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General Benjamin Butler Letter Regarding the naming of Newport News, Virginia
No full textDigital images of an original letter written by Former Union Major-General Benjamin Butler in reply to a query by author, Edwin Everett Hale on how Newport News, Virginia had received it's name. both sides of the original letter are included along with a typed transcription of the letter
Letter from J[ames] D[avie] Butler to John Muir, [1873] Jan 15.
No full textBurlington,Jany. 15, [1873].John Muir, Esq.,I enclose you this letter, persuaded you will like to see how Henry is getting on.His report from the head of the school is at hand. The highest average of anyone in his class of 57 is 94. Henry\u27s average is 92.My wife is better. I go home tonight.J. D. Butler.[A letter from Henry Butler is filed with the original copy of the above, together with two later letters of Henry Butler to his father which had evidently been forwarded to Muir. Copies of these letters have not been made on typewriter]https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/36088/thumbnail.jp
Hudibras. in three parts
No full text[Samuel Butler] ; written in the time of the late wars, corrected and amended, with additions ... adorn'd with cutsDer Autor, Samuel Butler, wird im 'The author's life' genanntFrontispiz (Porträt des Autors
Speculative Literature in Modern Society: Octavia Butler and the Tragedy of the Commons
No full textWhat leads to peaceful prosperity and what leads to destructive collapse in any society? While it may seem daunting or overwhelming to dissect the success or collapse of a multi-faceted society, there are lenses and tools through which we are able to do so, such as political theory and speculative dystopian fiction. By using lenses to analyze the society in which we live, we are able to recognize the seeds of both prosperity and destruction in our society that may otherwise be overlooked or ignored. The speculative dystopian fiction of Octavia Butler may be considered as building upon the political theory of the tragedy of the commons. Butler provides her American audience an analysis of the root causes of this tragedy, as well as some possible preventative measures or solutions. We are able to read her novel, The Parable of the Sower, as a warning against ignoring current trends in our society which could lead to our tragedy of the commons. Octavia Butler was an American author of speculative dystopian fiction, and was the first science fiction novelist to be awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 1955. She was born in California on June 22, 1947 and died in Washington on January 24, 2006. Butler was well-known for critiquing social hierarchies and inequalities as well as for exploring what forms healthy, sustainable communities. Her first novel in her Parable Series, The Parable of the Sower, introduces Butler’s reader to a broken community in a divided society after an environmental apocalypse. Through her protagonist, Lauren Olamina, Butler shows her reader the flaws and failures in society that lead to the community’s collapse as well as how a community can be rebuilt
The Guy Butler Collection Inventories
No full textThe Guy Butler Collection Inventories consists of the following: Section A: Material concerning Butler’s academic and broader interests. Section B: Family material. Section C: Newspaper clippings. Section D: Miscellaneous. Section E: Guy Butler writing. Section F: Photographs of the different Butler families, including Biggs, Butler, Collett, Friends, Satchwell, Stringer and Trollip. Section G: Photographs (Prophetic Nun). Section H: Photographs (Miscellaneous)
A Quarter Century of Botany at Butler University
No full textKingdoms, inventions, masterpieces in literature, art, music, and architecture are born out of dreams. They may seem flimsy and elusive but they show the things which are closest to the heart far down the lapse of time. For, building along the lines of dreams makes realities.The Butler Botany Department was once upon a time just such an elusive, tantalizingly uncertain dream of a young Ph. D., a dream which occupied his mind when the ink had barely dried on the signatures to his diploma which the University of Michigan had presented to him as tangible evidence of years of intensive preparation for the teaching profession in the field of botany
Michel Foucault and Judith Butler: troubling Butler's appropriation of Foucault's work
No full textOne of the main influences on Judith Butler‘s thinking has been the work of Michel Foucault. Although this relationship is often commented on, it is rarely discussed in any detail. My thesis makes a contribution in this area. It presents an analysis of Foucault‘s work with the aim of countering Butler‘s representation of his thinking. In the first part of the thesis, I show how Butler initially interprets Foucault‘s project through Nietzschean genealogy, psychoanalysis and Derridean discourse, and how she later develops this interpretation in line with the progress of her own project. In the main part of the thesis, I present an analysis of Foucault‘s thinking in the period from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) to The History of Sexuality volume 1 (1976). This analysis focuses on the aspect of his work which has most influenced Butler‘s thinking: namely the notion of a relationship between knowledge, discourse and power. The other issues in his work which Butler addresses—genealogy, the subject, the body, abnormality, and sexuality—are discussed within this framework. I show how, in the early 1970s, Foucault develops the notion of power-knowledge, and sets out a relationship between power-knowledge and discourse which is overlooked by Butler. I argue that Butler interprets Foucaultian power through the notions of repression and social norms, and ignores the concepts of technology and strategy which form a key part of Foucault‘s thinking. I show how, from The Archaeology of Knowledge on, Foucault develops a socio-historical ontology and a genealogy of the subject, both of which are at variance with Butler‘s interpretation of his thinking
Reference to index of papers of Charles Butler, son of Gamaliel Butler, and his family.
