Stanley A. McChrystal

Prospect Impressions: Eichel in OT, pair of firsts from Hyman and Bigras, Vasilevskiy stops 2-on-0, more highlights With the game on the line, Jack Eichel was cool, calm, and collected with just seconds left on the clock. Likewise, David Pastrnak wasn't even looking at the net when he sniped Cam Ward's water bottle. This time of year provides young players an opportunity in the NHL, and Chris Bigras and Zach Hyman took advantage of it to score their first NHL goals. Plenty of other…

The Philadelphia Flyers turned in a very underwhelming performance falling 6-2 against the New Jersey Devils who ended their 10 game losing streak. The Philadelphia Flyers opened the scoring as Michael Del Zotto finished off a beautiful tic tac toe passing play from Claude Giroux and Jake Voracek. Giroux who has had his fair share of struggles this season is now enjoying a six-game point streak Only 1:11 later Kyle Palmieri tied the hockey game starting a string of three unanswered Devils…

What Makes a Player Perform: Does Attendance Affect Performance? The Carolina Hurricanes is North Carolina’s premier hockey team having won the Stanley Cup in 2006. This victory means the Hurricanes are the only pro sports team in North Carolina who has won a major championship. Lately, however, attendance has been down and the Hurricanes have not experienced the same level of success as years past. This lack of success has fueled relocation rumors and while relocating could help, it is not…

games he racked up 2,857. 894 were goals and 1,963 were assists. Although he was known for scoring he was a great teammate when it comes to passing and being an all around player. Gretzky won many awards throughout his long career. He won the Stanley Cup 4 times with the Edmonton Oilers. He won the Art Ross Trophy 10 times, which means he was the points leader in the NHL those years. Gretzky won the award for most outstanding player, the Ted Lindsay Award, 4 times. He won the Conn Smythe…

and her husband Stanley, in New Orleans. Coming from Laurel, Mississippi, Blanche was accustomed to a more proper lifestyle compared to her Polish brother-in-law’s, so when she first arrived in the Quarter she was shocked by the new lifestyle her sister has adopted. Blanche’s criticism did not really bother Stella, but it aggravated Stanley because he’s very proud of his lifestyle. This difference in values and beliefs grew to cause a strong opposition between Blanche and Stanley, which…

Every now and then after watching a certain amount of movies you’ll come across one that has an undecipherable meaning, but certain parts of the movie will stick with you for a while. Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising is a good example of that. The story revolves around One-Eye, a silent ruthless Viking warrior who had been enslaved for years by a chieftain He sets out on a quest to regain his own freedom and cleanse his own soul by helping a small group of Christians crusade to Jerusalem.…

he Hong Kong stock-exchange chief, Charles Li, was involved in controversial hiring efforts when he worked in J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. from 2003 to 2009, by helping children of Chinese officials and clients get jobs, according to emails written by him, which have surfaced due to a U.S. bribery investigation into the bank. According to the WSJ, Criminal and civil investigations by U.S. and Hong Kong regulatory authorities are trying to identify whether J.P. Morgan has hired relatives and friends…

The controversy of Professor Stanley Milgram’s experiment stems from the questionable ethnics involved and the debatable reasoning behind the entire procedure which results in study after study of Milgram's work. The Milgram Experiment, a project performed by Milgram in 1963, was meant to show how obedient people are when put under extreme pressure. He compared his results to the Holocaust on the hunch that the commanding officers were so blinded by the situation that even the average Joe could…

hyphens in order to emphasise the insults conveys how Stanley cannot handle his authority being questioned, and how he believes that his wife should be the embodiment of subservience and submission; this reflects the views of America at the time, as although the gender stereotypes were evolving, women were still seen as subordinate to men. They were not allowed to disrespect them, and had very little say. The use of [He seizes her arm] shows how Stanley resorts to violence, and becomes…

In A Street Car Named Desire, Blanch, who is one of the main characters, is changed by the many things that happen to her while visiting her sister and brother-in-law in New Orleans. Such as the things she uses as coping mechanisms to keep her mind off things which some to not seem normal to some people. Also not being able to understand changes or things she is not used to and lastly, the here and there confessions of things that have happened in her past. While Blanch is there she really tests…