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    someone you have never seen before ripped you from your familys arms? Rabbit proof fence surely places the viewers into such a strong postion where they feel like they are one of the kids in the movie. The movie is based of the legit story written by Doris Pilkington Garimara which takes a jab at the issue Aboriginals faced with regards to the stolen generation. When watching you this film you are exposed to Noyce’s brient work in creating a narrtive stucter. There are 3 young indigenous girls are

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    Doris Lessing’s On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) are both worthy speeches because they evoke a personal response in their intended audience and offer solutions to complex global issues. These issues are complex because they do not have a clear answer and hence‚ remains a controversial topic and reverberates across time. Therefore‚ the solutions offered by these speeches also resonates beyond the contextual audience and holds value for the

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    Many times as a dancer‚ I find myself thinking about what my body is capable of. “What A Dancer Thinks About”‚ by Doris Humphrey‚ was written around the time period of 1937. This essay describes a dancer’s point of view of dance. Doris was born in Oak Park‚ Illionis‚ in 1915‚ where she studied dance. She became a member at the Denishawn school along with assisting Ruth St. Denis‚ a member of the Humphrey-Weidman Company‚ and creating works of her own. While creating her own works‚ Humphrey became

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    sections: •Plot Summary •Chapters •Important People •Objects/Places •Themes •Style •Quotes This detailed literature summary also contains Topics for Discussion and a Free Quiz on Rabbit-proof Fence by Doris Pilkington Garimara. Plot Summary Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington is the true story of the escape of three young girls from a settlement school they were forced to attend in Australia‚ over one thousand miles away from their families and homes. The three girls‚ along

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    Bergen’s Adaptive Writing Styles Doris L. Bergen is an extremely knowledgeable Professor of Holocaust studies and an astute author who focuses on many different aspects of the Holocaust and World War II. She has proven to be multi-faceted in her literature. Bergen ’s ability to reach a wide range of readers is evident‚ when looking at two of her different pieces of written work‚ "War and Genocide" and "German Military Chaplains in WWII and the Dilemmas of Legitimacy." She skillfully attracts the

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    It has often been said that baseball is America’s favorite pastime‚ Doris Kearn’s Wait Till Next Year‚ brings this idea into perspective. Baseball gives people something to look forward to and a team to cheer for. This seems to be a constant theme throughout your memoir. America’s love of baseball is still a part of today’s life but not in the same way that it seemed to be in the 5O’s. People of my generation have read history books and known the stereotypes of this decade but sometimes it takes

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    experiment 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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    Proper citation and attribution is the main subject in “How I Caused That Story” written by historian and writer Doris Goodwin. This way of referencing is an important theme that is shared throughout all fields that use written word as a medium. A common thought is that with the introduction of computers it has become easier to manage and organize data‚ which helps to reduce and eliminate mistakes that can lead to misrepresentation and failure to credit sources. This commentary by Goodwin spoke

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    Summary of The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Regardless of Fredrick Douglass’ assumption that “nothing new could be said about Abraham Lincoln‚” Doris Kearns Goodwin provided a new perspective in the investigation of our sixteenth president in her book‚ Team of Rival: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln‚ by looking at Lincolns interactions with the three men who were his rivals during the 1860 Republican presidential nomination. Goodwin revealed a more three-dimensional

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    The old man‚ is not given a name nor a proper physical description by the writer perhaps to rouse the reader’s emotions by letting him think of the grandfather as a universal figure. This may be an important factor in the short story as older generations can relate to the feelings of the grandfather and younger generations to the feelings of the granddaughter. Though he is old‚ the grandfather is very active in that he keeps birds and trains homing pigeons. In the beginning of the story‚ when the

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