2013 English 3B Literary Snapshot 2 Rewrite: How does Miller develop the character of Abigail? In what way is the character of Abigail a foil to Elizabeth Proctor? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ he develops Abigail by using her actions to make our view of her character change as she starts to act differently throughout the play. Abigail is a foil to Elizabeth Proctor since she uses lying as a tool to manipulate people as she finds it especially effective. Abigail gradually becomes inhumane
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Stanley Milgram was a psychologist at the University of Yale. Milgram decided to conduct an experiment that would focus on the conflict between authority and a person’s personal conscience. Milgram did this study to find the meaning and a new understanding of the acts of the people that occurred during World War II. Milgram wanted to figure out if the Germans were particularly obedient toward authoritative figures. He was eager to find out just how far people would be willing to go in order to obey
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The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram‚ was an experiment done on people to study the idea of obedience. However‚ a huge part in the research was the participant’s in the study had thought that the point of the experiment was how the learner’s responded to the given requests‚ not themselves. The experimenter has two participant’s given two pieces of paper to choose one from‚ both of the pieces of paper have ‘teacher’ written on them. The learner is actually a part of the research team to help
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not act as properly as others from these types of elite schools. Should this be frowned upon or admired due to his ability to take risks. What do you think‚ should he get it or not? Read to see what I thought. Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley Rob Parson joined Morgan Stanley as a market coverage professional in the Capital Markets division focusing on financial institutions with ten years of experience in the banking and insurance industries. He has built strong relationships within these industries along
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A Critique of Stanley Fish’s “What Did Watson the Computer Do?” Zaw Phyo Ohlone College A Critique of Stanley Fish’s “What Did Watson the Computer Do?” In the fascinating game of “Jeopardy!” played in 2011‚ the end product resulting from decades of research and innovation was unveiled. This artificial intelligence system‚ named Watson‚ was able to answer questions by detecting keywords in the question‚ checking with its vast data base‚ and giving the most probable answer to the questions asked
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Stanley Milgram Obedience Experiment One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Stanley Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram‚ a psychologist at Yale University‚ conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. He examined justifications for acts of genocide offered by those accused at the World War II‚ Nuremberg War Criminal trials. Their defense often was based on "obedience" - that they were just
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Obedience is omnipresent; it is difficult to differentiate between obedience and conformity‚ therefore it is a complicated subject of social psychology. However‚ Stanley Milgram was devoted to understand the phenomena of obedience‚ and created a dramatic masterpiece. Interested in many different aspects of life‚ Stanley Milgram was an influential key figure in psychology. However his work on the field of obedience is respected and still exiting for both psychologists and lay people. The aim of this
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antagonism between Blanche and Stanley. Blanche’s dislike and condescending opinion towards Stanley are shown through the overheard conversation she had with Stella in Scene 4. When she unreservedly degrades Stanley by drawing parallels between him and a “survivor of the Stone Age”‚ she further says‚ “there’s even something- sub-human” and “ape-like about him”. Immediate antagonism is created as Blanche dehumanises him and despises him for his “bestial behaviour”. Stanley sees Blanche as a threat to
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with help from his students at the University of Manchester‚ Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden‚ developed his gold foil experiment after his disapproval of the “plum pudding model”. If Thompson’s experiment was correct‚ then all of the alpha particles would travel right through the foil. What Rutherford did was shoot a positively charged helium particle towards a very thin layer of gold foil. He expected the positive particles to move a small distance from their path as they passed through the sea of
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lady Macbeth and Macbeth were not power hungry until the witches stuck there noses in their business and told Macbeth about the prophecies. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are great foils for each other because they both take on the role of an aggressor and both bare the guilt of what they have done. In Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is a foil for Macbeth by the way they switch dominance of the two. After Macbeth meet the witches he told Lady Macbeth about how the witches told him that he was going to
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