Every man and woman strives to achieve success‚ it’s what our parents teaches us from birth. However‚ a lot of people don’t realize success comes with a lot of failures. I’m not going to lie‚ I thought life would be easy. I graduate from high school‚ never got in trouble‚ and was a promising basketball star. In my adolescence years‚ things were handed to me‚ and I never really thought about my future. When the time came for me to take on the real world‚ I didn’t know what the struggle and the grind
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free will or determined analyse of “Paul’s case” written by Willa Cather "Paul’s case"was a story written by the famous female writer/ journalist Willa Cather‚ the story explores the life of an idealistic young boy named Paul who hates his impoverished life. Paul strongly believes that he was meant to be born in a rich family instead of a mid-class home. He tries to escape from the impoverished environment of which he live in and only approaches either rich‚ or famous people .Sadly‚ in the end
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reading this short story. In the time period it takes place‚ women really didn’t have a say so. Linda Wagner-Martin explains this as she writes “Elaine Showalter describes the high rate of increase in female insanity during the Victorian period as "one of history’s self-fulfilling prophecies. In a society that not only perceived women as childlike‚ irrational‚ and sexually unstable but also rendered them legally powerless and economically marginal‚ it is not surprising that they should have formed the
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The short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?‚” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is a tale about a teenage girl making the journey from her known world into something she has never experienced before. The main character lives the normal teenage life listening to the latest music and going out with her friends to the mall. “They must have been familiar sights‚ walking around the shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the sidewalk” (753). One night with her
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I liked the dvd better than the short story. In the dvd you can hear the creepy noises and facial expressions. You could also see the lighting of the dvd better than the short story. In the short story you couldn’t see the people’s facial expressions or hear the creepy noises in the background. In the dvd you could see the angles of the dvd‚ but in the short story you couldn’t see the angles. In the dvd you could hear some of the music‚ but in the book you couldn’t hear the music. In chapter
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In the short story Where Are you Going Where Have You been‚the main character Connie is very promiscuous and struggles with finding herself. Joyce Carol Oates takes the reader on a journey of teen rebellion turned tragic and uses Connie to show that becoming independent is not easy. Throughout the story you can interpret that Connie felt vulnerable and neglected by her family and friends. Her mother always talked about how she should be more like her older sister‚ Jane “she was so plain and chunky
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Store and Grabs an Elderly Lady. She Has No Clue That His Aunt Was Filming. Summary: A sudden mishap made one elderly woman feel the effects of her age. Luckily‚ one kind person helped her in an unimaginable way. Introduction: After driving herself to a convenience store in Georgia‚ one 81-year-old woman suddenly felt the impact of her age. Milly only wanted to buy a bottle of soda‚ but even a simple errand seemed impossible for her. After falling recently‚ she had hurt her back. This made even
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it be not that." Clark therefore concludes that Georgiana would enjoy going to the symphony to hear a performance of the music of Richard Wagner. She goes‚ in her black cotton dress‚ looking incongruous against the other women’s opulent gowns in pastels and jewel tones. Yet she is moved much more deeply than any of the women who presumably form the symphony’s regular "crowd." Cather describes each musical piece and the effect it has on Aunt Georgiana; Clark notices‚ for example‚ that during "The Flying
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Had she been lucky? Millicent did not yet understand how on earth this had happened‚ let alone how it could have got even worse. In her befuddlement‚ she had no other option but to listen to Sam as carefully as she could and agree with whatever he had to say. Some questions were better left unasked. She nodded; if he said she had been lucky‚ that was the case. If he said she should no longer take that potion‚ that was what she should try to do. Getting used to everyday life without that potion would
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An ordinary morning‚ that’s all it was. At 7:00 I began my short walk‚ just two doors down‚ to my aunt’s house. She was a teacher and her son and I would drive in early with her before school began‚ as we had done all year. The sun was shining bright and my unadjusted eyes had to squint to see. It was a fairly warm day but with a chilly breeze. I could smell the dew from the grass and hear the constant call and answer of the bird’s chirps. I could still taste my breakfast of cereal and chocolate
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