Stanley Hauerwas

Identifying the Self Lauren Slater firsts introduces us to Stanley Milgram and his experiments in the chapter Obscura. In this chapter we revolve around the topic of self-identity compared to who we really are while under the influence of the power of authority. Slater, although unclear of the true meaning of these experiments, finds they have great power in shedding light on the distinction between who we think we are versus who we truly are (Slater, 39). This then makes myself wonder, am I…

taken through the book by 15-year-old Alex whom along with his friends are described engaging in activities such as rape, violence, and theft until he is subjected to a form of conditioning that “cures” him of this violent nature. In 1971, director Stanley Kubrick adapted the novel into a film under the same title, A Clockwork Orange. Sharing the same theme as the novel, the film addresses the idea that although this character continuously chooses to commit acts of evil he has done so out of his…

motif that links with the theme of the play. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams presents Blanche Dubois, the embodiment of a typical Southern Belle: dainty, vain, and very feminine. After moving in with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley, Blanche finds herself caught in a spiral of alcoholism and stupor. The fallen and faded belle is prone to her frequent haunting memories and fantasy-like state-of-mind. While Williams utilizes repetition to represent chronic flashbacks that…

thesis statement and elaborating on that is far superior than many unexplained thoughts. Without having a concise thesis, the paper turns out to be scattered, with sparks flying everywhere without a true solution. “The Shining” by Stanley Kubrick is a film that contains several tiny sparks that can be explained upon after further analysis. At first glance, the movie is only about a family whose dad when psycho after being isolated for an extended period of time. When…

In 1963, Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment to investigate into how obedient people would be when instructed by an authority figure. He was inspired by the Nuremburg War Criminal trials in Germany after the Holocaust. He wanted to know why so many people followed Hitler’s orders. To gather participants for the study, he placed an ad in a newspaper offering four dollars to be a part of the study. He told the participants that they would randomly be…

An Academic Review of the Following Text: Cialdini, Robert B. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. New York: Collins, 2007. Print. Summary Weapons of Automatic Influence The book begins with Cialdini introducing his idea of “weapons of automatic influence.” He recounts a story of a shop owner on an Indian reservation who was having trouble selling a certain set of turquoise` jewelry during the height of tourist season. In a desperate attempt to get rid of the merchandise, she asks her…

Dewey Dell both chose to send their siblings away for different reasons. Dewey Dell chose to send Darl away because she didn’t want him to tell people that she was pregnant. Stella sent Blanche away because she didn’t want to face the reality that Stanley had raped Blanche and by calling her insane she could deny the rape. In both pieces, the sister’s abandonment led to the insanity of their siblings. They lost the trust and the support from their family and they lost hope for themselves. Sanity…

After a date, Mitch says to Blanche, “You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be-you and me, Blanche?” (116). If Blanche were to have married Mitch she could have moved out of Stella and Stanley’s flat and the tension between her and Stanley would dissipate naturally from lack of contact. But if Stella were to marry Mitch she would have to resign herself down to a lower class lifestyle and she is unable to able to do that with her expectations of what society owes her for being…

In the beginning of the story, she tells Stanley, “You lay your hands on me and I’ll…” but is cut off by getting hit by her husband, in front of all their friends. Luckily Stanley’s friends step in and push him off, but this is all in vain due to the fact shortly after, she walks down the spiral staircase and joins him in to bed. At the end of the play, after Blanche tells her about Stanley attacking her, she chooses not to believe it. Stella is trapped in her marriage…

Novelist Stephen King centered on the theme of supremacy characteristic of white males over western native peoples masterfully in his book, The Shining. As a country yearning for new land, a young America stretched its borders into the West. While colonizing, white males believed that they were superior to the native peoples inhabiting the territory, and slaughtered hundreds of them to take over their lands. It’s been believed since those turbulent times in the colonial days of the United…