Earl Smith III Professor Vining English 1301 February 5‚ 2012 The Most Disturbing Place I Have Ever Been To Going to jail was no fun. It started off with a police officer placing me in handcuffs. The handcuffs were so tight that my hands went numb. Then I took a long ride in the back of a police car. I had to lean to the side so that I could ease the pressure of the handcuffs on my wrists. Next I arrived at the inmate-processing center. From the moment the door closed behind me‚ I was
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the lines mean. 1. Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...." The first quote is from “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie‚ who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl‚ yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way. 2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her
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If you were given all the money you would ever need‚ and were free to do absolutely anything with your life‚ what would you choose to do and why? If I was fortunate enough to have me financial needs guaranteed‚ I would concentrate on my short term goal of getting an education on in engineering and thus prepared‚ move on to my long term goal of becoming an entrepreneur in a twin field of software design and robotic. The great cities of North America are rusting out and we need new industry to create
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact
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#6:Treasure Chest Problem: Someone offers to give you a million dollars($1‚000‚000) in one-dollar ($1) bills. To receive the money‚ you must lie down; the million one-dollar bills will be placed on your stomach. If you keep them on your stomach for 10 minutes‚ the money is yours! Do you accept the offer? Solution: Each dollar bill weighs 1 gram‚ if we multiply 1gram by 1‚000‚000 dollars we get a weight of 1‚000‚000 grams. If there are 454 grams in a pound then $1‚000‚000 will equal 2202 pounds
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Someone who has had a positive effect in my life Someone who had a positive effect in my life is my brother Warren‚ because he taught me not to settle for mediocrity‚ to have self- confident and Someone who has had a positive effect in my life is my brother Warren‚ because he taught me to not settle for mediocrity. For example‚ when I was a sixteen-year-old freshman at Walbrook High School and the chances of my finishing high school were slim. I was a teenager with an attitude‚ living
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Pain of losing someone According to Wikipedia‚ Pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage‚ or described in terms of such damage." Pain to me has no definition because it is like my world is coming to an end and I do not know how to stop it. There are different types of pain‚ e.g. body pain‚ menstrual pain‚ chronic pain‚ and pain of losing someone. Losing someone very close is an extremely painful experience. People find it very tough
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Language of Terror When a person is put in an incredibly horrifying situation where the outcome is unpredictable many physical and emotional changes take place. Joyce Carol Oates’s story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" places Connie‚ a typical teenager‚ in this situation. Throughout the story‚ occasionally using religious undertones‚ Connie’s language of a typical teenager gradually changes‚ from calm and somewhat curious to nervous and terrified. Early in the story on a
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with the time that ‚I felt that I had failed my team‚school‚family and myself. The sense of failure came from my incident that happened in a hot july summer during football practice.We were working on some drills to pass the defender in front of you and beyond that.I had went through the drill three times ‚and I felt ecstatic.When it was my turn again for my fourth rep I lined up against my opponent and the other defender behind him.When coach blew the whistle I had used a technique to go through the
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If I had 1 million dollars I would spend most if not all on jewelry or cars (even though I cant drive) i’ll just sit in it. I think if I had to choose something unique I would buy two 100‚000 houses side by side‚ tear them down and make a bigger nicer house. I would most likely spend 600‚000 or 700‚000 on the new house after the houses are brought. After that I would buy a red Ferrari and jewelry until the rest of the money is used up. I would but a red Ferrari because my favorite color
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