Michel Foucault

The theorist in this book sets out to show that penalization alone is not the answer to our current crime problems. Loïc Wacquant states that law and order and the penal system have distorted reality and created a crime issue. This claim asserts that the state has convinced the people that there is a crisis in the country and its was and is caused by the welfare state. According to the state the assistance given to the needy is causing the country to experience more crime the ideas of…

He proposes that homosexuality is disturbing not because the sex act in itself does not abide by law and rule, but because “individuals are beginning to love one another” (Foucault 137). This simple yet profound proposition is wildly accurate because “our rather sanitized society can’t allow a place for [homosexuality] without fearing the formation of new alliances and the tying together of unforeseen lines of force” (136)…

culturally build, while sex, on the other hand, is a biological term, where they use to describe a person 's sex organ. Although sex and gender are different concepts, some use sex organs to define one 's gender, while others Panopticon, written by Michel Foucault in his text Discipline and Punish. The "panopticon" is a laboratory which behavior is being experimented and modified to have a perfect society. Panopticon can be viewed as the symbol of society where it has the authorities to…

One of the most contentious debates of modern times is whether religious beliefs should be included as a basis of evaluating and implementing public policy. While modernization and secularization are seen as signs of progress and development, adherence to religion or involving religious beliefs is seen as backward, primitive, outdated and irrelevant to the workings of the political system by many. This is based on the idea of linear development and that total secularism and abandonment of…

The subsequent essay aims to discern the fundamental components of feminist media studies. Additionally, it intends to demonstrate how two particular critical essays respect and adhere to this specific form of media-based criticism. In order to do so, first, the essay will introduce the general characteristics of feminist media studies. Second, the two articles will be compared to distinguish the similarities and diverging points between the two pieces of criticism. Third, the essay will be…

As I interpret the stories of my own family’s post-WWII emigration from Germany, to Canada and America between 1952 and 1953, it becomes evident that things have indeed changed historically in regard to immigration policy in the U.S. as well as in Europe. However, one disturbing factor that remains the same is the practice of exclusion and restriction.1 In the case of my grandfather Julius Mathews, a native German born in 1908, exclusion laws prohibited him from entering the U.S. in 1953 based…

From August 2010 to present day, I transitioned from a career in theatre to one in social justice. After obtaining my master’s degree in human rights, I gained important advocacy skills working as a non-profit professional. My post-college activities are detailed as follows. I. August 2010 – September 2011, professional theatre artist and actor Upon graduating from college in August 2010, I worked as a professional actor, director, and playwright in New York City. During this time, I focused on…

During the early career, Mendes Correia had been in good terms with the government of the Republic. When the new regime of Estado Novo and the Salazar Dictatorship gradually emerged from the 1920s to 1934, he adjusted himself to such political shift. The physical anthropology’s shift of interest towards the colonies accompanied such political development. His academic career was totally successful; publication of numerous articles and monographs, opening of the colonial exhibition in 1934, and…

The Prophet for Profit: Motivation of Mainstream Media in the Harry Potter Series The Harry Potter series tells an enchanting story about the magical world with the theme of love and death. Though Hogwarts, the school of magic, has been the dream place for millions of readers alike, not all the elements of the wizarding society are desirable. The power-loving Minister of Magic—Cornelius Fudge, leads the Ministry of Magic until the end of the fifth book, the Order of the Phoenix. Though the…

Having said all of this, before drawing any conclusions based on Céu’s multilayered evocations of the virtual and its oscillations between the “no longer” and the “not yet,” I would like to turn to the other two films and to the notion of the ordinary, which, along with the virtual, is central to contemporary documentaries. Excavating the Ordinary Although Céu’s characters are unique, and in a sense extraordinary, we can also think of Sérgio Borges’s film as an immersion into the ordinary world…