Have you ever had a nightmare that is so realistic it speeds up your heart rate and takes your very breath away? In Joyce Carol Oates’s 1966 “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ she tells a story of a teenager by the name of Connie. Connie has a fate of being kidnapped by a strange man that seems to know everything about her. Connie is a typical adolescent with a vivid imagination and a difficult‚ unstructured home. She is at a delicate time in her life of transitioning to find her “own”
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the place‚ where he would like to live. Some people prefer living in the city and other prefer living in the village‚ but what is really the best for us? First of all we should define our terms of reference. Village- means a group of houses with a church‚ school and some shops in the countryside and city- means a place‚ where people live and work and it contains many houses‚ shops‚ places of entertainment‚ etc. Living in the city brings to everybody a lot of advantages. In city you have a lot of
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thin shoulders rigid with excitement‚ and listened to the music that made everything so good: the music was always in the background like music at a church serve‚ it was something to depend on.” This paragraph in the short-story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is a look into how the author Joyce Carol Oates views adolescent values. She parallels religion and religious practices with the main character’s Saturday nights. Oates carefully designed this paragraph to illustrate a social
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One story from the short story unit that depicts impossibilities is “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been.” Connie’s vanity is not abnormal; many teenagers who are her age and attractive act the same way. The impossibility of the story appears in the form of Arnold Friend. Whether he is Satan‚ a serial killer‚ Jesus‚ Bob Dylan‚ or none of the above‚ his presence seems odd. Arnold Friend seems to know too much about Connie’s life to simply be a stalker. He know that the rest of Connie’s family
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from the top of the swaying bridge over the Yuba River‚ ready to leap and never look back. I close my eye and feel a single hot tear slide down my goosebumped face. Everything seems to stop for just a moment‚ a single‚ beautiful moment where I feel like I can fly. Where I feel safe. Protected. But the moment always passes‚ and it flies away as quickly as it came. I turn to my mission and look down. The rushing river beckons to me. My final resting place. I take a deep breath. My knees bend and…
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and exotic attributes alone are reason enough for all of you to come visit this land of beauty. Introduction I. Have you ever wanted to go surfing on white sand beaches where the people are beautiful and everything is cheap. Have you ever wanted to see the diversity and wonder of the Amazon mixed in with the cement jungle of Sao Paulo. Well‚ if you have all of this can be seen in one country alone and that is Brazil. II I must tell you that all I will speak about today is first hand information
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IELTS SPEAKING PART ONE TOPICS. YOU Describe yourself. FAMILY o Describe your family? o Do you have a large or small family? o How much time do you spend with your family? o What do you like to do together as a family? o Do you get along well with your family? o Are people in your country generally close to their families? WORK o What do you do? o What are your responsibilities? o How many hours do you work each day? o Do you enjoy your work? o Is there
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" and Estrella Alfon’s "Servant Girl‚ firm actions brought by male characters caused women to reveal their true nature. Rosa‚ from Estrella Alfon’s Servant girl is a very humble lady who is consciously aware of two men having interest in her. First is the cochero‚ whom he calls Angel‚ is the man who lived in her fantasies after their encounter and second is Sancho‚ the other guy‚ is her admirer who seems to possess the the opposite trait
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In‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates shares a story about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who encounters Arnold Friend‚ a predator whose first words to Connie are‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby” (Oates). One day‚ while Connie is home alone‚ she receives an unexpected visitor from the mysterious boy she saw the other night while hanging
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Are You Beautiful? How do you judge if someone is beautiful the first time you see him or her? The most popular answer you may find is by physical appearance. Nowadays‚ the media greatly influences women’s point of view on beauty by displaying the idea that outer beauty is the only thing of all through images of good looking women in advertisements. The media teaches girls at a young age that physical attributes are all you need to get by in life by exposing them to beauty television shows like child
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