The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at
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In‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates shares a story about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who encounters Arnold Friend‚ a predator whose first words to Connie are‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby” (Oates). One day‚ while Connie is home alone‚ she receives an unexpected visitor from the mysterious boy she saw the other night while hanging
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Expressing Yourself Many people have opinions on what they see others wear. They feel that if everyone looks the same that there will be less problems. I believe they are wrong. Have you ever went to a school where they were about to give you a dress code? What was your opinion on the subject? If school officials like principals and vice principals decide they want to enforce a uniform rule they are not helping anything. They will be taking away students creativity and their ability to express
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Why did the people in the Roman Empire do slavery (27 BCE - 200 CE)? The people in the Roman Empire did slavery (27 BCE - 200 CE) because this was the time when they were trying to stabilize the Roman Empire and they needed a lot of workers for that so they used slaves. I think the writer wrote this because he wanted to help people that are very curious to know about these type of things. Mark‚ Joshua. “Pax Romana”. Ancient history encyclopedia. Where did the slaves live (if they lived anywhere)
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increasing in popularity. Video games that have violence in them such as Call of Duty‚ Gears of War or Grand Theft Auto‚ might be banned for showing mature content. Video games sold in the United States reach retail sales of twenty one billion dollars a year. If they are banned‚ the economy can lose an exceedingly amount of profit‚ and not to mention‚ a lot of mature adults would be extremely angry. Paragraph 2: When people say that video games are very influential on the youth of today‚ they are probably
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Should Colleges Focus More on Personal and Social Responsibility? Initial Findings from Campus Surveys Conducted for the Association of American Colleges and Universities as Part of Its Initiative‚ Core Commitments: Educating Students for Personal and Social Responsibility Survey Administered and Report Written By Eric L. Dey and Associates Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education University of Michigan School of Education 610 E. University Ann Arbor‚ MI 48109-1259 Core Commitments
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Have you ever had a nightmare that is so realistic it speeds up your heart rate and takes your very breath away? In Joyce Carol Oates’s 1966 “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ she tells a story of a teenager by the name of Connie. Connie has a fate of being kidnapped by a strange man that seems to know everything about her. Connie is a typical adolescent with a vivid imagination and a difficult‚ unstructured home. She is at a delicate time in her life of transitioning to find her “own”
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20‚ 2016 Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been Analysis The story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” written by Joyce Carol Oates has a different‚ yet catching title. The title plays strongly into the characters. One of the main character Connie really relates to the title. Her mom wants her to be this perfect little girl‚ whereas Connie likes the attention of guys and to be a little more on the rebel lifestyle. Connie never tells her mom “where she is going‚ or where she has been”
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Anaïs Nin may have thought a thousand thoughts when she uttered these gorgeous words: “The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” To me‚ she meant having the courage to know yourself well and to live life being exactly who you were meant to be. Just how well do you know yourself? It stuns me to meet people who hardly know themselves. But then again‚ who am I to be stunned when I did not know myself in my 20s? How I wish I
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is Tannen’s purpose in writing this essay? What does she hope it will accomplish? From what I gathered Tannen’s purpose was for us to comprehend the importance of communication in the work field. How the simplest verbal functions can be interpreted in many different ways. “Conversation is a ritual” I find so much meaning behind these four simple words‚ the article in its entirety are summed up by these word. Tannen wants to enlighten us to remember that our words are powerful. I believe she wants us
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