Torture: Justifiable or Not? Torture, as an interrogation device, has been used by many, mostly because its efficiency in extracting information from its victim. But what does torture truly do? Many despises the crude method of itself, many questioned its legitimacy of gathering information. Regardless of its prohibition by the international law, torture is commonly used illegally. For this reason, in this essay I argue that torture should not be justified because it is not trustworthy, in inflicts
that power cannot exist without knowledge, and knowledge cannot exist without power. Punishment is the expression of absolute power, but to punish someone, one must have both knowledge and power. During medieval times, the king had absolute power and was able to implement whatever punishment techniques he wanted. The passage on page 35 of Foucault’s book further explains how power and knowledge related during that time and how they were used to discipline. It begins by stating that during the sixteenth
the teachings of Greece and Rome. Humanism helped revive the need for people to explore, experiment, and create and in wealthy cities in Italy. Renaissance artists also began using a new technique called perspective, producing a three dimensional painting instead of the old two dimensional style used in Medieval art. Many artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael created sculptures and paintings that will be famous forever. Not only did art flourish, but learning did as well. Architecture
Gothic writing explores the fear of forces beyond human understanding through emphasizing upon the emotions, sensations and perceptions arising from supernatural experiences. Throughout my core text, partner text and selected poems I have realised that such statement is very true and I cannot but agree that gothic writing does indeed illuminate such forces. After-life, life, science and knowledge are the main forces beyond our understanding presented in the texts. Unlike other texts during 1818's
“Being born as a human is natural, but keeping our humanity is a matter of choice.” When we look at people, we must be able to look beyond their gender, race, caste and creed; we must see them as individuals, with a unique identity. Our nation is the largest democracy in the world with 1.25 billion residents living in an area spread over 3,287,590 km2 with 29 different states. It is the mystical land where practices from Kashmir to Kanyakumari or Gujarat to Assam are as different as two different