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    expected results. The case of Fran and Octavia is a clear example that can explain the doctrine of promissory estoppel. In this scenario‚ Fran approaches Octavia to give him a room to conduct her business of storing her goods. She promises Octavia that indeed she will consider lending the house for her business deals. The warehouse had no functional extractor fan in which Fran requested Octavia to put in place. In the case‚ Octavia asked Fran to promise him that she will take the house

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    The song is an observation of those things and trying to find some redemption in it. It’s so overwhelming to be completely surrounded by that feeling all the time; I had to find some redemption and to take back the definition of revolution.” – John Butler. (Change slide) Good morning/afternoon‚ students and teacher‚ Through songs‚ emotions and issues within society are expressed through the lyricists’ perspective. Through music and poetic devices‚ songs can appeal to an audience by engaging them

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    “William Butler Yeats deals with an interesting variety of subjects and his poetry is full of powerful images and impressive descriptions. Discuss.” Submitted by Hollie McLaughlin. I very much enjoy reading the poetry of William Butler Yeats. What I like about the poetry is the multi-faceted man who emerges. In Inisfree he is the searching‚ restless 25 year old‚ looking to nature as a kind of redemptive force. In ‘September 1913’ he is the ardent political critic of the soul-destroying materialism

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    My dad‚ Jimmy Butler‚ Eric Berry‚ and Bo Jackson. My dad influences me because he is the most hardworking human being I know‚ and he would do anything for me. Jimmy Butler influences me because he has one of the most inspirational stories I have ever heard. Jimmy Butler was kicked out of his house in high school by his own mom and had to live on the streets. Luckily a family took him in during his senior year. Jimmy butler only got one college offer‚ and that college

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    Dawn‚ Day‚ Dusk‚ Night Night is a memoir by Eliezer Wiesel about his experiences during the holocaust. Even though the Wiesle’s were warned about the imminent Nazi invasion of their home town‚ Sighet‚ they stayed‚ resulting in the Jewish population being sent to concentration camps. Here Elie’s family is split up and the memoir truly begins‚ you hear the story of Elie and his father’s struggle for survival in the concentration camps. Through their struggles Elie and his father change dramatically

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    Insubordination‚” Juith Butler argues that gender is performative. The discourse of gender produces us: the identity of women performs the characteristics of women; the identity of men performs the characteristics of men. Also‚ people form their identity by imitating others; in another word‚ performance constructs gender in a repeat process through imitating from appearance to inner thoughts. Kumu Hina‚ directed by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson‚ introduces us the

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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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    The Painting of Language Throughout House Made of Dawn Momaday forces the reader to see a clear distinction between how white people and Native Americans use language. Momaday calls it the written word‚ the white people’s word‚ and the spoken word‚ the Native American word. The white people’s spoken word is so rigidly focused on the fundamental meaning of each word that is lacks the imagery of the Native American word. It is like listening to a contact being read aloud. Momaday clearly shows how

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    Breaking Dawn: sparking the interest of the mortals and perhaps something else? Nowadays most people‚ or at least most teenagers‚ know a series called Twilight written by a American author named Stephanie Meyer. The last book in the series is called Breaking Dawn‚ which is getting released as a motion picture in November 2012‚ while the book was released in August 2008. The twilight series revolves around one major idea: a love story between a human and a vampire. The first three books tells the

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    Butler Model of Sentosa Island Resort (Located in Singapore) Jonathan Lee Block 2 IB Geography 12 1. Exploration: * 1970s government decided to develop the island into a holiday resort for local visitors and tourist 2. Involvement: * Since then‚ $420 million of private capital and $500 million of government funds were invested to develop the island 3. Development * 1974‚ Singapore cable car system was built * Linked Sentosa to Mount Faber * Through this

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