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political ideologies. This paper aims to do a critical discourse analysis of a few of the speeches by US Leaders George Bush and Barrack Obama in the aftermath of the attacks on the world trade centre in 2001. It draws on Schiffrin et al (2003), Foucault 's and Van Dijk 's concepts of critical discourse analysis and aims to reveal how Bush and Obama carefully selected emotionally charged language, expressions and gestures to create fear and panic in the world and how they projected terrorism negatively

world that we read about in Chauncey’s Gay New York. Foucault proposed that

MADNESS AND CONFINEMENT IN RELATION TO THE WORK OF MICHEL FOUCAULT Madness as theme in literature has been exploited and most times to connect work that deals with subjects of madness it never seems to be what it is in the real life. Madness is a synonym of wisdom and true cognition of the world as well as one’s own self. Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre used madness as theme. In Jane Eyre madness is observed when Jane was stuck in the Red Room, as she started thinking about possible ways to escape

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman conjure up theories that sheds light on the fact that racial and sexual classifications are social constructs set in place to ensure that the elite gets the power they desire. The elite, a select group that holds superiority over others use social constructs as way to control the masses and gain more power. They do so by relying on people’s sense of knowledge and truth. According to Foucault, a French philosopher and a social theorist

The Importance of the Biology/Society Dualism to the Gendered Body The body has played an important part in sociology to explain the differences between the two sexes, and why these differences exist. A lot of social debate is about the relationship between the biological and the social. At one end of the debate there are those who see activities such as sexual behaviour entirely based on biology, they are called biological determinists who argue that there is biological

Last night I got dumped. My boyfriend and I went to Panera just down the grey, slush-covered street and I asked if he was going to see me before I left for the winter. But then, he paused and said, “we need(ed) to talk.” The scene I always feared progressed in slow motion in front of me whilst my heart fell soft and incongruously shattered on the floor. Nevertheless it was only when tears came to my (previously long since dry) eyes and I begged him to fight for me, that our relationship leaped off

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businesses. Many restaurants such as Starbucks, Pancheros, and Blue Leprechaun place seats looking out onto the streets. This creates pure visibility and as described by Foucault, vision is power. Foucault argues that when people believe they are being watched their behavior shifts and becomes regulated. This idea, as described by Foucault, creates a power relationship on the street. To walk down the street subjects one to an assessment from others. When a female walks down the street it is clear that

Primarily, Foucault is one of the earliest theorists to focus on the monster theory and its presence in literature. When writing about what classifies as a monster, Foucault says, "Since what defines the monster is the fact that its existence and form is not only a violation of the laws of society but also a violation of the laws of nature" (Foucault 55). The laws of society refer to the laws that are mandatory and enforced by a

To tell the truth is to confess. Confessing and having to confess has grown in Western society. The need that society has input that we need to confess all of the bad we have done in order to feel better but modern society now shows the ideal of confessing in just more than the church’s confessional box. We no longer confess to the priest and seek forgiveness but we now voluntarily offer the information of our most inner lives to anyone who would listen. In The Watermelon Woman written and directed