Positions of authority

Anyone who knows me, knows that I do tend to use persuasion a lot. Over my winter break I used lots of persuasion. Those including Logos, Ethos, and Pathos. I used those three persuasion techniques while trying to go to a party, going shopping, and when trying to go to a friend’s house. While on break I used the persuasion technique Logos. It means that logic is used to support a claim. Over the break I was invited to a Christmas party that a few of my friends were going to. When I told my…

Authority In literature authority means power to influence to change reader's perception to recognize things differently and to create mythical debate around some special events, to embody unforgettable period of time in the heart of history, and to form a future canonical text for many coming generations and cultures. Greeks of the ancient and classical period look upon Homer as their greatest author, as well as his poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are epic, oral, poetic traditional…

The need for power and control, something that someone would die for. Throughout life people have a certain amount of power and control, some more than others. Some people would go great lengths to keep, or get more of, the power and control they posses. There are many different forms of power and control, it may be a dynamic, the law, or anything in between. The author of Montana 1948, explores the need and want of power through wildly different characters who each have their own personality…

Authoritarian power enforces people to obey laws and help bring order to society, preventing the deconstruction of an organized civilization. The authority is usually held by a powerful individual or a group of individuals that generally use their power to better the societal structure. In addition, citizens living under authoritarianism usually respect and follow the laws that were previously put in place. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Piggy attempts to enforce social laws and order…

In Obedience to Authority, Stanley Milgram suggests that freedom is an intrinsic attribute for humans rather than an undertaking. Milgram believed that people are overly obedient because they have a potential from birth for obedience, and this potential meets society’s hierarchical and authority driven world that demands obedience. Milgram wrote that people obey because they have an instinct to do so, and that instinct is expanded by society and leads an individual to obey (Milgram 1974, 125).…

For many years, people all over the world have been told to obey authority. From the very beginning of our lives to the very end, we are told to listen and do as we are told, and not to question those who are above us in any way. Those authorities would come in different forms, parents and teachers being some of the very first significant authorities as well as followed by police. But when are we supposed to question those authorities? We are told we are safe as long as we obey, but how do we…

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Leaders tend to destroy or mend a nation together. With two conflicting leaders facing each other throughout the novel, it brings tough times for the boys. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies follows Ralph and Jack, the two leaders, plus a numerous amount of boys as they face challenges on the island that they are trying to survive on. In Lord of the Flies, Jack displays his strength in leadership using power, charisma, and dominance to triumph over Ralph. Jack’s display of power towards the…

Poetry and thought are often interpreted as too lofty for the realm of politics, a realm dominated power (Berlin: 2004). Yet memory, as elaborated by poets should always be an exercise in education. The value of narrative, writing, and poetry is high. For ‘the very fact that so great of an enterprise as the Trojan War could have been forgotten without a poet to immortalize it several hundred years later offered only too good an example of what could happen to human greatness if it had nothing…

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…