Notes: Judith Butler – Gender Trouble PREFACE (1999) Gender Trouble has been received as a “provocative ‘intervention’ in feminist theory” and as a “founding text of queer theory.” “In 1989 I was most concerned to criticize a pervasive heterosexual assumption in feminist literary theory. I sought to counter those views that made presumptions about the limits and propriety of gender and restricted the meaning of gender to received notions of masculinity and femininity. It was and remains
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Introduction: The novel “The Divine Wind” written by Gary Disher is a novel that presents the readers the conflicts that occur throughout the history of mankind and were all caused by the racial prejudice. The years of 1940’s in the chaotic times of Australia where it was filed with war and hatred in which many lives and loved once and families was destroyed. This novel is a good example of a historical setting. It also shown us the prevalence of racial prejudice that result to hardship between
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"Ode to the West Wind‚" Shelley invokes Zephyrus‚ the west wind‚ to free his "dead thoughts" and words‚ "as from an unextinguished hearth / Ashes and sparks" (63‚ 66-67)‚ in order to prophesy a renaissance among humanity‚ "to quicken a new birth" (64). This ode‚ one of a few personal lyrics published with his great verse drama‚ "Prometheus Unbound‚" identifies Shelley with his heroic‚ tormented Titan. By stealing fire from heaven‚ Prometheus enabled humanity to found civilization. In punishment‚
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“All that you touch you change: Utopian Desire and the Concept of Change in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents” By Patricia Melzer‚ Femspec 3.2 This analysis examines two literary narratives by Octavia Butler‚ Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) that elucidate the intersection of three fields in Western thought: the notion of utopia‚ feminist politics and theory‚ and feminist science fiction. This intersection is crucial for feminists in
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A Long Way Gone “A Long Way Gone”‚ a memoir about a Sierra Leonean young boy who is a “child of war” has many themes in the novel but what is the most important? Relationship‚ I believe that this is the most important theme because without relationship‚ Ishmeal Beah‚ the author of “A long Way Gone” and a human rights activist would not have survived nor would he have recuperated from the war in Sierra Leone. Relationship with the lieutenant‚ Ishmeal looked up to his lieutenant as a father figure
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Discuss ways in which Yeats presents the faery world in ‘The Stolen Child’. In the poem ‘The Stolen Child’ Yeats presents the faery world as an idyllic place surrounded by ‘rocky highland’ where you can escape the outside world that is ‘full of weeping’. However‚ as the poem progresses we discover that there may be something more sinister lurking in the shadows of this ‘leafy island’ that leaves the child ‘solemn eyed’. We also learn that maybe the real world isn’t that bad after all. This poem
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“When you’re through learning‚ you’re through” – Will Rodgers. The book‚ Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ takes place in a small town in the heart of Tennessee‚ Hillsboro‚ and the Bible Belt in the 1920’s. The play covers one of the first evolution v. religion cases in the South. A teacher named Bertham Cates thought the teachings of Darwin were fascinating. Even though it was outlawed to teach evolution‚ he decided to teach his students the teachings. Not soon after‚ he finds
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fine‚ sometimes a jail sentence‚ and sometimes you can even get put on death row. But do citizens have to follow a law if it is unjust? In the play‚ Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee‚ this occurred‚ Bertram Cates‚ a public school teacher in Hillsboro‚ Tennessee in 1925 broke an unjust law called the Butler Act. The Butler Act prohibits public school teacher from denying the Biblical account of man’s origin‚ or in simpler words‚ teachers couldn’t teach their students the theory of
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: A High Wind in Jamaica In most of their literary works‚ a significant percentage of novelists aim at presenting to the reader important information in the most effective ways. To attain this‚ they explore a host of literary devices and develop their plots with utmost coherence. The ideas that they present are in most instances reflective of the social and economic scenarios that are apparent in their respective settings. Just like other renowned novelists‚ Richard
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Evolution‚ the belief that all humans were made from earlier forms of history in the Earth that leaves people in a true controversy over what to believe. Inherit The Wind is a play revolving the Scopes Monkey Trial‚ where a school teacher‚ Bertram Cates‚ taught evolutionism to his students without being allowed. He is then accused and brought to trial where many people come to join in the fight. Brady‚ a lawyer‚ has the job in the play to prosecute this “lawbreaker” while putting up a strong personality
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