Butler

The Scopes Trial took place in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. A group of teachers decided to test a law called the Butler Law. The Butler law made it illegal to teach the theory of evolution and instead mandated the biblical interpretation of creationism. The teachers felt that academic freedom and integrity as well as separation of church and state was at stake. Twenty four year old science teacher and football coach John T. Scopes would teach the class. Knowing he would be arrested Scopes taught the class and set into action one of the most important trials in American history. Scopes was arrested for violating the Butler Law. At the resulting trial William Jennings Bryan acted as prosecutor. World famous criminal defense lawyer Clarence Darrow…

Lorde and Butler Society has a strange fixation with placing anything and everything into one category or another. Talking to any person today can show just how different and similar one can be to another. For instance, when you think of a writer, how many varying faces and personalities’ rushes through your head? Audre Lorde and Judith Butler are two such writers that share a connection through their craft and their meaning. Though they may have these general similarities, they have their…

Critical review of the article Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory by Judith Butler Gender is a difficult term to define. Some people might think it is the external characteristics of a person what marks it, others believe it is what it is what you feel inside, and another may hold that is what society imposes them. This critical review examines an article that argues that “gender identity is a performative accomplishment compelled by social…

William Butler Yeats is a poet who is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century (“William Butler Yeats”). “William was born in Ireland, June thirteenth, 1865. He had his first works at Dublin's Metropolitan School of Art while a student there. His early achievements in his life were The Wanderings of Oisin and Countess Kathleen. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for his Literature in 1923” (“William Butler Yeats Biography”). William Butler Yeats was not like most of the…

William Butler Yeats was a very talented poet. In his lifetime he accomplished many great things. He was a 20th century Irish poet. He helped with the foundation with the Abbey Theatre, and later served as an Irish senator. He was well known for believing in occults, and including them in his works. Also, William Butler Yeats was a pervert. The study of the childhood of William Butler Yeats, his natural origin, his religious beliefs, and his Irish decent affected the style and setting of his…

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” This quote from William Butler Yeats expresses how one’s heritage and background can affect a person’s way of life. Also true of this is how one’s heritage can affect one’s work, as it did with Yeats and his poetry. Some of his more popular works are things like The Celtic Twilight, To Ireland in the Coming Times, or A Prayer to My Daughter. However, where he born elsewhere, everything from…

What Does “Do Not Muzzle The Ox” Mean In The Bible? A Biblical Definition by Jack Wellman Thou shall not muzzle the Ox means, the worker should be treated fairly and (all people, for the work they do) must not be stripped of the wages that they deserve (Jack Wellman). What does “Do not muzzle the ox” mean in the Bible? Paul interpretation states; do not muzzle the ox while treading’ as ‘do not ignore to pay Christian ministers,’ commentators have quite naturally assumed that his analysis was…

The Butler is a powerful movie that demonstrates the various and complicated perspectives of the African Americans that were living during the civil rights movement. Usually, when watching a movie about African Americans, it highlights the risky excursion of African Americans who attempted to crush the racial boundaries unhesitant to celebrate winning their battle against racial discrimination. However, in the case of The Butler, it takes a close consideration regarding the conflicts inside the…

Following the story of Cecil Gaines, a black man who went from a slave to a butler in the White House, Lee Daniels’ The Butler was a very exceptional film that depicted the hard truth of racism from the mid 1900’s to the early 2000’s. When Cecil went in for the interview at the White House he was told, “You hear nothing, you see nothing, you only serve.” I felt this was a really interesting position to put a black man in at the time. He was probably told for his whole life to just ignore whats…

Lee Daniel’s film, titled The Butler, describes the life of African-American Louis Gaines and his time spent as a servant in the White House. However, while Gaines is not a real person, his story throughout the movie is mostly based on African-American Eugene Allen and his time as a servant to the White House. Eugene Allen was born on a plantation on July 14, 1919, in Scottsville, Virginia. When Allen became a young adult, he began working as a waiter at a Virginian resort (cite). He then…