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    Art Fakes and Forgeries

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    Chris Wiley English 1000 13 September 2010 Fakes and Forgeries Lessing v. Dutton The two essays‚ “What is Wrong with a Forgery‚” by Alfred Lessing and “Artistic Crimes‚” by Denis Dutton‚ explore the different reasons that they give negative connotation to the concept of an artistic forgery. Each author concludes that a forgery is indeed wrongful‚ however their reasons for this conclusion differ in several distinct ways. This essay will summarize both authors’ main points and compare and

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    Ertha Case Study

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    Henry and how Ertha states they have arguments. He could learn new ways to cope with the stress. Huis in het Veld et al. (2016) explained that family members should try to adapt to moods of persons with dementia and remain calm. Also‚ family members should allow time for themselves‚ take to someone about what they are going thru‚ and make sure they are getting enough rest (Huis in Het Veld et al.‚

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    12). Diese Worte Kants fallen in eine Zeit in der die evangelisch-lutherische Kirche und der absolutistische Staat durch das Landeskirchentum ein enges Bündnis geschlossen hatten und so nur schwer angreifbar waren. Das musste auch Gotthold Ephraim Lessing feststellen. Er wurde am 22.1. 1729 im Kamenz geboren und wuchs in der christlichen Tradition des väterlichen evangelisch- lutherischen Pfarrhauses und der Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meißen auf. Obwohl er das vom Vater gewünschte Theologiestudium schon

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    that he devised to observe to what extent conformity occurs. In her essay titled "Group Minds"‚ Doris Lessing claims that as a society we have enough knowledge about conformity to do something about it‚ yet we choose not to. Although Doris Lessing and Solomon Asch both suggest that people desire independence yet yield to conformity‚ Asch’s experiment adds specificity to Lessing’s claims. Lessing speaks generally about groups and the effect they have on conformity‚ whereas Asch’s experiment examines

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    Group Minds

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    written by Doris Lessing. In it‚ she argues that the government retains “hard information” about human actions/behaviour from schools to keep people submissive. “We (the human race) are now in possession of a great deal of hard information about ourselves‚ but we do not use it to improve our institutions and therefore our lives. (266)” This is information that will set people free from “blind loyalties‚ obedience to slogans‚ rhetoric‚ leaders‚ and group emotions. (267)” Lessing firmly believes this

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    Doris

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    Doris Lessing was born in Kermanshah‚ Iran‚ on October 22‚ 1919‚ and is a famous writer‚ winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. Since childhood she moved with his family to Zimbabwe to perform agricultural tasks. It was there where she became a lover of nature and at the same time‚ she met the miseries of racial discrimination.Due to the poor relationship of the writer with its authoritarian mother‚ Doris decided to leave school and continue her studies on her own‚ at which time he began

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    to room nineteen

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    In Lessing short story‚ “To Room Nineteen‚” she explains about being in “tragedy” represents “a failure of intelligence” is when she rents a room for solitude and she cannot find a way to her real self except by killing herself and her marriageis a failure (2759). Although‚ the author uses ”intelligent” and “civilized” to explain that it’s ironic and her intelligence to show that if led her to commit suicide (Lessing 2762). However‚ this story starts in a very ironic tone by bringing up the failure

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    injustice and Subjugation

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    Injustices and Subjugation Doris Lessing grew up in Southern Rhodesia‚ which is now Zimbabwe. Doris saw the injustices and racial inequality that the native Africans were put through. She wrote the story “No Witchcraft for Sale‚” to implicitly tell the Imperial Europeans of their wrong doings. She could not come out and directly write her true message because she was a white woman in the 1950s. By analyzing the dialogue in “No Witchcraft for Sale‚” it is evident that native Africans were subjugated

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    Through The Tunnel Theme

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    Children in Poverty (NCCP)‚ “between 20% and 30% of adolescents have one major depressive episode before they reach adulthood”. Adolescence can be a very difficult‚ and sometimes dangerous‚ time. In the short story‚ “Through the Tunnel”‚ by Doris Lessing‚ the stages and hardships of adolescence are shown through the mind of an eleven-year-old boy. The author uses symbolism and imagery to portray the theme that transferring into adulthood is a difficult stage. The author uses the calm beach and the

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    Nathan the Wise

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    Different But Equal Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) published Nathan der Weise in 1779. Written during the Enlightenment period‚ Lessing aims to capture the religious intolerance of his time and refers to this theme as the “scourge of his age”. The story‚ written as a play‚ is a fanatical plea for religious tolerance. The church forbade the performance of the play during Lessing’s lifetime; it was first performed in Berlin‚ 1783. Nathan The Wise is set in Jerusalem at the end of the twelfth

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