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Essay Instructions: Use of Force
1. What has the United States Supreme Court ruled regarding the use of force?(hint-see Tennessee Vs Garner and Graham Vs Connor)
2. According to Illinois law, what is the appropriate level of force to be used against a person resisting arrest on a traffic charge.
3. Can a police officer who encounters someone forcefully resisting arrest use a higher level of force to cause submission.
4. If a police officer uses inappropriate force during the performance of his duties, does the person injured have any recourse? If so-under what laws can he be assured of recourse.

Discovery
1. In what ways would discovery alter an investigators methods of investigating?
2. Are there any exceptions to this rule?(hint-see People Vs Lopez).

Essay Instructions: EXAMINE THE VARIOUS TYPES OF FORCE USED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY

THE ORIGIN, HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF EEACH TYPE OF FORCE EXAMINED

COMPARE AND CONTRAST 3 METHODS OF FORCE

LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS OF VARIOUS USES OF FORCE INCLUDING CITING SPECIFIC CASES RELATED TO THE USE OF FORCE, SUCH AS TENNESSEE V GARNER

DISCUSS THE FUTURE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF FORCE INCLUDING DEVELOPMENT OF NEW, LESS LETHAL TECHNOLOGY

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Essay Instructions: Part One: read “The Use of Force” by William Carlos Williams (See attached)
Part two: reconsider and reread “The Use of Force” to prove/interrogate Laura Mulvey’s theory
of the patriarchal gaze.
Reconsider the psychoanalytic theory derived from Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan that Laura Mulvey uses to support her theory of the gaze in the 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Mulvey argues that meaning is defined largely by men who associate their power to name, define, and control reality with their masculinity. Your essay should therefore reveal an awareness of the ways in which the story reflects the language of patriarchy and encodes the ideology that all patriarchy is founded on. Laura Mulvey believes the one who looks has the power. Since Mulvey’s theory is essentially a “film theory,” you must adapt its premises of a "masculine" subject position -- WOMAN AS IMAGE, MAN AS BEARER OF THE LOOK ??" and apply it to the narrative structure of the story. The challenge for you is to find the connection between this simple story of a little girl’s interaction with her doctor and Mulvey’s gender politics. Mulvey identifies two processes that transform “the look” into a sexual gaze: voyeurism and fetishistic scopophilia. Use these not only as a feminine (or feminist) ‘way of looking’, but also as a feminine/feminist way of reading and analyzing “The Use of Force.” Rather than simply assuming that there is only one ‘truth’ (your initial reading) proceed from a woman’s point of view and throughout your essay, determine how this new identifying point affects your analysis.
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Essay Instructions: This is a very open ended assignment for a midterm essay. Students choose topic. Can be broad or narrow but must deal with International Law. I chose to discuss and argue both sides of the question: Is the pre-emptive use of force against terrorism lawful?