Professor Hauth-Forgie English 102 19 February 2014 Arnold Friend or Arnold Foe ‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’‚ a short story by Joyce Carol Oates‚ takes place in the mid-sixties and revolves around two central characters‚ Connie and Arnold Friend‚ who mysteriously appears at Connie’s home and tries to coax her into coming with him before ultimately forcing her. Arnold Friend is a much debated character among critics‚ largely due to hints of inhuman abilities and his intentions
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И. В. АРНОЛЬД Лексикология современного английского языка Издание третье‚ переработанное и дополненное Допущено Министерством высшего и среднего специального образования СССР в качестве учебника для студентов институтов и факультетов иностранных языков Сканирование‚ распознавание‚ проверка: Аркадий Куракин (ark # mksat. net)‚ сен-2004. Орфография унифицирована к британской. Пропущены страницы: 50-53‚ 134-139‚ 152-161‚ 164-171‚ 201-202‚ 240-243 ББК 81.2 Англ-923 А 84
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As a poet Arnold is generally admitted to rank among the Victorians next after Tennyson and Browning. The criticism‚ partly true‚ that he was not designed by Nature to be a poet but made himself one by hard work rests on his intensely‚ and at the outset coldly‚ intellectual and moral temperament. He himself‚ in modified Puritan spirit‚ defined poetry as a criticism of life; his mind was philosophic; and in his own verse‚ inspired by Greek poetry‚ by Goethe and Wordsworth‚ he realized his definition
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Arnold repeatedly writes his sentences in a passive form in his poem. Additionally‚ he ends his sentences before the end of his complete thoughts. These enjambments that he uses make the new lines to start without a verb or subject‚ simply becoming clauses. This is to say that Arnold doesn’t continue his thoughts in one line unlike people who attempt to end up their thoughts with others avoiding an extended talk. This is to say that people prefer to stay alone talking in a limited way‚ whereas
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Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History Sidney‚ . (1986). Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. Chicago: Penguin Books. While studying the history since the sixteenth century‚ there was an interpretation then of how they would cut close by common social causes. In this book the author proves as to how Europeans and Americans transformed the basic commodity‚ sugar‚ from a rare foreign luxury‚ to a common necessity of modern life. There is a lot of emphasis
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The Study of Poetry‚ which appeared in 1888 as the first entry of his Essays in Criticism‚ Second Series‚ presents Matthew Arnold’s case for the importance of poetry. According to Arnold‚ poetry is the criticism of life‚ “and the criticism of life will be of power in proportion as the poetry conveying it is excellent rather than inferior” (237). Arnold argues that the purpose of poetry is to interpret life‚ to explain meanings beyond our comprehension: “more and more mankind will discover that we
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Sweetness & Power Power Pg. 178 “meaning and power touch this time….” Pg. 45 “sugar was a monopoly of a privilege minority” Pg. 186 “In this perspective‚ sugar was the ideal substance…” “Power” was sugar‚ being the ideal substance because its use provided many meanings‚ like what it meant to people and what people signaled by consuming it. These meanings were associated with differences like age‚ gender class‚ and profession. People cannot make sugar but it can be used and changed
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David Cano 3/1/2014 ENC1102 Arnold Friend = Devil? One of the big mysteries In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Is Arnold Friend the devil or not. Arnold Friend portrays the devil in many ways. In the story‚ Arnold friend is the devil‚ he went to Connie’s house and tries to get her to go for a ride with him and his friend Elli Oscar so‚ he can rape and kill her. Arnold Friend is none other than the devil himself‚ which shows in his appearance‚ his speech‚ his
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Based on scientific facts the color of a person skin forms according to genes and their environment. Therefore‚ a skin color can not symbolize danger of safety‚ because it is not something that can be controlled. However in the story " Sweetness" by Toni Morrison being the speaker says that being black is something terrible. The speaker mother of Lula Ann’s treated Lula as a treat. She hid her‚ punish her‚ and addressed her only daughter by her color. She blamed their hardships on the fact that her
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In The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie‚ Alan Bradley personifies the estate‚ Buckshaw‚ to create a new character that illustrates the significant depression that the family and town is feeling after Harriet’s death. To begin with‚ Bradley describes the house in a negative connotation with‚ “It’s early-Victorian wall paper (mustard yellow‚ with a splattering of things that looked like blood red clots of string) made it seem larger: a cold‚ boundless‚ drafty waste.” (Bradley 17) Bradley describes
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