In the National Gallery Pictures and memories are well connected; they are both frozen and untouchable. What happened in the past are frozen pictures‚ impossible to be touched. In the national gallery is a short story written by Doris Lessing in 2007. The short story is about the narrator’s visit to the National Gallery in a free hour. The narrator is quite passive through the whole story line. The story is from his/her point view‚ but is anonymous in the way that we do not get to know his
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Themes: It basically deals with the conflict between traditional medicine (the "witchcraft") which was free and comes naturally‚ and the pharmaceutical which the doctors profit from. Who owns the knowledge about medicinial plants? Should these medicines be free or should you have to pay for them? It’s an overgeneralization‚ but witchcraft involves a lot of the use of natural herbs and other natural things to heal. "No Witchcraft for Sale" also deals with different races and social classes. [Summary
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Ashley Polston ACP Comp P3 November 18‚ 2014 Justified or Not In the film Cider House Rules‚ rule breaking and deceit are somewhat justifiable acts that the characters use out of selfishness. Homer Wells is an orphan that grew up in an orphanage in Maine in the 1940s. The orphanage was directed by a man named Dr. Wilbur Larch. As Wells grew‚ Larch took the initiative to take him under his wing and teach him to be an unlicensed‚ skilled doctor. One ordinary day‚ Candy Kendall and Wally Worthington
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simply forget their past culture but instead integrates it with the culture of the new society they live in. Belonging to multiple groups and cultures due to this constant shift is known as multiculturalism. In the text The Old Chief Mshlanga by Doris Lessing‚ the reader is introduced to the protagonist‚ a little girl named Nkosikass. Her parents are European‚ yet she was born and raised in Africa and has little knowledge about what is supposed to be her homeland. She can be considered both Europeans
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evident of being the byproduct of a culture plagued by self-induced ignorance. Fahrenheit 451 is a tale of the few who refused to assimilate in an intellectually repressed society. Rather they utilize the knowledge preached in “Group Minds” by Doris Lessing‚ to the effects of media on society as conveyed by Neil Postman as well as Morris Berman and From Grudin take on Freedom in On dialogue: a lesson in Free Thought. In Bradbury’s dystopian society when the protagonist Guy Montag entire existence
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other peers are crucial for the development of a mature morality" (Juvonen 11). So when reading Doris Lessings Group Minds‚ she also touched on how we as people begin to interact or change a lot when dealing with a group instead of ourselves individually. Lessing said‚ “When we ’re in a group we tend to think as that group does: we may even have joined the group to find “like minded people” (Lessing 725). So when a child goes to school at a young age we come in with our own identity until we meet
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The concept of gender and relationships changes throughout time. Thanks to the widespread use of literature‚ we can now track and compare the views of old times to now. Romantic Period: The standards for men and women in the late 18th century was completely separate. Women were held to a completely different social and legal standard than men. However‚ the shift from male supremacy to gender equality began in this era. The “Ideal woman” was a thing during this time period that went to the Christian
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Our honorable instructor‚ Professor Tang assigned us to read three novels in our National Day Vacation: Hills like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway‚ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen‚ and A Woman On a Roof by Doris Lessing. Of these three‚ I favored Pride and Prejudice most‚ as apparently‚ neither the simple story of the sun-bathing woman in A Woman On a Roof was easier enough for me to understand its “representative of modern women figures”‚ nor the ugly face of the man who persuaded his girlfriend
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particularly among 13-to-17-year-olds‚ and Doris Lessing’s condemnation‚ in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in literature‚ of "a fragmenting culture" in which "young men and women ... have read nothing‚ knowing only some specialty or other‚ for instance‚ computers." Kids today -- we’re telling you! -- don’t read‚ don’t write‚ don’t care about anything farther in front of them than their iPods. The Internet‚ according to 88-year-old Lessing (whose specialty is sturdy typewriters‚ or perhaps
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Good morning‚ we would like to talk about the cleft‚ by doris lessing. I am iris. They are Christy‚ Kimberly and Donna. And i would like to discuss the changes and problems of social class in genders. This is the timeline of the society development. In the history of the cleft‚ it revealed there were 2 classes in the community‚ the higher one‚called the old shes‚ and the lower one was younger generation. For example‚ “Yes‚ we always fed them and give them the nicest bit to eat.” in maire’s speech
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