In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Connie is trying really hard to be an adult. Part of being an adult for her‚ involves having men be sexually attracted to her. However‚ there is just one problem. Connie is still a teenager‚ therefore she remains dependent on adults and her family. Despite the constraints of still being a child for all intents and purposes‚ Connie does her best to assert her independence and being adult. Connie actually works pretty hard on trying to show that she
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What makes us good citizens? It is hard to answer that question because every person can think about different definition of a good citizen. Many can call themselves good citizens just because they work‚ pay taxes and obey law. But is it enough? Not for everyone. Good citizens do not serve their own interest but rather understand that their deeds affect the world around them. They serve their families‚ friends and others in need without prejudice and selfishness. They care about the condition of
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In the article “Does your mother tongue shape how you think” Guy Deutscher argues that our mother tongue does indeed shape our experiences of the world. However‚ it does not do so as Benjamin Lee Whorf’s theory suggests but rather because of what our mother tongue habitually obliges us to think. Guy Deutscher takes a claim made by Benjamin Lee Whorf‚ a chemical engineer‚ who essentially stated that our native language constrains our mind and we are unable to grasp concepts that are not given
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The ambiguous resolutions of Where Are You Going Where Have You Been and The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed is a coincidence that I found quite strange. In Where Are You Going Where Have You Been‚ the author doesn’t tell us what happens to Connie after Arnold Friend forces her to go with him. Does she die? Does she Live? Similarly‚ the Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed‚ the answer as to how Casandra will manage to overcome her friend’s sudden death and her life’s struggles remains to be open to
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In the article "Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges?" Kevin Carey believes that for-profit colleges are a fraud. He believes that for-profit colleges are abusing the student loan program by by charging outrageous rates to their Students and making them take out huge amounts of money; therefore‚ putting the student in debt. He also claims that students who goes to a for-profit college are only getting a worthless degree out of it. Despite all of that he also makes another claim that
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about the character of Arnold Friend in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been”- the main idea being that Arnold represents Connie’s “other self”. According to the article‚ this can be observed in how Connie and Arnold are opposites in both appearance and behavior‚ and Arnold’s purpose is to induct Connie into adulthood. I disagree with the idea that Arnold is Connie. While the article gathered a lot of good evidence to support this claim‚ I think the claim actually begins to subvert many of the
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ the main character‚ Connie‚ is on the brink of adulthood and is experimenting with the sexual freedom that comes with it. On the weekends‚ Connie and her friend go to the mall or the diner and pursue older boys with which they will slip into dark alleys or cars. One night‚ when leaving the diner to go hang out with a boy‚ a man in a gold convertible catches Connie’s eye and says to her‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby”. Later in the story‚ Connie is tanning outside
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Do you think that the union of the church and the state is important in our country? Why or why not? Are you in favor of it? No.Those two were in different perspective.This stipulation‚ way back Spanish Colony‚ where church and state is united as one resulted to abusive deeds of the friars. Meanwhile‚ putting down Filipinos in depression and prohibiting them be the figure heads and bodies of the Philippine Politics. So I think‚ this two is much better be separated like in our present Constitution
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recently bullying has affected students more than ever but nobody’s doing anything about it‚ for example‚ there has been more deaths‚ violence‚ or self harm‚ in the past few years then there ever has been. There are many types of bullying‚ most people think bullying is just associated with violence or giving threats‚ but in fact there are other types‚ for example‚ bullies may insult and
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"Do You Thank the Taxpayer for Your Bailout?" In the wake of billion dollar bailouts of both banks and other private industries‚ many institutions are faced with the problem of how to fix their negative images with the public. ReliantShare is a bank which received $5 billion in federal funding. CEO Ben Marshall‚ under pressure from unrelenting media‚ is trying to decide how to best handle a public relations nightmare. He feels that some of the media coverage presents an inflammatory and biased
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