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    priest is even contacted. Next, the priest must distinguish if it is a spirit of the dead or a demon. Often times individuals will seek out a self-practicing demonologist or demon expert to help their case, but this is extremely dangerous, and has many repercussions for example: in Canada there have been a few deaths due to non-Church sanctioned exorcisms which have led to murder cases. However, there have also been scattered cases of deaths or exorcist victims having to go to the ICU due to priests falsely performing exorcisms. For example, in 1975, Anneliese Michel was a college student in Germany. It was believed, that she was possessed by multiple different diabolical spirits. After Anneliese began showing multiple symptoms of possession, her parents decided it was time to call in the church. Two Catholic priests proceed to perform an exorcism on her. The priests believed that they had expelled all of the demons from Anneliese, and that she was going to make a full recovery; however, she died just a year after the exorcism was performed. Anneliese’s parents and the two priests who exorcised here were brought to trial, and eventually found guilty. Psychosis can be described as a break with reality, and an individual who appears to be possessed could be suffering from delusions of grandeur. Schizophrenia for example is when an individual has delusions, hallucinations, inappropriate behavior, etc. Dissociative identity disorder is when an individual has two or more distinct…

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    church then it can be done over the phone (God Bless America, Stollznow 124). This might seem a little odd for some people but for the followers of this religion it makes sense to not scare the victim because they don't know they are being exorcised. In the rituals they use candles, sage, incense and other herbs. The Catholic Church believes that the New Age actually brings upon possessions because their practice is different. A British priest Father Jeremy Davies told the Independent newspaper…

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    Prenatal Genetic Testing: A Technology of Normalization Prenatal genetic testing is a technology made available to more accurately determine whether or not a child could have a birth ‘defect’. The most common birth defects tested for are Down syndrome, Trisomy 18, or an open neural tube defect (Government of Canada, 2013). This paper asserts first that prenatal genetic testing is a technology of normalization, which labels disability as abnormal and a feared outcome, and second that…

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    The erasure of one’s memory and the immense loss that comes with it is undoubtedly a frightening thought. Imagine losing your identity or part of your humanity. Imagine feeling an emptiness that leads you to insanity. Imagine realizing that these conditions might be side effects of such a procedure. Part of being human is managing pain and suffering in all its forms and dealing with the trials and tribulations of life even while many of us would rather forget and desire to start a new chapter, a…

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    Orwell: There is a difference between “sanity” and “truth”, and Winston would have not been able to survive in the 1984 society because he was so different from everyone else. We, as a society, give the meaning of words. If everyone believes in something that is what makes them sane. If a large number of people believe in something that must make it true, truth is what we make it. If you don’t believe what everyone else believes that is what makes you insane. Truth and reality is whatever…

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    It is not surprising at all that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks and hospitals because they all practice discipline and punishment within those walls. People feel watched with in the walls of those organizations and often feel trapped. Panopticon was created to discipline people which is accomplished by knowing that we are being watched. Good thing about is that with panopticon there is less crime, but there are many bad sides to it. With panopticon lack of full freedom and…

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    A Bad Encounter At this point in my life I had just turned 19 and was working at Tractor Supply. It was Friday and my night off when I received a phone call from work. It was Emily, the cashier that was working that night. She said that something had been delivered with my name on it and I needed to pick it up. She wouldn’t tell me what it was. So I good-bye to all of my friends and went into work When I walked through the door, on the counter was a bouquet roses. They were bright yellow and hot…

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    Depending on whom you ask, it can be hard to find a television show that both entertain its audience while simultaneously critiques societies use of technology. The word technology is derived from the Greek tekhnologia, which meant a systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique and was originally used to refer to grammar. French theorist, Michel Foucault, defined the Greek word techne as a rationality that is consciously governed. To Foucault, technology had a much broader meaning than…

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    In Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault breaks down the premises of a panoptic system, outlining the mechanics through which it controls a population and linking it to other structures seen throughout a society, such as in prisons and schools. An example of such evident in the implementation of new grading rubrics for English teachers across America in 1923. The essays of 12th graders nationwide, who wrote under the same conditions, formed the base of a design for a national rubric, consisting…

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    Foucault’s technologies of self, Grace Ministries, and the Lazarus Project Since they seek to change people’s lives and focus less on the social conditions contributing to addictions, could the Lazarus Project be called an “oppressive” organization? The concepts “technology of self” and “governmentality” (introduced by Michael Foucault) have come in vogue in the social science literature, and have been applied to the role of various non-profits. According to Ghatak and Abel (2013, p. 220), in…

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