Ms. Hoffman, I hope you are doing well and that your schedule is not too hectic with junior and senior English classes all day! If you have time this weekend, I was wondering if you would be willing to look over an essay I am currently writing for my honors composition class. We had to read "Panopticism" by Michel Foucault and, much like your class, we had to choose our own arguments to write about with a thesis statement. I received a 95% on the first paper I wrote for this class, but my professor advised that I use more clarity in my essay. She is really trying to have our class avoid vague language and have each statement be meaningful in some way. Please do not feel pressured if you do not have time, I would completely understand! If
I’ve only gotten three responses through the two papers that we have done, so I have been working mostly on my own to try and find ways that I can improve my essay. Nothing has really surprised me thus far in the class. I have enjoyed the prompts that we have done for our papers and I have enjoyed giving feedback and reading other papers from other students. As I said earlier, I think my best piece of writing was my Evaluation Essay. I was writing about something I enjoyed doing (watching movies) and I was excited to share my opinion with everyone, so I think those factors contributing to my Evaluation Essay being better than the Literacy Narrative.
Panopticism is the idea of surveillance and operation to gain control. In T4, written by Ann LeZotte, it tells the story of a young girl who is deaf throughout World War II and the separation and institutionalized of the disabled. In T4, the author focuses on how Germany treated the mentally ill and the disabled. Panopticism reflects the ideas of Hitler during the 1938-1940s told through the words of Paula (T4’s point of view). Hitler used panopticism when it came to separating the mentally ill from healthy citizens to create a “golden” population.
Just that I ' m distracable. She explained that the assignment would be researching our name and writing an essay about our findings. Simple enough. It sounded that way, anyway.
***Type your essay on the blank doc I have provided in Google Classroom. Keep this window open so you can refer back to it as you write. *** Due Date: Your final draft is due on Friday. If you are absent during the week or on that day, your essay is STILL DUE.
This class has three basic formats of essays, each of which come with a different set of advantages and disadvantages. This letter is here to help explain
During this last semester in American Literature, I unequivocally believe that I deserve a solid A. (claim) From the consistent punctuality of assignments, to the effort of sustained attention to class, I have reached an educational pursuit within your classroom, strengthening my writing capabilities. I have grown not only as a student but as a person, exploring the different parts of literature such as transcendentalism (Thoreau/Emerson and Into the Wild), American tragedies (The Crucible), dramas (The Miracle Worker), and even a picaresque novel (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn). I have accomplished many things this year, gained some of my best grades yet, and produced deep insight regarding multiple topics throughout. Since the beginning
When we are alone in our rooms we believe that we are experiencing the highest level of privacy possible. If we feel the need to leave an uncomfortable situation we normally respond by locking ourselves in our room, shutting everyone else away; this is where we feel safest, with no eyes to watch our every movements, left in privacy to do whatever we want to do with no fear of being judged. How true is this? Now that technology is especially unavoidable, how do we know that our devices are not being tampered with? How de we know whether a third party is listening to our conversations at the end of the line?
This essay is a summary about the idea and application of Panopticism, and its many implementations. Firstly, I will be explaining the concept of Panopticism. Next, I will dissect a few of the reoccurring arguments in the third chapter of Foucault 's Discipline & Punish. Finally, I will be dissecting some modern examples of Panopticism.
As a student in general I sometimes struggle with fully articulating my opinions in a pressurizing situation. As a student of literature, I always have my required assignments done before the due date and class period in which they are due to always stay on top of assignments. My weaknesses in this subject include my rebuilding of a background when it comes to usage of the passive voice, as some might even have been included in these responses. Overall, I hope this application proves that I am serious when it comes to my dedication to this course and anticipation of
Additionally, I now see where I can make improvements in my writing to become a more refined college level writer and use what I learn here to help me with various degrees of my life outside of the classroom. For this portfolio, I revised the first essay we did in the class, the "Summary and Response" essay. Furthermore, this essay a mere five pages seems like it should have been so easy, but then it was most challenging.
At first glance and brief investigation it becomes clear the philosophy of Michel Foucault predominantly centres around the idea of power and through further inspection how power operates in society, how do people, institutions, governments & nations gain or lose power and furthermore how do they maintain or exercise said power and his central theme or revelation regarding power seems to be that it is closely connected with knowledge. Michel Foucault is regarded as a politically charged activist type of philosopher as through research and documented evidence we find that although his philosophy and intellectual ideas span across and cover a vast array of topics such as how society has oppressed and exiled those deemed insane and psychologically unfit in his critically acclaimed ‘Madness in Civilization’ or his general criticism of the bourgeoisie power structures through neutral seeming institutions such a hospitals and doctor clinics in “The Birth of the Clinic”. Michel Foucault argues that modern medicine which is mainly attributed to the capitalist proletariat class is fundamentally sinister because they claim an abundant amount of power though there is no impartial body to regulate the way in which they exercise power, instead of healing and attempting to genuinely understand and look further to those deemed ‘insane’ they simply label, categorize and recognize and treat the diagnosed symptoms of there patients like mechanical animals. In my interpretation it seems that
The ideals of Panopticism, a social theory developed by a French philosopher – Michel Foucault, start to appear when a description of measures needs to be taken against the plague in 17th century. This plague originated in London and was referred to as the Black Death or the Great Plague of London. Over sixty-eight thousand people were recorded dead within the two years of 1665-1666, however the number of deaths is estimated to be over one-hundred thousand. People were running out of options to survive so rules, or disciplinary measures needed to take place in order to try to control this rapid spread of disease by partitioning space – keeping the sick away from the healthy and having designated zones where these people had to stay, closing
Why we study power, the question of subject Michel Foucault’s main goal is not to try to define the phenomenon of power or nor to elaborate the foundations of such types of analysis. His main objectives are to create a mode by which a human being made self as a subject in our culture. In this article, he has dealt with three modes of objectification, which a human being into the subject. the first is Mode of inquiry, which gives the status of science. Eg the objectivating of the productive subject, subjects who labors for economic and wealth analysis.
Foucault’s Conception of Power and its Compatibilism with Liberating Action In The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Michel Foucault uses the history of sexuality to problematize the widespread notion of power as essentially repressive. He begins with what he calls the “repressive hypothesis,” which is the notion that sexuality and discourse surrounding it has been repressed for the last three centuries (Foucault 6). Foucault goes on to reject this hypothesis because discourse surrounding sexuality has multiplied rather than decreased, which is inconsistent with this hypothesis (Foucault 17). According to this hypothesis, sexuality was repressed by the government, with the law being its way to exercise power over the individuals
You can also address alternative opinions here, but in that case, you have to demonstrate why they are erroneous and do not apply and provide evidence that supports your conclusions. • Proofreading and editing Read out your essay several times, preferably out loud and really listen to yourself. This is a great way to notice discrepancies or contradictions in your essay and address them on time, well before you turn your assignment in. Pay attention to both the grammar and spelling and logical fallacies; your teacher will be grading you on both! Also, ask a colleague to read through your essay as a fresh pair of eyes never