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    Doris Is Coming Summary

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    Reading the story Doris Is Coming made me believe in the story. The realism of it made me realize that even though I don’t believe everything they were stating. I was convinced that the last day on this earth was here‚ that day in that church. The conversations they were having with one another made more since to me. The other story was a bit harder for me to fully understand the scenario of that story. Doris is left to make sense of this world. This story made a very good point from the past history

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    Doris Drugdealer was arrested for drugs and sentenced a ten year. She was free for 34 years until the police found her fingerprints. Her family wants the governor to allow her clemency. 2. Doris grew up to be a nice and clean lady. She sold drugs when she was 19 and escaped for prison. She believed in ethics and there is a risk every day of your life. Doris Drugdealer changed from being a drug dealer and started to give attention to your family and friends. She showed love and care to them

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    Candide Free-will-agent Determine the course of action Leibniz Cause-effect Nature catastrophe disaster=knowledge Good and bad=moral Third person Good may distance readers from the protagonist/hero Genealogy Chain reaction‚ trace back the origin Disease: syphilisparody of genealogy love and cause and effect become questionable El Dorado The best‚ utopia Good: no material wealth‚ all in agreement‚ knowledge/gallery‚ safe (very hard to reach and surrounded by mountains)‚ open

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    A Summary of Doris Lessing’s “Group Minds” In the article “Group Minds”‚ by Doris Lessing‚ she analyzes the fact that most people feel the need to belong to a group‚ and cannot be alone. The British writer and Nobel prize winner for literature refers to these people as “group animals”‚ and believes there is nothing wrong with this. The risk with this statement is that it is hazardous to being unable to comprehend the social laws that demonstrate to us how to live our lives. Considering

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    the same thing happened with Roger and Doris. In both of the story “Thank you‚ Ma’am” by Langston Hughes‚ and “Stray” by Cynthia Rylant. Roger and Doris have similarities and differences. They are both poor‚ something good happens to them‚ but their life styles are both different. Roger and Doris are similar in many ways. Roger is poor so that is why he went out to steal money from a lady named Mrs. Luella bates Washington jones. While‚ Doris couldn’t even afford a dog‚ that’s why

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    a man’s society for years. Feminist literature existed before feminism as a movement did. Finally‚ in the 20th century‚ this led to the second and third waves of feminism criticizing the limitations of patriarchal and sexist society for women. Doris Lessing in her story “To Room Nineteen” uses many symbols to explain how women in patriarchal society feel oppressed and unfulfilled. Here I would like to discuss the symbols I consider to be the most important. These symbols are the snake eating its own

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    Modern Dance

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    What is modern dance? Modern dance is For some people it simply means "not classical ballet‚" by which they mean not rooted in an established academic code of movement. This usage‚ however‚ lumps together genres that are better understood in their particularity such as Post Modern Dance and New Dance. Modern Dance can now be used as a historic term referring to a particular group of choreographers and the tradition of dance values they established. the term is used to describe a variety of styles

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    Dance History Review

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    Dance History II‚ Mid-Semester Exam Study Questions Prepare answers for all of the questions below. On the exam you will answer 8 questions: 4 that I select and 4 that you select = 8 total. The length of each answer should be one-half page or more. 1. How did the Ballet Russe under the Russian director‚ Diaghilev‚ break from the ballet traditions of Russian ballet in the early 20th century? What were the existing ballet traditions at the end of the 19th century in Russia and what new innovations

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    Modern Dance

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    Alana Menta 10/4/12 Modern dance What is Modern Dance? Modern dance in my eyes is a form of dance which focuses on the serious expression of the inner emotions‚ using a free-flowing‚ interpretive style‚ rather than following the rigid rules characteristics of many dance disciplines. When modern dance first developed at the turn of the 20th century‚ it was considered extremely radical and iconoclastic; over the years since‚ modern dance has become more closely mingled with other disciplines

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    Helen Tamiris Biography

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    solos‚ including Florentine‚ Portrait of a Lady‚ Impressions of the Bullring‚ and Circus Sketches. From 1927 to 1944‚ Tamiris’s concert career persevered. During this time‚ she choreographed many works for herself and others‚ such as Martha Graham‚ Doris Humphrey‚ and members of the New Dance League and Group. Tamiris choreographed works that were forceful and vivacious to express her belief that life was a conflict. Between 1928 and 1941‚ Helen Tamiris

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