The Hardest Thing I have Ever Done The hardest thing I have ever had to do was suffer through the death of my father. That day started out like any other day. We were in church and everything seemed normal. Then‚ the person in front of us got a phone call. She left and shortly after came back and retrieved my mother. Immediately‚ my mother came back in and got me and my sister‚ and we went to the car. When we got to the car‚ Mom started to tell us how my dad had shot himself. I did not know what
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In her poem “Never Have I Ever Land”‚ Amulya Yerrapotu examines the social injustices faced by women in our current society‚ society’s necessity for women to grow mature more quickly‚ and the issues of sexuality. Through her use of imagery‚ diction‚ and structure‚ she is able to compare a fairytale and a fantasy land to the real world in which discrimination and bias is quite evident. Yerrapotu uses interesting diction in order to spread her message of social justice across. For example‚
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When will we ever have it all? Who says you can’t have it all? Having it all can vary from families to couples to your own self. Yes everyone wants a great job‚ a big house‚ the newest model car and great pay but that all comes from sacrifice. Anne-Marie Slaughter tells us in her article “Why Women Can’t Have It All” that it’s difficult to have a successful career and a family. Richard Dorment tells us in his article “Why Men Can’t Have It All” that yes men are becoming more involved in their
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The craziest thing I ever done We have a twirp on November the 3rd‚ a dance which girls ask boys out. I want to enjoy myself in my first and last twirp and all I need is a date. Obviously‚ things become awkward when you try to ask a boy out at a school that you hardly know anybody-yes I have some people in mind but how am I suppose to tell whether they already have a date or not! I want a date so much that eventually I came up with a crazy idea: make some cookies and put chocolate chips in only
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Analyzing Fiction In “Where are you going‚ where have you been”‚ this story makes me frustrated with the main character Connie. She comes off to me as an immature little girl who wants to live the life of a mature woman‚ but when faced with reality she is still just a little girl. I felt Connie feels the need to rebel or act a different person when she leaves her house and in a sense lives a double life and has two personalities. In the story the author writes‚ “She wore a pull-over jersey blouse
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Where You’re Going‚ Is Somewhere You Have Never Been As you read through this short story written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ you will read about the story of a normal teenage girl‚ Connie‚ that loves to believe that she is far more mature than she really is. Her maturity that she longs for throughout the story is then forced upon her and‚ then her true colors show. They show that no matter how mature she thinks she is‚ she is still pretty far from full adulthood and is well in the middle of adolescence
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Erika Villanueva “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” By Joyce Carol Oates There are things that happen when we are growing up that change us when we are grown. There are things that change us forever. Every human being is different‚ and there is a reason why . All of us had a childhood and all kinds of experiences some good‚ some bad‚ some full of joy but also others very painful. Eventually we grow childhood and mature depending of what we have gone through. The way we are able to handle
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There are many similarities between the short stories "Good Country People" and "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?"‚ most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist‚ and a male antagonist‚ whose confrontations start out relatively normal‚ and progress to more and more surreal and twisted endings. Their main characters‚ Hulga and Connie‚ are shockingly similar‚ and yet strangely different‚ one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful‚ the other a bitter 32 year
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rainy but I still had to get up with the horrible pain in my stomach to travel to the doctor to find out what was wrong. This pain had been bothering me for almost three weeks and I couldn’t take it anymore. I was scared! Just two months before this my husband and I was told that I had possibly developed Endometriosis with the possibility of not being able to have children. We were told that my ovaries had collected a lot of scar tissue and the conception was impossible until the scarring was removed
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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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