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    Butler Lumber Company

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    Butler Lumber Company I. Statement of Financial Problem Butler Lumber Company is facing the internal risk of not having enough borrowing power to continue operations as desired. The owner of the company has established a relationship with a new bank to increase their borrowing power‚ however‚ based on Butler Lumber Company’s past Operating Statement and Balance Sheet‚ the company is expecting to continue substantial growth without considering external risks that may affect their business. Currently

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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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    Why Are You Wake Up Octavia?

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    bedroom to wake her sister up to get to school on time. She shrugs her while saying “wake up”. Her sister woke up with a messy frizzy hair and reply with a yawning voice “ Why are you waking me up Octavia?” Octavia tells her It’s time to go to school. Her sister jumps out of bed and runs to the bathroom. Octavia walks to the narrow kitchen and makes her sister breakfast‚ meanwhile in the bathroom her sister looks at herself in the mirror and

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    Yeats, William Butler

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    Irish poet‚ dramatist‚ and prose writer‚ one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Yeats’s father‚ John Butler Yeats‚ was a barrister who eventually became a portrait painter. His mother‚ formerly Susan Pollexfen‚ was the daughter of a prosperous merchant in Sligo‚ in western Ireland. Through both parents Yeats claimed kinship with various Anglo-Irish Protestant families who are mentioned in his work. Normally‚ Yeats would

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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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    Octavia Butler’s Kindred was an astounding book written in 1979 about a character name Edana Franklin‚ who is simply called Dana‚ is pulled continuously back into the 19th century by a boy name Rufus every time his life is in danger. This book is an unconventional tail about slavery‚ sexism and racism. Not only is it entertaining but it stirs up deep emotions inside of you about your history. This story makes you feel love‚ compassion‚ hate‚ and sorrow all at once. Octavia Butler wrote this book

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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 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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