(February 2013) Protective custody is a type of imprisonment (or care) to protect a person from harm, either from outside sources or other prisoners. Many administrators believe the level of violence, or the underlying threat of violence within prisons, is a chief factor causing the need for PC units.
author's purpose definition, author's purpose meaning | English dictionary. Search also in: Web News Encyclopedia Images. author. n. 1 a person who composes a book, article, or other written work. Related adj â auctorial. 2 a person who writes books as a profession; writer. 3 the writings of such a person. reviewing a postwar author. 4 an originator or creator. the author of this plan. vb tr.
What is an Author? To read Michel Foucault, is to feel the grounds of oneâs belief systems shift underneath oneâs feet. For Foucault, as for Roland Barthes (1916-1980), the notion of the author must come into question. Although Foucault was not a literary theorist, he, like Barthes, was a theorist of history, and âWhat is an Author?â echoed many of the thoughts of Barthes on the subject of authorship.