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    many. One of the best films created and the winner of many academy awards is known as Gone with the Wind directed by, Victor Fleming. Fleming’s, Gone with the Wind tells the romantic yet tragic story of Scarlett O’Hara, the protagonist, and Rhett Butler, while at the same time giving a depiction of the life in the South, before, during, and after the American Civil War. The film, moreover, shows how much someone is willing to do in order to obtain what she wants, and how sometimes it’s too late to

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    counterintuitive argument that understandings of human are produced through inaccurate representations. Butler believes that “For representation to convey the human, then, representation must not only fail, but it must show its failure”(Precariousness 144). Use of the word failure in this sentence somewhat misleads the reader. In this instance representations that “fail” could be said to be successes. Butler believes that “there is something unrepresentable that we nevertheless seek to represent, and that

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    Throughout the film ¨Gone with the Wind¨, Scarlett and Rhett´s relationship is convoluted. Their relationship all together was just toxic. First of all, there are mixed feelings involved due to Scarlettś indecisiveness, one moment she is all about having a healthy relationship with Rhett and is convinced she is over Ashley, but later on she is found having the same feelings for him. Later on, at one point, Rhett finally asks Scarlett to marry him and she says yes, but after their first child she

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    2010 Season of Butler Basketball Outline I. Introduction A. Butler University has an attendance of 4,771. That nearly three times less then Duke University. B. Butlers has always been great in the regular season but this season was a special one. C. One reason the season was historical was because they had most likely the best coach butler has ever had. D. There were multiple reasons why Butler had such a historical season and one part was the dedicated fans. E. Butler Basketball had a historical

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    Running Header: Case Study Assignment Case Study Assignment Part One: 1. Assumptions: Kelly: Chief Engineer of Product Software ➢ Marketing people don’t seem to have any understanding of – just throwing away money at a problem doesn’t make it go away ➢ Believes that the only feature they can work with is identifying customers through retinal scanning; no other features can be produced ➢ The numbers that they came up with he feels are very optimistic ➢ That

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    gender (woman/man), and sexuality (homo/hetero) fail to provide imperative space in self-exploration and work to suppress the potentialities within these arenas. By developing upon examples in The Argonauts through engaging with the ideas of Judith Butler in Gender Trouble and Performative Acts and Gender Constitution and Eve Sedgwick in The Epistemology of the Closet, these binaries may be revealed as a construction that conceals the operations of oppression within contemporary American culture. After

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    Tennessee decides to teach the history of human life, it is not well received. In March 1925 a law is passed in Tennessee named the “Butler Act,” which prohibited teachers from teaching about evolution in any state funded school. John Scopes, a teacher in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, taught a lesson to his students about evolution months after the state passed the Butler Act. Although the Scopes Trial provided a precedent for the clash of traditionalistic and modernistic thinking it created a paradigm

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    Simone de Beauvoir asserts that “one is not born, but, rather, becomes a woman (Bailey, Alison, and Cuomo 97).” In this analytical paper, I will attempt to relate to this to my “becoming a man,” as well as comparing and contrasting this claim with other feminist philosophers’ ideas. Also, I will try to explain how de Beauvoir’s ideas are beneficial to society and to individual people. From birth to the first day in school, children seem to be concerned with food, love, and rest. From first grade

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    Judith Butler’s article on “Performance Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory,” denotes that gender identity represents a performative accomplishment induced by social taboo and sanction (Butler 520). Even though Butler’s theory on gender performativity has played an influential role in cultural studies and feminist theory, certain areas of philosophy provide significant insight into critical social theory. From the perspective of critical legal thinkers, Butler’s

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    Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind is a kind of drama, romance, and war film. This American romantic movie released in 1939, and the director of this movie is Victor Fleming. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler, Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara, Leslie Howard as Ashley Wilkes, and Olivia de Hvilland as Melanie Hamilton are famous actors and actresses in this movie. This movie shows Scarlett, who loved Ashley during the civil war. Gone with the wind is one of the bestseller movie in Hollywood. Also

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