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    16- 20). She feels that‚ while marriage isn’t a bad thing‚ overvaluing it to the point of presenting it as a need for women to have is a bad thing (pg 16- 20). She presents this theme in many of her works‚ but presents it most clearly in her work “Misery Blues”‚ in which‚ she presents a women truly oppressed by marriage to the point that she was falsely led to a man who promised her marriage‚ only to renege on his promise (pg 16). Another reason for her devalued

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    In Stanley Milgram’s experiment‚ The Memory Project- effect on punishment on learning‚ the concept of staging in terms of what is real and not real in relation to the photographs objects and subjects‚ which is conveyed through the facilitator and the learner parallels Sontag’s concept of framing and representation In Plato’s Cave‚ and Barthes idea of posing and theater in Camera Lucida. Sontag and Barthes’s understandings of photography’s “reality” intersect in that their notion of the object in

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    The milgram experiment. The three people involved were: the one running the experiment‚ the subject of the experiment a volunteer‚ and a person pretending to be a volunteer. These three persons fill three distinct roles: the Experimenter an authoritative role‚ the Teacher a role intended to obey the orders of the Experimenter‚ and the Learner the recipient of stimulus from the Teacher. The subject and the actor both drew slips of paper to determine their roles‚ but unknown to the subject‚ both slips

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    How the character of Paul Sheldon in the novel Misery is made believable “He wished he was dead‚ but through the pain-soaked haze that filled his mind like a summer storm-cloud‚ he did not know he wished it.” (King‚ 3). Misery is a story that follows middle-aged novelist Paul Sheldon who is involved in a serious accident and barely comes out alive by being saved from his biggest fan‚ Annie Wilkes‚ who tends to his injuries. However‚ he soon learns that she wants him to write another novel

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    Misery‚ the book that Stephen King is well known for contains a large amount of subliminal messages about King’s drug and alcohol abuse. King knew he had a problem with his abuse. He also knew that it effected him mentally and physically. He admitted this when he says “I wanted to gab them and hit them.” while referring to his children. He then says “Even though I didn’t do it‚ I felt guilty because of my brutal impulses.” He wasn’t proud of the thoughts he had and he knew that he would not be having

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    A. Stanford Prison Experiment- In this experiment‚ students volunteered to be a part of a psychology experiment that was being conducted at Stanford College. Because of the situation around them‚ they conformed to the environment‚ even though it was only a simple experiment in a Stanford hallway. Embarrassed and yet impressed‚ the experimenters stated this‚ “The negative‚ anti-social reactions observed were not the product of an environment created by combining a collection of deviant personalities

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    utter and blatant madness‚ and eventually becomes the destruction of themselves and others. In the novel Misery by Stephen King‚ the mental instability of Annie Wilkes and the imprisonment of Paul Sheldon shows how obsession can lead to the destruction of others. Paul Sheldon was an author famous for his many books about an 18th century woman named Misery Chastain. The last book of the Misery novels concluded in Paul’s celebratory drinking because he was finally free from writing about the same character

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    Monica Perez Experiment 8: Acetylsalicylic Acid Experiment 01/25/2013 CHM Lab- 2211 Sec 0016 Instructor: Jennifer Reed Introduction: Commonly used as Aspirin‚ acetylsalicylic acid is an analgesic (pain reliever)‚ which is one of the products of the esterification reaction between salicylic acid and acetic anhydride. This esterification occurs since the hydroxyl group from the salicylic acid reacts with acetic anhydride to form an ester. In this experiment‚ we will be able to recreate

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    Experiments: Doctors‚ Experiments‚ and Results Melissa Anjeanette Edwards POLYTECH High School of Kent County‚ Woodside‚ Delaware Abstract During World War II experiments were done on the prisoners of war in Nazi Germany. Doctors for these camps came in all shapes and sizes including former S.S. Troops‚ Women‚ and a variety of prisoner doctors. The experiments differed as much as the doctors themselves; however they stayed the same in one factor‚ medical curiosity become killing in atrocious

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    the okay to do the experiment‚ I grabbed the girls and went to work. The experiment I picked was the conservation concept‚ where the idea that merely changing the appearance of objects does not necessarily change other key properties. In other words‚ just because I put the same amount of water in a bigger case‚ doesn’t change how much water there is. I predict that both the girls would fail at conservation concept‚ and always

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