Poem Analysis Project The poem "If you were coming in the Fall" was written by Emily Dickinson. Through her career she innovated brief conceptualized poetry that explored inner emotional concepts such as love‚ death‚ and longing. Like other poems‚ "If you were coming in the Fall" talks about the speaker’s love and how she waits him to return. It can be assumed that the speaker is a female because it was written in 1st person and the author‚ Dickinson‚ is a woman. Also‚ the speaker uses words and
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ "Where Are you Going‚ Where Have You Been"‚ Oates used figurative language to show the evil in Arnold Friend and how he as a Fiend tries to pull Connie into his corrupted world. The harsh reality that Oates includes in her story is that there are fiends that may seem like a friend around us like Arnold. By using figurative language Oates can create a fiend from what Seem to be a Friend. There are many hints that Joyce left to show that Arnold Friend is not a friend at all
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In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates there is bad parenting and it costs Connie at the end. Throughout the entire story there is little or no parenting‚ or sometimes there is a little parenting but it is not very good parenting. For example‚ “their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home‚ he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed. He didn’t bother talking much to them” (Oates 1). So even
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The song “Live Like You Were Dying” by Tim Mcgraw is about a conversation between a man and his best friend who was dying. This song was written to explain how everyday should be lived to its fullest because any day could be your last. A man who just learned that he would soon die and was asked by his friend what he thought about it. His reply was that he did things that he wanted to through life like bull riding‚ skydiving and climbing the rocky mountains. These were all things that he had put
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nant figures; for the reasons she had to make the decisions she did and in Gilman’s and Chopin’s the husbands were in control of the woman. In Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing‚ the constraints of oppression were alive in her thoughts. Olsen’s fa’ade was being a housewife‚ she would have rather had other choices in her life and wanted more for her daughter as is told by the last quote in the story: In summary‚ all three women had no choice in their lives or they chose not to have a choice but to follow
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20‚ 2016 Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been Analysis The story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” written by Joyce Carol Oates has a different‚ yet catching title. The title plays strongly into the characters. One of the main character Connie really relates to the title. Her mom wants her to be this perfect little girl‚ whereas Connie likes the attention of guys and to be a little more on the rebel lifestyle. Connie never tells her mom “where she is going‚ or where she has been”
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Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” conveys the theme of good vs. evil through Connie and Arnold by creating a sympathetic character and using symbolism‚ creating a fine line between the protagonist and the antagonist. In this short story‚ the antagonist Arnold Friend is a seducting creep that seduces young‚ innocent girls to “go on a date with him”. While he is at the protagonist‚ Connie’s‚ house‚ he is persuading Connie by telling her all about herself‚ including his
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COUNTRY REPORT ON CUSTOMER LOYALTY IN RETAIL SECTOR WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON TESCO Submitted By: Rajat Kaul A1808709003 2009-2011 Submitted To: DAVID OGLE TABLE OF CONTENT Chapter 1 Introduction Introduction Aims and Objectives Chapter 2 Literature Review The Concept of Loyalty Loyalty Programs in India Chapter 3 Methodology Research Methodology Comparative Analysis Chapter 4 Analysis
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psyche. The ego and superego help us make smarter decisions because if we only made decisions based on the id everything would get chaotic. The id is also known as the pleasure principle‚ and reality does not affect it. This component of our personality is fantasy oriented and irrational. Joyce Carol Oates places Arnold in her short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Arnold Friend represents the id in Connie’s personality. Everything Connie wishes about her life is exactly what Arnold
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What behavior(s) would (do) you need to improve? How many times have you felt bad because of not liking your behavior? How many times have you blamed yourself for not being better? Each one of us has experienced such a moments but the problem is when the unwanted behavior becomes a routine part of our daily lives. Personally a behavior that makes me feel bad and I would like to improve would be controlling my mood. My moods can change due to recent happenings‚ but can also be the result of past
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