Joyce Carol Oates’ story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is initially about a teen (Connie) who is going through the beginning phases of teen life‚ playing into the stereotype of an image-conscious teen. She is recalcitrant with her parents‚ sneaks off to start hanging out with boys‚ et cetera. About a third of the way through the story‚ a man that she had seen earlier at the diner shows up to take her out for a drive‚ and the situation goes downhill as she asks him more and more questions
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Comparison of Smooth Talk to “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oakes’s short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” was written in 1966 and twenty years later was made into a movie entitled Smooth Talk‚ winner of the 1985 U.S. Film Festival for best dramatic picture. The writing by Oates is loosely based on a true story described as “the tale of Charles Schmid‚ a twenty-three-year-old who cruises teenage hangouts‚ picking up girls for rides in his gold convertible”
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Carol Oates captured more than just the reader when she wrote the story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” Oates recreates an event that took place in the mid-1960s‚ where a grown man‚ who had shaggy black hair and a boyish charm‚ would lure teenage girls into his car‚ rape and murder them‚ and then bury their bodies in the desert. The fate of the main character in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” lies between Oates’s wavering suspense. From the beginning Oates shows the reader
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Small Team Paper I am on a team called Home Station Field Reset (HSFR). The group I work with is the Electronic and Armormant portion of the team. We have eight members in our group total. Our job is to do an initial inspection on all the electronical equipment‚ and weapons in the North Carolina National Guard coming home from overseas. After that we order what parts are needed to fix the equipment. Then when it is fixed we do a final inspection‚ and send it back to the unit so they can continue
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alive in her thoughts. Olsen’s fa’ade was being a housewife‚ she would have rather had other choices in her life and wanted more for her daughter as is told by the last quote in the story: In summary‚ all three women had no choice in their lives or they chose not to have a choice but to follow society’s way of thinking. "It was the only way we could be together‚ the only way I could hold a job" (Olsen 225). They did what they could do to cope and do stay within society boundaries of the feminine role
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by when I enter that world hereon in will be a challenge that I will accept‚ and an adventure that I am looking forward to. I have listed in my application that I want to enroll in either a political science or economics course‚ as I am both interested in those fields and they also serve as a stepping stone for my goal to become a lawyer someday. I have always been a consistent honor student in my previous years in school. I applied for and eventually passed the ESEP (Engineering and Science
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She says; Cosette‚ I love you very much. I know a place where no one’s lost I know a place where no one cries. Crying at all is not allowed‚ Not in my castle on a cloud. Madame Thenardier comes bustling down the stairs in a bad mood. She glowers at little Cosette and changes the closed sign from “closed” to “open”. MADAME THENARDIER Now look who’s here! The little madam herself‚ Pretending once again She’s been so awfully good! Better not let me catch you slacking! Better not catch
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society reinforces it with wages being paid by the hour; everything we do‚ every purpose we have‚ every goal we strive for‚ every moments we live by‚ it is what all for. So simply‚ that we are told thousands of times. But do we believe it live we believe the existence of life itself? Can we see it as we see everything crystal clear around ourselves? It was not too long ago that I went to an optometrist to have my eyes examined. I set aside the entire day‚ believing that I would leave the exam with
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Hunter Vernon English 1100 Charles Radcliffe Essay 2‚ draft 1 Devil in Disguise In Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where are you going‚ where have you been?”‚ Oates tells the story of a young girl named Connie‚ who is vain‚ self-centered‚ rude to her parents‚ and in an incredible hurry to grow up. She has two different personalities‚ “one for home‚ and one for anywhere that was not home.” Everything about her including her smile‚ her laugh‚ and her walk transforms as soon as she steps out her front
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I would like to tell you about an achievement that had impact on me‚ is learning English language. I that that would be easy but I figured that is very hard to learn a new language‚ learning English helped me a lot. I can understand better movies‚ songs even people speaking in English‚ and knowing this language is going to help me to have a better education in university‚ and in English course I made a new friends. Now I can understand much more English. Knowing English helped me a lot‚ now when
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