Michel Ocelot Essays

Traditionally throughout history, human beings have followed very explicit moral codes derived from their respective religious beliefs. A commonality across most religions is a concept that reads something like “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. This particular quote is the Christian version of the idea known as “The Golden Rule”. However, the age of the enlightenment brought to the world a period of secularization at a scale not seen prior in human history. Immanuel Kant was a

The civil rights movement was a movement that was started to go against segregation. During the civil rights movement there was multiple marches, protest, and many other things that individual or groups of people did to try and get equal rights for African Americans. One of the types of protest is called a sit-in. The sit-ins were mainly started by 4 african american students at a Greensboro lunch counter. At first the four students just wanted some lunch but when they went to go order they refused

For a first time offender, being sentenced for years feels as if the world is crashing down on you. The feeling of dread at the separation from family, friends, and of being alone in a world with offenders creeps in. As you are led away, your spirit breaks. However, it is at this first step towards confinement when you need to adapt a positive attitude and keep your spirit up to survive. Keeping your spirit up may seem formidable. Nevertheless, the prime objective now is to survive at the Maryland

Values in education In any company, there are certain rules and regulations that can be followed and allow the company to function effectively. Companies are identified by their values and among those values, respect plays the major role. The ministry of education in Namibia has 6 core values which are respect and empathy, professionalism, accountability, integrity, teamwork and commitment, the strategic plan (2017). The values were implemented as the best values of accessible and equitable quality

it is replaced by a multiplicity that can be numbered and supervised; by the point of the inmates, by a sequestered and observed solitude. (Foucault 200) In extending this physical structure into a metaphor of social existence in relation to power, he writes: Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up. (Foucault 200-202)

experience of being seen affects our human behavior. Foucault has used Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon to explain this principle and it’s also important to heed that Panopticon doesn’t come to us directly from Bentham but mediated to us through the work of Michel Foucault. Panopticon

This essay will cover Michel Foucalt and his understanding of power and knowledge, and the relationship between them by looking at Foucalt’s works – Discipline and Punish and The History of Madness (or better known as Madness and Civilization), which is what the first part of this essay will describe. Further on, the second part covers Foucault’s pastoral diagram, the interests of the state and the inner workings of a police system, which will elaborate on the subject by going over a brief history

Foucault argues that truth is found through the view and observation of society. This is set up in the example of the Panopticon, which places a tower in the center of a structure. Those in the tower can be observed and watched by those around it, which Foucault suggests provides the observers with power causing those in the tower to “become the principal of his subjugation” (Foucault, 203). Through this, Foucault makes the claim this authority comes from examination and is controlled by discipline-mechanisms

Introduction “The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity” from Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body by Susan Bordo (1993) introduces the discourses around the female body, and the different perspectives that influence this body. She goes on to explain that the body is a medium for culture, from which contemporary societies can replicate itself. In addition, Bordo (1993) provides continuous insight on how women have changed throughout the years to be more within societies norms

Tarantino’s film narration: Non-linear storytelling Kill Bill is a revenge gangster film directed by Quentin Tarantino, the protagonist centred on a female called the bride. It is a saga of the bride’s vengeance narrative. In Kill Bill Volume 1, Quentin Tarantino’s non-classical approach made a remarkable influence, with formalist film theory, they both show strong affinities. (Peary 2013) Bill as an unseen character in the film, the sign of his presence in the whole film, it is considerable strong

Another important area of this study in panopticism takes a turn to South Africa where we gaze upon the fortress like structure known as Constitutional Hill that contains The Old Fort, Number IV, and The Women’s Jail. A brief history of the Constitutional Hill tells us of the mining efforts of many foreigners that led to an increase in crime in the area. Some of the prisons like The Old Fort was a military fort with cannons mounted on each side and was disguised by making the facades of the fort

The Battle of Waterloo takes place in Belgium near a place called the Waterloo on June 18, 1815 in which Napoleon’s forces were defeated by the British and Prussians which ended france’s domination in Europe and napoleon Bonaparte’s reign . Napoleon conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century and became the French emperor in 1804 and through series of wars he expanded his empire across western and central Europe ;however Napoleon led a invasions of Russia in which his army had to retreat and

In the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman tells the story of Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski, a socially awkward man and a free-spirited girl, who fall in love despite their differences in personality. After going through a painful breakup, Clementine receives a surgery to have her memories of him erased, and shortly thereafter, Joel finds out and decides to erase his memories of her as well. While undergoing the memory-erasing process, Joel begins to regret his decision

In Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish” he discusses the establishment of disciplinary society and how it relates to power. According to Foucalt power through the techniques of discipline and servalance exist everywhere in society. This is most evident where one exhibits their ablility to discipline or punish another individual. Foucault also believed that power restricts and alters someone’s will. Essentially there are everpresent constraints on how we as humans think and act. These abstract constraints

In his book Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault argues that the penal system is deliberately constructed to be a machine. Reformers in the 18th century wanted the prison to work more effectively in its machine-like state, cycling people in and out, rather than being concerned with inmates’ well-being and correction. It is a machine that makes money for itself by offering cheap labor provided by prisoners, and it is heavily monitored to make sure no one breaks away from their place in the machine

Great Barrier Reef Reading this article, regardless of its unpleasant subject, was really enjoyable. Rowan Jacobsen writes a viral article entitled “Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25Million BC-2016)” in Obituary genre. In this article the author wants to show us the importance of Great Barrier Reef and its oldness by writing in obituary genre and using different method like personification and hyperbole to make us pay attention to the Reef. To reach this goal and show his credibility, the

I submit to power when it’s easier than resisting. If I don’t feel inconvenienced by the power that is being pushed on me, I find it easier to not fight back because the effort of resisting would not be worth the outcome. I adopted this mindset during the time when rules were being enforced by my parents. Throughout my life my parents have enacted many rules for my brother and I, from eat your vegetables, bedtime at 9:00, get good grades. Having been repeated for years, these mantras have been

Explication of ' "Hard Rock Returns to Prison” In the society, people focus much on heroes to see whether they will fall or remain as heroes. The poem ‘Hard Rock Returns to Prison...’ is a narrative tale of life in prison. ‘Hard Rock’ is a hero in the prisons. Every member of the prison are out to see how he has lost his lobotomy. The surgical operation he had gone in his forehead makes him lose his status as a hero in the emotional reaction of despair as other prisoners watch. In analyzing this

A historian once wrote that the 19th century was “a time of bitter conflict, as the world of the past fought to remain alive.” During the 19th century, there was an emergence of the political ideologies: liberalism, conservatism, and socialism. Liberalism sought to limit the government, preserve individual freedom and believed in the hierarchy of merit. Conservatism attempted to preserve the existing order and believed in tradition over reason. Socialists believed in strengthening parliaments and

Films during this time were expected to follow a smooth way of editing, with every cut following a very logical pattern. However, Godard did the complete opposite and relied on unexpected, quick jumps in editing. Godard makes use of the jump cut when Michel passes numerous cars on the road. A point of view shot from Michel’s view on the street, quickly passing car after car, is shown. Here Godard is showing the same action over and over again, without a flow. This action not only gives the audience a