In our current day most of us would say we live in a time with equal rights and opportunity for all. But do we really? When almost one out of every three black males will serve time in prison but their white counterparts having committed offenses and statistically similar rates have a greatly minimized chance of serving time. For the moment let’s focus merely on drug related offenses. Continue reading
The term love is used fairly often in our world today. But how would you distinguish love from obsession. Love is an intense feeling of affection and obsession is an intense feeling in which ones thoughts are dominated by a persistent idea or image. Basically, you are unable either way to get the subject in question off your mind. There are people who love their friends, pets, family among many other things, but where can we determine the difference with obsession. To me the idea seems to center on reciprocation, love comes both ways where obsession is generally one sided.
As a society we are always attracted to the unexplained and the unusual. A few examples could be aliens, ghosts, outer space, as well as our own dreams. Now what comes to mind when you hear the word dreams. Myself I can barely remember my own dreams unless I make a point of writing them down or forcing myself to remember them after I wake up. Most of the time I would rather pass of these dreams as not my own or simply as I have no idea what was going through my head, therefore assuming I had control over what my thoughts while I was unconscious.
Freud, Foucault and Freaks
We are five students that will accomplish in explaining what is the norms and the dark deviant side of society.
Deviance and Social Order 