Doris Lessing’s personal encounters with the Zimbabwe inequities‚ within her speech “On not winning the Nobel Prize” and Margaret Atwood’s “Spotty-handed Villainess”‚ fundamentally highlight the significance of language and learning as a means to encourage and advocate social change within its audience- primarily through the speeches’ clever use of rhetorical devices. Doris Lessing’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech is one of incredible sentimentality as it highlights emphatically the absolute necessity
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LESSING’S BIOGRAPHY Doris Lessing‚ a British writer‚ was born in 1919 and awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007. Her father‚ who had lost a leg during his service in World War I‚ moved his family to Persia (now Iran)‚ in order to take up a job as a clerk. Doris was born there. The family then moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to farm. Her mother‚ obsessed with raising a proper daughter‚ enforced a rigid system of rules and hygiene at home‚ then she sent
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Hertha Marks Ayrton was a British mathematician‚ engineer‚ physicist and inventor who was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1906 by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water. Born in Portsea‚ Hampshire in 1854‚ she studied at Girton College‚ Cambridge‚ and registered 26 patents for mathematical divders‚ arc lamps and electrodes between 1884 and her death in 1923. As Google marks what would have been her 162nd birthday with a Doodle on its homepage‚ here are five
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Laura Secord was born was born on September 13‚ 1775. She was a settler in Queenston‚ Canada and was considered a Canadian heroine from her clever actions during the war of 1812. Her husband was wounded in the Battle of Queenston Heights. Laura found him in the battle field and brought him home. While Laura took care of her husband‚ she also had to tend the needs of the American soldier who would barge in. The soldiers started talking about plans of an attack. Laura overheard Colonel Boerstler’s
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DORIS LESSING: THE GREAT NOBEL LAUREATE "…that epicist of the female experience‚ who with scepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny"- Doris Lessing ‚ as described by the Swedish Academy while awarding her with the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Not an exaggeration for a writer whose repertoire is as eclectic as the range of issues and concerns she explored. Her writings cover modernism‚ post-modernism‚ politics‚ socialism‚ communism‚
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family she works for and calls her own daughter a "rotten piece of apple.... [tags: Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye]. The Sacred Language of Toni Morrison Toni Morrison makes a good point when‚ in her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature‚ she says‚ “Narrative . . . is . . . one of the principal ways in which we absorb knowledge” (7). The words we use and the way in which we use them is how we‚ as humans‚ communicate to each other our thoughts‚ feelings‚ and actions
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journalist. His distinctive writing style‚ characterized by economy and understatement‚ influenced 20th-century fiction‚ as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are classics of American literature. It’s a third person narration text. The description is interlaced with descriptive passages and dialogues of the characters. The text is realistic. The story is written
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technology and they use it all the 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
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not. For example‚ the college entrance examination score of Jiang Fangzhou‚ who is a talent young writer‚ was not so high. But Because of his outstanding writing ability she was unconventional admitted by Tsinghua University. Besides‚ the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan‚ but he had only primary education. On the other hand‚ high test score does not always represent a very strong personal capacity. “High scores and low abilities” is a new phrase in china. Xiao Li‚ a graduate
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Born Grace Brewster Murray in New York City on December 9‚ 1906‚ Grace Hopper studied math and physics at Vassar College. After graduating from Vassar in 1928‚ she proceeded to Yale University‚ where‚ in 1930‚ she received a master’s degree in mathematics. That same year‚ she married Vincent Foster Hopper‚ becoming Grace Hopper (a name that she kept even after the couple’s 1945 divorce). Starting in 1931‚ Hopper began teaching at Vassar while also continuing to study at Yale‚ where she earned a Ph
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