Michel Foucault

Modernism and postmodernism literature The 20th century can be separated into two distinct periods; one characterized by the modernism movement and the other by postmodernism. Some consider that postmodernism was a response to modernism and therefore consider them as two aspects of the same movement. The Modern Age in English Literature started from the beginning of the twentieth century, and it followed the Victorian Age. Modernism refers to cultural movements of the late nineteenth and…

In 1931, in Scottsboro Alabama, nine African-American boys with the ages from 12 to 20 were detained and wrongly accused of both rape and assault of two white women. A lynch mob of almost hundreds of white people assembled in the perimeters of the jail, causing the National Guard to interfere. Over the next decade, the Scottsboro Boys case as it became notorious of, was a nationwide icon of legal injustice in the segregated South, with no fair trial, consisted of an all-white jury that led to…

As the number of homeless people in the country keeps growing, we wonder what is being done or what has been done to improve this social issue. For most people, when they hear the word homeless they imagine a person that sleeps on a sidewalk, under a tent, or under a bridge. We often fail to realize that the definition of homelessness goes beyond what we imagine. According to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a homeless person or family is someone who lacks a fixed regular residence…

rather sacrifice admitting his homosexuality in order to lead a luxurious but heterosexual existence. Highsmith never explicitly portrays Ripley’s sexuality as unambiguous, partially due to oppressive views of the society in which the novel exists. Michel…

Introduction: Teachers in the South African teaching-learning context are responsible for the successful learning experiences of their learners. The South African context is confronted with unique social, health and economic circumstances that have greatly influenced the education sector. A high occurrence of gender intolerance and gender violence greatly impacts the responsibility of teachers in the South African context as well as the learning experience of South African learners. According to…

Literacy rate has been used as a measurement of development and a means to help subordinate women in the Third World by empowering them through education. The focus of development programming often considers women’s economic position by improving their access to education and vocational planning. Literacy programs in Nepal illustrate some critical points of women 's empowerment approach. Robinson-Pant’s ethnographic work in Nepal questions the concept of development and women’s…

A.C. Bradley notes that Shakespeare often uses prose to indicate an abnormal state of mind. Michel Foucault explains, “Language is the first and last structure of madness, its constituent form; on language are based all the cycles in which madness articulates its nature. That the essence of madness can be ultimately defined in the simple structure of…

survival. I argue that the concept of the “gaze” has become embedded within the relationship between medical staff, specifically nurses, and the patient, which allows power differentials to become manifest within this relationship. Coined by Michel Foucault (1963), the “clinical gaze” (commonly known as the “gaze”) is defined as an…

employment of the later-developed terms homosexual and gay,” but I believe Benemann sufficiently justified his use of those terms throughout the book. Benemann remarks that authors and historians regarding gay history must “grapple with the ghost of Michel Foucault,” who established the theory of homosexuality as a social construct (Benemann, 4). This posits that before the invention of the word itself, individuals did not consider themselves homosexual or heterosexual in nature, but rather…

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills have been at the centre of Post Modernist and Post-Structuralist discourse since the 1980s. This paper will address the arguments made by Rosalind Krauss, Judith Williamson, Laura Mulvey and Jui-Ch’i Liu surrounding these film stills. The work at hand consists of a series of black and white photographs where Sherman plays the role of the director and the agent to construct an image and mise en scène that has an uncanny resemblance to 1950s snapshots of…