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    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.…

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    TYRANNY is motivated by love, not obedience For years, researchers tried to name the factors that lead people to commit cruel acts. Probably the most famous example of such attempt was a study done by Stanley Milgram, who concluded that almost any person could commit a tyranny if given an order to do so. This has been a standard view on tyranny for almost over 50 years. However, new evidence shows that there is an alternative explanation for Milgram’s findings. According to professor Haslam from…

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    that self-destruction occurs soon hereafter. Williams stresses Blanche’s ordained fate with the use of the streetcar image. Debatably Stella is also driven by the same force of desire because she dropped everything to be with Stanley. Her final ending is not clear, however. Stanley shows desire in his aggressive ways. He has a desire to be aggressive and by constantly sub doing to these urges, or being purely “id” in Freudian terms, he is at risk of losing Stella and others. Mitch, like Blanche,…

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    Tim O'Brien said “A true war story is never moral.” In both “The Red Badge of courage”, written by Stephen Crane, and the movie “Paths of Glory,” directed by Stanley Kubrick, this statement takes upon a new meaning. Both Crane and Kubrick validate this message by showing that men grow selfish in the race to war glory and status, which in turn dehumanizes and uselessly kills innocent soldiers. They are expected to look this death in the face with unconditional bravery, which is against human…

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    Rod Gilbert Injury

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    Rod Gilbert was one tough player. He overcame one serious injury a broken back. During a junior game, Gilbert skated over a piece of debris. He had two operations to fix his injury in which he almost died as a result of the surgeries. When he was eligible to play again after his broken back, he was put in and got five points in 4 games. Gilbert fought through his injury and reached his goal of playing in the NHL with the New York Rangers by 1962-63. For his work he would be given the Masterton…

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    three main characters, Stanley Kowalski, Blanche Dubois, and Stella Kowalski, have diverse methods for managing the conflicts in their brutal surroundings in which they live in, as they all face distinctive crisis. This…

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    Blanche went to visit her sister, Stella, and her husband Stanley Kowalski, in New Orleans. There are several reason why Blanche went to visit Stella. One of the main reason was because the family property, Belle Reve, was lost. By going to New Orleans Blanche would stay with family and comfort herself because the family property that she was in charge of was lost. After arriving in New Orleans, Blanche was surprise on how different it was compared to Mississippi. Unlike Mississippi, people of…

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    Milgram’s Experiment How far are people being able to go under pressure orders of an authority? Stanley Milgram had an interest in understanding why Germans had committed war crimes during World War 2. He planned his experiment in the early 1960’s where he had a confederate and the participant, influence of punishment on memory and experimenter orders teacher to obey. Milgram goals was to determine whether the reason many of the accused German gave to clarify their action where they believed…

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    Evaluate Milgram's Study

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    Authority and Obedience: A Complex Social Dynamic Stanley Milgram’s (1963) primary objective within his study was to analyze the concept of obedience to authority figures. Milgram’s (1963) interest in the subject of obedience began as he questioned how individuals could commit acts of extreme violence against others simply because they were ordered. Milgram’s (1963) theoretical proposition was that humans would follow or obey an order from powerful authority figures, even if it went against all…

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    Wayne Gretzky (The Great one) He was born on January 26, 1961, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Early life Gretzky began skating at the age of 2 ½ years old. At age 6 he was playing on a all-star team with 10-11 year olds. In 1977 when he was 16 he was already playing with juniors and had the best record for goals and assists for being the youngest player in his league. Professional He turned professional in 1980 at the age of 19 years old. He was the greatest hockey player in the NHL and…

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