What Does Your Handwriting Say About You Good morning to all my fellow friends. Today‚ I’m going to talk about what your handwriting says about you. How you craft letters and words can indicate more than 5000 different personality traits. To introduce students to the field‚ graphologists have them write ‘she sells seashells by the seashore’ in cursive. Why cursive? Graphologists say it gives them a better read on a person. Try writing a same sentence now in cursive and see how graphologists might
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Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact that Connie
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In You Can Go Back Home Again‚ Eve Tushnet starts off her article with a scene with her and a guy friend coming back from a party‚ this scene reveals the overall theme of “its perfectly fine with going back home” . The guy friend starts of by saying that he use to live in a gentrified neighborhood but he could no longer afford. The key word in his sentence is “use to” he was ashamed for going back home but Tushnet disagrees with him by saying “Good for you” and “I think that’s great”. Later on
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mmigrants Escaping from Poverty For a long time‚ illegal immigrants have been entering the United States‚ and it has been a big issue concerning the world today. Hispanics today form the fastest growing ethnic minority in the United States. An example of how many illegal immigrants migrate to the U.S. is found in the book Voyages by Cathy Small; she explains that many Tongan immigrants migrated in the year 1976. Out of 1‚993 Tongan’s‚ Olunga had grown approximately 2%‚ so by all means that at
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Ethnocentrism can be defined as the evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one’s own culture. One practice that is done in the United States that is done differently by another culture could appear as not normal to us. We all have different definitions of what the right or “wrong” way of doing something is‚ but brought up and executed by another culture‚ the procedure may be done differently. I see this‚ as being negative because a lot
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is going well back home. I miss you both dearly. I have been contemplating how to break some news to you about my position during these tough times. I am deeply sorry to put such a burden on you both‚ but I am now in the position to fight against the British. The other night‚ I attended the House of Burgesses to hear a patriot named Patrick Henry speak. Let me tell you if you were to hear this man speak and the points he made‚ you too would be persuaded into fighting the British. You cannot deny Henry’s
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Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the
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True Meaning “Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home”(1369)‚ this character‚ Connie‚ in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is depicted as a self-centered‚ condescending‚ insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with
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Ha has to move to a new country; like other refugees‚ they have challenges like having to move from their homes‚ which sometimes makes them feel inside out. When Ha and her family moved they left behind‚ “Ten gold-rimmed glasses Father brought back from America…”(Lai‚57). They have to leave their home because they want to go to a safe place to live‚ and they chose to only take so much with them. The items that they took were‚ a shirt‚ a pair of pants‚ three pairs of underwear‚ among other things
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“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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