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    “The Shining” is a psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, released in 1980 to mediocre reviews and an initially poor box office performance. Over time, audiences began to like the film more and more, improving its box office performance and is now known as a quintessential horror film masterpiece. Stanley Kubrick is a photographer at heart and he had a career as a photographer before being a filmmaker, and it is obvious in his works how important framing and cinematography is to him

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    Obedience to Authority is a book by Stanley Milgram. Obedience to authority is a compliance with commands given by an authority figure. Milgram's research showed that people have a strong tendency to comply with authoritative figures. Drawing specifically on the statements of those who testified in Nuremberg, as well as those who have written about it, I will be explaining why Milgram's experiments do help explain the Holocaust and other Nazi war crimes. As Well as the views of Tedford Taylor in

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    Stanley Kubrick is a man that has been respected in the cinema world for many years. From films such as 2001 A Space Odyssey to Clock Work Orange he has created a lot masterpieces that have survived the test of time. By far one of his most popular works is The Shining which was released in 1980. Many film makers use different tools to analyze films and figure out meanings behind them. Kubrick was known for not explaining his work in any capacity. In order to figure out why he made the films the way

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    Synthesis Essay: Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiments Nobody would want to hurt another human being. It would be horrible to know someone wanted to willingly hurt someone. Stanley Milgram, an American psychologist, conducted an experiment on obedience during the time he was a professor at Yale University. His experiment was surrounded by the idea of authority. He wanted to examine how far people would go and do something that was clearly wrong, just because an authority figure is giving the orders

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    The Films of Stanley Kubrick The films of director Stanley Kubrick divert from any categorized genre upon analysis. Instead they use themes that also expand into cinematic concepts due to certain construction processes used in the making of his films. This distinguishes Stanley Kubrick as a film

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    “Paths of Glory” is the critically acclaimed 1957 feature film, which was directed by Stanley Kubrick. The movie was produced by James B. Harris, and based on the book “Paths of Glory,” by Humphrey Cobb. Leading the cast were Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris and Richard Anderson. It was released on Christmas Day. The movie begins with information about World War I beginning on August 3rd, 1914. The Germans invade France and nearly reach Paris. The French

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    People can commit heinous acts without being heinous people when placed under authority, according to Stanley Milgram’s conclusions from his experiment. In the article “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” written by Diana Baumrind, a psychologist who worked at the Institute of Human Development, she refutes Milgram’s claims by focusing on the ethical issues and the overall relevancy of the trial. Baumrind commences her article by arguing that Milgram mistreated and distressed his

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    and everyone seems to report to someone else higher-up. A scientific experiment (lauded by some, abhorred by others) performed by Stanley Milgram in the year 1963 seemed to indicate that obedience could effect evil results. Psychologist Diana Baumrind of the University of California despises the experiment, and in her critique of Milgram's work, the "Review of Stanley Milgram's Experiments on Obedience," calls it unethical and a violation of the sacred trust between experimenter and subject (Baumrind

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    Human beings are social species and from an early stage of their life they are trained to follow orders from an authority figure. Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. Milgram was trying to show that people are more likely to obey orders when it comes from a higher authority figure even when it involves many immoral acts. The experiment involve a teacher who will give electric shock

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    In short, obedience can be defined as the ability and willfulness to take charges given by a power figure. In the 1960s, the social therapist Stanley Milgram did a well known examination study called the obedience study. It demonstrated that individuals have a solid inclination to agree to power figures. In his study, Milgram told his forty male volunteer exploration subjects that they were taking part in a study, where the impacts of discipline in learning was at the epicenter. He doled out each

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