survival and development • Right to be heard Children Act 1989 [2][3][13] provides the legislative framework for child protection in England. Key principles include: • The paramount
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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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While it cannot be for certain how Butler would reply to my argument‚ her book offers a clear insight into what she might have said. In response to my argument on precarity‚ I believe Butler would use the principles of “we the people”. She states that that even when all people are recognized‚ there are those who still don’t acknowledged. In fact‚ these disregarded groups of people are stripped of their rights to assemble and fall side to larger bodies of people. I think she would argue that even
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“All that you touch you change: Utopian Desire and the Concept of Change in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents” By Patricia Melzer‚ Femspec 3.2 This analysis examines two literary narratives by Octavia Butler‚ Parable of the Sower (1993) and Parable of the Talents (1998) that elucidate the intersection of three fields in Western thought: the notion of utopia‚ feminist politics and theory‚ and feminist science fiction. This intersection is crucial for feminists in
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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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Eyes and the Storyline Everyone does not look at life in the same way‚ but instead‚ they look at it individually with their own life experience. Kindred‚ a novel written by Octavia Butler is a novel about an African-American writer named Dana‚ who lives in Los Angeles during the 1970’s with her white husband‚ Kevin. An unknown force however‚ pulls Dana back into time‚ where she travels back in the past during the Antebellum South where she is met with the harsh period of slavery in the early United
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stressed by Octavia Butler in her novel Kindred is the theme of racism. Racism has always existed in society due to the thoughts of one race being inferior to the other‚ in past times racism occurred more than what is in todays society. In the antebellum south slavery was something people had no control over‚ to everyone it was a society norm that majority of everyone participated in‚ as to where in 1970 California racism still existed but wasn’t nearly expressed as much. In Octavia Butlers Kindred both
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James Loebbecke‚ the author‚ forms a fictional case that traces the professional life of Jack Butler’s career from his education all the way to his promotion to partner. Jack is a graduate from Farwestern University who built a relationship with Wally who helped guide him as he prepared for a career. Jacks first interest for his career was to become a lawyer like his father. Wally gives Jack great advice throughout his time at FSU as he was indecieve of what he wanted to do. As he began to like accounting
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Book Review The 1979 novel‚Kindred‚ written by Octavia Butler‚ is a piece of literature that captivates a reader‚ by expressing issues related to Black Americans that are not often discussed. The novel evokes emotions of love‚ horror‚ and power. Kindred allows a reader to deep into the mindset and perspective of characters‚ to understand the struggle of slavery during the slave era. Kindred is about a young‚ free‚ Black-American woman named Dana‚ who is the main character and narrator of
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Butler Case Analysis FNCE 4850 Mr. Butler has distinguished himself in the market by having the lowest prices available. In order to keep up with industry demand‚ Mr. Butler has to finance his exponential growth through external financing. While Mr. Butler does reinvest all of his net profit back into the business‚ it is not a substantial enough to support this growth‚ due to the small net profit margins. Mr. Butler believes that his new loan of $465‚000 is more than enough to cover his
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