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    Societal norms‚ societal structure‚ and our environment always affect the behaviors of individuals. Norms and structures are constructed to organize a group of people and set out expectations as to how one should behave. However‚ if one acts against the expected behavior a punishment is guaranteed. Different parts of society have set out different disciplines. The discipline you receive at home may vary from the discipline at school‚ and the discipline that the government may impose on you will be

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    DISCIPLINE DISCIPLINE AD PUNISH- MICHEAL FOUCAULT The chapter on discipline begins with the seventeenth century image of the soldier. A soldier bore certain natural signs of strength and courage and marks of his pride and honor. These were characteristics which were already inherent in a soldier. By the late eighteenth century‚ a soldier became someone or rather something that can be made‚ like a required machine which can be constructed. The Classical Age discovered the body as a target and

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    Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book.  Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity.  Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published

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    Gravity Lab Objective: The objective of this lab assignment is todetermine if objects with different mass fall at the same rate or vatying rate in the presence of ar and in a vacuum. Problem: Whateffect does Earth’s gravitational force have on objects of different masses? Hypothesis: If the sand paper falls at the same rate as the paper towel than it will end in the ground first. Objective: The objective of this lab assignment is to determine if objects with different masses fall at the same

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    CHAPTER I : STATE OF INTERNATIONAL ORDER Introduction If the last century was the famously proclaimed‚ “American Century” – this one is the Asian Century with India and China as its main players. After World war II the international order was shaped with USA and the Soviet Union as competing super-powers and the lesser powers of UK‚ France and China as adjuncts. The ideological conflict of democracy versus communism shaped the contours of the new order‚ the open rivalry between the two super powers

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    Paper If we ever want our economy to recover and our citizens to prosper‚ we need to overhaul our correctional system immediately. The correctional system has three main goals: punish‚ protect the population and rehabilitate the offender. However‚ it is unclear how well the modern U.S. correctional system achieves these goals and whether the money invested in the correctional system might be better spent. Perhaps the most obvious goals of the correctional system are to punish those who are found

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    How does technology extend and modify the capabilities of the senses? The technology in present day has an enormous impact on human life. One of human’s most important senses is arguably sight‚ which technology has a large effect on. It is interesting looking into in what way todays technology modify this sense and if technology can extend it. We have many tools that can extend our sight in both ways‚ seeing very small particles and seeing things extremely far away. The tools in mind are the

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    Article 1 - About Us For years‚ mankind has made several advancements in science‚ technology and medicine with uncountable achievements in each and every sector. These advancements have influenced our everyday life in a way that we never imagined. We‚ the people of the earth‚ have experienced over decades of breakthroughs to such an extent that we are now a click away from accessing unlimited information when compared to gathering and sharing of information in person like earlier times. Development

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    The Effects of Hip-Hop in Our Culture There are many differing opinions on whether or not Hip-Hop has a detrimental effect on our culture and youth today. The question I ask is whether it is life portraying art‚ or art portraying life? Anytime there is an increase in crime‚ and a decrease in the number of high school graduates there must be something left to blame. Although it may seem easy to say that the media has an effect on the way we see things around us‚ to what extent is that true

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    How Does Diversity Affects our Corporate Culture (A Report for Worldwide Telecommunications‚ Inc.) COMM/215 June 25‚ 2012 Worldwide Telecommunications‚ Inc. can expect to see a continued increase in workplace diversity over the next few years‚ and should be prepared and equipped for what that means for the company. By workplace diversity we are referring to our organization’s culture‚ how it looks and how it works. What is culture? According to the

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