“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” should not be read through a fantasy/allegorical lens‚ but through a lens of reality. Reading it through the former limits the potency of the story. Everything that takes place in the story is believable‚ and in fact‚ many details of the story are based on real events. Arnold Friend is based on Charles Schmid‚ a real life serial killer who was responsible for the murder of three young girls. Schmid was arrested in 1965 for the rape and murder of Allen Rowe;
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Should a student have a girlfriend or a boyfriend at university? It is quite common seen that nowadays there are many more couples walking shoulder by shoulder on campus. Some people hold firm to their belief that the girlfriend – boyfriend relationship at university should not be acceptable because of its bad effect on students’ studies. Nonetheless‚ I take a different view that the effect may be positive or negative depending on your way to balance the relationship and the school work
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The ambiguous resolutions of Where Are You Going Where Have You Been and The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed is a coincidence that I found quite strange. In Where Are You Going Where Have You Been‚ the author doesn’t tell us what happens to Connie after Arnold Friend forces her to go with him. Does she die? Does she Live? Similarly‚ the Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed‚ the answer as to how Casandra will manage to overcome her friend’s sudden death and her life’s struggles remains to be open to
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In connection with my own experiences‚ the readings related to Indigenous student experiences during postsecondary education allowed me to better understand what these students need to overcome throughout their studies and how difficult they must be to balance between different responsibilities of their family and community‚ in addition to their academic achievement. I was also able to connect various aspects of Aboriginal student experiences through 4Rs by Kirkness and Barnhardt (1991). The story
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We Should Have More Recess Do you want your students to pay more attention in class? I feel that more time for recess 20 more minutes to be exact would be a great solution. In fact more students will be productive. I do not think any teacher likes yelling at students.As a kid I know that when someone has less energy they will most likely pay more attention in class. Students have more room for knowledge when they exercise. At recess kids use lots of energy on the playground. When you exercise
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putt off the fire alarms by breaking the glass. They started filling buckets of water and pouring them to extinguish fire. Many students joined and started throwing sands and dust over the fire. A few teachers were trying to control fire by throwing blankets on it. But the fire was ravaging. It was a horrible sight. Meanwhile the fire brigade arrived. The teachers and students took a sigh of relief‚ because despite their best efforts they could not extinguish the fire. The staff of the fire brigade
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As a student of El diamante high school ‚we don’t believe in wearing uniforms. In “Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?” Last updated on 1/31/2017 The article shows a bunch of reasons why we should and should not have to be forced to wear school uniforms. This is a controversial topic thats just rising and rising. Recently in years 2013-2014 the amount of public U.S schools that require students to wear uniforms‚ have gone up from one out of eight schools to one out of five. Our city doesn’t
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Southern literature paper In the short story “Where are you going and Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates one of the main things that readers find is the suspicion surrounding the character Arnold Friend. Supporting this is Friend’s words which are so impactful on Connie‚ and why she didn’t just pick up the phone and call nine-one-one to end the whole conflict in the first place. Much of the research I found was based off this question pointing out how a person would react to this scenario
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“In light of what you have learned about City Road‚ describe some of the inequalities on a street which you know.” Very much like City Road‚ the street which I observed for comparison‚ Concord High Street‚ is a mixture of consumer outlets and places in which the local population socialise‚ during the day and later on on a night. Concord High Street is part of what is locally understood to be ‘Old’ Washington‚ i.e. the original small village that once stood here amongst the coal mines‚ as opposed
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I have grown as a student this year by going to G3 to volunteer to help students with their homework and reading to them. Some of the goals that I have for my freshmen year is to pass 9th grade with a high G.P.A‚ not fail any of my classes‚ try to stay on track with my reading points and turn in all my homework and classwork on time. I will keep up with my reading points by reading 1-2 hours at home and reading at school when I can..Some other goals that i have to complete outside of school
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