Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the character Arnold Friend was based on the serial killer in which Connie was one of the many victims he had abducted. There are many possibilities on how the author intends the readers to understand it. Such as‚ it could be a dream that Connie is having‚ in all actuality it could be real; it could send a message to young women‚ or it becomes a nightmare when he comes as a demonic figure. Connie has been living this fantasy like existence
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Have you ever been taken out of class‚ just because you were breaking dress code when all you did was wear leggings. Dress code are rules made to let you know what you can and can’t wear at a school setting. Some rules are reasonable. But now dress codes are starting to get out out of hand and extremely under reasonable. The way students are handled when they break dress code is embarrassing and unecassary. Dress codes today should be changed because they do not allow you to express
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What technologies have been used to kill people‚ and why? Killing technology has been on show during the major wars in the 20th century; and the killing rate increased drastically in the last century. During 20th century major developments took place in gas weapons‚ small arms‚ large guns and weapons of mass destruction which were in use during World War 1 and World War 2. Killing was not seen as an objective in war however‚ it was seen as being a more humane method and to make war shorter. The
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with him one on one; he encouraged me to come take a visit at Fortis College. I am now going to tell you “Why I Want to join Fortis College.” On your web page as you all described that four year colleges are not for everybody‚ that you all prepare students with the education they need for success in life‚ and to reach the goals they are trying to reach. I don’t think a four year college would be for me at all because I need a smaller environment‚ where I won’t get distracted as much‚ and a smaller
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How have aspects of gender been represented through music? Literature and visual art are almost always concerned with the organisation of gender and the construction of gender. Since listeners know how to explain how it creates its effects‚ music gives the illusion of operating independently of culture mediation. Music based on gender and how that is seen or heard is able to contribute heavily (if surreptitiously) to the shaping of individual identities: along with other influential media such
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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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Wrong Impressions The short story‚ “Where Are You going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates explains how a young girl was struggling to find herself. Oates writes about a girl named Connie who was 16 years old and was lost in a world of fantasy. Connie had a split personality/image while at home and when she was out with her friends. Living in a world of fantasy‚ Connie would ignore her family by tuning them out and being distant. Connie would constantly be in front of the mirror admiring
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Response to the Article‚ “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” During the height of the feminist movement‚ Linda Nochlin confronted her audience with a bold question: Why have there been no great women artists? On the surface‚ it is a tongue-in-cheek arrangement of words‚ purely facetious‚ but I do not think Nochlin meant them that way. I think the question was genuine and melancholy. Nochlin is one woman looking at the past with sad eyes‚ begging to understand why her sisters were denied
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Matthew Conchola ELA 6/7 Mrs.King 18 March 2016 Should Schools have School Wide searches? Schools should be allowed to conduct random searches of your private items for many reasons. All across the U.S kids have been disobeying and doing a lot of stuff that might be illegal or bad. The school tragedies in Littleton‚ Jonesboro‚ Springfield‚ West Paducah‚ and Pearl ‚these communities brought the threat to school safety into the public conscience and moved school safety onto the U.S. public
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big problem among school districts. Some schools have set rules for what people have to wear and other schools have restrictions on what students can and can not wear. Schools think that uniforms will solve the problems there school is having but in reality they don’t. Schools should not have school uniforms because uniforms restrict school individuality‚ they have a high cost‚ and can cause inter school conflicts. One reason schools should not have school uniforms is because uniforms restrict school
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