figure it out." Now his labors are bearing fruit When David Butler joined Coca-Cola (KO) almost five years ago, he was given, as he tells it, "the Post-it Note mandate: We need to do more with design. Go figure it out." Butler, who had come from a gig as director of brand strategy at the interactive marketing and consulting firm Sapient, had soon written up a 30-page manifesto laying out a design strategy for the company. But if Butler, who's now vice-president for design, has made an impact at the
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Many debates have sparked due to the topic of naturalism vs. realism. Naturalism takes the power away from the actual person, it says that people exist entirely in the order of nature, and do not have a soul, or any mode of participating in a religious or spiritual world beyond nature. () Realism however, gives those human like characteristics back to the person. Literary realism has a concern with morality and ethics. It means that humans have a moral agency, they can make choices, take directions
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Butler Systems Butler Systems is a manufacturer of environmental control systems and power conditioning equipment. Butler is the world’s leading supplier of computer support systems and the largest supplier of precision air-conditioning and power protection systems. Butler sales exceed $1 billion. The HD-5 battery is the primary component for the EPS (emergency power supply) system. The vice president of operations is concerned about the low HD-5 battery inventory. There is currently a 20-day supply
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Evan Boiko HIS 112-005 10-16-11 The Scopes Trial The Scopes Trial was one of the most famous trials in the history of the United States due to the intense passion and concern that people had for it. The defense was defending personal freedom and democracy while the prosecution imposed on these values. In the end, even though John Scopes and his defense team lost the trial, they won in the long run by influencing decisions made in the future regarding free speech in the classroom and what teachers
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During the late 1800s, a literacy movement called Naturalism occurred in America. Naturalist believed in the idea that peoples’ interactions with environments and other people are what shape them as humans. According to a naturalist named Becker, naturalistic writers approached literature with a “pessimistic materialistic determinism” creating novels and stories that are driven by the forces that rule human lives. To the naturalist, man always succumbs to nature, because he has no control over it
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differential materialization of the human. And we also get […] a [production] of the abject. So it is not, as if the unthinkable, the unlivable, the unintelligible has no discursive life; it [does] have one. (Meijer, Costera, and Prins 281). All in all, Butler explains the situation our social concepts retain. An abject body does not necessarily need to be a disabled person and thus unable to be accepted as a normal living person. It goes beyond just suffering disability or other visual, physical “damages”
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before. Through this evolved sexuality, Michel Foucault, a French Philosopher who studies power and knowledge, reviews how sexuality became what it is by connecting power and sexuality together in his book The History of Sexuality. Similarly, Judith Butler, a feminist philosopher, argues that people should not be identified
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As a philosopher, Butler draws from psychoanalysis and literature. She claims we all detach ourselves from our attributes. She explains what the trouble with gender is: it is a social construct; looks at what we put importance on; and it contains strict binaries. Butler presents the idea of gender as performance or gender performativity; to say gender is performative, means it produces a series
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will pick up on those intended themes, while other readers may see themes that the author never intended. The story “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler is one of these stories where readers will argue there are several themes present. However, the most controversial discussions are about wether “Bloodchild” is a love story, or a story of slavery. While Octavia Butler will say it is “a love story between two very different species” (“Afterward” 20). In Pamela Maynard’s critical analysis “Lessons from Culture”
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Suggestion as Butler’s financial advisor Butler Lumber Company is on a growing path. It is evident from the case that the volume has been built due to successful price competition, careful control of operating expenses and purchases at substantial discounts. Even in case of an economic downturn its business is protected to a large extent as 55% of its sales are from the repair market. The company is growing at a good pace of 19%, 34% and 34% for the year 1989, 1990 and 1991 respectively. The data
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