Essay: «Are you an optimist or a pessimist about your future» Optimists believe in surpassingly fair and god-blessed future‚ meantime pessimists prophesy that we should expect nothing but trouble in the future. Both opinions go from one extreme to another. It is just conceivable the truth lies somewhere in the middle. At least once every human was plainly perplexed by the ultimate questions of existence‚ the meaning of life and future. While the first two subjects may be light-heartedly brushed
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horrifying situation where the outcome is unpredictable many physical and emotional changes take place. Joyce Carol Oates’s story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" places Connie‚ a typical teenager‚ in this situation. Throughout the story‚ occasionally using religious undertones‚ Connie’s language of a typical teenager gradually changes‚ from calm and somewhat curious to nervous and terrified. Early in the story on a Sunday morning‚ Connie’s family leaves to go to a family barbeque
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Matt Merritt Professor Smith English 102 13 September 2012 Arnold Friend’s Identity in Joyce’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Oates portrays Connie as a beautiful young woman that is being coerced by a man‚ whom she doesn’t know‚ to come outside and go for a ride in his car. Who is this man that calls himself Arnold Friend? What does he represent? Looking at the things that Arnold Friend says and does will help to discover
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates A short story titled "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" tells a tale of an adolescent girl who suffers consequences of growing up in the unsupportive environment and the society preoccupied by the media. It is considered to be the most famous work of Joyce Carol Oates‚ an American writer‚ the winner of many significant literary awards and a two- time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story was first
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The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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represented in many cultures as multiple significant meanings and some that I identify with. The structure of an elephant is obvious to the human eye it’s a huge ass animal with big ears and little tiny eyes‚ but if you take time to research the background and the reason for their structure you would hopefully become as obsessed with an elephant as I am. Their memories are unbelievable never forgetting the path they went through proving to be wrong and dangerous to them. Although they never fear because they
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per the McKinsey & Company report on “The Future of the Automobile Industry”‚ the ecosystem of the industry is changing fast and is becoming more regulated due to strict environmental restrictions and emission control and alternate fuel requirements. Automobile has always been considered as means of both “transportation and personal expression”‚ but Generation Y of millennial do not concur to that psychology of Baby Boomers. Today automobiles are more about vehicle connectivity‚ interactive safety
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WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM The argument of this book {Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation By Steven Johnson} is that a series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. The have been distilled down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns—in our private work habits and hobbies‚ in our office environments‚ in the design of new software tools—the better we will be at tapping our extraordinary capacity for innovative
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact
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The dramatic irony of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” conveys the tone of warning about temptation. Connie’s situation is that she does not feel appreciated at home and uses her looks and actions to get attention and appreciation from boys even if it is short-term. She is self-conscious about her looks and is constantly worried about how other people perceive her. Friend’s fantasy is that Connie will willingly go with him and be his “lover” (605) even before he officially met her. The
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