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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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    In Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem‚ Rosalyn Schanzer discusses the disastrous event which happened in Salem known as the Salem witch trials. Many afflicted girls blamed innocent townspeople‚ accusing them of being witches. Trials were held in a Salem court and many accused townspeople were later hanged in Salem. This catastrophe occurred in Salem for many reasons‚ including the concentrated population‚ the central location‚ and the belief system of those who lived there.

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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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    Robert Schumann Robert Alexander Schumann was born in the small riverside town of Zwickau‚ Saxony‚ in 1810.The youngest of five children‚ Robert Schumann was brought up in comfortable‚ middle-class respectability. As a child‚ he apparently exhibited no remarkable abilities. At the age of six‚ Robert was sent to the local preparatory school‚ run by Archdeacon Dohner. He had in fact already begun his education‚ with the young tutor who gave lessons in exchange for board and lodging at the Schumann

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    this site About the Trust About the Society Copyright Info Gravesiana Conference research resources database bibliography diary books on graves canellun library multimedia Canellun: Robert Graves ’ Home Portraits of Robert Graves audio: The White Goddess audio: Selected Poetry audio: More Selected Poetry audio: Even More Selected Poetry 1974 BBC Radio Interview bibliography searchable bibliography poetry fiction

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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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    The terror that raged through Salem Village in 1692 caused the citizens to accuse and execute each other because of suspected witchcraft. The Salem witch trials‚ a series of court cases regarding the 131 people accused of witchcraft‚ led to twenty-five peoples’ deaths and the arrests of many more (Foulds 258). The trouble first started when two girls acted so strangely that people had no doubts that it was the result of witchcraft. Soon‚ they considered no one safe because anyone might be a witch

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    The Salem witch crisis‚ which occurred during the 17th century‚ involved a series of hearings and prosecutions of individuals in the Salem community who were accused of witchcraft. This crisis began in mid-January when the daughter and niece (Betty Parris and Abigail Williams) started having fits after playing with white magic (Wilson‚ 7). This was followed by more cases of alleged afflictions as other girls in the neighborhood started showing similar behaviors. The more afflictions also led to a

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