Will something be done to stop it? I don’t know anything anymore… At first it was just about our education‚ now it’s gotten worse. It’s happening non-stop. We hear more shouts‚ cries and there’s nothing we can do to help HER. Today‚ in the kitchen‚ he slapped one of us just because. I peeked from the library. SHE was busy but managed to stop him from hurting my other half. Then‚ he got angry and got all furious. His face turned red and started barking out words that made HER angry. SHE screamed
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It can be fascinating how when you look at someone’s receipts‚ you can what kind of person they are. My own receipts over the past few months‚ for example‚ can show a lot about who I am and what I like to do. Listed with different titles of many movies and how much I paid for them‚ once can clearly realize through these paper strips that I have been a very serious movie watcher of action movies‚ movies in which the good guy is the hero. When I was in Saudi Arabia‚ during my teen years‚ I use to
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Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving us a glimpse in to Connie’s thoughts‚ her lonely isolation form her family‚ and her daydreams of boys and love songs. Connie’s negative‚ always nagging mother makes her fear growing up and being miserable
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Can Life Really Be What YOU Make It? A lot of people say they would like to change their life or retract their steps‚ but me I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world. Brooke Smith‚ my first child‚ that I went through 34 hours of labor with is a reminder of all that I have went through‚ what I have done to get to where I am today and what I will do for her to have the best life I can possibly give her being her mother. Certain things in my life were trying and devastating to where I wanted things
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about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...." The first quote is from “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie‚ who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl‚ yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way. 2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life." The second quote is from
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You Are What You Wear Research Paper Sarah Griffin B6 Our assignment was to dress up a day and to dress down a day. I participated in the activity. I dressed up on Friday the 14th‚ and dressed down the following day (Saturday the 15th). We’ll start with the day I dressed up. I liked it because I felt good and was‚ for the most part‚ sure about my appearance. People told me I looked nice and that made me confident. I also disliked it because I hardly ever do that‚ so I felt superficial
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are you going‚ where have you been?” Connie is affected by the role she plays in modern society. Fifteen year old Connie has the confusing‚ often exterior behavior typical of those girls who are facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood in the 1960s. She is caught between her roles as daughter‚ friend‚ sister‚ and object of sexual desire‚ uncertain of which represents her real self. The sixties were the age of youth‚ young people wanted change. The changes affected education‚ values
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Music is one of the symbols mentioned in this story. The author mentions the music played in everywhere in the story. The author says that "The Music was always in the background". The music comes from restaurants‚ homes and cars. Music symbolizes the feeling and the emotions of the characters. For example‚ music for Connie is a pattern for romantic relationship. When she is happy‚ she hears music in everywhere. On the other hand‚ when she is sad‚ she
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You Live and You Learn In life‚ we make mistakes on a daily basis. They could be minor‚ like not putting a lid o your drink then later spilling it on yourself‚ or they can be very detrimental mistakes like looking at a text/not paying attention while driving and getting into a car crash. Although these mistakes are very drastic from each other‚ we learn from both of them. No matter the severity there is a lesson to learned‚ which brings me to my philosophy: you live and you learn. Making mistakes
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact
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