Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these
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Macbeth’s Misunderstood Character In the passage from page 244‚ A.C. Bradley argues that to the contrary belief that Macbeth means nothing but evil‚ the often misunderstood character is actually mainly composed of moral and honorable virtues. Although his actions throughout the play suggests that corruption composes most of his character‚ his wicked wrong-doings are mainly caused by other components that Macbeth lacks control over. This position regarding the play has validity because the only
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Misunderstood African American Folks of the USA Can you imagine having to going to a different school then other people because you have blue eyes? Well that’s how white people treated African Americans through the 1800-1900’s and even still to this day in certain parts of our world. African Americans didn’t gain “freedom” until 1865 when the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery everywhere in the US. Although slavery had come to an end many new issues between white people and African
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The notion that gender is socially constructed is an idea that Judith Butler argues against‚ instead she suggests that gender does not exist. Butler states that gender cannot exist until performed‚ these acts that are performed are merely repetitions of pre-established behaviour. Instead we impersonate what we believe to be gender and gender appropriate‚ these gender conventions that are impossible to maintain as every person is different. (Butler 2009) It is these learned behaviours that establish
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In my opinion‚ Aunt Alexandra is a misunderstood character in To Kill a Mockingbird. Although some of the things she says or does is very annoying‚ I think that she is just trying to do what she thinks is best for everyone. Alexandra is just another woman who grew up in the old South. She is bold‚ bossy‚ proper‚ and everything you imagine when you think of the picture perfect Southern lady. She thinks what she’s doing will help the kids for their future. First‚ Alexandra takes pride in their family
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When was the last time you asked someone to check for a creature living under your bed? To a 5 year old‚ this is a true monster. Do you remember the infuriating feeling you felt upon hearing about a terrorist’s appalling crimes? Some might call a terrorist‚ a real monster. Who knows what truly a monster is? In the end we tend to follow the statement “to each‚ his own”. We all have our own opinions based on our own maturity‚ values‚ ideas‚ and worldly experience. Each connotation of the word “monster”
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Music is a concept that everyone in the western world comes across with. Whether this is on the radio‚ in the background of a television show‚ at a party‚ or during personal time‚ music is inescapable. Despite its omnipresence in our lives‚ there is debate as to what music is. This is fine and completely normal‚ for music is completely reliant on human perception. Ergo‚ the answer this the titled question is that music is whatever one perceives it to be. This may be a difficult concept to grasp
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While experimenting with the speed of light‚ I noticed that the light being refracted was slower when it shined through a denser medium. For example when the higher medium was water and we were comparing it to air‚ the speed of the light being refracted was 0.75 c. If we were to switch the medium to glass‚ which is more dense than water‚ the speed of the light decreased to 0.67 c. For two of the mediums they were both placed at the same angle when we started shining the light and as the outcome
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Legend by Judith Wright - 1915-2000‚ written in 1949 and published in anthology ’The Gateway’ in 1953. The blacksmith’s boy went out with a rifle and a black dog running behind. Cobwebs snatched at his feet‚ rivers hindered him‚ thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind and the sky turned into an unlucky opal‚ but he didn’t mind. I can break branches‚ I can swim rivers‚ I can stare out any spider I meet‚ said he to his dog and his rifle. The
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“To be great is to be misunderstood‚” a famous quote written by the transcendentalist‚ Emerson‚ in Self-Reliance. Going by the nickname “Mahatma” which truly means “great soul”‚ Ghandi was one of the most misunderstood people in history. Ghandi is characterized as a scrawny simplistic dressed man born in 1869 in India‚ however he is one of the most complex and contradictory characters in all of history (McGeary). Ghandi was raised under two religious parents who practiced Hinduism‚ and pushed for
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