HAVE YOU READ A NEWSPAPER? ABSTRACT Have you ever wondered; why we find the lead story in the farthest upper-right hand column? Like most people‚ we try to keep up with the news by watching it on television. That is how 65% of us get 100% of our news – from the 24-odd-minute television news broadcast. What television news bring is primarily a front-page headline service only. To get all one needs to know‚ one has to amplify these headlines with a complete account of the news from a well-edited
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You Have a Friend in Me Everyone has friends but every friend is different. You have your friends with families‚ the “let’s go out every night” friends‚ and last but not least‚ your long distant friends. Yes they are all friends but each one lives a different life style and has their own unique personality. They have a special place in your heart through thick and thin. Friends are loving‚ caring‚ loyal‚ and honest. Friend’s seal your deepest darkest secret with a “pinky swear” and a hug. Which
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this character‚ Connie‚ in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is depicted as a self-centered‚ condescending‚ insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with her family; her frequent excursions with older boys that appeared to not have any interest after the first encounter
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Have you ever wondered; what would you do if someday you win the lottery? Well‚ I have always thought about it and the idea of having millions of dollars in my bank account just make me think about one thing; building my dream house. First‚ I have to pick the perfect place to build my masterpiece. It has to be a place with the perfect climate‚ perfect landscape‚ and perfect people. I was raised in Honduras‚ and one day I visited Roatan which is an island in the northern part of the country. I was
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In every person’s life they experience a transition from childhood to adulthood. This transition is significant in a person’s life and it can be different for men and women. Not all transitions to adulthood are peaceful; they can violent transitions as seen in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man and Joyce Carol Oates’ Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been. These two stories reflect how males and females are represented differently in society through the protagonist violent transition
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The setting for The Diary of Anne Frank is in a “Secret Annexe” in Amsterdam‚ Holland. Anne and her family are not the only people that are hiding in the “Secret Annexe‚” the Van Daans live with them also. Anne draws a map in the book to show you a layout of the “Secret Annexe.” It’s pretty large‚ although with eight people living there‚ it’s quite crowded. The plot for the story was for Anne and her family to hide from the Germans until the war was over. Hiding was hard for the Franks
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She says; Cosette‚ I love you very much. I know a place where no one’s lost I know a place where no one cries. Crying at all is not allowed‚ Not in my castle on a cloud. Madame Thenardier comes bustling down the stairs in a bad mood. She glowers at little Cosette and changes the closed sign from “closed” to “open”. MADAME THENARDIER Now look who’s here! The little madam herself‚ Pretending once again She’s been so awfully good! Better not let me catch you slacking! Better not catch
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Essay 3 As a child we often fantasize about finally obtaining freedom in adulthood‚ but often find the realities of adulthood shatter these childhood dreams. The journey between childhood and adulthood is frustrating and confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the
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In her essay‚ Where are you going‚ Where have you been‚ Joyce Carol Oates‚ underscores the importance of communication to develop her story. Both the presence and absence of communication are utilized in the evolution of Oates’ purpose. The author relates each of her subjects to archetypal characters in order to firmly cast them into a category. Through careful consideration of detail‚ Oates’ offers a particular understanding of Connie’s relationship with her parents and the world around Connie.
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and put her other two brothers through school‚ and Lilly was struggling with her sexuality. In David Foster Wallace’s‚ This Is Water‚ he talks about our default setting as being extreme self-centeredness. He states‚ “Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe‚ the realest‚ most vivid and important person in existence” (Wallace‚ 2009‚
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