Documenting Torture: The Social Fate of Suffering Proposal for Dissertation Research Bishnu Pokhrel Introduction Torture is neither civilian nor military‚ nor is it specifically French; it is a plague infecting our whole era. – Jean-Paul Sartre Despite global monitoring efforts that reveal the systematic use of torture in democratic and authoritarian states (Peters 1986:160) and despite current controversies surrounding its use during America’s Global War on Terror‚ torture remains an understudied
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Torture is Torture. Period Torture is causing pain and suffering to gain information and confessions. It’s a traditional‚ historical‚ well-understood term. Waterboarding is a form of torture in which a bound‚ gagged prisoner is forced to breathe in water. There are several techniques but all produce the same effects‚ a physical sensation of drowning and a psychological sensation of panic‚ fear and loss of control. Calling it anything other than torture is absurd. You wouldn’t call a bank robbery
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In the article entitled “The Case for Torture” published by Newsweek in 1982‚ Michael Levin argues that the use of torture as a means to save lives is justifiable and necessary. Beginning with very general premises‚ Levin draws a series of hyperbolic cases where torture might be justifiable so as to set precedents for the justification of torture in more “realistic cases.” However‚ the author never fully defines the boundaries and conditions behind his premises and suggests that disregarding civil
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The United States Use of Torture November 19‚ 2013 In the decade following the terrorist attack on September 11‚ 2001‚ the United States has seen a constant struggle with militant terrorist organizations. Groups including the Taliban and primarily Al-Qaeda have been part of an ongoing violent conflict in the Middle East. Throughout these struggles with terrorists‚ the United States have employed various methods of interrogation and intelligence gathering which have included
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States Naval Academy. While in the service I discovered an ongoing nonconsensual human experiment testing a human-machine interface weapon. The program is testing a class of weapons called “Perception Warfare‚” “Spiritual Warfare‚” or “No-Touch Torture” weapons. I use the term “testing” loosely. This program functions more like an electronic gulag. I’ve researched this issue for over ten years now and have verified the information to be true. I have been doing public outreach on this issue for
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Regarding Henry The film Regarding Henry (1991) directed by Mike Nichols attempts to shed light on the phenomenon of amnesia or a loss of memory. Hollywood’s portrayal of memory tends to focus on the idea that‚ through rehabilitation‚ memory can recover. Memory is not something that can be pulled out of remission. Hollywood also emphasizes that memory is split up into different regions‚ a point furthered by the fact that Henry knows basic skills but fails to remember his family. Henry
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Personal Torture Instruction...I mean Physical Therapist “I want to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say because of you I didn’t give up” (Author unknown). For many physical therapist dream come true is to help patients get better and thank them. American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) began in 1921‚ it was first called American Women’s Physical Therapeutic Association and they had only women physical therapists. In 1922‚ the association changed so men could become physical therapist
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also help the elderly senior become aware of elder abuse. Some individuals do not even know that they are at risk of being abused or even abused because they do not know the different type of abuse. Elderly abuse is not just physical‚ but there are other factors that conclude the abuse. The mission of the program National Committee for the prevention of Elder Abuse and the Area Agency on Aging is designed to help the victims‚ to educate‚ to help the prevention of the abuse from occurring again‚ and
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I. Executive summary A lady named Susan Wong is budgeting for the coming year (Year X). During year X‚ she has to cover monthly expenses as well as irregular monthly financial obligations‚ and she plans to do so by investing the money not used to cover monthly expenses in either a 1-month‚ 3-month or 7-month investment scheme whose yields are 6%‚ 8% and 12% per year nominal respectively. When the investments mature‚ Susan will use the principals as part of her budget and invest all the interests
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2012 Torture: Justified or Unjustified? Is torture justified? Does it make us feel safer? Most Americans would say that it is immoral to torture any human being for any reason. There are a few people left who would disagree with that and say that some deserve to be tortured in order to obtain information that could potentially save the lives of hundreds or thousands. According to Michael Levin torture may seem unconstitutional or barbaric to some but to others it seems the only solution
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