important social-psychological experiments of all time" (Milgram Two). Milgram was criticized by many and was often cited as a psychologist who deceived many people through his experiments. His experiment Obedience to Authority consisted of a phony…

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    named Blanche DuBois, an aging woman who clings on to delusions of reality in order to maintain her sense of self-worth (Newlin 140). Blanche goes to live with her sister and her sister’s husband, Stella and Stanley Kowalski, where she upsets their relationship and violently clashes with Stanley, due to their inherent differences (Williams). Environmental…

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    Humans, in general, do not like to believe there is an underlying inclination to violence in each and every one of us. People will cite morals, religion, education; reasons that would somehow exclude them from a flaw seen time and again throughout the historical record. Those that stray from the human ‘script’ are seen as abnormal, sometimes given labels as sociopaths or psychopaths to separate and classify those that are different. Browning’s Ordinary Men, however, sheds light on a group of men…

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    It is considered good to have employees that diligently show up on time for work. It is a good thing to teach our children to respect their teachers and use proper manners. However, obedience to authority can also be negative. To paraphrase Stanley Milgram 's experiment, he designed a study to reflect the kind of dutiful thinking that goes with authority figures and demands. His experiment was designed to show that the desire to please and follow orders is stronger than the moral weight of an…

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    Research Based Analysis on Obedience and Social Pressure Individuals in today 's society question authority in many different ways. Eventually, life puts people in tricky situations. Individuals who question authority may go along with the situation because they are threatened socially. Everybody obeys words from an authority, but what makes us obey or disobey? Do people obey them just because they do not have enough courage to walk away? In A Few Good Men, two Marines were ordered to murder…

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    • Stella protects her sister when Stanley is going through Blanche’s things and claiming that this is what Blanche used all the money on (1789-1790) • “Stella laughs uncertainly and picking up the broom, twirls it in her hand” (1804). • “Stella has embraced him with both arms, fiercely, and…

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    Obedience is a quality in which many people attempt to maintain throughout their lives in order for them to avoid any type of negative confrontations with authority figures. In Diana Baumrind’s article, “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience”, and Ian Parker’s article over “Obedience”, the authors come to an agreement over the comparison between the two variables in Milgram’s experiment appearing to be imperfectly designed to create an effect that potentially altered the results…

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