and had long black hair. After Lilly bumped into me‚ I began to notice her more and more around school. I noticed that she was always alone‚ and always seemed sad‚ but I didn’t care‚ she bumped into me and I thought it was rude and inconsiderate. About half way through the school year Administration sent an email out to all the parents saying that a student tried to commit suicide during school hours and alerted them that there would be a short news feed discussing the incident‚ it was Lilly. See
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“[Connie] had a quick‚ nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or 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
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do we Become Who we are? Everybody has their own opinion on how you become who you are. Everybody is different no matter how hard you try to be the same. Just like John Holland and Carl Joung‚ people try to justify the reasoning behind how we become who we are. Unlike the theories we have learned about in class I don’t believe it is possible to catergorize people or put them into groups. According to the birth order affect you should be able to catorgerize yourself into one of four catogories;
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people views in innocence is freedom from sin‚ moral wrong‚ or guilt through lack of knowledge of evil. At some point in everyone’s life they will eventually lose there innocence‚ it just depends on the choices they have made. In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” She uses characterization and imagery to show how Connie is dealing with the loss of her innocence Oates characterization of Arnold Friend shows how Connie’s perspective of Arnold and his looks leads to the
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HAVE YOU READ A NEWSPAPER? ABSTRACT Have you ever wondered; why we find the lead story in the farthest upper-right hand column? Like most people‚ we try to keep up with the news by watching it on television. That is how 65% of us get 100% of our news – from the 24-odd-minute television news broadcast. What television news bring is primarily a front-page headline service only. To get all one needs to know‚ one has to amplify these headlines with a complete account of the news from a well-edited
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Commentary on "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" 10/17/06 Joyce Carol Oates has achieved many things through her writing‚ and is recognized worldly for her short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" This story is centered on a young teenage girl as many of her stories are. Oates as a writer is fascinated with adolescence of young females. She chooses to write about the trials and tribulations of growing up in modern society. She pries on the dark aspects of youth often
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always one to be searching for it. To many if not all the need to help another might seem urgent in times such as drug addiction‚ financial problems‚ or a troubled marriage. The help being received is not always welcomed with open hands. A person can get helped by many others‚ but if they are reluctant to change their ways‚ Then there is no point in them being helped. This is stated in the adage “you can lead a horse to water‚ but you can’t make it drink.” This adage comes to prove that there is
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Do I make you proud? We all wanted to make our parents proud of us. All parents wanted their child to finish their studies and be a professional but not all are lucky to pursue it because of financial incapability. Now‚ I just wanted to share this famous line of a song entitled “Do I make you proud?”. I’m never been the one to raise my hand‚ that was not me and now that’s who I am because of you I am standing tall. My heart is full of endless gratitude. You were the one‚ the one to guide me through
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hiding place in the wall a knotted grimy rag - this is her “doll”‚ the knot is the doll’s head. There is a lady all in white Holds me and sings a lullaby. She’s nice to see and she’s soft to touch She holds her doll to her ears and whispers these words: She says; Cosette‚ I love you very much. I know a place where no one’s lost I know a place where no one cries. Crying at all is not allowed‚ Not in my castle on a cloud. Madame Thenardier comes bustling down the stairs in a bad mood.
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Finding Her Identity: An Analysis of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been is about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is searching for her independence from her mother. The exposition is in the month of July at their home‚ where Connie is being scolded by her mother about her being obsessed with her looks. Her mother says‚ “Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty? (171) Her mother wants her to be more
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