story‚ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the character Arnold Friend was based on the serial killer in which Connie was one of the many victims he had abducted. There are many possibilities on how the author intends the readers to understand it. Such as‚ it could be a dream that Connie is having‚ in all actuality it could be real; it could send a message to young women‚ or it becomes a nightmare when he comes as a demonic figure. Connie has been living
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So dominant has the Prime Minister become that some have argued that he or she is effectively a president. The Prime Minister is the most important person in British politics. The Prime Minister appoints his cabinet and makes the final decisions on major issues. The Prime Minister cannot become a President as the UK system would not allow it but in the recent years‚ people have criticised that our Prime Ministers have increasingly become more of a presidential figure in Parliament. Some of the
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with music‚ miniskirts‚ sexual freedom and drugs. At that time‚ Joyce Carol Oates created her works‚ in which she talked about ordinary everyday affairs‚ giving them a specific dark climate fueled by the second bottom. A short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" was written in such climate. Oates addressed the problem of growing up in the 1960s. For many people this period seemed to be bliss‚ but for others it was a period full of doubts and dilemmas. The main character of this story‚
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To what extent has the importance of the Tet Offensive of 1968 been overrated? On January 30th 1968 over 80‚000 Vietcong soldiers launched a surprise attack on over 100 towns and cities in South Vietnam. This is known as the Tet Offensive. The US army and South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) launched a counter-attack which regained all lost territory and crippled the military capabilities of the Vietcong. Some historians argue Tet was not as important as it appears to be. However‚ it is widely considered
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Has the world treated me fairly or unfairly? Everyone has a different perspective on fairness of the world‚ people would say that the world has been fair‚ unfair‚ or both to their lives. I stand where I believe the world has been fair to my life. Living in Saipan gave me a lot of opportunities and great moments. I received great education and got a chance to share passion with other good people. Everyone gets a chance to enjoy their lives‚ and I think that so far I have gotten that chance. I can
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hero. Heroism comes in many ways through attitudes and acts of oneself. I believe heroism is the intent of doing something for the benefit of others‚ and not caring about the consequences that might ensue. In Joyce Carol Oates’s "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚" we see the character of Connie in a process of making the hardest decisions of her life as she chooses the heroic path. By having the knowledge of her own fate and life atrisk of her family being hurt‚ she decided to go with the
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For thousands of years‚ humans have been amazed at what we call flight but in the past hundreds of years‚ humans have been trying to make different machines fly. In 1903‚ Wright brothers had built a new type of flying machine called the airplane which they launched in Kitty Hawk‚ North Carolina. Although they were not the first to fly‚ the airplane was a new design that would forever change history. It was an innovation in technology that had never been seen before. The airplane‚ one of the fastest
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September 2013 How Computer Hardware Has Evolved My father was one of the first computer hardware engineers. He joined the Air Force in 1980 and worked on all the computers that ran communications with the fighter planes. My earliest memories were of my father taking me to work and the load hum of the computers as they ran. He took me through dozens of rooms to his office and showed me a part that he had just fixed. It was a board that was at least two feet long and a foot wide. He pointed to a
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The Constitution has many amendments that do not apply to today’s society. This document is known as a living document‚ named that because it was meant to be able to change every thirty or so years to keep along with the times. Many people think that the Constitution should never be changed because of its importance to the history of our country‚ but‚ Thomas Jefferson thought otherwise in 3 letters that he wrote to Maddison addressing the matter. From September of 1787 to today‚ America along with
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Women have built an image for themselves over the years as independent‚ strong‚ and smart. However‚ the women in the following stories represent a different image for women. In both short stories‚ “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ the protagonists are lured by their bad decisions leading to their demise; the victims’ bad decisions along with the criminals’ bad intentions led to death creating the plot of both stories. Although‚ the stories have the same
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