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    Running head: Opposing Viewpoints 1 Opposing Viewpoints of Foucault and Rayner Analyzed through Ethos, Logos, and Pathos Jarod Kane October 10th, 2016 Radford University Opposing Viewpoints 2 Whether we like it or not the society that currently exists is Panoptic, with cameras on every street corner or even just the constant surveillance of the internet we are always being watched and have lost our privacy in lieu of our own safety. Panopticism, the idea that someone is always being watched and thus

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    a divorce and finalized in 1984, he moved to Montreal with his father and brothers, Alexandre and Michel. For education, he followed his father’s footsteps by attending the elite College Jean-de-Brebeuf and McGill University for higher education. On 1994, he earned his literature bachelor’s degree and completed an education degree at University of British Columbia in 1998. In the same year, Michel, his youngest brother died in an avalanche accident. Due to this, Trudeau started to promote avalanche

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    Page Robinson Week 6 Reflection: Origins of the Modern State Summaries Michel Foucault – Governmentality Foucault’s work on governmentality begins with the idea of the sovereign ruler. A sovereign ruler’s principality is acquired through inheritance or conquest. Therefore, the prince’s relation to what he owns is external. He seeks only to reinforce, strengthen, and protect his principality. Transitioning away from the prince we have disciplinary power, which can be broken into; the art of self-government

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    Throughout history there have been many well-known philosophers. Through this paper I will be discussing the perspectives of philosophers Guy Debord, Michel Foucault, and John Rawls. In Guy Debord’s, “The Society of the Spectacle” he makes critics of technological capitalism. In Michel Foucault’s, “Power/Knowledge” he goes over different types of power and how they are interpreted. Debord was a situationist international, which meant creating situations or creating situations. Referring to the several

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    1. According to Foucault, what’s the intended impact of the panopticon on individuals? The intended impact of the panopticon is to create a sense of vigilance on individuals that would make them think twice before committing a crime like they would be under a state of mind that they are always being watched. 2. How does the image of the panopticon help describe how power works? The image of the panopticon helps describe how power works because there is a person in the middle watching everything while

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    2.4.3 Financial Doping With high levels of financial losses encroaching the world of football, the need to spend in order to compete developed a phenomenon known as financial doping. This is a situation in which an owner of a sports franchise invests their own personal wealth into securing success, rather than relying on revenue generated via the franchise related activities. This reflects on what Sloane (1971) says that football club owners are utility maximisers rather than profit maximisation

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    Madness is an idea that has been widely explored and theorized throughout the ages, particularly within Shakespearean literature and other works along those lines. It is nearly impossible to establish a working definition of madness itself, because there are so many different forms of madness shown throughout time, as well as different contexts. It breaks down to subjectivity, along with time and place, and situational circumstances. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart,” a perhaps unusual form

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    According to Michel Foucault, power is knowledge and knowledge is power. He also believed that as individuals, everyone will react to situations in different ways. Foucault said that power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives."1 Foucault believed that knowledge is always a form of power, but he took it a step further and told us that knowledge can be gained from

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    reckless hunting tactics, and violence. This resulted in unnecessary death. However, the opposite parallel to this society is one with constant supervision where misbehaving does not occur. This society is controlled by the Panopticon theory created by Michel Foucault, which is a unique prison that gave the inmates the

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    Sexuality became a sort of power. For this reason, Foucault suggests that we find it difficult to speak on the subject as we feel we are defying established power. In addition, the second reading was Michel Foucault, French Historian by Peter Kerr. This article describes a brief history of Michel Foucault. The article discussed some of philosophies, including structuralism, writings such as; “The Order of Things”, “The Birth of the Clinic”, and “The Archeology of Knowledge”, and the various social

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