1) Origins of the State of Israel What is the Jewish claim to the land? Ancient Hebrews 3‚000 years ago. Forced out by different invaders‚ lastly the Romans. A tiny Jewish community continued to live there‚ having never left. What is the Palestinian claim? Also descended from Abraham. Lived along the coast – the Philistines. The land had been populated by Arabs since at least the 7th century. When the Arab conquerors arrived‚ there were Christians and a smaller number of Jews living
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applied theory in the real world. In this paper I will be explaining and extrapolating upon two key concepts that have been introduced in the unit readings; performativity and intersectionality. Having coined the term in her book‚ Gender Trouble‚ Judith Butler’s theory on gender peformativity is arguably one of the most widely referenced concepts in the gender studies field. Gender perfomativity theorises that we‚ as
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Chapter 5 Ethics in Research Below is a summary of a nursing study. Read the summary and then answer the factual questions that follow: Singleton investigated the behaviors of nursing students in crisis or emergency situations. She was interested in comparing the behaviors of students from baccalaureate versus diploma programs to determine the adequacy of the preparation given to students in handling emergencies. Fifty students from both types of programs agreed to participate in the study
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1. This document was written between the years of 1796 to 1809‚ during which Napoleon Bonaparte was the military commander gaining popularity. The document starts in 1796 when Napoleon was a commander of the army‚ he began explaining with the conditions that they were fighting in and talks about wanting a change‚ and the document ends in the year 1809‚ with Napoleon explaining his strategies to make his army look larger than what it was (SWT‚ 117&119). 2. This document has four different parts to
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Katerina Siroruka Liberal thinkers are suspicious of state power and argue that the state needs to be limited. John Stuart Mill and Judith Shklar understand state power differently‚ to the extent in which may be harmful in the method and purpose of limitation. Mill believed that rulers are potential tyrants and that the citizens should be protected against a tyranny government. Shklar believed that the state should be protected against the abusive‚ cruel and evil powers that can be
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The assignment I chose to revise is my literary analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofers The Story of My Body. I have made some local‚ but mostly global revisions to the paper‚ as well as addressed some of the feedback made by the instructor. The local revisions include: making complete sentences‚ rearranging words. For global revisions‚ I rewrote the conclusion‚ broke a paragraph into two‚ and as suggested by the instructor I added more analysis and connection to the young girl. In the first paragraph
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In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “First Love”‚ the speaker is opportunistic and infatuated. The narrator is opportunistic because she did not let a sense of morality stop her from taking advantage of whatever opportunity she had to get what she wants. Simply because the narrator wanted a mere glimpse of her crush who worked at a grocery store‚ she hoped her mother “[smoking] with so little enthusiasm”(Cofer 1) did not mean that she’d have to stop going to the store to pick up cigarettes. The narrator did
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rights‚ liberty‚ opportunity‚ and equality have attracted bees from all over mother Earth. But the nectar from this well-blossomed flower may not be sweet enough for all alien bees. With every bee having a story to tell‚ the story ‘Volar’ by Judith Ortiz Cofer has a generalized story of all the immigrant bees. A story which suggests all bees are attracted to a rose for its beauty yet the taste of Heliconia flower will always remain within. Volar is a story about a mother
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I have chosen the artwork Judith Decapitating Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi in 1620. The reason I chose this painting is because of the graphic nature and the history behind the painting. The painting is 6’ 6 ⅜” x 5’ 3 ¾” oil on canvas located at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence‚ Italy. The painting shows two women (Judith and her maidservant) holding down and cutting off the head of Holofernes. This is clear because of the sword that Judith is holding near his neck and the blood that is painted
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LIFE THE POWERS OF MOURNING AND VIOLENCE • JUDITH BUTLER VERSO London • New York First published by Verso 1004 © judith Butler 1004 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been assened I 3 j 7 9 10 8 6 4 l Verso UK: 6 Meard Street‚ London WIF oEG USA: 180 Varick S1reet‚ New York‚ NY 10014-4600 www. versobooks.com Verso is the imprint of New Left Books British. Lihrary Cataloguing in Puhlication Data Butler‚ judith P. Precarious life: the powers of mourning and
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