Where Are You Smooth Talking? The saying goes the only difference between a tragedy and a comedy is the ending. Meaning no matter how tragic or comedic a story begins‚ the ending is what determines what type of story was told (thus what genre it falls in). This concept of endings is greatly exemplified through the comparison of the short story Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been by Joyce Carol Oates and the film the story was based on called Smooth Talk. Both works contain an abundance of similarities
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Google and Apple Know Where You Are‚ Maybe Bethella Sam Phillips Grantham University BA515 Abstract Location-based tracking is becoming more and more common due to the ever changing technological advances in the world today. Gone are the days where no one knew your location unless they were physically with you. Today‚ location-based tracking seems like the new trend in society with companies such as Foursquare and EchoEcho. Some wonder what makes a person use services like this to
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I dislike being asked “Where are you from?” because I do not consider myself from any specific place. I have moved around several times as a child‚ which has given me the opportunity to meet different kinds of people each from distinct walks of life. Being faced with the challenge of meeting new people has taught how to come out of my comfort zone at any given moment. The experiences I have had in life has caused me to become an outgoing‚ hardworking‚ and very multicultural person. Moving around
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Google Yourself How can googling yourself for the first time change future decisions? I never thought about googling myself in a million years so it caused a lot of anticipation. What was I going to find‚ will I be disappointed‚ and how am I being perceived. After researching myself and viewing what all came up on the search engine I was shocked. There was only just a few links that inquired my name. I found a guest book that I signed for my favorite music artist and a baby registry and an account
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lyric poem‚ or song‚ "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa‚ the author describes the person he has a strong connection being gone for a very long time. The audience can infer that the author is used to seeing this person often as he says "It’s been a long day without you‚ my friend" and he thought he would never see them again. Through the use of the authors diction the audience can infer when the author sees his friend again he then realizes that love always finds a way and home is where the heart is and that
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“Where are you from?” a question which to normal teenagers may claim one‚ possibly two answers that all but define who they are. Be it morally‚ religiously‚ or sewn into their traits and personalities‚ society widely considers a person’s home to be at the center of who they are‚ yet what is it like for a child who cannot relate to one home‚ two‚ or even three‚ but instead ten different locations before the age of eighteen? This is the answer to that question‚ the story of who I am. Setting off
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others are the three main goals I work for everyday to see that I become a better person‚ but even more that I become the person I want me to be. Living for myself used to be such a challenge due to the fact that I was a little bit confused on who I was supposed to be. Growing up people have always asked me your mixed right? Are you going to marry a white guy or a black guy? Well since your white you should do this‚ or since you have black in you‚ you should do this. Being asked and told over and over
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when I think to where I feel perfectly content is a fire pit behind my house. In my opinion it is in the perfect location. It is surrounded by trees and the pit is made of stones that were found in the woods. There are 3 benches surrounding it that sit perfectly into the earth around them. It looks like a picture cut out from a magazine. I could sit there for literally hours. The first time I realized this was the place I felt content at was a warm summer night. I hadn’t been having the best day
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In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Arnold Friend‚ a conniving antagonist‚ charms a naive teenager named Connie into believing he will rescue her from her inattentive family. However‚ at the story’s climax‚ Connie fears for her life yet cannot resist Arnold’s temptations. Although details of Friend’s appearance‚ speech‚ and actions should warn Connie of his evil intentions‚ through Oates’s portrayal of Friend as a devil-figure‚ Connie is easily “conned” foreshadowing
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Having a job is one of the most important aspect of human survival‚ especially in these difficult economic times. Jobs help to give people some form of financial stability and enables them to take care of their personal and family needs in life. There is always constant competition for jobs everyday because there are millions of applications that are sent to the different jobs for one position. When searching for a job ‚ it is important to remember that employees are looking for individuals with
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