Ordinary People‚ by Judith Guest‚ is a touching‚ sensitive novel that deals with healing and moving on from a tragedy or a difficult situation. It uniquely tells the stories of two different people and their personal situations from chapter to chapter‚ and how each person recovers from his/her problems. The reader is taken into their lives to share and sympathize with their misunderstandings‚ their pain‚ and their ultimate healing. The novel begins with the statement: “To have a reason to get up
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In 1990‚ both Eve Sedgwick (Epistemology of the Closet) and Judith Butler (Gender Trouble) made significant contributions to the ever burgeoning field of queer studies with theories about sexuality as performance. Following the central Foucauldian thread in which sexual conduct is but a construct specific to one’s cultural context and a factor of historical and cultural connotations‚ queer theorists proposed gender as a socially and culturally constructed performance. The performance of gender is
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Resilience is our ability to adapt and bounce back when things don’t go as planned. Judith Rodin defines five characteristics of resilience as being aware‚ diverse‚ integrated‚ self-regulating and adaptive. I will examine awareness and integrated because I find these two characteristics interesting and an essential aspect of resilience. According to Rodin‚ being aware is an important characteristic of resilience because you have to know your weakness and strengths to be able to effectively prepare
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Judith Thomson: A Defense of Abortion Judith Thomson article simply outlines the right of abortion with women. Judith presents the argument that everyone has a right to life. However‚ throughout the article she underlines key arguments and give multiple examples and analogies to further prove her point. Thomson began by saying that because everyone has a right to life‚ it is automatically assumed that the fetus is a person‚ and therefore has a right to life. Furthermore‚ the mother does have
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Huck Finn vs. Judith Loftus The women presented in the novel so far are mostly smarter than the men presented. One of these women is Judith Loftus. She outsmarts the trickster himself‚ Huck Finn. Mrs. Loftus is a hypocritical maternal figure. Up until this point‚ Huck has been a very good liar. He has been able to outsmart and trick anybody he wants‚ but not Judith Loftus. He is out of his element during his meeting with her. First off‚ he is dressed as a girl. This situation makes
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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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Jessie Armstrong 11/21/2013 English 101 “The Inequality of William Shakespeare and the Fictional Sister Judith” In Virginia Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister‚” she tells a story about how women were treated and the opportunities they didn’t have as an intelligent writer‚ as compared to those of the men during the Elizabethan era (Shakespeare’s era). She wonders why there were no women writers during this time. All authors were men and their portrayals of women were usually as a person importance
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Hailey Robinson ENG1100 (025) 4/30/2014 Argumentative assignment Trustworthy In chapter two‚ page thirty-eight Rye asked himself if poverty alone made people less trustworthy (Barcott 38). During Rye’s first conversation with a Kenyan business man about trust in Kibera‚ Rye felt the man’s discrimination towards the people of the country Rye was about to explore‚ but he had not realized that trusting people in poverty did not always end well‚ he had never experienced it. While Rye spends
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readiness to take part in sexual activity without being in a relationship of different women. He tells the difference between women that are less eager to have casual sex and the ones who are comfortable with having sexual relations with a casual partner. Judith Butler explains in her essay __________________ ‚ how ones culture including beliefs and customs can build ones appearance of substance‚ a constructed identity made for social audience stating you are not born a certain
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To Another Housewife In Judith Wright’s poem‚ "To Another Housewife"‚ change occurs as the fundamental motif. The composer has harnessed a variety of language techniques to promote these changes. "To Another Housewife" is a dramatic monologue that talks about the changes in the values and responsibilities of a girl as she matures into adulthood. Judith Wright has written this to highlight the fact that many people are in this situation. Wright uses contrast and juxtaposition to outline this change
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