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Social Control
715 Words - 3 Pages.... Foucault in "Discipline and Punish", applies this notion of
power in tracing the rise of the prison system in France and the
rise of other coercive institutions such as monasteries, the army,
mental asylums, and other technologies. In his work Foucault exposes
how seemingly benign or even reformist institutions such as the modern
prison system (versus the stocks, and scaffolds) are technologies that
are typical of the modern, painless, friendly, and impersonal coercive
tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these technologies
stems from their ability to appear unobtrusive and humane. These
prisons Foucault goes on to explain like man ....
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The Sun Also Rises
536 Words - 2 Pages.... their lives depended on him.
In the United States the Smales were probably a little more well off than an average family. The father worked as an architect and made good money, that is evident because they can afford a servant. They decide to leave their home and to move to a new and unfamiliar place. July leads them to his tribe in Africa. The change occurs right there, to the Smales United States is home but to July it is a foreign place, whereas Africa is where July feels at home and the Smales feel like they are on another planet. Being strangers to this new place Smales depend on July for survival. Their inability to
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communicate with the natives and the ....
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Nuclear Power Plant
759 Words - 3 Pages.... solution by the following facts:
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If we built other forms of plants we would need:
3 Coal power plants or
12 Hydro power plants or
7 Gas turbine power plants or
173 Solar power plants or
4792 Wind power plants.
but we only need one nuclear power plant to provide enough electricity for 1 575 000 people.
Inviromental facts that concerned us:
A nuclear power plant may sound nasty and dangerous, from the naturistic point of view, but that is not a fact. A very good example of this is, the amount of fuel that a 900 MW nuclear power plant needs, wich is about one van of uranium per year, but a coal power plant with same capacity needs about 140 tons of ....
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Pride And Prejudice
1590 Words - 6 Pages.... importance of marrying well. During this time a wealthy man, Charles Bingley, moves close to Netherfield, where the Bennets’ reside. The Bennet girls struggle to capture his attention, and Jane, who judges no one, is the daughter who manages to win his heart, until Mr. Bingley abruptly leaves town. Mr. Bingley is often accompanied by Fitzwilliam Darcy, who is a very proud man. Elizabeth Bennet, who is proud of herself, and Mr. Darcy are not fond of one another from the start, these two characters pose the central conflict in the novel. As the novel progresses, Elizabeth receives a marriage proposal from her cousin, Mr. Collins, and turns him down. Mr. Collins then pr ....
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
952 Words - 4 Pages.... reflect on his life.
The woods that Frost illustrates are a representation of heaven. Although the man is turning to God for guidance, he is neither in nor near a church. Even still, he believes his location is irrelevant to God, who ultimately listens no matter what.
In the second stanza, the horse is only a figment of his imagination. This "horse" is, in actuality, the speaker's own consciousness, a moment that we create something to relive the stress of our deepest emotions. It acts as an internal censor to keep us close to sanity, the value of life, and maybe even God trying to save his life. When he comes "Between the woods and frozen lake," he finds that ....
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The Sacrifice
560 Words - 3 Pages.... up their religious beliefs and convert to another faith. This had a strong effect on how the family was to function, because they already had rules, regulations, and guidelines to follow that dealt with the religion they were with. When they were forced to change, everything was forced to change with it, like what they ate, what they did, how they acted, etc. This played a big role in the killing of the family, because what it eventually did was break up the family so that it was sort of dysfunctional. The family suffered severely from the change in religion.
Racism, another important factor in the novel, which lead to the actual aspect of death. This was portrayed at ....
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Araby A Modernist Perspective
1155 Words - 5 Pages.... as the inevitable end for everyone. In 'Araby', he uses a young child still caught in the state of childhood innocence to show a modernist's version of the "coming of age." This "coming of age" is the point in everyone's life, child or adult, when we realize that we face substantial pain and emptiness ahead.
The narrator begins the story by describing the times after supper when he and his friends would play on the streets. These nights were very gratifying for the whole group, and when the narrator's uncle used to drive up the street, they would all hide until he was safely housed. Or at times, Mangan's sister would come out to call him in for tea, and they would all hid ....
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Essay On Flowers And Shadows
297 Words - 2 Pages.... makes an appearance at the okwe's residence; leading the fall of
Jonan's wealth and power. So who's vengeful plot brought him out of the shadows,
where his controlled madness might have fooled the likes of Jonan for a while,
but the latter's paranoia finally caught on and killed Sowho and itself;
putting a rest the destruction and curse laid upon the poor factory workers and
opening a broad new scale of possibilities that might (in long terms) help tip
the edge of demeaning business ethics in the Nigerian society.
Anyone who read Macbeth would agree that it's quite parallel to Flowers
& Shadows. Even thought the books where written by two different author ....
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