Philip Pullman

In The Big Sleep, author Raymond Chandler sets the scene in 1930’s America; a dark, dirty place teeming with immorality and crime. The very thing the country blossomed from leads to its corruption and decay: the American Dream. The Dream thrives on the thirst for money, drawing in people that want bigger and better opportunities. By choosing Los Angeles as his setting, Chandler shows how the last area of the States developed, the West, turned into a greedy place. Some of the most corrupt and fame-hungry

The psychology professor, Philip Zimbardo, from Stanford University began to test how imprisonment affects different people in August 1971. He chose twenty four out of seventy five male students. These students were the most psychologically and physically stable. Zimbardo built a mock prison in the basement of the university. Within the twenty four chosen students some were randomly selected to be guards. The guards only had to pretend for eight hours a day, and then got to return to their normal

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) uses mostly restricted narration, perceptual subjectivity, and the lack of mental subjectivity to show the strength of Marlow’s (Humphrey Bogart) loyalty towards Vivian (Lauren Bacall) and General Sternwood (Charles Waldren). The Big Sleep uses a mostly restricted narration through the eyes of Marlow, with a few exceptions to make the audience feel more connected to Marlow. Early in the movie Marlow goes to Geiger’s (uncredited) house and sits outside only able

Goneril is a predominate main character in the play and she is known for her evil ways. She is the perfect example of being entitled. Her selfish ways have a great impact on both herself and others. Towards the beginning of the play, and even through most of it, her entitlement has positive impacts on herself. She easily gets what she wants and she continues to seek fulfilment. However, she has a tremendous impact on others. She goes to great lengths to get what she wants, even in it means hurting

Set in the 1960’s, Big Eyes is a movie based on a true-story that is not only accurate and believable, but extremely impactful. The movie tells of Margaret, an up-and-coming artist who runs into trial after trial while trying to make a name for herself. One day, while in the park trying to sell her unique paintings of children with big eyes, she meets Walter Keane. This man would go on to play an extremely important part in Margaret's career and her development as an independent woman. Walter’s charming

Philip G. Zimbardo conducted an experiment called The Stanford Prison Experiment back in 1973. Zimbardo sets out to see the outcome if you create a false prison and get ordinary college students and make half of the students guards and the other half of the students prison inmates how will the volunteers react with their new roles. Zimbardo main points of the prison experiment were to see if the volunteers can handle their new positions. Also another main point of Zimbardo’s experiment was how much

The speaker alternates between professing great love and professing great worry as he speculates about the young man’s misbehavior and the dark lady’s multiple sexual partners. As the young man and the dark lady begin an affair, the speaker imagines himself caught in a love triangle, mourning the loss of his friendship with the man and love with the woman, and he laments having fallen in love with the woman in the first place. In Sonnet 137, the speaker personifies love, calls him a simpleton, and

Stanford Prison Experiment: Research Review A. Carmelle Hasan University of the People Aggression, within social or private settings, has caused centuries of harmful damage inward and beyond our local communities across the globe. Dostoevsky, a Russian novelist, believed that anyone who could survive the conditions of life in prison, could survive any obstacle of it’s lifetime. The Standford Prison Experiment was structured to shed light on the psychology and foundation of human aggression

William P. Jones’s The March on Washington begins by highlighting A. Philip Randolph, a black labor unionist and civil rights advocate, who attempted to organize a March on Washington in 1941. Although Randolph’s original march failed to come to fruition, the novel depicts the proceedings as a prerequisite to the 1963 march. Depicting Randolph as a central figure to the March on Washington Movement, the novel tells the story of the events leading up to and through the March on Washington that took

Dr. Pilip Zimbardo is not an unknown name in the world of psychology. He graduated at Brooklyn College in 1954 with majors in sociology, anthropology, and of course psychology. Zimbardo has spent most of his career researching how and why people are transformed into certain situations so that they behave in unexpected ways, such as when a good person commits an atrocious act, or an intelligent person does something irrational. The Stanford Prison Experiment is Dr. Zimbardo’s ‘attempt to understand