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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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    Essay 1984 is a dreary dystopia written by George Orwell set in London‚ Oceana. This society is controlled by The Party that brainwashes everyone into believing a reality they create. Their ideas of love are nonexistent and sex is an act done solely to produce the next generation they can control. Ultimately‚ there is no existing feelings or ideas of love; affection and sensuality is a heinous crime. So the question applied to our existence is: Can a society based on hate survive? Our ability

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    William Butler Yeats: Annotated Bibliography "William Butler Yeats." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation‚ n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2017. . In this article‚ the authors describe William Butler’s life and legacy. It tells of his nationality and how it impacted him not only as a person but as a better writer. He was highly spoken about by W.H. Auden‚ sparking his career as a writer. The article then starts to talk about his first publication in the Dublin University Review‚ it gave him some publicity and

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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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    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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    "Brave New World” utopia or dystopia? The society displayed in the book shows that it is quite hard to label as one or another. Many would say that in the novel Huxley portrays a systematic utopian society. Whereas others such as author Leon Kass states "Huxley shows the reader a dystopia that goes with rather than against‚ the human grain". (p.311) Advances in scientific research allow the World State to create a world where people are conditioned to be happy the way they are. In the novel science

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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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    striking and frankly alarming similarities‚ there are basic laws and societal beliefs in place that prevent Orwell’s unnerving vision of the future from coming true today. The most apparent similarity between today’s society and that of Orwell’s dystopia is the constant surveillance of its citizens. All over the streets and buildings of Oceania are posters of “Big Brother” their inconspicuous leader. This gives off an aura that there is always someone watching‚ but the device that truly manifests

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