Wander through the Louvre‚ leaf through the "Great Books"--you won’t find many works by women. Feminists have long sought to explain this absence‚ and to question the standards that guide "canon formation"--the aesthetic judgments deem some works excellent‚ and others minor or altogether unworthy of notice. In her 1928 A Room of One’s Own‚ Virginia Woolf explored the social constraints that limited women’s literary and artistic production. Talent‚ even genius‚ counted for little‚ Woolf mused‚ without
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“To acquire knowledge‚ one must study; but to acquire wisdom‚ one must observe.” ― Marilyn Vos Savant “You can’t just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.” ― Joseph Delaney‚ Night of the Soul Stealer “It does not matter where you go and what you study‚ what matters most is what you share with yourself and the world.” ― Santosh Kalwar “I don’t sing a song unless I feel it. The song don’t tug at my heart‚ I pass on it. I have to believe in what I’m
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work . some of them being 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. On 31 May 2009‚ aged 75‚ she died at a hospital in Pune‚ but has earned considerable respect in recent years. Themes in the Poetry of Kamala Das: The poetry of Kamala Das is a search for the essential woman‚ and hence
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Essay Question #2: In “A Room of Ones Own” by Virginia Wolf‚ this is where I started to think about domestic unease. To think about the inequality between men and women of the time‚ you would have to also imagine how this idea of a woman not being looked as equal to her husband could cause domestic unease. Virginia Wolf does a great job painting that picture for us when we imagine if Shakespeare had a sister. Here is a young lady who is married off young‚ ran away‚ attempts to become an actress
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Kingsolver‚ born 1955 Maryland US‚ after attending university studying biology she developed a passion for social activism‚ studying the works of Karl Marx and Simone de Beauvoir and partaking in protests against the Vietnam War. Through the novels of Doris Lessing‚ Kingsolver discovered the potential for fiction to carry messages of social and political advocacy. Upon discovering the United States involvement in the Congo’s failure at independence‚ Kingsolver was driven to make known the deprivation of Western
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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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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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at a Time‚Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang‚Hyperion New York‚ 1997 7) Human Resource Management‚ Theory and Practice‚ 3rd edition‚ John Bratton and Jeffrey Gold‚ Pallgrave Macmillan‚ 2003 [10] Human Resource Management‚ Theory and Practice‚ 3rd edition‚ John Bratton and Jeffrey Gold‚ Pallgrave Macmillan‚ 2003‚p.54 [11] http://www.starbucks.com/aboutus/csr.asp 5.4.2006. [14] Pour your heart into it‚How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time‚Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang‚Hyperion New York
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Reading Response: Through the Tunnel——by Doris Lessing Meaning: In the short story Through the Tunnel‚ Jerry and his mother spent their holidays near the sea. Jerry‚ the eleven-year-old English boy‚ was trying to become more independent and be accepted by the local boys so he left the safe beach where his mother stayed and turned to a more dangerous one. The main conflict appears when Jerry was convincing himself to practice holding a longer breath and dive through a long underwater tunnel made
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1 Annexure ‘I’ M.A. English Part-I & II The Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) and Appendix ‘B’ (Syllabi & Courses of Reading for M.A. English Part-I and Part-II shall be effective from the Session 2002-2003. The class admitted in the year 2002 will take their M.A. English Part-I Examination of 2003 according to new syllabus in the year 2003: - M.A. (English) Part I Examination of 2003 Appendix ‘A’ (Outlines of Tests) Marks Paper I (Classical Poetry) Paper II (Drama) Paper III (Novel) Paper
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