Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the
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LIFE AS YOU KNOW IT Who among us wants to have a difficult life? Of course‚ everybody wants to be happy. We want that great job or a succesful business. We want to be married to Mr. Right or Mrs. Perfect and to have great kids. To have friends that stick by us come rain or shine. To be able to have all the material things life has to offer and have all our problems just disappear is what most of us want. Everybody wishes for a good life. but it may be at different perspective. One person may
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Matt Merritt Professor Smith English 102 13 September 2012 Arnold Friend’s Identity in Joyce’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Oates portrays Connie as a beautiful young woman that is being coerced by a man‚ whom she doesn’t know‚ to come outside and go for a ride in his car. Who is this man that calls himself Arnold Friend? What does he represent? Looking at the things that Arnold Friend says and does will help to discover
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Essay on anything: Communist threat in Singapore has played a significant role in attaining successful independence for Singapore. Do you agree? To a large extent I disagree that the communist threat had played a significant role in bringing about independence for Singapore. Instead it was the differing ideals sprouting amongst Singapore and her citizens that had effectively shaped the peaceful sovereignty that we enjoy now‚ and communism would even fall under the circle of brewing political ideas
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cell. Chapter 8-2: Photosynthesis: An Overview Van Helmont’s experiment on his thought that plants grew from the material in soil. Priestley’s experiment found out that oxygen was keeping the flame of the candle in a jar going. He also tried something with a leaf where he would put it under the jar and the flame would be kept for a while. This is because of the oxygen released by the plant. Jan Ingenhousz figured that the effect from Priestley’s experiment was because the plant was exposed to
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“You Got To Do What You Got To Do‚ To Get Where You Got to Get” In Ralph Ellison’s story “Battle Royal”‚ Ralph’s dying grandfather gives his son advice on how to advance in life as a black person‚ in the United States. Ralph’s grandfather said‚ “I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses‚ undermine ‘em with grins‚ agree ‘em to death…”(1042). Basically‚ by being really nice to white people‚ he could gain favor and possibly be rewarded for his obedience. Ralph‚ took his grandfathers advice‚ and was eventually
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Response # 1 What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. My mother‚ Lebanese woman‚ lived in London. Her neighbors were a couple‚ an Israeli Jews couple more precisely. Despite the war at that time between the two countries they were friends. They supported each other’s more than their respective governments did. Unfortunately‚ both populations are the soldiers in a chess game. The government‚ the social media and all the propaganda are tools to play in our minds. I think this is
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Is the Internet Bad For You? Socrates feared writing would make us forgetful. He believed written knowledge didn’t give us the same wisdom as oral knowledge (100). Hieronimo Squarciafico‚ the Italian humanist‚ believed the easily available books that the printing press provided would lead to weaker minds (100). Writing and the easy access to books‚ two of the world’s biggest discoveries‚ yet they were seen as things that would harm people rather than help. Nicholas Carr advocates the harmfulness
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In The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down‚ Anne Fadiman narrates the story of Lia‚ a Hmong girl suffering from epilepsy who was surrounded by challenges due to conflicting viewpoints of her parents and her health care providers. For the Hmong people‚ epileptic seizures are viewed as a positive trait; those people who suffered from seizures are attributed to be a “twix neeb”‚ or “a person with a healing spirit” (Fadiman‚ 1997‚ pg. 21). Lia’s parents—Foau and Nao Kao (the Lees)—considered her condition
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Kathy Nguyen Professor Hohenzy English 101 January 29‚ 2012 Anything is Possible If I looked back at myself a year ago I can’t deny that wasn’t me. I looked back a year ago and seen not even a glimpse of a bright light at the end of my tunnel. My family didn’t give me any type of direction nor support. I was forced out of my home and this led me to start making decisions on my own. I balanced school and over-night shifts. I abstained from going to an alternative school in Pilsen‚ which was
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