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- 14101: Foucault and Truffaut: Power and Social Control in French Society
- ... how seemingly benign or even reformist institutions such as the modern prison system (versus the stocks, and scaffolds) are technologies that are typical of the modern, painless, friendly, and impersonal coercive tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these technologies stems from their ability to appear unobtrusive and humane. These prisons Foucault goes on to explain like many institutions in post 1700th century society isolate those that society ... sees power as emanating from these fixed points; Foucault sees "power" and "control" and flowing through all the vessels of the body of society. In Truffaut's disciplinary society their is escape from such a world on the streets of Paris, in interacts with friends, and by running away to the sea or the movie theater. Truffaut sees escape from power as possible in anarchist like state free of adults and ...
- 14102: The Struggle Between Being And Knowing
- ... we should ask ourselves what our final objective might be. Is it simply the required degree which allows us a label next to our name, or is it the opportunity to be introduced to a world so large and complex that we wont ever again be content to live passively. Unfortunately for some of the students, the reasons have never been too clear. These reasons were not clear to me ... credentials seldom uncover these truths. They are uncovered because of the way the right and intellectual foundation engages the mind in digging out answers to questions that become obvious as we progress through this complex world we live in.
- 14103: Beowulf: A Story Told in One Mothers Point-of-View
- ... in One Mothers Point-of-View She, Grendels mother, awakens to the faint sound and smell of the things known as men. She has been sleeping down in her dark and dingy cave below the world that is known to men. She has been biding her time, and plotting her revenge against the man that murdered her son. All that she had left in the cold and unforgivable world was her only son. Her only child was the being men despised and called Grendel. She lifts her head from the cold cavern floor, and her ears prick up as she hears a sound in ...
- 14104: Animal Rights
- ... a trophy, in one way or another they get their so-called trophy. These animals meet a merciless death. How can people consider this a sport? I firmly believe in animal rights. God created the world with both animals and humans. To both coexist peacefully. Each bringing benefit to the other, but not at the expense of pain and suffering. Animals do have feelings. They may not experience life as we ... dislikes, they are aware of their own needs and their environment. God gave man the ability to think and reason. We should put our abilities to better use when it comes to animals and the world that we share.
- 14105: Binge Drinking on College Campuses
- Binge Drinking on College Campuses When parents send their children away to college, they expect them to receive a quality education that will prepare them for the real world. However, most parents do not realize that their hard-earned money is being used to purchase hard liquor. Recent studies show that 82.5% of all college students drink (http://www.edc.org/hec/pubs ... life with drinking and partying. My brother went through the fraternity system here, and I often visited the campus during high school. When I visited, I thought that it was the coolest place in the world; what with all of the women, music, and, of course, alcohol. I never noticed the adverse effects that alcohol has. The endless nights of drinking add up, which subsequently caused my own brother to get ...
- 14106: The Demise Of Lady Macbeth, In
- ... giving away their secret, but unknowingly, she is putting it on display for all to see. Lady Macbeth took all of her feelings on the situation and buried them deep. She hie them from the world, and from herself. She tried to pretend that the feelnigs weren't there, and her sleepwalking was a way of releasing these stored emotions. We see here that Lady Macbeth is weakening, she is feeling ... of a surprise to me. It also seems like a logical solution for a person such as Lady Macbeth. She appears to be a strong person. She acts as if she can take on the world, and make it bow at her feet, but that is the problem. Lady Macbeth is nothing more than talk. In aiding Macbeth in killing Duncan, she had finally acted, but the consequences of her actions ...
- 14107: Communism An Overview
- ... means of production. Society would be run by and for the people. Marx and Engels expected that this movement would happen in the most highly industrialized nations of Western Europe, the only part of the world where the conditions were ripe for these developments. This had not happened, though, and capitalism, though all its shortcomings, had been retained in Western Europe. Yet in other nations that lacked the conditions they considered ... good example of the rise and fall of communism in some countries. Yet this is not true for all. China for example, after the fall of the USSR in 1991, became the only remaining major world power with a Communist government. The Chinese government worked hard to ensure that its own system did not follow a similar demise by continuing to pursue economic policies that reduced poverty, such as allowing workers ...
- 14108: Teen Smoking
- ... about their health. The tobacco industry tries to appeal to the youth. The earlier kids get hooked, the more secure the companies' sales are. "For the tobacco industry, these youngsters are an essential source of new customers. While cigarette makers deny it, advertising and promotion of youthful smoking clearly helped attract the attention of teens. The rate of youthful smoking dropped steadily from 1976 until 1984, then leveled off--just as ... to get cigarettes, the less they will smoke them. It is clear from the surveys and articles published that teen smoking is on the rise. Teenage smoking is escalating at the rate of one million new recruits a year. Despite the work of governmental and independent agencies the tobacco industries continue to sell cigarettes at an alarming rate, due to peer pressure propaganda and availability of the product. Something must be ...
- 14109: Euripides Medea
- ... centered around the expanding field of science. Freedom of religion was encouraged to be exercised in the city-states and man was focused on more than the Gods or heavenly concerns. As a result many new ideals and beliefs surfaced. These new ideals and beliefs, though good in intentions, often conflicted with one another and created complex moral dilemmas. Such was the case in Sophocles play Antigone that was written in this era. In the play, Antigone ...
- 14110: Cold War 2
- ... start of the Cold war. To say which one of these aspects played the major part in starting the cold war perhaps we should think of what could have prevented the cold war. As the World War II came to an end the three big poweres led by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin met in Yalta to compromise on a treaty. The Yalta treaty was mainly the re-establishment ... of the preceding generations. These fealings however were not mutual with that of rusias autocratic leader Josef Stalin. He felt that it had the right and had the need of those countrys it occupied in World War II. After two consecutive wars where they were invaded by the Germans, the USSR felt it necessary to create buffer states to protect the borders of the fatherland. The communist regimes in place enabled ...
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