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Toto

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This time I want to talk about my little dog. My little dog is called Toto, like dog "The wizard of oz", because he looks like it. I don't know how old the dog is, because we found when he was kind of old and differents veterinarians said different ages, but I think he's about 6 years old. He arrived at my house in 2014 when a friend of a friend of my mom found him on the street. It was exciting when he came to my house, because it had been a lot of years since we had a pet. We loved him since the firts second. He is very affectionate, playful and funny dog, he always wants us to pet him. This last time it has been very difficult for me to be with him, because I had to do a lot of works and test, and stayed at the university of at some friend's house until very late studying or doing homework. When I get home I am vey tired and the only thing I want todo is rest, but he always comes to my bedroom to play with me for a while, so I'm with him during t...

Michel Foucault

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The person I admire is Michel Foucault, although he is not sociologist, he has influenced this area of work a lot with his theories and studies. Michel Foucault is a philosopher and social theorist born in Poitiers, France on october 15, 1926, and died on june 25 in Paris in 1984. He is known for his critical studies of theories about power in social institutions, such as psychiatric hospitals, jails and school, and the forms of control they produce. Thus, it develops the concept of biopower and biopolitics, focusing on the theory of human sexuality. One of his great works is "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, where he analyzes and questions the prinson, introducing the concept of society discipline. In this way, it has influenced many areas of the social sciencies, having a great impact especially in political sociology. I like this author, because I am interested in the issues of control of society and the power acquired by some institutions and how the r...