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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In A Time for Dancing‚ by Davida Wills Hurwin‚ a sixteen-year-old girl named Jules struggles with fighting cancer‚ which ultimately shatters her dream of becoming a professional dancer and changes her views of life. When she feels pain in her lower back and hip at her dance rehearsals‚ she ignores it‚ thinking the pain is from repeating the same dance moves. However‚ when the pain grows worse‚ she turns pale green and her parents bring her to the hospital where she is told she is diagnosed with
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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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Love is Never Silent First off I would like to say that I really liked this movie. It was very informative and was well put together. I didn’t know what to expect coming to watch it‚ but now I understand why this movie was chosen and explains a lot about how families with deaf parents go about their daily lives and all the circumstances they go through. I would recommend this movie to everyone because I think it would make everyone understand a lot more about the Deaf Culture and it was an awesome
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Hailey Robinson ENG1100 (025) 4/30/2014 Argumentative assignment Trustworthy In chapter two‚ page thirty-eight Rye asked himself if poverty alone made people less trustworthy (Barcott 38). During Rye’s first conversation with a Kenyan business man about trust in Kibera‚ Rye felt the man’s discrimination towards the people of the country Rye was about to explore‚ but he had not realized that trusting people in poverty did not always end well‚ he had never experienced it. While Rye spends
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Silent Spring Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) became the inspiration for the environmental movement. Its elegant prose expressed passionate outrage at the ravaging of beautiful‚ unspoiled nature by man. Its frightening message was that we are all being injured by deadly poisons (DDT and other pesticides) put out by a callous chemical industry. This message was snapped up by intellectuals‚ and the book sold over a million copies. Many organizations have sprung up to spread Carson’s message.
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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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readiness to take part in sexual activity without being in a relationship of different women. He tells the difference between women that are less eager to have casual sex and the ones who are comfortable with having sexual relations with a casual partner. Judith Butler explains in her essay __________________ ‚ how ones culture including beliefs and customs can build ones appearance of substance‚ a constructed identity made for social audience stating you are not born a certain
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Within the scope of abortion‚ and too ethics‚ religious ideals and politics take strangle-hold on the opinions of all. Judith Thomson‚ presents ’A Defence of Abortion’ through a process of thought experiments and ’reasonable’ reactions or thoughts to such absurd hypothetical situations. As absurd as they may be‚ they shine a bright light on where modern society places itself on the moral pendulum‚ in relation to abortion ethics. However is Sarah morally obliged to carry her unwanted child to term
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The sun is shining no matter what? Wow‚ maybe if we remember that‚ we can stay optimistic no matter what situation. In the story “All Summer in a Day‚” and the piece of art titled “Dancing in the Sun‚” the theme “The sun is always shining” is used. Have you ever been in a good mood but then someone tries to ruin your world? Even though they fail unsuccessfully? This means the sun shining even though you cannot see it. Sometimes‚ at night‚ she heard them stir‚ in remembrance‚ and she knew they were
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