A swarm of terror arose when news of torture at Abu Ghraib, a U.S military prison, was revealed. The chilling images reveal soldiers “taunting naked Iraqi prisoners who are forced to assume humiliating poses” (Hersh). People did not know how to react and were taking sides; whether the matter was an unethical issue or if it was just a harmless way for soldiers to blow off some steam. Torture of prisoners is a debatable problem that needs solving. The act is justified by being called “enhanced interrogation”
Dielle Ghislaine Ochotorena American Studies 1/2 Destructiveness of Obedience Alot of people like to believe that the world is generally all good or all evil; however, in reality they are the yin and yang of the human condition, and they are the labels we put on things that either appeal to us or don’t. The biblical story of Lucifer, who before he was banished from Heaven, was God’s favorite angel. Lucifer in the story, defied God which was the ultimate disobedience to authority in everyone’s
The Visceral Politics of V For Vendetta: On Political Affect in cinema. By Brian L. Ott* pages 39-54 Abstract This essay concerns the role of political affect in cinema. As a case study, I analyze the 2006 film V for Vendetta as cinematic rhetoric. Adopting a multi-modal approach that focuses on the interplay of discourse, figure, and ground, I contend that the film mobilizes viewers at a visceral level to reject a politics of apathy in favor of a politics of democratic struggle. Based on the