Dismissing your own individual opinions to reach group consensus‚ now that’s negative peer pressure! Peer pressure will always be a problem and can affect anyone. I say that because no matter where you’re from or who you are‚ peer pressure is lurking about. Anytime you’re pressured to do something and your conscience is telling you not to do it‚ and you follow through with the task anyway‚ that is dismissing your opinion just to please other group members. Not wanting to be ostracized by others is
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The article "Group Mind" by Doris Lessing was about people wanting to be in groups. A group is several people with a common interest. Being in a group gives us a sense of belonging; people out there being just like us. Lessing says; "We tend to think the way the group does: may even joined the group to find "like minded" people" (Lessing 357). This is because if we see other people in the world that are like us‚ then we will feel more wanted. Lessing sets up an experiment to prove her point.
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“Through the Tunnel” A risk that almost takes a life In the story “Through the Tunnel” by Doris Lessing‚ there is a boy whose name is Jerry. He is a big mamma’s boy. In the story he goes away from his mama‚ and into the bay with his friends. Jerry and his friends in the bay find an underwater tunnel‚ and they all swam through except Jerry‚ but Jerry takes a dangerous risk. Then Jerry shows that he has matured because at the beginning of the story he really only talks and stays by his mom and now
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SANDRA NFOr ENGL 102 SECTION: AS42 GROUP MINDS: HARD DEAL INFORMATION The Essay” Group Minds” was 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
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Group Minds is a very interesting and informative piece. Author Doris Lessing does a very good job trying to inform people about what is wrong with groups changing your opinion‚ and the idea that we do not use the information we have to improve ourselves. She offers a lot of good information‚ including an experiment that adds to her opinion about social groups. The author does a really good job getting her point across throughout the paper. "When were in a group‚ we tend to think as that group
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Through the Tunnel by Doris Lessing the protagonist‚ Jerry‚ yearns to be like the older boys. He is juvenile‚ seeking to fit in; wanting to be approved by the them. He is persistent to prove to them that he can make it
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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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and The Group Mind Group mind is a controversial topic that can greatly effect our society. This psychological phenomenon occurs when a group of peers hold very similar thoughts and make decisions in a way that discourages contradicting opinions and behaviors. This happens when peers in a group conform to certain beliefs to minimize any conflict and to prevent social isolation. Since group mind can happen to anybody‚ from a small group of elementary school-aged students to a larger group of activists
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conform to a group or majority. He does this by explaining the results of his 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
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individual’s lifetime‚ there are countless numbers of obstacles we must face. It is up to us‚ however‚ how we go about overcoming them. Throughout Doris Lessing’s “Through the Tunnel”‚ she uses numerous literary techniques in order to make the reader sympathize for Jerry‚ the story’s protagonist. Most notably‚ Lessing uses a plethora of imagery to give a mind- blowing vision on what is happening. She also uses symbolism‚ which gives us a deeper meaning than what is on the surface. Not to mention‚ during
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