Joseph Butler

in conjunction with Fanon’s work raises questions and possible strategies on how to reject neocolonialism and contemporary white supremacy. Fanon’s idea of blackness is performative but not for the gain of the black man, rather for the white man. Butler suggests that regaining control of the black man’s fate comes from interpellation, the act, of interrupting the white man’s claims or ideas, or rather their misconceptions of the black man. A way of disregarding the white man’s claims is a form of

Ever since science began to explain the previously unexplainable, it has caused conflicts with religion. The Scopes “Monkey” Trial of Dayton, Tennessee was one of the most talked about trials in history because it was one of the first and most publicized times that this conflict occurred. The trial showed the schism between the faithful fundamentalists and the newly formed group of evolutionists. Although the jury was reminded that they only had to decide if Scopes had broken the law, the verdict

One trait of Scarlett that is exemplified for the duration of the entire novel is determination. Regardless of how much the odds seem to be stacked against her, she maintains her resolve. When Scarlett first hears of Ashley and Melanie’s engagement, she is astounded and incredulous as she had intended to have him for herself. Determined to win him over, she formulates plans ranging from telling him point-blank that she loves him to hoping that Melanie dies. Despite the unlikelihood of her success

Stress, grief, and death are common aspects that paramedics experience and can present in many different ways. This assignment will be identifying the presentation of stress, and strategies to manage stress and to also maintain the personal wellbeing of paramedics, plus common stressors. According to Lambert and Lambert (2008), stress can be arranged into a physical, enthusiastic, and a type of human behaviour. This assignment will also be touching base on Kübler-Ross and Dual’s Model, plus general

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 movie directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia De Havilland. The film follows the life of Scarlett O’Hara (Leigh), a young Georgian woman, and her pursuits of romance and wealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She faces the challenges of rebuilding her family’s plantation and finding love while the man she wants to pursue already married. This film falls into the genres of historical and romance. Historical films are characterized

The Scopes Trial was a very controversial trial that put religious beliefs against scientific beliefs. The main figures were William Jennings Bryan and John Scopes. Bryan was a Presbyterian, he was born in Illinois and later became a Nebraska congressman in 1890. John Scopes was arrested for teaching the evolution in school. The Scopes Trial had a major impact on America in 1925, making it illegal to teach about the evolution of life in school. Before William Bryan became a congressman, he practiced

My experience in English 202 has been an interesting and informative one. Prior to taking this course, I thought that I knew what the English major was all about: reading and writing. Both of those things come easily to me, so I expected this class to be a piece of cake. What I discovered over the course of the semester is that while reading and writing are indeed central to the English major, there is much more to it than that. My knowledge of literary theory was scanty at best. I had no

I’m sure everyone has had a moment in life that traumatizes them; an entity that impacts the person you are today. Well, that life changing moment happened to Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler), once a normal suburban dad, until one day his life turns upside down when two robbers kill his wife and daughter. This one of a kind story shows how the law system really works. Throughout this film you feel the anger and hunger for revenge of this heartbroken father. Clyde Shelton and a headstrong prosecutor

Anyone who has ever attempted to read any literature written by gender theorist, Judith Butler, knows how much of a struggle it is to decode her main points. Even after taking three gender studies courses, reading multiple articles, and analyzing portions from her books, I still have a difficult time comprehending just exactly what Judith Butler is stating. One cannot simply read her writing once and expect fully understand her points. If you say can, then you are lying. I would describe Butler’s

outside of the box based on people’s opinions, that make us wonder more. Gender is defined in Undoing Gender in an act of improvising within a scene of constraint, where one that is always within a social context, and never outside of the ideology. Butler expresses that Undoing Gender expresses an understanding of how “restrictively normative conceptions of sexual and gendered life” might be undone. She stresses throughout the reading that this process of undoing is not something that is negative