power to distress humans both with physical sickness and with spiritual corruption is inexplicable. However‚ the idea of a man with such power and knowledge has been used in stories and films alike. In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Oates depicts Arnold Friend as the Devil; we can see this through his physical description‚ strange seduction‚ and his supernatural knowledge of Connie. The bodily features of Arnold Friend suggest he is the devil in disguise
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In the short story Where are you going‚ where have you been?‚ the author Joyce Carol Oates describes the life of a girl named Connie. The lack of love and security at home gives Connie the want to find a source to fill those missing feelings. She enjoys being around music‚ her friends‚ and other older boys. These interests are projected into her dream world. Oates shows these moments as the story progresses while Connie’s emotions and the physical state of reality become uncommon to her‚ even in
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Chapter 2. Question 4. How would you measure risk of being a victim? I would measure the risk of being a victim by incorporating the NCVS summary findings for 2009. This survey gives me a broad range of information to use to minimize the risk of being a victim of a crime. It gives us great information such as the following: 1. Gender: men are a little more being victimized then women. 2. Reporting: almost half of the crimes were only reported to police. 3. Race: the highest with 27% for 1000 persons
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Why I Would Be a Good Nurse Caring for a patient’s needs is the most important quality that any practical nurse should have. When a patient sees and feels that the nurse cares about them‚ immediately the patient starts building a trust relationship with that nurse. By building this trust the patient most likely will discuss its health problems with the nurse. Since the objective part of treatment is held by patient telling its nurse about the symptoms he or she faces‚ the trust is a must for patient
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Do not knock on the devil’s door‚ for he is bound to answer. Unfortunately this is exactly what happens to Connie‚ the main character in the short-story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates. In the story‚ fifteen year old Connie is like any other teenage girl. She is vain‚ unkind to her parents‚ and desperate to grow up. Connie makes rebellious decisions such as sneaking across the highway to a drive-in restaurant for older kids‚ experimenting with sex‚ and lying
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It all happened on a warm sunny saturday morning in “Where are you going. Where have you been’’ by Joyce Carry Oates. It started with an unfamiliar car bouncing along Connie’s long drive way. When she first heard the car she rushed to the window excitedly‚ frantically fixing her hair. Making sure she looked good‚ seemed to be an insecure habit for Connie. She saw an uninvited boyish looking man who was situated in the car parked now in her driveway. There was a tension of unease about the boyish
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What Should People with Education do. By Dr. Michael E. Dyson In the speech that Dr. Dyson had spoken‚ he had made some very strong points about what people with education should do. He touched on everything you could think of that was important. He once said in his speech “You can throw up the hood but don’t let the hood rest on your shoulders.” Its many people out there that have a decent education‚ but still lack common sense and that would try to help their “friends” who didn’t go out and
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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 in
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Comparative Report Canada is one of the largest countries in the world with a climate that ranges from arctic to mild with moderate summers and long‚ cold winters. Canada is a constitutional monarchy with a bilingual federal system‚ a parliamentary form of government and strong democratic traditions. Canada has immense mineral resources‚ it is the world’s largest producer of asbestos‚ nickel‚ zinc and silver. Canada is also heavily industrialized and the subsequent emissions add to the acid rain
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What changes would you like to see take place in your country within the next 10 years? Prosperity‚ stability and harmony have always been goals of countries and these take a lifetime of planning to achieve. By virtue of her smallness and dynamism‚ Singapore has taken a relatively short time‚ since her independence‚ to change and develop into what I hope will be a better place to live in. Family planning measures were introduced in Singapore in the early seventies. The results show that the
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