Stanley Tucci

NAME: TAY CHEE SIN STUDENT ID: 1001231566 Directed Self Learning Milgram’s Obedience Experiment The Milgram’s Obedience experiment was one of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology. This was a series of experiments conducted by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University in 1963, 1964 and 1965. The purpose of this study was to measure the willingness of participants to obey an instruction from an authorized person who instructed them to perform acts if it involved…

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Night of the Living Dead, released in 1968, directed by Gorge A. Romero and Carnival of Souls, released in 1962, directed by Herk Harvey, are two popular movies in the horror genre. Both low budget and filmed in black and white, captivated audiences with their filming techniques and psychological impact. Night of the Living Dead better represents the horror genre than Carnival of Souls because of its use of characteristics, stereotypes and technical components throughout the film. A typical…

Mister Socrates by Choi Jin-won Choi Jin-won directs and pens ‘’Mister Socrates’’, a not typical gangster film but a movie which combines comedy, crime, drama and social commentary. The main character is Ku Dong-Hyeok (Kim Rae-won), who is a high-school drop-out and low-level thug. He shows no respect to other people, he has no ethics and he just loves to beat people. One night, while he reports the accidental murder of a friend of his by another friend, he gets kidnaped by a gang. He is kept…

Groupthink Author’s Name Institute Name Groupthink In 1972, social psychologist Irvin L. Janis coined the term groupthink as “a psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses dissent and appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision making groups.” Janis made a significant effort in explaining why certain groups make certain decisions which in retrospect are obviously wrong. In certain situations, it is hard to visualize why people support certain group decisions even though…

Tennessee Williams in his play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the natural state of man and his primitive desires and actions. Through his characters, Stanley and Blanche, he shows how the two sides of man’s natural state. William’s goal is shown in the 1951 production of the play starring Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh. In this production the play is acted out in a way that allows all audiences to grasp the underlying theme while remaining entertaining and engaging to the audience. The…

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.…

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…

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,…

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…