Connie in “Where are you going‚ Where have you been”‚ has a lot of underlying mental issues. Joyce Carol Oates created the perfect character to receive psychoanalytic criticism. The relationships Connie forms with her family‚ friends‚ and outsiders are all affected by Connie’s issues which come to consume her future. One of Connie’s biggest faults was the recognition of her beauty. She “knew she was pretty and that was everything” (Oates 1). This constant checking of herself in mirrors to make
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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 life. The outcome of each story is different
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Recall: In the essay “Our Knowledge of the World Around Us‚” the author makes a number of points: 1) An external physical world does not exist 2) The only things that are in existence are the human brain and the ideas it generate 3) Perception is the brain’s own interpretation of what happens outside. 4) We are living in a Matrix Summary: The author rejects the concept of common sense or what he calls as “direct realism” that holds that the world is fairly represented as it is. He argues that seeing
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Where are you going‚ Where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates is an interesting piece of literature. Due to the intense nature of the story‚ many criticisms have come up. Many theories have been developed about hidden meanings within the work. One that is very controversial is the allusion to the bible. Many people say that there are clear references to the bible through a hidden code but this is not the case. Oates’s inspiration for the short story came from a magazine article about a series of
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Joyce Carol Oates’ story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is initially about a teen (Connie) who is going through the beginning phases of teen life‚ playing into the stereotype of an image-conscious teen. She is recalcitrant with her parents‚ sneaks off to start hanging out with boys‚ et cetera. About a third of the way through the story‚ a man that she had seen earlier at the diner shows up to take her out for a drive‚ and the situation goes downhill as she asks him more and more questions
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frequently asked that no one has a true answer. You have the people on one side saying that it will scar our children and nothing good can come from it‚ and you have the other half that believe it is the best way to discipline our children. So who do we believe? In my opinion I believe parents have the right to discipline their children‚ as long as it doesn’t surpass child abuse. I understand smacking your kid on the butt‚ but not on their arms or other extremities. In Introduction to Psychology
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Case 4 Shall we put up our price? Competition‚ price and revenue 1. Why might a restaurant charge very high prices for wine and bottled water and yet quite reasonable prices for food? As it is known price is one of the most important factors in competition. Thus price strategy on products/services should be carefully chosen in order to use it as one of the main competitive advantages and take the upper hand on competitors. In case of restaurants‚ the primary product is cuisine and special
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perception of the other pipes. I placed my left hand on the hot chimney and my right hand on the cold one. After waiting promptly 10 seconds I placed both hands on the center room temperature pipe. To the hand that had been on the cold pipe‚ it seemed hot. However to the hand that had been on the hot pipe it seemed cold. Even though I knew that the center pipe was at a lukewarm temperature‚ my senses were telling me otherwise. To what extent should we value information we draw from our senses? Much
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Second‚ water pollution is very serious and that concerns whether our economy can achieve sustainable growth. Due to bad quality of water‚ some very high quality products cannot be produced. This is just one kind of restrictions caused by water pollution. To make polluted water useful‚ people have to spend a lot of money and energy to clean it. Thus to prevent water pollution is very important. How? Factories and business must take their social responsibilities. Whatever they produce‚ they must
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Ms.Hassenkamp CP English II April 1st‚ 2014 In Our Time Assignment Gertrude Stein was quoted as saying that “… those who went to war missed civilizing and apart of the “Lost Generation.” The Lost Generation is considered the generation of men who were involved in World War I and as a result of their war experiences it caused disruption within the human mind‚ causing cultural and emotional instability. The term civilized or civilizing is another
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