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    Photography is the key element of mise en scene that determines how an audience will interpret the visual information in film. Orson Welles used the photography of his 1941 film Citizen Kane to emphasize aspects of the film he wanted viewers to focus on, and to remove non-essential information from the frame. This was accomplished through various camera tequniques including manipulation of angles and proxemity. Approaching the end of the film there is a scene just after Susan (played by Dorothy…

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    have the ´manner… that suggests a moth´. It is argued by many critics, such as Biljana Oklopčić, that blanche is the “representation of the old traditions in southern American culture”- she is used to contrast with Stanley who is cultured and refined background is the opposite of Stanley who is lively and working class background. Blanches development…

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    Milgram Code Of Ethics

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    Based on the understanding of the experiment, ethics in research, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) and American Society of Criminology (ASC) Code of Ethics, it is in my opinion that the experiments were unethical. The experiment was about teachers administering electronic shocks to learners, pretenders, for each incorrect answer given. The teachers were the actual subject of the experiment but were not aware. Milgram may have succeeded in proving the concept of obedient to authority…

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    trophy which is known as the Stanley Cup. In Soccer the World Cup is the term used to describe postseason play success. Hockey and soccer have always had similar and different characteristics that are unique to each…

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    All of the evil of the hotel, which is possessing Jack, eventually fights with Danny. The Overlook is working through Jack to make Danny be obedient, and to not run away; Danny has to be "chastised" (Kubrick 1980). The young boy, however, has known that the hotel has been trying to know what he 's thinking, and he has been able to resist it 's attempts. Instead of referring to the hotel 's illusions as "pictures," as he formally did, Danny now calls them "false faces," which are fictitious. In…

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    In 1962, Dr. Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to test the authority of the average American citizen. Milgram gathered a group of forty men to test their obedience to an authoritative figure. Each subject was brought into the experiment under the impression that they were going to be evaluated on how well they were able to learn a series of word combinations. The way they were encouraged to remember these combinations was by using a form of negative extrinsic motivation. Each time a wrong…

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    Stanley Milgram Experiment

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    Stanley Milgram, a professor at Yale University was an ordinary man of about middle age. He conducted an experiment to test the obedience of an individual under the authority of an individual. When orders are given from an authority figure does it change the course of action of an individual? History has repetitively shown soldiers and individuals making decisions based upon an authority figure’s instruction rather than what their own self conscience would choose. The Milgram experiment was…

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    In "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram conducted a study that tests the conflict between obedience to authority and one's own conscience. What he found that through fear and threats anyone could commit a crime and what he believed that authority plays a huge role in our lives. However, Cave believes that people should be able to learn what is right and wrong from around them. I believe that Milgram’s study helps us better understand rules. First, in 1963 Milgram wanted to know whether…

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    Milgram Experiment Reflection Paper In May 1967, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram was leading a study linked between obedience and behavior. The experiment involved the experimenter, teacher and the learner. The experimenter would then prompt the teacher to give the learner different levels of shock. The level of shocks ranged from slight shock which was 15v to a shock that transmitted volts as powerful as 450v danger severe shock. The experiment included 40 males the ages ranging…

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    This research paper is in accordance with a pervious research done by a man named Stanley Milgram in the years 1963,1965 and 1974. Milgram’s study was in regards to obedience and focused on the idea of people’s response to authority figures. He wanted to find out under what conditions people would either agree or refuse the command of an authority figure. In 2009, Jerry Burger, a psychologist coming from the university of Santa Clara proceeded to semi-replicate this study in regards to a…

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