True Meaning “Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home”(1369)‚ 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
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Vietnam‚ a war that ended in 1975 was a war about the prolonged struggles between the nationalists forces that were trying to attempt the unification of Vietnam as a country under a government of communism and the United States attempting to delay or stop the spread of communism. To the Americans‚ this war seemed pointless and the Americans saw that there was no way of winning so the government lost the support for this uncalled war. In "The Things They Carried‚" Tim O’Brien wrote a novella about
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates A short story titled "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" tells a tale of an adolescent girl who suffers consequences of growing up in the unsupportive environment and the society preoccupied by the media. It is considered to be the most famous work of Joyce Carol Oates‚ an American writer‚ the winner of many significant literary awards and a two- time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story was first
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Hazem Qassem MGT 610- Contemporary Management Theory You And Your Career Question 1: Motivation: Chapter 17‚ page Is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs useful to managers? Why? Response: Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs describes the building blocks where an individual can reach their highest and full potential to have an impact on themselves and the world around them. There are 4 key stages to achieve self-actualization that are incumbent upon one another. To answer the question‚ first we have to
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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is one of Joyce Carol Oates best short stories. Oates shows the reader what it is like to take things for granted and make mistakes through the main character‚ Connie. Throughout this story‚ Connie finds her identity and grows as a woman. In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ Joyce Carol Oates shows us the struggle of a young woman dealing with her family‚ sexuality‚ and common mistakes that can be made
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The more you work the more money you get It is a difussed opinion that the more you work the more you earn.Does it always depend on this factor?Yes‚ofcourse it mostly depends on it‚but also there are important factors which help you earn more money. Let’s consider it from the very beginning.Firstly‚I think that a good employee‚wherever he works‚should have such touches of nature as intelligence‚optimism‚riskiness and responsibility.Intelligence helps to solve successfully all kind of problems
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“Speak when you are angry- and you will make the best speech you will ever regret” Dr. Laurence J. Peter How does the above quote relate to the use of language as a tool for expressing one’s emotion? There are many ways of expressing our emotions. We can do this by our face expressions‚ by our movements and acts‚ using our body language but the most powerful and common way is using the ordinary language. Ordinary language is the ability of people to communicate between them to
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The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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throw away a plastic cup at the side of the road isn’t a big deal‚but the truth is those simple acts breaks the purpose of keeping everyone safe. Trippett makes an argument with the phrase‚ “You’re a fool if you obey the rules” to disobey the law and it’s true because teenagers see it something they need to go against‚ it won’t personally affect them‚ and they don’t think it’s a big deal.
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When you chance the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change. The most fundamental and mayor decision you have to make in your life is this: Do I live in a friendly or A hostile universe? Is it the universe‚ where people want to hate each other‚ kill each other. Is that what you see? Because when you see the world that way‚ that is exactly what you create for yourself. The interesting thing is that this is not just a clever play of words: When you change the way you look at
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