The Naked Citadel By Susan Faludi

Different people share various desires because people are unique and extraordinary that fulfillments of perceptions are distinctive and diverse. Desires are not mandatory because it is a fundamental base of one's greediness and voracity. Wants is a terminology that individuals tend to seek and achieve a long-term goal. For instance, some people want to have a luxury car, and some people want to have luxury products and some people have less greediness, simply a good grade on each course is enough. Even though people perceive to have many desires in their lifetime, these desires are not necessary and not mandatory because it is different than the concept of needs. The term of needs is essential and inevitable for every individual that lives
Cathy Davidson, author of "Project Classroom Makeover," addresses how technology nowadays provides motivations for individual students to engage in the study fields. The world is progressing rapidly, and yet the educational system remains at the particular spot without moving forward. The combination of technological devices with educations provide further interests and purposes for students to learn more knowledge and information that traditional educational institutions do not approach and access. Furthermore, Susan Faludi, author of "The Naked Citadel," discusses how the institution in a military college, The Citadel, regulates every male student to develop mutual understandings and perceptions that can hardly avoid and ignore. The system inside the school distinct the concept of wants and needs dynamically with the preventions of students to develop self-identities and self-desires. Institution regulates individuals systematically that provide basic needs to people to absorb. On the other hand, the institutional system prevents and prohibits people to develop their desires and their
Why does institutional system only provide the basic needs instead of promoting different desires for individuals? Due to the fact that a majority of organizations such as schools, companies, and military associations ask each person to behave in the same way, so it is easier to regulate and control. The basic need that individuals learn from various organization make them develop mutual perceptions and mutual understanding with others to fit into the main stream society. For instance, in the article of "The Naked Citadel," each student learns to become more masculine and manlier because the school thinks these are the fundamental element to a male gender individual. Therefore, the school prohibits a majority of female characters because the school does not want the students to get influenced and impacted differently. The Institutional system enables people to establish common understandings even if diverse perspectives arise internally in minds. One of the students from The Citadel addressed the feeling to attend in such a school. He states, “I know it sounds trivial, but all of us in one shower, it’s like we’re all one, we’re all the same, and – I don’t know – you feel like you’re exposed, but you feel safe. You know these guys are going to be your friends for life" (75). This is a basic need that the school