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    Minh City in summertime‚ Artemis Fowl is waiting with Butler‚ his loyal butler and bodyguard‚ for a lead. Fowl is worried that‚ like Butler’s tip to Cairo‚ this is a wild goose chase. Butler‚ however‚ insists the lead is good. They are approached by a waiter who Fowl immediately knows is Nguyen Xuan‚ the man they were supposed to meet. Xuan is spooked by being so easily detected‚ as well as by the presence of the very large and well-armed Butler. Nervous‚ Xuan tells Fowl that he knows where to find

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    of Dayton‚ Tennessee decided to test a law called the Butler Act. Many teachers felt that honor and academic freedom along with the separation of church and state were at risk. In y 1925 Scopes was accused of teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to his class which violated the Butler Act of 1925. Scopes was provoked by the American Civil Union Act because of their promise to pay for the defense of anyone willing to violate the Butler Act. The trial brought upon two outstanding lawyers

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    acquaintance‚ Mr. Graham. We enjoy debating the attributes of dignity required to make a truly great butler. I find Mr. Graham lounging in the library‚ engrossed in piece of philosophical literature Lord Darlington favors‚ but he looks up and greets me upon my entrance. We exchanged pleasantries and formalities for a short time‚ then I presented the age old query‚ “What is required of a butler to allow him to be considered dignified?” Mr. Graham quickly replied with a most predictable answer‚ “You

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    References: Armytage‚ W. H. (1978). Backup to Butler: The biosocial background of the Butler Act. Westminster Studies in Education‚ 1(1)‚ 5-21. Johnson‚ A. J. (2007). The Scopes "Monkey Trial." Detroit‚ MI: Omnigraphics. Tennessee Butler Act. (1925‚ January 1). Tennesse Anti-evolution Statute - UMKC School of Law. Retrieved June 8‚ 2014‚ from http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/tennstat

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    issues are race and class. A person can be stereotyped just by their race by different people without even meeting them. Blacks and whites are stereotyped differently as whites started out as the dominate race starting hundreds of years ago. In Octavia E. Butler’s novel‚ “Kindred”‚ the issues of gender and race intersect throughout the story as Kevin and Dana fight to keep their relationship going as they both represent a different gender and race which corrupts many problems in 1815 and also in

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    in NASA in the early 60’s. Katherine Johnson our lead played by Taraji P. Henson is a gifted mathematician and ‘Human computer” working as the first coloured woman in the Space Test Group. Our second main character‚ is Dorothy Vaughan‚ played by Octavia Spencer‚ is the leader of the “Coloured computers” ‚ she fight for the title of supervisor as she deserves‚ but also fights to beat the mechanical computers. Last but not least our final main character‚ Mary Jackson played by Janelle Monae‚ she tries

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    Society has created a set of norms and standards which imply that you are supposed to behave‚ dress‚ and do things based on your gender. However‚ Queer theorist‚ Judith Butler‚ does not agree with society. Instead‚ Butler believes that gender roles are not biologically constructed. Butler’s 1990 novel Gender Trouble‚ examines the extent to which gender and sexuality are performative. Butler’s concept of performative gender is depicted in Michael Chabon’s novel Summerland. The fantasy novel revolves

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    is less enchanting than she is. However‚ once he hears of her death‚ he is shocked and feels bad. Cleopatra feels taken aback by this since he told her many times he felt nothing for his wife. This confuses her‚ especially when he agrees to marry Octavia when he is in

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    more and more children feel familiar with butler than their parents. The second reason is the distance between them. Their parent attempt to get promote in their work so they work more than another coworker. They make more money and their children have better teacher‚ life condition and the butler who take care the children replacing their parent. The children grow up in the butler hand so the children feel familiar with butler and sometimes think butler is more important than their parents. Finally

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    Derek Roch Mr. Wood Accelerated English 11 11 February 2013 “Sailing to Byzantium” You are only young once. William Butler Yeats made the most of his youth‚ belonging to influential groups and leading literature revival attempts. He believed that once you were older‚ you start to depart from the real world. He was a magnificent poet‚ and in one of his most famous poems‚ this was a leading theme. W. B. Yeats powerful poem “Sailing to Byzantium” is often considered one of his best works

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