“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is the suspenseful tale of fifteen year old Connie and her situation with a strange man. Connie‚ who usually enjoys the attention of the older boys‚ sees the man randomly when she is on a date. Some time later‚ the man shows up to Connie’s house and asks her if she wants to go for a ride with him and his friend. The man introduces himself as Arnold Friend‚ claiming to be eighteen years old. Connie soon begins to realize the two men look much older than
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checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right.” (1) In the story “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” the author Joyce Carol Oates‚ deliberately shows us the level of innocence of the protagonist Connie‚ as well as the similar features an inexperienced young girl who lived in 1966 compares to those of a young girl who is raised in our era. Young teenage girls in 1966 are no different than those now in 2018‚ as one day I too was a teenage girl myself‚ who cared a lot about how
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magnets‚ among other things. The country has achieved self-sufficiency in almost all areas and has developed into one of the top ten industrial world powers. However it must be noted that India’s development is rather twisted‚ with her communications not matching her cost-effective explosion. In the current world atmosphere‚ everything depends on money and power and there is not much concern about the real value of love and compassion. If human society loses the value of justice‚ the value of compassion
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We learn from our mistakes and not from our success Do you remember the day that you lied or steal and got caught from your parents or teacher? However‚ it is not wrong to make a mistake if you learn not to do it again. Al Franken‚ the United States junior senator also stated “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned that hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake which at least others can learn from.” I believe people
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questioned the way of life and beliefs of their parents. It was a time filled 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
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Do We Define Our Lives‚ or Do Our Lives Define Us Kristen Hurst Over the last decade or so people have begun to make a shift into accepting a new way of looking at the world that we live in – the belief that is making this impact is that you create your own life and‚ in some respects‚ you are in charge of your own destiny. This system of beliefs became known as the “New Age Movement”‚ however it’s really not all that new. The “law of attraction”‚ as it’s also known‚ has been around perhaps nearly
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‘educating rita ‘ is a play about 26- year old woman‚ Rita‚ who feeling excluded from her restricted working class life‚ decided to attend an open university course. her tutor is frank a board cynical academic. because this is a play dialougue‚ setting‚ and structure are the most prevalent techniques used to represent the development of the protagonist sense of identity. The consequences of moving into the world may or may not be beneficial. Social and cultural backgrounds complicate the process
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Learning 1 Our self-identity has a lot to do with how we are perceived and treated by both significant and nonsignificant others. O ur identity is the very core of who we are as human beings. From birth‚ we are subject to how we are thought about‚ treated‚ and cared for by the significant persons in our lives as well as by others in multiple environments. Our ideas about self are largely a reflection of others’ ideas about us‚ good and bad or in between. Schools have an enormous influence
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Introduction Nowadays‚ Global warming is an incontrovertible fact‚ which proves that our planet and its climate are in trouble. Well global warming is a term that denotes a slow warming of the earth’s regular temperature. It was also named exclusively man-made effects‚ in particular carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide has largely increased during the past forty years‚ and scientists concluded that the average earth temperature has increased solely based on man-made activities such
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KLM- We have got a huge success on our hands Subject: CRM-case study chapter1 Case Summary The case is about KLM Flying Dutchman expanded by 20% in less than six months. The reason behind this was their attention paid to CRM. KLM CRM director Cristina Zanchi maximized their revenues per customer by utilizing the customer insight to augment their service. They wanted to interact with the customer and enhance the customer experience‚ thereby revenues. At the beginning KLM’s plan to introduce
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