Commentary on "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" 10/17/06 Joyce Carol Oates has achieved many things through her writing‚ and is recognized worldly for her short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" This story is centered on a young teenage girl as many of her stories are. Oates as a writer is fascinated with adolescence of young females. She chooses to write about the trials and tribulations of growing up in modern society. She pries on the dark aspects of youth often
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This Is Water‚ he talks about our default setting as being extreme self-centeredness. He states‚ “Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe‚ the realest‚ most vivid and important person in existence” (Wallace‚ 2009‚
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“You can’t change who you are. No matter how you struggle‚ some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn’t” (Thurman‚ Rob). “Identity is a powerful organizing presence in social life today” putting people into sections concerning likes and dislikes‚ culture and customs‚ separates them via social‚ economic and religious differences‚ identity makes a person‚ a person (Leve‚ Lauren). The character regarding one’s self is shaped by identity‚ how they view themselves‚ and largely how society
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[Document Title] Are You Connected ? Jason Tan Lecturer: Mark Regan Are you connected? Connected to the world where pictures of our daily lives are shared‚ a world where new friends are awaiting for us to be added‚ a world where a myriad of independent artist are trying to get their voices heard. I can go on and on. But the fact of the matter is this; the potential of social media is endless. Ever since Tim O’reilly came up with the term Web 2.0‚ social media has taken the world by storm. It has
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Where Are You Going ‚Where Have You Been is a story written by Joyce Carol. The story talks about this fifthteen year old girl named Connie. Connie is the young child in her family. Her mother and her does not have a great relationship‚ because she is always being compared to her old sister June. Connie goes out with her friends to the mall. They walk pass this gold cadillac where this man named Arnold Friend says that he is going to get her. On Sunday her family went to BBQ and Connie decided to
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essay Mass tourism is better than no tourism‚ do you agree? Yes‚ I agree with this point because countries which do not have tourism nowadays are hard to imagine nowadays if it is not a country with war or a desert through it entirely‚ although even countries with mostly desert have quite a bit of tourists in them so it is far more easy to imagine a town or village with no tourism. And then there are those places with mass tourism which only have one noticeable problem – Overcrowding. Although
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It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you Simon Armitage writes an adventurous comparison poem to show how powerful imagination is by comparing life long dreams to one’s mundane memories in the poem‚“ It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you”. The poem displays three imaginative pinnacle-like events and with those events‚ there are three events juxtaposing them. The poem is presented in a manner where the story is based on the experiences of a first-person speaker. The poem follows
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Finding Her Identity: An Analysis of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been is about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is searching for her independence from her mother. The exposition is in the month of July at their home‚ where Connie is being scolded by her mother about her being obsessed with her looks. Her mother says‚ “Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty? (171) Her mother wants her to be more
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Old-school selling is on the brink of extinction. Sales professionals must harness virtual and social tools to survive in today’s new sales world. TOC TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: Hunting vs. Hunted‚ by Scott Tapp‚ PGi......................................................................................................................... 3 CHAPTER 1: The New Era of the Cold Call‚ by Jonathan Farrington‚ Top Sales World.............................................................
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girl doesn’t seem to think of any danger that might arise from the car. Any aware person would lock the door and have the phone ready to call the police but not this girl. This girl is easily lured into a trap and taken away from everything she loved. This girl is the protagonist‚ Connie‚ from Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been.” Rather than heed the gut feeling most readers have at this moment in the story‚ Connie ignorantly emerges from her house and engages
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