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    Judith Butler Masculinity

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    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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    Movie Review- Butler

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    Jia Jia Chen Dr. Primuth HIST 2112 Jan 10‚ 2014 Movie Review – The Butler In Lee Daniel’s film‚ The Butler‚ the story of Cecil Gaines‚ a butler who has served eight different presidents for thirty-four years in the White House‚ chronicles the civil rights events through-out his career. This film focuses on African American history from 1920s to 2008 during Barack Obama’s inauguration as president of the United States. The film is very accurate about history during that time period and

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    Judith Butler Response

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    of what they believe the answer to be. The first statement that Butler opens with is‚ "What makes for a livable world is no idol question". This statement almost seems like a question directed to the reader. I believe that people interpret what they believe would make their lives bearable differently. What I may seem bearable for my own life may be unbearable to another’s. It is up to the individual to decide for themselves. Butler continues by saying‚ "It becomes a question of ethics when someone

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    Yeats Wild Swans of Coole

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    scheme in each stanza is ABCBDD. Commentary One of the most unusual features of Yeats’s poetic career is the fact that the poet came into his greatest powers only as he neared old age; whereas many poets fade after the first burst of youth‚ Yeats continued to grow more confident and more innovative with his writing until almost the day he died. Though he was a famous and successful writer in his youth‚ his poetic reputation today is founded almost solely on

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    Butler Lumber Company

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    Butler Lumber Company Background: Butler Lumber Company was founded in 1981‚ in a large city in the Pacific Northwest. Typical products of the company included plywood‚ moldings‚ and sash and door products. After a rapid growth in its business during recent years‚ the company in the spring of 1991 anticipated a further substantial increase in sales. Despite good profits the company experienced a shortage in cash and found it necessary to increase its bank borrowings. Issues: • Butler Lumber

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    Kinred by Octaiva Butler

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    sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them‚ but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity”. Meaning‚ it is our heartlessness that allows us to feel indifference towards others; it steals the harmony in the world. Octavia Butler allows us to explore this cruelty in her science fiction novel Kindred. The novel is based on an average black woman Dana. Dana is called back in time to the antebellum south to save her ancestors. The author uses a variety of literary devices such

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    ‘Yeats’s poetry is driven by a tension between the real world in which he lives and an ideal world that he imagines’ The poetry of Yeats gives a deep‚ profound and though-provoking experience. His sweepingly broad thematic focus deals with issues that are timeless and universal. We realise Yeats both is a very public and a very private poet‚ his work ranging from the personal and political‚ to Irish history and his own life experiences and emotions. He grew up in a very transitional time

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    Judith Butler Imitation

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    One of the most important quotes Judith Butler uses in her writing is seen in‚ Imitation and Gender Subordination. Judith Butler explores the ideas that gender is about a performance one must do and how gender has become an imitation of what others deem as acceptable behavior. She also explores that idea of why gender is important for a society and states‚ “Drag constitutes the mundane way in which genders are appropriated‚ theatricalized‚ worn‚ and done; it implies that all gendering is a kind of

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    The Singing Butler “Nati! There you are.” He rushed over to where she was seated on the ground on the BACKSHORE of the Spanish beach‚ and he joined her. Her stilettos lay there‚ partly covered by the sand‚ where she had kicked them off and left them. She appeared to have been there staring out in to the sea for a while. Wearing a long‚ scarlet gown with a HEMLINE just below her ankles‚ matching gloves‚ and her silky‚ chestnut hair elegantly pulled up‚ Natalia looked exceptionally beautiful. But by

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    The Butler Film Analysis

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    struggle the African-American culture faced. Daniels did this by properly identifying his target audience‚ defining the message he wanted to convey to his audience‚ and in turn‚ compiling an all-star cast to complete his vision for the movie. “’The Butler’ offers a powerful cinematic corrective to past failures and‚ in many instances‚ is revelatory in its deft treatment of America’s racial

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