Stanley Kowalski

for my genre analysis was a horror classic, The Shining. The film was made in the year 1980, starring Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance, Shelly Duvall as Wendy Torrance, and Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance. The film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and screen written by Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson. Critics originally poorly reviewed the film, however with time the film became a classic. The film ended up grossing $44.40 million dollars. The film’s story was based on Author Stephen King’s novel…

The Blackhawks were finally getting hot, everybody knew about Glenn Hall, Stan Mikita, Pierri Pilote, and Bobby Hull. Mikita was awarded his first Art Ross Trophy in 1964 and Hull scored 50 goals in one regular season, which was considered a lot back in that time because of how little the league was. Fewer teams, fewer games to be played. Mikita also had real temper that made their games more interesting to watch. He managed to rack up 149 penalty minutes in the 1964 regular season due to a lot…

Stanley Milgram is a well-known psychologist whose revered yet controversial experiments on obedience forge a popular name for him. His experiments offer plenty to critique, and many respected psychologists tore his work apart. One author, Diana Baumrind, critiques Milgram in her article, “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience,” and explains the unethicality of his work and the assumed rights of the subjects. Ian Parker on the other hand, in his article “Obedience,” states that…

Brought by the innovative - yet not always succeeded - American director Michael Almereyda, “Experimenter” tells us about the work of social psychologist, Stanley Milgram (an unsmiling Peter Sarsgaard), based on his overwhelming studies on the human obedience to authority. In this biographical drama, whose theme is sufficiently enticing to keep us watching with a responsive curiosity, Almereyda uses his creative freedom to edify a somewhat loose narrative that drinks from the thoughts and…

The Shining was released into theaters in1980 and became a horror movie classic, but what scenes in the film helped build suspense towards the climax where the main character is attacking his family? The film overall storyline involves a man named Jack Torrance who getting a new job as a caretaker to a hotel during the winter season. During this season he will be living with just his family because the hotel closes down completely due to its harsh winter storms, but the caretaker is suppose to…

One of the studies that we covered in class during the Social Psychology unit was the Stanford prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo. This study has the broad design of an experiment. It is an experiment because Zimbardo set out to see the effects of prison and social roles. The idea is that he was experimenting with a group of people to see how their social roles would change once put into the controlled environment of the mock prison space. It is more specifically known as a Quasi…

In human behavior, Obedience is an action which occurs under explicit orders or instructions from a person in authority. Obedience differs from conformity (changing behavior with the purpose of being equivalent to others in a group) and compliance (behavior swayed by another). Two major experiments on obedience is the Milgram and Zimbardo prison experiments. In the Milgram experiment, participants were given clear instructions to administer electric shocks from the experimenter, to a confederate…

Milgram’s obedience study has been around for decades and still holds up its reputation as one of the better known studies. Almost everyone who has taken an introductory class to psychology has experienced the method that Milgram used to test obedience in his human participants. Milgram (1963) used forty male participants who were between the ages of twenty and fifty in the New Haven vicinity. These participants had responded to a newspaper advertisement and direct mail solicitation for what…

The aim was to understand the extent of compliance towards obedience, particularly relating the notion of inflicting harm on another being under the instructions of an authority figure. An ecological application of the Nazis behaviour during WWII. Stanley Milgram an American social psychologist devised an experiment which operationalized obedience. The original intention to test the German population and correlate the results to the holocaust was abandoned due to fundamental ethical issues.…

The film Dr. Strange Love or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, was hilarious. It really gave insight on our values as Americans and played fun at the American mentality during the Cold War that we can apply to America today. The overlying commentary on America is that we are proud nationalists that have no regard for others, so long as we can get ahead. Throughout the movie, multiple characters showed that they had irrational paranoia towards communists--specifically Russians.…