Public Service Workers Should Not Have the Right to Strike Firefighters‚ police‚ teachers‚ and even trash collectors all play important roles in our world. Without these public service workers‚ our communities would not be the same as they are now. For the benefit of our communities‚ public service workers should not have the right to strike. When workers go on strike they don’t go to work for as long as it takes for them to get what they want. For certain jobs‚ if they go on strike they can affect
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YOU HAVE TO FIX THE MIND BEFORE YOU CAN BESTOW THE BLESSING!!! BECAUSE UNTIL YOU GET YOUR MIND RIGHT‚ EVERYTHING THAT YOU’VE INVESTED IN IS GOING TO LEAK OUT OF THE CREVICES OF A MIND THAT REFUSES TO CHANGE!!! LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND ASK THEM‚ "DO YOU HAVE A MIND TO CHANGE?" WAIT FOR AN ANSWER...... IF THEY SAID NO‚ DRAG THEM TO THE CHURCH!!! TELL THEM THEY’VE GOT TILL THE END OF THIS YEAR TO GET THAT FIXED... THEY’VE GOT TILL DECEMBER 31 TO DUMP OUT ALL JEALOUSY‚ ALL PETTINESS‚ ALL
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Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is about a teen named Connie who is insecure and is looking for an escape from her household. The main antagonist‚ Arnold Friends main objective is to lure Connie out and take her on a so called “date”. He does this by trying to make small talk. Some of the things said can be very creepy as he seems to have psychic abilities and know everything. One of the more irrelevant things said was‚ “Leave me alone‚” Connie whispered. “Hey‚ you know
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The Fantasy of Life In the novels The Great Gatsby and "Where Are You Going and Where Have You Been" authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Joyce Carol Oates show a theme of fantasy versus reality to convey a deeper meaning within their novels. They express this theme using characters such as Gatsby‚ Connie‚ Daisy and Arnold Friend within the stories. Through these characters lives and experiences the theme is created connecting both stories. The theme of fantasy versus reality is used to a great extent
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The short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?‚” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is a tale about a teenage girl making the journey from her known world into something she has never experienced before. The main character lives the normal teenage life listening to the latest music and going out with her friends to the mall. “They must have been familiar sights‚ walking around the shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the sidewalk” (753). One night with her
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Parent-Child relationship in Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates and in In the Gloaming‚ written by Alice Elliott Dark are two different demonstrations of relationships that parents and children have with one another. In Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been the Parent-Child Relationship was strained and distant in In the Gloaming‚ the Parent-Child Relationship was close and open. In Where Have You Been‚ Where Are You Going? Connie and her mother were always
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Do you think adding another hour to our class periods can help us with our grades and other things that we might need help on it. I believe that having the school add more hours to our classes are helpful to us because one it can help us finish our work because our regular time is not enough time for us to finish our work‚ so if we don’t finish our work we will behind our work and have to catch up. Second reason why I think having the school. Adding an hour and a half is a bad idea because the more
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Have you ever felt nice? In the story “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hughes‚ Mrs.Jones is nice. One reason she is nice is Mrs.Jones is forgiving. Another reason Mrs. Jones is nice is she is trusting and the last reason Mrs. Jones is nice is she is caring. In particular Mrs. Jones is nice because she is forgiving. The reason she is forgiving is she brought Roger into her home and washed him up. She also fed him lima beans and ham after Roger took her pocketbook. I think that Mrs. Jones wants Roger
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the setting creates division between innocence and adulthood. In the story‚ the protagonist is a complicated and confrontational young woman named Connie. The narrator explains that “Everything about her had to sides to it” (Oates 1). Connie has two personas‚ the person she is at home and the rebellious and carefree young woman she is away from her home. Throughout the plot‚ the doorway symbolizes a threshold that Connie has to
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In Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been Joyce Carol Oates uses compelling themes to convey real life issues to the readers. She also exploits many references to well know fairytales through symbols and motifs. This short story shares the theme of good versus evil to the fairytales Cinderella‚ Rapunzel and Snow White. The theme of evil is first expressed through Connie’s and Cinderella’s afflictions with their sisters that shape the essence of sibling rivalry. Like Cinderella‚ Connie’s sister
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