Just ideas for a paper?
What is power?
How is it used?
Why is it associated so closely with money today?
Is there an actual meaning/definition associated with power?
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Money
I used this as my revised essay topic. Hunger strikes didn't work out too well for the first assingment...........
What is money?
Why was it started?
What was used prior to money?
What does it mean today in our society?
What is money?
Why was it started?
What was used prior to money?
What does it mean today in our society?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Hunger Strikes Info
WHAT: A hunger strike is defined as a deliberate refusal to eat, undertaken in protest against imprisonment, improper treatment, objectionable conditions, etc. (dictionary.com)
HOW: They usually start as an act of protest in order to achieve a specific goal, such as policy change or provoking feelings of guilt or embarrassment in others; mainly government officials or other powerful people.
WHY: Even going way back in history, people would use fasting (hunger strikes) in order to induce guilt in their wrongdoers so that they would be publicly embarrassed into finding an agreement or solution.
WHO: As stated earlier, they were used to induce guilt in individuals. Because they were normally used in order to achieve a policy change etc., they were often aimed at higher-ups (especially goverment officials) because they had the superiority to reach an agreement.
DURATIONS: There are many different versions of hunger strikes or fasting. They are used for many things and can last anywhere from a couple of hours to about 100 days (or however long the body can live off of itself).
SOLUTIONS: Instead of letting the strikers die in captivity, many people or prisons resorted to force-feeding, which entails a rubber tube being inserted down one's throat into their stomach. Force-feeding was prohibited in 1975, but recent records and information show that the military used this on about 1/5th of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay up until a few years ago.
GOALS: As you can infer from the rest of this information, these hunger strikes are usually employed in order to achieve a specific goal. They are still very alive today and are used to protest some sort of policy or in order to induce guilt in individuals.
> Some of this information was taken from time.com, in a recent article giving a brief history on hunger strikes.
HOW: They usually start as an act of protest in order to achieve a specific goal, such as policy change or provoking feelings of guilt or embarrassment in others; mainly government officials or other powerful people.
WHY: Even going way back in history, people would use fasting (hunger strikes) in order to induce guilt in their wrongdoers so that they would be publicly embarrassed into finding an agreement or solution.
WHO: As stated earlier, they were used to induce guilt in individuals. Because they were normally used in order to achieve a policy change etc., they were often aimed at higher-ups (especially goverment officials) because they had the superiority to reach an agreement.
DURATIONS: There are many different versions of hunger strikes or fasting. They are used for many things and can last anywhere from a couple of hours to about 100 days (or however long the body can live off of itself).
SOLUTIONS: Instead of letting the strikers die in captivity, many people or prisons resorted to force-feeding, which entails a rubber tube being inserted down one's throat into their stomach. Force-feeding was prohibited in 1975, but recent records and information show that the military used this on about 1/5th of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay up until a few years ago.
GOALS: As you can infer from the rest of this information, these hunger strikes are usually employed in order to achieve a specific goal. They are still very alive today and are used to protest some sort of policy or in order to induce guilt in individuals.
> Some of this information was taken from time.com, in a recent article giving a brief history on hunger strikes.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Hunger Strikes
What are hunger strikes?
How do they start?
Why do they start?
Who do they affect?
Durations?
Solutions?
Goals?
How do they start?
Why do they start?
Who do they affect?
Durations?
Solutions?
Goals?
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