Means End Chain Model Dealing with real estate purchase are considered high involvement goods that require complex decision-making. However‚ in order to understand consumers’ cognitive structures and to extract the deeper motives behind an individual behaviour in buying houses using Means end Chain model and laddering helped us to understand the why and how products are important in an individual’s life. The means end chain interview sample size was 10 and the respondents were couples‚ all aged
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An ax clouting a tree‚ working stoically for two years‚ and stumbling through a blizzard; these situations show just how much determination Billy Coleman has stored in his body. This young boy shows the readers of the novel‚ Where The Red Fern Grows just how much persistence is useful in our lives‚ whether they be as exciting as Billy’s or day-to-day lives Billy Coleman has a type of disease every child gets; puppy love. At first he tries to persuade his father to get him a dog‚ but is told that
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Where are you going‚ where have you been? In the short story “Where Are You going? Where Have You Been?”‚ by Joyce Carol Oates. The use of the symbolism of Connie’s clothes‚ her fascination with her beauty‚ Arnold Friend’s car and Arnold Friend himself help to understand the story’s theme of evil and manipulation. The story‚ fill with underlying tones of evil. In this short story‚ Oates write about 15-year-old Connie‚ the protagonist of the story‚ a pretty girl who is a little too into her own
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transition is significant in a person’s life and it can be different for men and women. Not all transitions to adulthood are peaceful; they can violent transitions as seen in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man and Joyce Carol Oates’ Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been. These two stories reflect how males and females are represented differently in society through the protagonist violent transition to adulthood. The Man Who Was Almost A Man by Richard Wright is about a young adult named
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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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the id everything would get chaotic. The id is also known as the pleasure principle‚ and reality does not affect it. This component of our personality is fantasy oriented and irrational. Joyce Carol Oates places Arnold in her short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Arnold Friend represents the id in Connie’s personality. Everything Connie wishes about her life is exactly what Arnold represents. Arnold sets Connie free and gives her the things she has
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In the 1960s‚ when Oates wrote “Where Are You Going . . . ‚” a social revolution was happening. American women were asserting their rights and independence from men‚ and they were claiming their sexuality in a way they had never done before. One frequently discussed topic was adolescence and the struggles and anxieties that many young girls endured as they lost their sexual innocence and became adult women. Feeling undervalued in their homes and relationships with men‚ women questioned their role
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using the r-word‚ they should say nothing at all if they are using it in the incorrect context‚ or say “an individual with an intellectual disability” if they intend to use it in the correct context. Programs such as Best Buddies and Spread the Word to End the Word inspired me to take actions with my friends and family. Those who are aware of the cruelty associated with the r-word need to have the courage to stand up and fight against its
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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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imagining how he would behave if he were in his situation. The second part of soliloquy deals with Hamlet’s self censure and his anger headed for his uncle. The tone of this soliloquy is of self criticism and can be sensed from the very first line where Hamlet expresses himself as"rouge" and "peasant salve". Through using different techniques‚ Shakespeare seeks to maintain this tone from first to last of this soliloquy: One of the tools he uses to achieve this goal is by the means of exclamations
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