Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British writer‚ science writer and futurist‚ inventor‚ undersea explorer‚ and television series host (Wikipedia‚ 2016). He was successfully published a novel entitled “Childhood’s End”. A novel has a science fiction theme where the story mainly take a background about the invasion of alien into the world. Clarke try to bring our imagination about how does a world would look alike in the future. In brief‚ the story begins around the late twentieth century when the alien
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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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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is one of Joyce Carol Oates best short stories. Oates shows the reader what it is like to take things for granted and make mistakes through the main character‚ Connie. Throughout this story‚ Connie finds her identity and grows as a woman. In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ Joyce Carol Oates shows us the struggle of a young woman dealing with her family‚ sexuality‚ and common mistakes that can be made
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One story from the short story unit that depicts impossibilities is “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” Connie’s vanity is not abnormal; many teenagers who are her age and attractive act the same way. The impossibility of the story appears in the form of Arnold Friend. Whether he is Satan‚ a serial killer‚ Jesus‚ Bob Dylan‚ or none of the above‚ his presence seems odd. Arnold Friend seems to know too much about Connie’s life to simply be a stalker. He know that the rest of Connie’s family
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Paper “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a short story that poses many questions centered around the protagonist‚ Connie and the antagonist Arnold Friend and his “comrade” Ellie. The fate of Connie at the end of the story is still up for debate after all these years after the story was published in 1966. The main question posed is who actually is Arnold Friend? Is he the devil or something else? The answer may never be fully known but in
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form. I found their very modern and up to date with their health and safety. The manager of the leisure centre carries out the risk assessment annually. The area I decided to conduct my risk assessment was the pool area as I feel this is the place where a risk is most likely to occur. Risk Assessment- Every employer must identify the hazards that exist in their workplace‚ assess the risk of these and then develop a risk assessment of those risks as they apply to the employees who are exposed to them
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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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Innocence “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?” presents many themes and symbols to the reader. One that jumped out at me while reading the story was the overall feeling of innocence. Joyce Carol Oates shows us innocence from the very beginning of the story to the end where Connie loses self-control and power. From the first paragraph of the story we learn that Connie is a young fifteen year old who longs for attention and acceptance. I was able to relate to the story better when I paused
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Chong-Kai Prison Camp in Myanmar. At the prison camp‚ Gordon was forced to labor to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Gordon experienced the most extreme pain that humans can ever endure. The situation was getting worse everyday to the point where all the prisoners finally became and behaved like savages. It was ordinary to steal other prisoners’ food and supplies‚ even from the dying prisoners. They also fought for food crumbs on the ground because there was a lack of food for them to eat.
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End-to-End Requirement Traceability through Contribution Structures and Requirements Traceability Matrices Aamrah Naqvi aamra_naqvi@yahoo.com College of Computer Science PAF - Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology‚ Pakistan Syed Irfan Hyder hyder@pafkiet.edu.pk College of Compter Science PAF - Karachi Institute of Economics and Technology‚ Pakistan. Abstract Requirements traceability is the ability to follow the life of a requirement‚ in both forward and backward direction
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