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    Jean-Michel Basquiat

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    essay‚ Royalty‚ Heroism‚ and the Streets: The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat‚ Robert Farris Thompson recounts the story of the first time he was able to watch Basquiat at work. It was in February 1985. Just before Basquiat began painting‚ he did something rather interesting‚ as Farris Thompson notes… "Basquiat activated an LP of free‚ Afro-Cuban‚ and other kinds of jazz. Then he resumed work on an unfinished collage. Hard bop sounded. Jean-Michel pasted on letters and crocodiles. He did this with a riffing

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    1. Medicalization is defined as being “the way in which increasing areas of social life are seen as falling under the remit of doctors” (Haralambos & Holborn‚ 2008:280). In modern society‚ where science is used to explain and define everything‚ it comes as no surprise that a simple problem‚ such as shyness or embarrassment‚ which can be dealt with by using other means is given a medical term and is dealt with through medical means. A simple and temporary infection such as the flu‚ which could be

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    Michel Et Augustin

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    our Petits Sablés or Petits Carrés 2/ Check out our fancy website www.micheletaugustin.com and Facebook fan page fr-fr.facebook.com/MichelEtAugustin 3/ That’s all ! Our crazy adventure ! Looking for the two nutty French fellows? That’s us! Michel has 2 houseplants‚ a bike and not much hair left. Augustin has a funky truck with 5 baby seats and a puff in his fringe. At the Banana Plantation*‚ our ambition is to make the planet smile: - By preparing tasty and healthy products made out of

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    In the first part of Discipline and Punishment‚ Michel Foucault argues that‚ over the course of a few short centuries‚ the penal system shifted its target from the criminal’s body to their soul. Foucault locates this shift in the transition from public torture to prisons; from punishment as a public means of expressing force to a private means of correcting and preventing nonconformity. Punitive power has been replaced with disciplinary power‚ and discipline works on the soul rather than the body

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    Rhetoric 103b 7 April 2015 Essay 2‚ Prompt 2: Foucault and Freud on the Autonomy of the Individual Both Foucault and Freud developed theories of the subject which describe individuals as influenced by repressive powers in their autonomy. Freud‚ in Civilization and its Discontents‚ represented the individual as restricted in their behaviors and pursuit of happiness by civilization‚ a faculty which had been developed to secure human happiness. Foucault credits the confession of sexuality to the repression

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    Well-known philosopher Michel Foucault wrote a book called ‘The Birth of the Clinic (1973)’‚ the main idea behind the book is that Foucault trails how medical knowledge was transferred by scientific methods in the eighteenth century. He recorded that the doctors based their treatments on observation of the patients symptoms rather than referencing books to analyse the type of disease the patient may have. Through observation‚ Foucault was able to develop the concept of ‘surveillance’ whereby‚ patients

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    imprisoning someone who committed a crime. I will examine ways that contemporary society is a disciplined society as Foucault described; and given my example‚ it will demonstrate our need for it and how disciplinary society can help contemporary

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    The Reforms of Michel Fokine Photography‚ painting‚ videography‚ and literature have all progressed over time. New technology‚ and new ways of thinking have brought these arts to new levels. There seems to be a broad misconception‚ though‚ that ballet is an art form that does not progress; does not change. Many people assume that ballet’s set vocabulary of movement places limitations on how far the art can expand. Little do many people realize that this vocabulary is a mere foundation

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    The third chapter of the book‚ “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison” by Michel Foucault is a look at the measures that were put into place in the seventeenth century when the plague was discovered in a town. The chapter‚ entitled Panopticism‚ discusses the social theory‚ named after the Panopticon‚ developed by Foucault. There is strict order that must be followed by all members of the town to ensure that the plague does not spread throughout the town and kill all of its inhabitants.

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    twenty-three. Her autopsy states that she died form severe dehydration and malnutrition which both coincide with her possession by demons. Anneliese Michele was born September 21‚ 1952 in the winegrowing community of Klingenberg‚ Bavaria‚ Germany. Michel was raised in a very strict Catholic family in Bavaria‚ which rejected the reforms of Vatican II. Growing up she was woken up in the middle of the night by her mother to pray and drank holy water (Hall). After the changes to the Vatican II the family

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