instruct

The verb instruct comes from lesson: a teaching. Action, therefore, refers to educate, instruct, train or train. For example: "Do not worry, I will teach you so that you can perform successfully in your new position", "With this measure, the government intends to instruct the opposition leaders", "We must instruct visitors to take care of the facilities".

By teaching, therefore, it seeks to transmit knowledge, ideas or messages so that they are assimilated by the receiver. The concept is often associated with the lesson that is given by force or through an example.

Suppose that the parents of a teenager, tired of the young man not meeting the agreed return times and always late for dinner, decide to stop preparing food for him when he is late. In this way, after a few nights of remaining with an empty stomach, the boy understands that he will have to adapt to the rules of your family if you intend to continue eating at home. This is a fairly common example of the way parents seek to educate their children.

Of course, on the other hand there is violence and the imposition by force of certain principles or custom. In a case like this, it matters little whether teachings they are beneficial or not for the individual, since the way in which they are internalized threatens the freedom and basic rights of the person, for which they do not flourish as they should and tend to lead to negative behaviors.

The concept of teaching is frequently associated with humiliation, albeit to varying degrees. For example, when a soccer team performs considerably better than its opponent in a match, the media may cling to this term to refer to the skill with which they won, as opposed to poor decisions, or the lack of level of the other.

On the other hand, we have cases in which the humiliation is real and very deep. This occurs, for example, when the residents of a neighborhood decide to instruct criminals on their own, in the absence of a response from the police to the increasing number of robberies in the area. Since it is not an act that simply seeks to do justice but also to draw the attention of the authorities and demand that react, It is common for criminals to be subjected to greater punishments than they would have received in a prison.

The action of teaching can also be massive through the media Or the entertainment industry. A film financed by the authorities of a country You can highlight the benefits of the army in order to improve the image of the armed forces. The plot of the film shows the soldiers as heroes and the military high command as honest and capable people. The purpose of the film in question is to instruct the viewer to awaken positive feelings towards the troops.

The example of the propaganda Military occurs very often in North America, where the importance of the army is much greater than it receives in other countries. Regardless of genre or plot, American stories always seem to find a space for soldiers, as well as for the FBI, and when the social situation of the country requires it they do not hesitate to portray them as superhuman beings, of unwavering determination and a sensitivity that makes it difficult to associate his personality with the news about machismo and homophobia.