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    Miller 1 Timothy B. Miller Prof. Nicholas Young LITR-221 June 23‚ 2013 Where Have You Been‚ Where Are You Going: A. Friend’s View. His name was Arnold Friend. He was getting older but still liked the young ladies around town. Arnold came from a broken home. His father had been in prison since right after his birth for some reason or another and his mother did her best to raise him courting a string of good-for-nothing losers who were in and out of her life faster than crap through a goose

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    Thus‚ making it difficult to say that all people are attracted to the same thing. People might feel an attraction toward a similar thing‚ but the attraction is often determined differently in each individual because each individual thinks and expresses differently. For example‚ Personality‚ looks‚ attitude‚ good sense of humor are some of the common characteristics that some individuals are attracted to and consider in future partners.

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    Practice what you Preach | Business Ethics ECBA 401-20-0911 | By: Gail E. Campbell For: Dr. Robert Stevens | Practice what you Preach Being ethical can be shaky because the meaning is hard to pin down and the views of many are different. The law often incorporates ethical standards to which most citizens go by is what makes ethics and the law not the same. But laws‚ like feelings‚ can deviate from what is ethical. Even though being ethical is not the same as doing “whatever

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    Melany Fava Section 1: Descriptive Research Study Design 1a. What topic are you proposing to describe? 
 Dieting in Weymouth High School students. 2a. Which approach to psychology would be most interested in describing this topic? 
 Social 3a. Which of the three descriptive research methods will you use? 
 Survey 4a. Thoroughly describe how you will design this research study with specific attention to sampling‚ wording-effect and various biases when applicable. I will create a 10-question

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    Where Are You Going ‚Where Have You Been is a story written by Joyce Carol. The story talks about this fifthteen year old girl named Connie. Connie is the young child in her family. Her mother and her does not have a great relationship‚ because she is always being compared to her old sister June. Connie goes out with her friends to the mall. They walk pass this gold cadillac where this man named Arnold Friend says that he is going to get her. On Sunday her family went to BBQ and Connie decided to

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    Charles Howard Schmid‚ Jr. also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson‚" was an American serial killer. In the story‚ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the character Arnold Friend was based on the serial killer in which Connie was one of the many victims he had abducted. There are many possibilities on how the author intends the readers to understand it. Such as‚ it could be a dream that Connie is having‚ in all actuality it could be real; it could send a message

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    Response # 1 What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. My mother‚ Lebanese woman‚ lived in London. Her neighbors were a couple‚ an Israeli Jews couple more precisely. Despite the war at that time between the two countries they were friends. They supported each other’s more than their respective governments did. Unfortunately‚ both populations are the soldiers in a chess game. The government‚ the social media and all the propaganda are tools to play in our minds. I think this is

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    You Live and You Learn Marriage is not always what you expect it to be. In today’s society‚ marriage is taken lightly and it doesn’t always end in‚ “happily ever after.” In the essay “Second Marriage”‚ the writer describes her learning experience with her first marriage and how she applied what she learned to her second marriage. The message that’s conveyed in the essay is that in marriage‚ it’s not only important to grow together as a couple‚ but also grow as individual people to strengthen the

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    Oates "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?" is one that has had many interpretations over there years‚ by many literary critics and readers alike‚ generating a vast list of themes and meanings to the story. Some have declared the story to be a "feminist allegory‚" while others argue that one of the main characters‚ Arnold‚ is a "savior" or "messiah figure‚" as popular figures during the 1960’s were to young girls like Connie‚ the main character. Though many interpretations have been made‚ and

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    would you be if you have never experienced sadness? Would you be who you are today? I don’t believe you would. You see‚ emotional balance plays a big role in enhancing your experiences. You must have equal parts of joy and sorrow in order to live a balanced life. Without it‚ you would have no way to learn from your mistakes. Having an ebullient attitude will always lead you to a better life. However‚ in order to know what ebullience is‚ we must be capable of learning from our bad experiences‚ so

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