Unfortunately this is exactly what happens to Connie‚ the main character in the short-story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates. In the story‚ fifteen year old Connie is like any other teenage girl. She is vain‚ unkind to her parents‚ and desperate to grow up. Connie makes rebellious decisions such as sneaking across the highway to a drive-in restaurant for older kids‚ experimenting with sex‚ and lying. One Sunday‚ Connie decides to ditch her family at a barbeque
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Carol Oates‚ Oates breaks up chronological order into a boxlike structure with three distinct sections of a plot. Every section of the plot is written in different time and part of Anna’s life in order to express more clearly how Anna is lost in her sin since the day she committed adultery. Oates describes changes in her thoughts and her confused state of mind. Using the third person perspective‚ omniscient narrator‚ she makes Anna the centre of the story. In the first section of the plot Oates brings
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Health education: theoretical concepts‚ effective strategies and core competencies A foundation document to guide capacity development of health educators Health education: theoretical concepts‚ effective strategies and core competencies A foundation document to guide capacity development of health educators WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data World Health Organization. Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Health education: theoretical concepts‚ effective strategies
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Loving‚ Superficial‚ Intimate Teens "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates catapults its reader into a seductive‚ fifteen-year-old mindset‚ embodied by the main character‚ the rebellious Connie. Connie‚ much like Sammy‚ the main character from "A & P" by John Updike‚ is on the prowl for companionship and sex. Their unsuccessful search for intimacy‚ appreciation for family life‚ and superficial attitudes are what bring them together as similar characters but also what
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Where are you going‚ Where have you been? by Joyce Carol Oates is an interesting piece of literature. Due to the intense nature of the story‚ many criticisms have come up. Many theories have been developed about hidden meanings within the work. One that is very controversial is the allusion to the bible. Many people say that there are clear references to the bible through a hidden code but this is not the case. Oates’s inspiration for the short story came from a magazine article about a series of
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I. Read the following passage carefully‚ and answer all the questions A Moment of Madness It was Arvind’s birthday. In the afternoon there would be a cake and a party‚ but it would be like other birthdays‚ and Arvind was eleven. So in the morning‚ he collected his friends‚ Jimmy and Paudeni‚ and they set off to the forest that lay on the hillside in a huge half-moon behind the village. When they reached the first few trees they stopped‚ listening to the sounds of the birds and searching
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In the poem “O Me! O Life!” by Walt Whitman he starts by saying that he has always questioned himself and life like most people regularly do. The fact that there are tons of others in this world like him‚ faithless and without direction and foolish‚ he admits he may be amongst the worst of them. He claims that he is always criticizing and analyzing himself in a negative light and how he along with other people long to become more and long to see the truth of what the meaning of life is. The poem
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July 14‚ 2009 Experiment 6: Fractional Distillation. Separation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons Abstract: A mixture of cyclohexane and toluene were separate from one another by fractional distillation in order to measure the composition of each fraction and prepare the sample for gas chromatography. Introduction: Distillation has been used since antiquity to separate the components of mixtures. This method has been used to manufacture different organic chemicals but the most recent application
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ourselves. I feel that Connor Franta‚ the author of his autobiography A Work in Progress‚ best relates to Jem and Scout’s journey of growing up from To Kill a Mockingbird. Although Jem and Connor seem to relate more‚ Scout has a deeper connection rather than more than one connection. Connor Franta compares to Jem in understanding himself and seeing changes‚ as he compares to Scout by becoming more aware of how you view yourself and how others view you. One way that Connor relates to Jem is that
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Furthermore‚ Connie had very little respect for her parents. She would disobey her mother more than her father‚ for he spent all his time at work. Connie’s mother would ask her to do simple tasks‚ such as carrying herself in a specific way‚ keeping her room clean‚ and going particular places with the family. For example‚ here’s a line from the text when her mother asks her to obey her wishes: "Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed—what the hell stinks
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