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    In 1990‚ both Eve Sedgwick (Epistemology of the Closet) and Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) made significant contributions to the ever burgeoning field of queer studies with theories about sexuality as performance. Following the central Foucauldian thread in which sexual conduct is but a construct specific to one’s cultural context and a factor of historical and cultural connotations‚ queer theorists proposed gender as a socially and culturally constructed performance. The performance of gender is

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    Finally‚ Las Casas uses figurative language as a rhetorical appeal. For instance‚ Las Casas uses figurative language when describing the Spaniards treatment towards the natives. In the preface it says‚ “the Spaniards fell like ravening wolves upon the fold‚ or like tigers and savage lions who have not eaten meat for days”(11). Las Casas describes Spaniards as horrifying individuals. In particular‚ Las Casas describes the Spaniards as animals. The figurative language has the possibility to create

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    Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Judith Rodin defines five characteristics of resilience as being aware‚ diverse‚ integrated‚ self-regulating and adaptive. I will examine awareness and integrated because I find these two characteristics interesting and an essential aspect of resilience. According to Rodin‚ being aware is an important characteristic of resilience because you have to know your weakness and strengths to be able to effectively prepare

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    Judith Thomson: A Defense of Abortion Judith Thomson article simply outlines the right of abortion with women. Judith presents the argument that everyone has a right to life. However‚ throughout the article she underlines key arguments and give multiple examples and analogies to further prove her point. Thomson began by saying that because everyone has a right to life‚ it is automatically assumed that the fetus is a person‚ and therefore has a right to life. Furthermore‚ the mother does have

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    What does friend true meaning? A friend is a person who is attached to another with feelings of affection. In the essay called “Friends‚ Good Friends - and Such Good Friends” by Judith Viorst talks about many different types of friendship that women have. The women have various kinds of friendship bonds than what the men do. Viorst tells us a point she would have said a friend is a friend all the way. However‚ the truth is that friendship with a person can be different with another person. But‚

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    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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    one of the first to revolt against Spain. The province is honored as one of the 8 rays of the sun in the national flag. It is the home of the "Three Republics." A trip to Bulacan can never be complete without visiting Casa Real de Malolos‚ definitely one of Bulacan’s prides. Casa Real housed various offices‚ institutions and agencies at a span of time. The building housed the National Printing Press during the First Philippine Republic. It was also on this that the La Independencia‚ The Heraldo

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    In the provided translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem Judith‚ the author presents the story of an atypical‚ yet ultimately genuine hero: Judith‚ a widowed member of the oppressed Israelite town of Bethulia‚ who through the clever use of only her wits‚ beauty‚ and unending dedication to the continued freedom of her people‚ leads them to a well-earned victory over the antagonistic General Holofernes and King Nebuchadnezzar’s tyrannical rule. While some may argue that Judith’s character is unworthy

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    MEDEA Y CASA DE MUÑECAS. En el presente ensayo se analizará la relación entre pareja comparando la novela Medea por Eurípides y Casa de muñecas escrita por Henryk Ibsen. La relación que se presenta entre un hombre y una mujer‚ se desarrolla de una manera muy peculiar‚ bajo engaños‚ traición tanto en la novela Medea y Casa de Muñecas a través de la experiencia de los personajes principales que participan en nuestra obra y en donde el final de las novelas terminan con un final terrible. Casa de Muñecas

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    Jessie Armstrong 11/21/2013 English 101 “The Inequality of William Shakespeare and the Fictional Sister Judith” In Virginia Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister‚” she tells a story about how women were treated and the opportunities they didn’t have as an intelligent writer‚ as compared to those of the men during the Elizabethan era (Shakespeare’s era). She wonders why there were no women writers during this time. All authors were men and their portrayals of women were usually as a person importance

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