Stanley A. McChrystal

Street Car Named Desire is 1951 drama film, a modification of Tennessee William’s 1947 play with the same name. It’s a story of Blanche Dubois, who after several courses of social ups and downs, tries to find her sage with her sister and brother-in-law living at a low income apartment building in New Orleans. But ultimately, she fails to build an emotional stability for herself. This script is a perfect sequence of tragedy full of emotions and drama comprised of violence, witty and poetic…

“Group Minds” In 1919 Doris Lessing was born in Persia, and was the daughter in a farmer family. Lessing attended a Roman Catholic convent and an all-girls high school in Rhodesia. By 1959 Lessing started writing a bunch of writings on fiction. A lot of her writing attracted the attention of scholar. One of her articles called “Group Minds”, is an article that presents the idea that we as humans are group animals and that we will never truly be an individual in the world, but her article is…

The researcher Stanley Milgram, had strong opinions about Germans and their personality after World War II and wanted to carry out this research to prove that neither Americans nor anyone else is capable of doing harm to others if they were asked by an authority figure. His experiment involved a learner and a teacher, the teacher would ask questions and if the learner gets them wrong, he gets an electric shock. He tried out his experiment on Yale students and to his surprise, almost all of them…

NAME: TAY CHEE SIN STUDENT ID: 1001231566 Directed Self Learning Milgram’s Obedience Experiment The Milgram’s Obedience experiment was one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. This was a series of experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University in 1963, 1964 and 1965. The purpose of this study was to measure the willingness of participants to obey an instruction from an authorized person who instructed them to perform acts if it involved…

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Night of the Living Dead, released in 1968, directed by Gorge A. Romero and Carnival of Souls, released in 1962, directed by Herk Harvey, are two popular movies in the horror genre. Both low budget and filmed in black and white, captivated audiences with their filming techniques and psychological impact. Night of the Living Dead better represents the horror genre than Carnival of Souls because of its use of characteristics, stereotypes and technical components throughout the film. A typical…

Mister Socrates by Choi Jin-won Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, a not typical gangster film but a movie which combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect to other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his by another friend, he gets kidnaped by a gang. He is kept…

Groupthink Author’s Name Institute Name Groupthink In 1972, social psychologist Irvin L. Janis coined the term groupthink as “a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision making groups.” Janis made a significant effort in explaining why certain groups make certain decisions which in retrospect are obviously wrong. In certain situations, it is hard to visualize why people support certain group decisions even though…

Tennessee Williams in his play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the natural state of man and his primitive desires and actions. Through his characters, Stanley and Blanche, he shows how the two sides of man’s natural state. William’s goal is shown in the 1951 production of the play starring Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh. In this production the play is acted out in a way that allows all audiences to grasp the underlying theme while remaining entertaining and engaging to the audience. The…

friendships. Stella and Blanche are sisters from Bella Reve in Mississippi. Stella moved away to New Orleans and got married to Stanley, Blanche came up to visit her sister because she lost everything they had at Belle Reve, her job, her house, and she was kicked out of the town. Blanche did not tell Stella and Stanley about these things she just told them Belle Reve was lost. Stanley knew something was missing in her story though, so he called some of his acquaintances to get the whole story.…