Commentary on "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" 10/17/06 Joyce Carol Oates has achieved many things through her writing‚ and is recognized worldly for her short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" This story is centered on a young teenage girl as many of her stories are. Oates as a writer is fascinated with adolescence of young females. She chooses to write about the trials and tribulations of growing up in modern society. She pries on the dark aspects of youth often
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1. How would you describe Juan’s developmental profile and family background? Juan is a four-year old White/Caucasian male who is being raised in a single-parent home. Physically‚ Juan is growing up as healthy young boy standing at 40-45 inches tall. His body temperature ranges between 98-99.4 degrees F and his heart rate averages between 90-110 beats per minute. Being that Juan is the only child‚ he has a difficult time interacting with other children. He prefers to play alone and talk to himself
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sure her own was all right.” (1) In the story “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” the author Joyce Carol Oates‚ deliberately shows us the level of innocence of the protagonist Connie‚ as well as the similar features an inexperienced young girl who lived in 1966 compares to those of a young girl who is raised in our era. Young teenage girls in 1966 are no different than those now in 2018‚ as one day I too was a teenage girl myself‚ who cared a lot about how would see me. In the story Connie
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Embedded Assessment 2.1 How would you feel if you lived in a dystopian society instead of living in modern day society? Today in the world there are places where people have freedom and books that have societies that are like today but very different. There can be societies in the world that can be like the books. Why are they different? Dystopian societies have more have more laws to control their society. Look and read the differences and similarities of a dystopian and modern day society
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If You Ever Read This‚ Know That You Changed Me It’s so hard to only feel one particular emotion for extended period of time. Life is symmetrically separated by a thin line‚ one side is beautiful and the other is full of horror. My life is not in any way symmetrical. The pieces are not split equally‚ there is no pattern‚ only different shapes stitched back together to form one again. I would not let anyone help put back the pieces of my life together‚ because I thought I’d mold myself. That’s what
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Servant Leadership The idea of servant leadership was stated by Robert K. Greenleaf (1970). Robert K. Greenleaf founded the nonprofit Greenleaf Center for conducting people and organizations seeking to be better servant-leaders in 1964. According to Greenleaf “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve‚ to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first; perhaps because
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ELISA PANI ENG 101-210 ESSAY #1 Self knowledge is crucial for individual and society. How does Cisneros demonstrate this‚ and how can you relate? If you look in the Dictionary for the word self-knowledge it says‚ “self-knowledge is the knowledge or understanding of one’s own capabilities‚ character‚ feelings‚ or motivations”. Many people find themselves in difficult situations all the time. Some don’t fight to overcome this‚ but some do. It is even more difficult when that happens to kids
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Do you agree with this interpretation of Dunkirk? In this essay‚ I am going to explain a painting of Dunkirk‚ which was painted by a British painter in 1940. The artist‚ who painted the picture‚ was called Charles Cundall. He was sent by the British government to paint a picture about The Evacuation at Dunkirk. His main aim for painting this picture was to make Germany look bad and Britain look good. Therefore he had a reason to paint the picture as he was British himself. By looking at the picture
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drugs. At that time‚ Joyce Carol Oates created her works‚ in which she talked about ordinary everyday affairs‚ giving them a specific dark climate fueled by the second bottom. A short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" was written in such climate. Oates addressed the problem of growing up in the 1960s. For many people this period seemed to be bliss‚ but for others it was a period full of doubts and dilemmas. The main character of this story‚
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Servant Leadership - Servant Leadership is often interpreted differently by anyone who has been interested in it. However‚ there are certain traits that are consistent in the definition and most people do agree that the main goal is to empower others. I believe one of my strongest characteristics would be listening and empathy. In my opinion‚ these two go hand in hand and should actually be considered one characteristic. I have always been a person that others could feel comfortable confiding
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