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    Foucault’s Pendulum In 1851‚ a French physicist named Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault suspended an iron ball with a radius of approximately 0.5 feet from the ceiling of the Pantheon in Paris with a wire that was over 200 feet long. The ball was used as a pendulum‚ and it could swing more than 12 feet back and forth. Beneath the ball he placed a circular ring with sand on top of it. Attached to the bottom of the ball was a pin‚ which scraped away the sand in its path each time the ball went by. To get

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    Symbolism’s of Hell in “The Pit and the Pendulum” In the short story‚ Poe uses the pit to symbolize hell. In the beginning‚ the soldier describes going into the pit as “a mad rushing descent as of the soul into Hades” (Poe 268). The descent reminds the reader of hell in that it is beneath the surface of the ground. Also‚ when the soldier describes the mad rushing‚ it can represent hell because nothing in hell is supposed to be orderly or calm. In the Bible‚ hell is described as a chaotic

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    Dimensional Analysis: Investigation on bifilar suspension Ho Yuk Him (Date of experimentation :20th and 29th October‚ 2010) This paper presents a study on the application of dimensional analysis on the formulation of an equation concerning the periodic time of a rod rotating at an angle about the vertical axis suspended by two strings at each end. We find that period is inversely related to distance between the strings parallel to each other and directly proportional to the both the square root of

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    a model for other institutions in a disciplinary society in which the transition into the age of modernity has caused institutions to be compelled to control the time of the individual. Foucault does this through four sections in which he explains the transformation in the usage of power as well as space. Foucault is trying to answer the question of how did the modern prison system alter the power relationship between individuals and the overall and discipline

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    FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at

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    Prison” seeks to identify the origins of Discipline systems and the effects of these processes on society. Foucault focuses on the role of power in establishing societal norms‚ and the consequences that arise when individuals deviate from those norms. Foucault critiques the enlightenment’s effect on society through an examination of the processes for correcting these deviations. Foucault focuses on prison systems primarily‚ but also extends his analysis to question the processes of hospitals.

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    was being shown to them‚ they saw movies as a permeation of reality – this led to the audience being drawn away from contemplation and promoted heightened sense of mind. In a way‚ this was a form of liberation for them. On the other hand‚ Michel Foucault believed that man had no real freedom. The thoughts they feel are their own‚ or the decisions they feel they make alone‚ are in fact imitations of the norms of society. From birth‚ people have been constantly under the watchful eyes of parents‚ teachers

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    imprisoning someone who committed a crime. I will examine ways that contemporary society is a disciplined society as Foucault described; and given my example‚ it will demonstrate our need for it and how disciplinary society can help contemporary

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    forces the inmate to observe his own actions as though he were being watched. This self-surveillance where the inmate “becomes a principle of their own subjection” (Foucault‚ 1977:203) means that the inmate plays the role of observer and observed (Foucault‚ 1977) by forcing the actions of an observed individual upon himself. By this Foucault believes he is more likely to comply with the rules of a prison alone as the inmate believes they are

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    “The Pit and the Pendulum” Commentary Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum”‚ is a short story of the struggled of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death‚ and placed in a dungeon. The narrator‚ who is the prisoner‚ realizes that the dungeon he is placed in is known as the Inquisition. He encounters death multiple times throughout his time in the dungeon. He nearly falls into a large pit‚ almost gets scythed by a pendulum‚ and gets pushed to the brink of the pit by burning walls‚ but merely

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