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    time such as internet which seduced almost all generations. In the excerpt “What’s the Matter with Kids today?” the author Amy Goldwasser disagrees with Doris Lessing who wrote the excerpt “On Not Winning the Nobel Prize”. They both see Internet in different ways. Goldwasser sees internet as an opportunity to learn things; Whereas‚ Lessing thinks that internet is a waste of time Goldwasser highlights the fact that thanks to the evolution of technology‚ we can all learn on internet. There is

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    Response Paper – The fifth Child by Sophia Söderström The fifth child‚ a book written by Doris Lessing‚ describes the life-changing events in a happy couples life. Harriet and David Lovatt an upper-middle-class couple meet each other at an office party. The relationship goes quickly forward and they bought an enormous house outside of London with the idea to raise a lot of children there‚ maybe six or even eight. Nine months after they bought the house the first baby came‚ Luke. Everything went

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    In the National Gallery  In the short story In the National Gallery by Doris Lessing we follow a narrator‚ which gender is unknown for the reader. The story line takes place in the National Gallery – therefore the name of the short story. The narrator’s intention in the gallery is to find a picture big enough to be able to sit in the middle of the room looking at it‚ which is succeeded. An old man joins the narrator on the bench together with a younger man‚ also with the intention of looking

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    D.H.S.S. by Doris Lessing. Some of the issues Doris Lessing deal with in her novel ‘D.H.S.S.’ are Social security‚ poverty‚ inequality and social classes. The setting is in Britain in the 1980s‚ during the conservative government‚ where the strikes had their big run. Everything is very sensible and it is hard for people living in this time to make a living and feet their families. Also the D.H.S.S. is on a strike and it affects a lot of people who is depending on them‚ this strike is happening

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    Elizabeth’s Feminist Independence and Freedoms The character of Elizabeth Bennet portrays startling unique and individualistic personality traits throughout her story in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Indeed‚ Austen uses Elizabeth’s frank nature to challenge traditional notions of gender. Unlike other romantic heroines‚ Austen chooses to depict Elizabeth as a level headed‚ deductive‚ and observation individual who is objectively distant from her social world. Thus‚ Pride and Prejudice challenges

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    exchange-taken my youth. In this quote Sara Teas suggest that when child-like excitement goes away‚ your intellectual capacity has grown‚ and you see things more realistically‚ that’s when you have matured. In the stories Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing and Shaving by Leslie Norris the authors suggest that growing in age had=s nothing to do with maturing. They show that maturing comes by developing certain qualities or going through certain experiences. “In order to mature you must realize

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    several prizes and awards: the P. E. N. Asian Poetry Prize‚ Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for fiction‚ Asian World Prize for literature‚ Kendra Sahitya Academy Award etc. She was short listed for the Nobel Prize along with Marguerite Yourcenar‚ Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer. Her poetical collection includes: Summer in Calcutta (1965)‚ The Descendants (1967)‚ The Old Playhouse and Other Poems (1973)‚ Collected Poems I (1984)‚ The Best of Kamala Das (1991) and Only the Soul Knows How to Sing (1996)

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    In the Doris Lessing’s passage‚ “You Are Damned‚ We Are Saved‚” she tells us that she was raised in a country where the white minority dominated the black majority. According to Lessing‚ if anyone disagrees with the white‚ he or she would be considered as a demon and would suffer from ostracism. Also‚ Lessing describes a long miner’s strike in Britain‚ during which a miner chose to return to work because he felt that the strike leader had led the strike badly. And because of this‚ the miner was beaten

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    Obedience is an age old expectation that rulers‚ priests‚ and government officials have required for years from their subjects. Most of the time individuals follow their leaders without question. This is the case because the population from which obedience is required believes that they continue to have a choice. When‚ for whatever reason this belief is lost‚ some individuals will begin to exhibit an increasing disobedience to the requirement. This often increases to the point of violence or

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    Analysis and interpretation of “The Mother of the Child in Question” [pic] doris lessing Characterization of the housing estate: tower blocks‚ cement everywhere‚ litter lying around‚ the lift smells of urine and vomit (p.152) grim‚ drab‚ dreary‚ desolate‚ depressing‚ ugly. The characters Stephen Bentley‚ social worker Hassan‚ aged 12‚ well-dressed and well-mannered‚ his English is fluent (153:14) Mrs Khan‚ plump and pretty‚ dressed in a Pakistani outfit

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