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    wrong. Your question at the end of‚ how do we combat this? How do we make sure we get the truth? really will pave the way for the rest of your essay and more development on your topic as well as other authors. Through your first paragraph you make a lot of good connections of your topic to Susan Sontag and her essay “In Plato’s Cave”. Like when you connected

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    Though Sontag speaks and disagrees with the form of interpretation of art that can be invoked as a stereotype for art critics/interpreters in the modern world today‚ Aristotle’s representational view of art battles that notion and challenges the view of‚ whether imitational art is a art form in itself‚ or just simply the product of the egos that critics possess in hopes of polishing their appearances as an connoisseur of finding the latent contents in artworks. In “Against Interpretation” Sontag

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    Photography shows us the world‚ but only the world the photographer creates. According to Sontag‚ photos show that we understand through a photo in the way we see the picture. Seeing photos can limit our understanding because we only see the picture not whats going on around it. In other words the viewer only sees what’s within the frame. Images allowed us to see situations that occurred; however‚ it is extremely limited in what the audience can see. I qualify Sontag’s claim that photography limits

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    record incriminates. Starting with their use by the Paris police in the murderous roundup of Communards in June 1871‚ photographs became a useful tool of modern states in the surveillance and control of their increasingly mobile populations. In an­ other version of its utility‚ the camera record jus­ tifies. A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists‚ or did exist‚ which is like what’s

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    26 November 2012 LÖG111F The term “torture” according to Article 1 of the UN Convention against Torture and scope of the Convention. Helene Inga Stankiewicz Björg Thorarensen 311088-3439 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………….…...…3 2. The Convention against Torture…………………………………………..….….…3 3.1. Structure of the Convention………………………………………….……..…4 3. Article 1: Definition of Torture……………………………………………..............4 4.2.

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    police. There was one case where once the suspect confessed to his crime‚ another gang member confessed to his own crime. Yes‚ there are flaws in this technique‚ such as false confessions that can taint evidence‚ but it is the much safer route than torture. Even the Royal Mounted Canadian Police agrees that this is a method they will continue to

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    Torture is Justifiable The limited use of torture should be permitted in the US in order to protect the wellbeing of the public. Torture can be both an effective means of gathering information‚ and it can be reasonably justified in some circumstances. Some of these circumstances can be any time where there is a huge amount of human wellbeing are in danger. With out a doubt‚ some people may be worried that allowing torture may make way for several human rights violations. However‚ this is not

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    Torture Firstly‚ what exactly is torture? It can be defined as the act of inflicting excruciating pain‚ as a punishment or revenge‚ to try and acquire some sort of confession about some particular issue or some information; also could be just pure cruelty or hate for that particular individual (3). A method of making such pain‚ often suffering for that particular individual is extreme anguish of the body or the mind and agony. However‚ torture can happen in a few different methods Psychological

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    Is Torture Reliable or Humane? Imagine being forced into confession with your head down‚ and blood rushing to your brain. Picture the struggle of being held down and defenseless‚ against your will. Imagine having a thick towel pressed firmly over your face and continuous water being poured on the towel as you helplessly gasp for air simulating the effect of drowning. Imagine being bound and thrown into the ocean with a ‘weight’ that pulls you in only one direction: down to the bottom of the ocean

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    can begin to think and ponder these problems. Torture is agreeably a touchy or disturbing subject for most and is shunned upon or seen as very unusual and taboo. But why is this? The most obvious answer is because torture is the act of causing great pain to someone who can be any sort of prisoner of war‚ a captive‚ arrested criminal‚ ect. But torture can be even further defined to the very core of the problem. Two men wrote on the matter of torture and its justifications‚ and the definition it bears

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