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Torture
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Torture
The deliberate, systematic or wanton infliction of physical pain and/or mental suffering by one or more persons acting alone or on the order of any authority, to force another person to yield information, to make a confession, or simply inflict pain
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13) In his depiction of the cycle of torture for sale as a commodity on the globalized market, Roth dramatizes Foucault's idea that power cannot be fixed in centralized governments or individuals, insisting on a definition of power in which signs such as torture devices and tattoos indicate power's endless movement through a circuitry that defies boundaries of class, gender, and even nations.
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The core depicts the Vietnamese struggle for independence, but there are also enough gruesome torture devices on display to satisfy anyone's imagination.
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