The Troubles

This article defines what Butler in her book Judith Butler introduction gender trouble chapter one: “subjects of sex/gender/desire” wants to convey to the reader. Butler presumes that there is an already accessible feminist known as "women.' Many feminists believe that developing a female identity is crucial to building awareness on women's political problems. Butler confronts this. She does not suppose that the concept of "woman" is a well-defined classification. Society constructs subjects…

William Cronon’s essay entitled “The Trouble with Wilderness” is an intelligent and thoughtful work of environmental philosophy that addresses the relationship between nature and man while defining and contextualizing the idea of wilderness. Cronon argues that we must change the way that we think about wilderness. With this idea of man’s perspective of wilderness, Cronon goes on to describe the ways in which man has looked at wilderness throughout history. From a state of fear and intimidation,…

In her 2006 article “The Trouble with (the Term) Art”, Carolyn Dean argues that the using the word “art” for both past visual expressions (particularly nonwestern) does not quite capture the true definition of what these pieces are. This argument is valid, to consider these works as mere entertainment erases a culture’s true history and identity. Dean has a very strong argument for the analysis and retirement of the term “art”, however the ideas surrounding the concept of “art” explain the…

Zombie Trouble: Zombie Texts, Bare Life And Displaced People Introduction There is controversy as to what is the scariest thing to human beings about the zombie and everyone scampers for refuge when they come across a zombie. It has been said that we are most intensely aware of ourselves as subjects when we feel afraid. This is, especially when we feel our bodies are threatened by an external force like a zombie. Fear increases the awareness of ourselves since individuality is endangered in…

After reading the article, The Trouble with Colour Blindness by Paulker & Apfelbaum, my overall opinion is that racism still exists in this day and age. This article mentions where in several instances, white police officers have shot unarmed black teenagers; in my opinion, I find that most of these police officers are trigger happy individuals, they tend to shoot first and ask questions later. Moreover, as mentioned in the article, grade school children rarely talk about race, because kids at…

Remoon Bekhit Final Draft 10/17/2016 Achilles as Trouble Hero Iliad is the most epic story of the classical literature written by the Homer. The story is basically a mix of Greek and other dialectics. It should be noted that among all the heroes of the Greek mythology especially who fought in the 10 years of the Trojan War, none of the protagonist has been close enough to the greatness of the Achilles. He was a bold and courageous warrior who showed no mercy to the enemy, yet showed intense…

Robert M. Emerson categorized responses to conflict between college roommates in his article Responding to Roommate Troubles: Reconsidering Informal Dyadic Control. Emerson organized each response by placing it into one of three separate groups: managerial responses, dyadic complaints, and distancing and punitive responses. In addition to defining each response type, he also provided real life examples of each. The conditions in which each response would normally be utilized and the…

To say that gender is performative is to argue that gender is “real only to the extent that it is performed” - Judith Butler, Gender Trouble To what extent do the characters in Glengarry Glen Ross and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, conform to or challenge their socially constructed gender roles? In her seminal work of cultural theory Gender Trouble, Judith Butler regards gender identity as a social and cultural construction, ‘supported by a masculine heterosexual hierarchy within society’…

In Chapters 3 and 4, “Trouble with Geniuses”, Gladwell argues, “extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity” (76). Gladwell targets his audience by introducing Chris Langan, an individual that we may recognize and relate to since he has been on television news and game shows as well as in magazines throughout the last decade. He is “the public face of genius in American life, a celebrity outlier and one that “many call the smartest man in America” (Gladwell 70).…

Malcolm Gladwell in the third chapter to Outliers, "The Trouble with Geniuses, Part 1", argues that those who have higher IQ (whom those have the higher intelligences than the average IQ standardization bar), are the onlookers for society, "[for] we must look for production of leaders who advance science, art, government, education and social welfare generally.(75)", Lewis Terman said to believe in. Gladwell supports his arguement by demonstrating both examples from given IQ test in the…