Stanley A. McChrystal

Jack Torrance, the main character of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, played by Jack Nicholson, dutifully fills his role as breadwinner to the nuclear family until the pressures of carrying the “white man’s burden” become to great for him to bear and ultimately causing him to go insane. Because a wide gap exists between Torrance’s desire (to be a creative person) and his interpolated role (which imposes breadwinning over his desire), he experiences heightened inner tension. This inner tension…

hockey is hard to tell because it was not recorded since the beginning and making of the game, but there are also beginnings in hockey that are set in stone such as the first organized hockey game, the first hockey league, and the donation of the Stanley Cup. The origins of hockey or for any sport are hard to trace or exactly say where and when they started due to unrecorded experiences that are now just memories or thoughts ("The Birthplace or Origin of Hockey"). Also "The…

A Clockwork Orange is a controversial work in which the setting is in a futuristic society in which, political powers have subsided and lawlessness, violence, and youth gangs terrorize the people. Free will is the cost that Alex De Large must pay in a society that is so dominated by violence. Anthony Burgess, in his novel A Clockwork Orange, contends that unless man freely chooses to reject the attraction of violence, rehabilitation and conditioning only works if man's free will is destroyed. At…

their home. Although Stella tries to be the neutral ground between Stanley and Blanche’s bickering, her past always finds a way to interfere most with her present, causing friction between her husband and herself. Ultimately, this results in her having to chose…

Stanley Milgram conducted many experiments testing the social control, or the strategies that are meant to prevent deviant behavior (Schaefer). One experiment includes random people who were told to be performing a test on the effect of punishment on learning. A subject would receive the punishment of an electric shock while the other would administer the test and give the increasingly painful shock; however, the test was rigged to where the subject would always be administering the test and the…

visit her pregnant sister, Stella. Another character who is also there is Stella’s husband, Stanley. Blanche was struggling with her life so she decided to visit her sister until get becomes better. Blanche explains to Stella that the bank has taken their family’s plantation away. Stanley thinks something is fishy about what Blanche is telling Stella. He thinks she sold the land and took the money. Since Stanley thinks Blanche is lying he begins to snoop through her things and comes across a…

Obedience is a form of social influence in which the person, changing their behavior, follows a set of instructions or tasks given by a figure of authority. There are two particular studies done in respect to obedience — Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures and Stanford prison experiment. Starting with Milgram’s experiment, it was created to study the willingness of participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal…

Desire portray the actuality between siblings offset. When Blanche arrives to visit her sister Stella and her husband Stanley for the first time, Blanche acts like any sister would and wonder about her sister’s life with the man she knows nothing about. Blanche becomes pitiful as she wonders whether Stanley will accept her as she questions their relationship. “Blanche: Will Stanley…

Characters in plays come in many ways with several traits that make he or she unique. With literary devices such as irony and symbolism, authors can help readers analyze the character even closer. Blanche Dubois is a wealthy, up-scaled class woman, at least, that is what she wants people to believe, who goes to visit her sister in New Orleans. Blanche is a character in Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire” who has gone through many tough trails in life. Not always making the best…

In his article "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram describes what, in his opinion, was an ethical experiment performed at Yale University designed to test how ordinary people respond to authority figures' direct orders, even if the orders violate the test subjects' conscience. In order to prevent psychological damage, Milgram's test subjects were reconciled with their victims after the experiment was terminated; he also claims there was an attempt to reduce tensions that resulted from the…