“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Paper “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a short story that poses many questions centered around the protagonist‚ Connie and the antagonist Arnold Friend and his “comrade” Ellie. The fate of Connie at the end of the story is still up for debate after all these years after the story was published in 1966. The main question posed is who actually is Arnold Friend? Is he the devil or something else? The answer may never be fully known but in
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In the 1960s‚ when Oates wrote “Where Are You Going . . . ‚” a social revolution was happening. American women were asserting their rights and independence from men‚ and they were claiming their sexuality in a way they had never done before. One frequently discussed topic was adolescence and the struggles and anxieties that many young girls endured as they lost their sexual innocence and became adult women. Feeling undervalued in their homes and relationships with men‚ women questioned their role
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In order to consider “I exist because I think” or ”I think because I exist”‚ I would define the “I exist because I think” as “I think” is the cause of “I exist”. This implies “I think” appear before “I exist” and cause “I exist” to happen. In the other side‚ “I think because I exist” would be “I exist” is the cause of “I think”. This implies “I exist” appear before “I think” and cause “I think” to happen. In terms of logic‚ I would say “I think because I exist “ is more appropriate. It is because
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What is your major‚ or what are thinking about majoring in? Why have you chosen this area of study? I am majoring in Dental Assisting. Since I was a little girl my dream job was to be a Neonatal Nurse but as high school was coming to an end and college was approaching‚ I decided last minute to switch to Dental Hygiene. I chose not to major in nursing because the program seemed impossible to get into‚ and I wasn’t sure that I wanted to be a nurse for the rest of my life. Also if I were to be in a
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forcing the world to lose its own identity and culture. Without language we couldn’t read texts and stories from other countries‚ or even from further back in history. I love learning other languages and I love speaking them. To speak another person’s language‚ to me‚ is like being about to connect and understand them better. It also helps me to enjoy their culture. How many times have you went into a city or a shopping mall and heard people speaking in their native tounges? Language is what makes the
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In the video “How Do You Know When You’re A Grown-Up?” by The Atlantic‚ the novel Me Being Me is Exactly as Insane as You Being You by Todd Hasak-Lowy‚ and the novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles shoe that coming of age can not be condensed into one single ceremony or experience‚ that it must be an individual experience apart from anyone else’s‚ and that it must all lead to an understanding of the responsibilities of adulthood‚ which may result in a loss of innocence. Contrary to many popular
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The Collision of Two Cultures - Implications of Cultural Values and Beliefs on Caring Concepts Abstract This paper is a personal response to Anne Fadiman’s book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The paper includes a summary of the book‚ an overall impression of the reader‚ a discussion of three major themes evident in the book‚ and a description of a situation from the book and how the situation could be handled differently using references and material learned in 3020 Transcultural
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prostitution or sex workers. 2. Do you believe that women work in the sex industry by “choice”? Why or why not? This can be a percentage that women that worked in the sex industry is by their own choice‚ but in the most part women are in this industry based on the high rate of poverty on this people. 3. What is your opinion of women who work in the sex industry? What influenced you to have this opinion (gender‚ religion‚ culture‚ education etc..) My opinion on women who work in sex industry is that I
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my brother wanted an iphone and i got one before him. He told my mom and dad it was totally unfair and they told him that i payed for it. Then my brother kept asking and asking for my iphone and i kept saying no‚no‚no! It my phone not yours!. Eventually after i kept saying no he couldn’t use it or have it he stopped asking for it and went in his room to sulk and i went in mine to go and relax and play on my new phone. By my brother wanting my phone i refused to give it to him or let him use it
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There are many similarities between the short stories "Good Country People" and "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?"‚ most notably their characters. Both stories contain a female protagonist‚ and a male antagonist‚ whose confrontations start out relatively normal‚ and progress to more and more surreal and twisted endings. Their main characters‚ Hulga and Connie‚ are shockingly similar‚ and yet strangely different‚ one a 15 year old wishing to be older and beautiful‚ the other a bitter 32 year
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