Write an account of a mistake you made and its consequences I made various mistakes in my life up to now‚ but there is one which I remember very vividly and even I shiver while I recall within my mind the whole story. I do not recall the exact date of the event‚ but I remember that it was a Saturday within the year of 1991‚ and at that time I was thirteen years old. At that age‚ Saturday meant going out‚ away from the school books and off for a new adventure. That day I had decided to phone my
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The Holocaust‚ defined as a whole burnt sacrifice was a historical conflict between the Nazis and Jews. In a broader perspective‚ conflict between the Aryan race and all other inferior races. The primary cause of the Holocaust was the Nazi Party’s rise of power. The social science perspectives of psychology‚ politics and sociology evaluate the factors that lead up to the primary cause of the Holocaust. Analyzing the conflict in the Holocaust helps to understand a current conflict such as the situation
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Air Sacrifice – Mongolia Photo by Viacheslav Smilyk Lamas direct the entire ceremony‚ with their number determined by the social standing of the deceased. They decide the direction the entourage will travel with the body‚ to the specific day and time the ceremony can happen. Mongolians believe in the return of the soul. Therefore the lamas pray and offer food to keep evil spirits away and to protect the remaining family. They also place blue stones in the dead persons bed to prevent evil spirits
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In her essay‚ Where are you going‚ Where have you been‚ Joyce Carol Oates‚ underscores the importance of communication to develop her story. Both the presence and absence of communication are utilized in the evolution of Oates’ purpose. The author relates each of her subjects to archetypal characters in order to firmly cast them into a category. Through careful consideration of detail‚ Oates’ offers a particular understanding of Connie’s relationship with her parents and the world around Connie.
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I learned that life is very hard and it get harder as you grow up to become a adult. I even learn that some people that come into my life will be a good person or a bad person but it is up to me to keep my eye appeal at all time. I had people in my life that told me as a little girl that I will be a person that drop out of school‚ have bady and never amount to anything in life. Even I started to think that over the year and it first started when I was in middle school when my sixth grade teacher
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Where Are You Going ‚Where Have You Been is a story written by Joyce Carol. The story talks about this fifthteen year old girl named Connie. Connie is the young child in her family. Her mother and her does not have a great relationship‚ because she is always being compared to her old sister June. Connie goes out with her friends to the mall. They walk pass this gold cadillac where this man named Arnold Friend says that he is going to get her. On Sunday her family went to BBQ and Connie decided to
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adulthood is frustrating and confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Music is one of the symbols mentioned in this story. The author mentions the music played in everywhere in the story. The author says that "The Music was always in the background". The music comes from restaurants‚ homes and cars. Music symbolizes the feeling and the emotions of the characters. For example‚ music for Connie is a pattern for romantic relationship. When she is happy‚ she hears music in everywhere. On the other hand‚ when she is sad‚ she
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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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in numerous times. He isn’t the only character obsessed with mortality‚ a lot of deaths or thoughts of it go on in the play. It is the death of Hamlet’s father that affected him in so many ways‚ and led him to a trauma with the topic. Overthinking made him do horrible things to the important people for him‚ demanding revenge and reacting impulsively. The meaning of life and the eventual ending are significant doubts in all characters‚ but mainly in Hamlet. "To be or not to be: that is the question:
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