Stanley Edgar Hyman

In 1962, Stanley Milgram surprised the world with his study on obedience. To test his theory he invented an electronic box that would become a window into human cruelty. In ascending order, a row of buttons marked the amount of voltage one person would inflict upon another. Milgram’s original motive for the experiment was to understand the unthinkable: How could the German people permit the extermination of the Jews? Stanley Milgram wanted to understand the necessary conditions in which a person…

Stalker (1979) is Tarkovsky’s last film made in the Soviet Union (154). An open-ended question is left by the film: what is the Zone? The Zone is a fictional location that contains elements of fantasy and mystery, such as the wish-granting Room. Nevertheless, the way Tarkovsky films this reflects an attitude of realism. This approach allows the audience to relate life to the themes of the film, salvation through the faith in God, dignity, and love. In the film, the Stalker describes the Zone as…

Mario Lemieux Changed the history of ice hockey, the city of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Mario Lemieux also known as Super Mario or Mr. 66 made pittsburgh a place where football and baseball wasnt the only important sports in the city he added hockey to the market. Super Mario was one of the greatest ever and this is why. Mario Lemieux was a small boy coming out of Montreal, Canada. Lemieux was born on October 5,1965 and soon…

Bones, the movie, was directed by Peter Jackson and was produced by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Carolynne Cunningham, and Aimée Peyronnet. The two major characters are Susie and Mr. Harvey. Susie is played by Saoirse Ronan and Mr. Harvey is played by Stanley Tucci. It was released 7 years after the book. The movie won an award for Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. The setting is Norristown, Pennsylvania…

The Stanford Prison Experiment The Stanford Prison Experiment is unethical and inhuman. It is also evidently a product of poor decision-making. If the scholar involved had considered using two individuals to take the roles of primary experimenter and prison superintendent, the experiment would not have advanced to the levels it did. Moreover, this independent individual would have interfered with the direction the experiment was taking. The experiment also shows the importance of an oversight…

Too name a couple there was the holocaust and the Milgram experiment. The Milgram experiment was a series of experiments where Psychologist Stanley Milgram where he told test subjects that they were taking part in a study about teaching punishment. The subjects were told directions by a researcher in a white lab coat to shock another student if they said the wrong answers. In the beginning the…

despondency, and shame, as well as the greater overarching theme of escapism; she drinks to escape the harsh and bitter realities of her life, and uses the alcohol to inspire her idealistic and glamorous fantasies. Similar to Dubois, her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, also consumes alcohol excessively; for Kowalski however, alcohol tends to result in an inability to control his aggressive nature—a fact made most clear when he strikes his own wife, after already having destroyed their radio.…

witnessed he's strung out, suffering flashbacks / seeing spooky hallucinations, and suffers from high anxiety. Yet the government thinks he's the right man for the job. His new assignment is to go to London, England, seek out famous film director Stanley Kubrick, and persuade him with a briefcase full of cash, to secretly make a movie of a successful moon Apollo 11 moon landing. This would also include of course, getting out of the lunar module, and walking around on the surface. In case the…

This is amazing, this is why I am called the Great One, because of this. I want to say that Gordie Howe is still better than me, because he did it before me, so I believe that he is better than me. Crosby, on the other hand, being called the “Next Great One,” seems right. In his high 20’s, when I got my records. His life seems like mine, getting into the NHL early, and becoming a star right away. Making records, being just plain out great at this sport, I look at him, and think, am I his role…

Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire centers on Blanche Dubois, a fading Southern belle from Laurel, Mississippi, who comes to stay with her younger sister Stella and husband Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans. Blanche is a fragile woman who constantly lives in her fantasy world to protect herself against outside threats and her own insecurities. She uses these fantasies to create an illusion to convince not only others, but herself that she is still young, admired and of social standing.…