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    Michel Foucault once said “ Where there is power ‚ there is resistance.” Foucault’s def-inition of power transcends what we often resonate it with in regards to status or politi-cal standing with in a community. He refers to it as something that is not socially con-structed but rather something more elusive. The way that Foucault defines power em-bodies exactly what unfolded within the African Diaspora so that there could be a tri-umphant resistance. The resistance to slavery was global and persistent

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    CONCLUSION As we see by analyzing Michel Foucault’s chapter‚ Panopticism‚ and Dominique Moran’s book‚ Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‚ prison architecture has evolved from confining those who were considered abnormal because they violated the law to mentally impacting prisoners by making them paranoid‚ scared‚ and frustrated. Initially‚ prisons were visible to the public because they were built in the center of the city to allow society to see what they

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    “Our rational powers acquaint us with the truth.” Discuss whether‚ for Plato‚ art can also acquaint us with the ideas and the truth. “There is a long standing tradition‚ dating back to Plato‚ of regarding art with suspicion for its power over our emotions‚ and much of Western aesthetic theorizing has been a response to Plato’s challenge.” (Tanner 68) Plato’s arguments and refusal to accept art as a valuable method of acquainting us with the truth has provided a lasting legacy for the criticism

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    focusing on the role of discipline as an instrument of power. What makes the panopticon successful is the idea of an ever-constant surveillance‚ which the prisoners of the panopticon are always aware of. Panopticism describes this continuous alertness as a way for the governing agents to subconsciously establish control‚ since the prisoners will presumably always be on their “best behavior.” Foucault depicts the panopticon as a way of exercising power over a mass; this idea can also be taken from the

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    Theorists Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault present their views on the power/knowledge affiliation in works such as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. While reading the pair‚ it becomes almost impossible not to relate or apply their visions onto the contemporary society. One may even argue that they resonate with current systems of government. Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ albeit a collection of articles for the New Yorker‚ was published

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    The truth about the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant January 2011 Factsheet of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project 1 1 Power generation 2 Reactors 3 Land requirement 2. Completion: 1650 MW x 6 = 9900 MW 1. 6 European Pressurized Reactors (EPRs) of 1650 MW each (India’s installed capacity: 4780 MW). In first phase‚ 2 reactors will be operated Expected date of commissioning of first 2 reactors 3 1. First stage: 1650 MW x 2 = 3‚300 MW 2. Total 4 EPRs in

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    agenda’s‚ truth is sometimes ignored or becomes irrelevant. The question is if truth has become so twisted that it doesn’t really exist in its original meaning anymore? If truth has been lost there must be a substitute‚ this is where post-truth originated. Post-truth is when decisions are based upon emotions rather than facts‚ this is dangerous because each person feels a different way and therefore can justify melding a subject to fit their own liking. Post-truth has caused all truths to be called

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    FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at

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    Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)‚ Karl Popper suggests that no scientific theory can be classified as truth.  The only thing that can be done is to attempt to falsify the theory over and over again reject the theory repeatedly in different situations.  Each failed attempt will strengthen the theory and bring it closer to the truth.  Hence‚ Popper claimed that the truth of a hypothesis can never be confirmed. A hypothesis is an “if-then” statement‚ which that is an assumption of causality

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    DANC 100-6 Research Assignment Michel Fokine When ballet director Sergei Diaghilev ordered a young artist to “astonish” him‚ he was setting the tone of his own temperament as well as that of the twentieth century modern art in general. Diaghilev greatly valued imaginative‚ creative choreography and strongly encouraged it within his Ballets Russes to five of the biggest ballet choreographers of the century‚ including Michel Fokine. All of Diaghilev’s early triumphs were choreographed pieces

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