You’re not important. You’re not anything.” Granger is talking about how utterly insignificant Montag‚ and all human beings for that matter‚ are in the long scheme of time. He continues by saying: “But even when we had the books on hand‚ a long time ago‚ we didn’t use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us.” Quite evidently‚ Granger is remarking on how important it is to relish the little moment
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You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about an average fifteen year old girl who is not unlike many other girls her age‚ she is self-absorbed‚ and has a “Nervous giggling habit of craning her neck and glancing into the mirror‚ or checking other people’s face’s to make sure her own was all right.”(Oates‚ 388) The story takes place in Middle America. Oates wrote “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” in the 1960’s
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Science and technology have done more harm than good. There is no doubt that science and technology affected our lives. There are a lot of scientists who are working on different science and modern technology projects these days. However‚ with the new science and technology developments most people underestimate the damage it gives us. First of all‚ I would like to say‚ that with these new science and technical appliances people became to be lazy. They rarely go out to work on foot or by a bicycle
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The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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narrator and the narrator’s brother Sonny are introduced. We find out a few details about the narrator but the main focus is on the brother Sonny. The Narrator found out that Sonny had been arrested for drug crimes and he obviously did not take it well. He said “A great block of ice got settled in my belly and kept melting there slowly all day long” (Baldwin‚ 67). With other comments that he made it makes me think that they have not been close for a few years. When the brothers finally reunite there is
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What Features of Modern Europe Have Been Traced Back to Ancient Greece and Rome‚ and Are Such Comparisons Justified? Many features of Ancient Greece and Rome could be said‚ in one way or another‚ to still be present in modern day Europe‚ although perhaps in a fashion entirely unrecognisable to the populaces of these antediluvian territories. To a modern-day European layperson‚ or one of the demos1‚ original Greek and Roman ideals might vary from politics and the legal structure that comprises
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government benefited the country far more proficiently than it did harm. For reasons such as social reforms‚ quality leadership skills‚ good intentions and many more‚ the dismissal of Gough Whitlam and his crew was seemingly unreasonable and should not have resulted in the outcome produced. The Whitlam government did create and participate in scandals which undermined their public support and therefore led to the dismissal. Low economic growth became present during the world recession in the early 1970s
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context‚ and explain what the lines mean. 1. Everything 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
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industrialised countries have been and continue to be‚ the driving force of globalisation.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? Globalisation is expressed in transcontinental flows and networks of activity‚ interaction and power between countries‚ irrespective of geographic distance. It establishes and maintains economic‚ political and socio-cultural relations. This interaction helps economies through growth in international trade‚ investment and capital flows. Some factors that have acted as the
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people perceive thoughts differently because they all have different view of the world. After reading the text‚ Communications in a Changing World‚ I learned how people can interpret things differently. There are steps of perception everyone goes through which includes interpretation‚ selection‚ and organization. As I showed a picture to three different people‚ they all had different words that described the picture and this explains how people perceive thoughts differently. Everyone in life has
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