Panopticon

Apart from African American celebrities and public figures who experience mental health distress or commit suicide in the public eye, mental health remains invisible from public discourse in the African American Community. According to the Minority Health Office of the Department of Health and Human Services, African Americans are 20% more likely to experience psychological distress than non-white Hispanics. While statistics prove that African Americans are experiencing distress at higher…

“electronic panopticon”, which is viewed as managerial control of the labour process, in which the power of management is made “perfect”, and focuses on quantitative and qualitative control, where the technological mediation of work procedures like call distribution, scripting, and monitoring bring about penurious and highly routinized work (Taylor and Bain, 1999). There is also the other perspective presented by Fernie and Metcalf (1997) that portrays call centre based on the Bentham’s…

It is hard for me to believe that my first semester in college is quickly coming to an end. It feels like just yesterday I stepped into my English 103 class, chose a seat among the strangers that would become my classmates, and listened to Ms.Warfield present the syllabus. At the time, I did not know what to expect from this class or what new knowledge I would gain from it. Now I know that from the theories we read, blogs prompts we answered, and essays we wrote, I have a better understanding of…

activities or lives. According to C. Wright Mills, “to think ourselves away from the familiar routines of our daily live in order to look at them anew” means that we need to step back and look at things from a different perspective. From the Panopticon to Disney world is one place that we need to look…

In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell talk about how B.B watches everyone threw the telescreen, he explains how they can hear and see everything they do and that's similar in our society today with how our phones work today. They have recently discovered how when you mention something around your phone like “ Wow I could really go for some subway right now” the next add is more than likely to be a subway add. This is possible with the built in speaker/mic in today's phones. Today's…

criminal justice system? How can this be remedied? (Make sure to use theoretical perspectives and course resources from week 10 in your answer). A key postmodernist theorist was Michael Foucault, proposes in ‘Discipline and Punish’, that Bentham’s Panopticon represents the structure of society itself, in that citizens exercise constant control depending on circumstances and ideas. (White, Haines and Asquith, 2012). Foucault argues that power and control is filtered throughout society; one group…

collected from the arena. This was edited so as to further reaffirm that Katniss did not rebel but acted only out of love for Peeta. Broadcasting rebellious acts on live television can be harmful for the government and weaken the oppressing system at the same time, thus editing out certain events of the Hunger Games becomes necessary. Early on in the 74th Hunger Games Katniss forms an alliance with Rue, the tribute from District 11, however, Rue is later murdered. To demonstrate that the Games…

Works Cited Primary Fry, Elizabeth Gurney. “Regarding the New Model Prison at Petonville.” Received by Captain Jebb, Historys Heroes?, 22 July 1841, historysheroes.e2bn.org/hero/othersources/108/12. Accessed 20 November 2016. In the Letter, Fry writes of the awful conditions that would be imposed on the New Model Prison at Petonville, requesting there be a way for light to enter the cell, and a way to enable the prisoners to interact occasionally. This letter reveals Mrs. Fry's character when…

Purple Hibiscus a novel where Patriarchy runs deep within the Achike family with the Father Eugene as the panopticon patriarch. Eugene has a lot of power over the village of Enugu, as he is a well-respected Big Man. Eugene uses his control to abuse his family and he comforts himself with the thought that it will guide his family to heaven. Eugene uses neo-colonialism within his family, we see it mainly through Kambili as she is the protagonist of the novel. She is so devoted to her father with…

In the article, Fitbits for Bosses, Lynn Stuart Parramore wrote about the concept of employees wearing arm bands that will record your psychological and physical data, such as blood pressure or heart rate, while working to collect and examine. The authors argument is strongly yielded to the invasion of privacy this source of technology can cause among the mass. This article is well based but the method that the author used to present this argument is demanding and untrustworthy; nevertheless the…