No full textGamaliel Butler (1783-1852), an attorney of Kings Bench (admitted 1808), and his wife Sarah Paine (1787-1870) came to Tasmania in 1824, to settle business affairs after the death by drowning of Sarah's brother, Edward Paine, who had emigrated in 1820. The Butlers had left their six surviving children (three others had died in infancy) in London in the care of relatives and they joined their parents in the 1830s. Six more children were born in Tasmania. The eldest son, Edward Paine Butler (1811-1849) and another son Charles (1820-1909) also became lawyers and joined their father in partnership with R.W. Nutt. Butler also acquired extensive property. He died in 1852 at his Hobart home, Stowell House.
Charles Butler (1820-1909) came to Tasmania in 1835 at the age of fifteen and completed his education in Tasmania at Longford Hall School under William Gore Elliston for one year and then under W.H. Wilmot (d.1842) for another year. In 1838 he was articled to the solicitor Robert Pitcairn in Hobart and was admitted a lawyer of the Tasmanian Supreme Court in 1843 and after his brother Edward's death in 1849 became a partner with his father in Butler, Nutt and Butler. He was president of the Southern Law Society from its foundation in1888 until 1907. In 1847 he married Georgina Wilmot (1819?-1880), daughter of his old schoolmaster W.H. Wilmot and his wife Eliza (Best), and they had ten children: Kate Geogiana (1849-1929), Edward Henry (1851-1928), Lucy Madeleine (1852-), Charles William (1854-1937), Francis Leicester (called Leicester 1856-1385), Ida Mary (1858-1949), Leila Chalmers (1859-), May Maria (1861-), Herbert Maxwell (1863-• }, Montague Howard (1868-1895).
Charles William Butler (1854-1937) was educated at Hutchins School and gained an Associate of Arts, first class in 1871and was admitted a lawyer in 1877. He then took a trip to N.S.W and to England and later joined the law practice of his father, elder brother, Edward Henry (AA 1867, admitted 1872) and John McIntyre, Butler McIntyre and Butler. He was a keen cricketer and played for Australia. He was Chairman of the Board of Management of Hutchins School 1912 -1937. Charles William Butler married Beatrice Maria Travers in 1882 and they had seven children, including Geoffrey Travers (1890-1962) and Charles Travers (1887-1974) who followed their father in the law. Charles' younger brother Francis Leicester Butler gained an AA in 1872 and was awarded a Tasmanian Scholarship in 1874 and went to St. John's College Oxford to study law in 1875-8, but died when he went to London again in 1885.
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Beyond the checklist: strengthening student’s critical thinking muscles in assessing information
No full textJoin Butler University librarians as we share insights on a news literacy unit that we introduced into a media literacy course. We will outline our learning objectives for the session, including a deep reading of an information source’s claims and incorporating concepts found in the Authority is Constructed and Contextual IL frame. Attendees will “test out” one of the learning activities by building a news literacy continuum – where do concepts such as disinformation, bias, mainstream media, and post-truth fit on an information spectrum? An accompanying assignment as well as data from student evaluations will also be shared
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