References: The Souls of the Black Folk‚ Du Bois‚ W. E. B. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison ‚ Michel Foucault Maud Martha‚ Gwendolyn Gwendolyn
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1.0 Introduction Pudu Jail‚ a 114 year-old jail‚ built by British during 1895 that used to house criminals including drug offenders and was a location for administering corporal punishment through rotan caning‚ was demolished on October 2009 by City Hall to make way for a road expansion and tunnel project on Jalan Pudu. Despite public objection to the city’s historic landmark being destroyed‚ demolition work continued for the project‚ aimed at easing traffic congestion in the area. The road
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Intro/Chap 1 Hegemony- ideological domination. Basic premises of Cultural Studies Basic premise semiotics (the study of how things are made to mean) For human beings‚ there are no necessary or inherent meaning in anything . Things have to be made to mean. Basic premises of semiotics Making things mean is a social and political process‚ practice‚ and struggle. Therefore‚ our sense of reality is socially and politically constructed. Basic premises of cultural studies In societies marked by institutionalized
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Part A: theorizing the organization Organization theory can be observed from modern‚ symbolic interpretative‚ critical and postmodern perspectives that provide us with values‚ distinct beliefs and knowledge. In this essay‚ I will discuss on how modernists and postmodernist perspective differ in their basic ontological and epistemological assumptions‚ different ways of understanding and contributes to different ideas about power and the limits of power in organization. Ontology and Epistemology
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Critical Theory – Overview In the humanities and social sciences‚ critical theory is the examination and critique of society and literature‚ drawing from knowledge across social sciences and humanities disciplines. The term has two quite different meanings with different origins and histories‚ one originating in social theory and the other in literary criticism. Though until recently these two meanings had little to do with each other‚ since the 1970s there has been some overlap between these
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Althusser‚ Ideology and Interpellation The French philosopher‚ Louis Althusser‚ first popularized the word in his seminal essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)” (Althusser‚ 1972). In the essay‚ Althusser explores the relationship between the state‚ modes of (re)producing power and ideology from a Marxist perspective‚ defining ideology as “the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence” (Althusser 1972: 162). In his definition
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How to write a research proposal There is no single format for research proposals. This is because every research project is different. Different disciplines‚ donor organisations and academic institutions all have different formats and requirements. There are‚ however‚ several key components which must be included in every research proposal. The specific research problem will dictate what other sections are required. Key components are: • A description of the research problem. • An argument
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“The medium is the message” McLuhan defines the medium as any extension of our body‚ senses or mind. Therefore‚ any instrument of change is a medium. The resulting change McLuhan refers to is often subtle and it is this change that is the message (McLuhan‚ 1994). At first glance‚ McLuhan’s
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Thesis A As a person develops‚ they ultimately choose who they want to become. In the book The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ the protagonist Dorian develops into having a life goal to be beautiful forever and was willing to do anything for it. His characteristic was immoral and selfish. If one develops into this characteristic‚ others might see you as superficial‚ and a bad person. On the other side in the book Batman and Philosophy philosopher undertake an approach of explaining his complex actions and
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other property crimes. Reporting of these crimes alienated black women from society with criminally bias headlines‚ also the African American women’s body was manipulated and punished by the power of the state and the minds of the people. Just as Foucault‚ Gross believes that the state wanted to control the hierarchy of African American women because they infringed upon white male dominance‚ and race‚ gender‚ and sexuality played a crucial role for women. African American women became victims of a
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