The protagonist of Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a vain and stubborn girl named Connie. Fifteen years old‚ she believes beauty is everything and is nothing short of rebellious‚ maintaining two different personas: one for at home with her family and one for going out with her friends. One night out with her girl friends‚ Connie spots a young man watching her. He promises to come get her. The next day‚ the man comes to Connie’s house‚ keeping his word‚ and spends
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The story‚ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates is truly littered with conventions of Psychoanalysis. Freud developed a list of defense mechanisms used by the human subconscious in order to deal with issues too intense for the conscious mind. These strategies of the psyche are translated into symbols scattered throughout this work. These symbols are expressed through the characters of Connie‚ and Arnold Friend. The first convention is denial. Denial is when the subconscious
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The Two Sides of Connie ‘Narrative details in ’ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ The story ’ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ is about the fifteen year old Connie who is a girl struggling with her sexuality. The girl tries to be an adult and attractive‚ but at the same time‚ she hides her sexual side from her family. These two sides cannot remain separate from each other at all times and collide with each other‚ which this short story depicts. The main idea in this short story
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undermined America’s most valued beliefs. Despite this inconsistency‚ slavery was still widely supported and permitted out of economic necessity in the South. Slavery divided the nation in half. The economy of the South was primarily agricultural production on plantations. This form of economy made slavery vital to the state of the South. In the North‚ The economy was primarily industrial‚ which eliminated the dependency on slavery much earlier. Because of the vastly different economic bases of these
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ENGINEERING SMU 3852 FACILITIES PLANNING Lecturer Affandi M. Zainal Room : C23-324 Tel : 07 – 553 4644 / 016 – 722 4500 E mail : affandi@utm.my UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA 1 COURSE OBJECTIVES • • • Effeciency and effectiveness of an industrial organization is dependent on the design of the facilities offered in such an organization. Facilities d i i l d F iliti design includes‚ among other things‚ th thi selection of facilities location‚ facilities layout design‚ storage
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possible. Manufacturing requirements are determined based on sales forecast‚ customer orders or inventory targets. Production schedule is generated with information provided by different modules such as customer order‚ inventory‚ manufacturing order and purchase order. With this schedule‚ management can effectively plan the production‚ monitor the inventory movement and set the production target. Furthermore‚ the system provides tools to analyze productivity and its production cost given the schedule
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1. This mouse term refers to positioning the mouse pointer on the desired item. Point 2. This mouse term refers to tapping the left mouse button twice in quick succession. Double click 3. This symbol is attached to the mouse pointer when a request is being processed and means “please wait.” Hourglass 4. Click this button on a window Title bar to reduce the window to a task button on the Taskbar. Minimize Window 5. Click this button on a window Title bar to expand the window
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case 2 Q1) Do you agree with Walters decision to keep product 103? 3 Analysis of Profit and loss statement 4 Sensitivity analysis 6 Strategic scenarios 8 Q2) Should superior lower as of January 1‚ 2006 its prices of product 101? To what price? 10 Q3) why did Supreme improve profitability during the period of January 1 to June 30‚ 2005? 13 Analysis 14 Q4) why is it important that Superior has an effective cost system? 17 What is your overall appraisal of the company’s cost system and its
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Prince George into the Royal family has created question on how a family who have rarely any privacy‚ could raise a child as normal as possible. The family could not even name George without approval from many others. But it brings up the question of‚ what is a “normal” upbringing anyway? If a normal upbringing is one which consists of two average paid parents‚ who live in a middle class suburban home‚ where they have two children who compete in several sports and go to an average school and grandparents
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Case 6-3 Question 1: Westwood’s Gross Margin Percentage is calculated as (sales less cost of goods sold) as a percentage of net sales revenue. For Westwood it’s calculated as follows based on the financial statements (all in millions of dollars): 2010 Gross Margin: (2000-1100) = 900 2010 Sales Revenue = 2000 2010 Gross Margin Percentage = 45% 2009 Gross Margin: (1500 – 800) = 700 2009 Sales Revenue = 1500 2009 Gross Margin Percentage = 46.7% Westwood’s Pre-Tax Return on Sales
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