In Homer’s Iliad, there is a recurring theme surrounding the idea of being the ‘greatest.’ Both the Achaeans and Trojans have heroes whom they believe embody their ideal of the ‘greatest.’ For the Achaeans, this hero is Achilles, while for the Trojans Hector is their…
Looking for the resonances and dissonances between texts allows audiences to understand a textual conversation, which acts as a vehicle through which we evaluate changes in contexts, values and interpretations of texts. The resonances between William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Richard III (1592) and Al Pacino’s…
Michel Foucault was a theorist who provided the groundwork for political philosophy and theory (Oksala, 2013, p. 320). His work has introduced the problem of war while slowly broadening his analysis of power from disciplinary to biopolitical systems and the occurrence of governmentality (Reid, 2006,…
Life of Michel-Foucault Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), usually known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic. Foucault’s theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as…
The greater improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is anywhere directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour. (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book…
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Oppressive capitalist plutocracies can abuse and dictate individual freedoms; employing terror, surveillance and other corrupt devices and measures as a means of stifling their citizens and stripping them of their dignity. Fritz Lang’s expressionist, black and white film ‘Metropolis’ is a distinctive, artistic commentary on…
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The last two decades have shown a phenomenal increase of wind turbine industry, reaching the capacity of cover the 11, 4% of the EU electricity consumption in a wind year. More efficient turbine designs have been produced, but, despite this growth, it may have reached…
This is not the easiest of quotes from the reading to analyze. It is quite confusing but I will attempt to dissect it by taking key words and concepts of Bourdieu and analyzing them under his theory to rephrase the quote above and attempting to…
Leadership and power have a fine line in which they were most effectively together. In that relationship it is important that a good sense of credibility is established in order to achieve and maintain a status. The problem at hand is how Jim is going…