In Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish‚ Foucault analyzes the concept of discipline and describes it as a concept in which people become “docile bodies” (Foucault 135)‚ which an entity of power can subject to it’s will in order to create the most productive and least political dissonant person possible. The theory that the change in governmental punitive systems from more violent forms of punishment to more jail-based forms occurred in order to create “disciplined” people‚ rather than because
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Molly O’Brien Analyzing a Text Expository Writing Gay Marriage Helps Children Thesis: Dale Carpenter argues in hist article “Gay Marriage Helps Children” that the competence argument is factually unsupported and contrived by the laws of every state and that the optimality argument is irrelevant regardless if it is correct or not. The Competence Argument A. Children raised by gay parents are at a Higher risk emotionally and cognitively. B. Children raised by gay parents are more apt to be
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Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book. Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity. Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published
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An essay on how different Social Science disciplines can research and evaluate a social issue which in this assignment is unemployment Introduction The Social Sciences consist of a variety of disciplines which include Philosophy‚ History‚ Anthropology‚ Sociology‚ Economics and Social Policy (NUI Handbook 2011). These Sciences are normally named as there is a system to studying these subjects and applying empirical data to scientific research in analysing certain aspects of society whether it is
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Amazing Submarine trip to the deep mystery of the sea of Mauritius. Enjoy a dream adventure going underwater to 35 meters depth on board of a real submarine. Go for a once in a lifetime experience and discover the beautiful marine life and the underwater world of Mauritius! As part of the submarine trip will get to visit a shipwreck‚ explore the rich coral reefs of Mauritius‚ and observe and encounter various species of fish. This is a wonderful experience for everyone visiting Mauritius
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The benefits of humor‚ though‚ aren’t all mental. Humor triggers laughter. According to physiological studies‚ the laughter‚ in turn‚ stimulates our cardiovascular systems by increasing the rate at which the heart beats and contracting the muscles. In fact‚ one study suggested that laughing one hundred times per day is the equivalent of spending ten minutes on a rowing machine. One study went so far as to suggest that the benefits of laughter reach far beyond our body system. "Laughter reduces levels
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This discrepancy can also be seen in other social institutions in which conformity is strongly advocated. This is not surprising because school is really nothing more than a normalized prison in society. In Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment‚ he discusses the plague in the seventeenth century that led to a variety of measures taken to adequately deal with the problem running rampage at the time. Some measures taken concerned “a strict spatial partitioning: the closing
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Throughout the centuries‚ both the system and the concept of prison have undergone many radical changes that eventually led to the formation of the prison as we know it now. In the 16th and 17th centuries‚ prison tended to be a place where criminals were kept in it while awaiting their punishment. It was a place‚ where criminals were held‚ rather than a means of punishment. In fact‚ criminals‚ at that time‚ were publically punished‚ rather than imprisoned‚ in the most torturous ways such as whipping
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Expository Essay #1 English 8H Isabella Diez‚ Period 6 Just one Click Away In the present life we don’t really realize how much we use new technologies. One of my favorites of this time to use is the Apple iPhone. The Apple iPhone is a modern invention that has made significant impact on my life by enabling communication and providing entertainment. First‚ communication is offered on many levels on the Apple iPhone. I can email easily. My neighbor can email me easily when they need me to babysit
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To the average consumer‚ eating has now developed into well beyond an agricultural act‚ declares Wendell Berry. Apparent in the audience of his lectures on the decline of farming‚ American citizens are unable to recognize the existence of food beyond the food industry—the world of fake‚ processed food. Ask any individual from where their food comes and they will answer‚ “the grocery store.” Stirring Berry to anger‚ he exclaims that food begins with life‚ plant and animal; if food begins in the laboratory
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