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    Hour‚ Frankie and Johnny‚ Roots of Temptation and the movie “He’s Not That Into You”. In all of these stories there is always one person out of the relationship that doesn’t know what it wants’. It makes the relationship harder because these feelings that they have‚ they don’t share it with each other. These make the relationship to fail and not to be a healthy relationship. People usually get really confused. When you have a relationship for a long time period‚ it usually becomes a routine and it

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    The more you work the more money you get It is a difussed opinion that the more you work the more you earn.Does it always depend on this factor?Yes‚ofcourse it mostly depends on it‚but also there are important factors which help you earn more money. Let’s consider it from the very beginning.Firstly‚I think that a good employee‚wherever he works‚should have such touches of nature as intelligence‚optimism‚riskiness and responsibility.Intelligence helps to solve successfully all kind of problems

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    carries the aspirant towards God. In order to create the proper conditions required to cause these experiences‚ spiritual practice (called “askesis”) is required. Ideally‚ spiritual practices should be learned directly from a teacher who has accepted you as a student. Therefore‚ we must always strongly encourage our readers to seek tutelage under the guidance of an instructor‚ even if that guidance is not with us. No general course of instruction or list of techniques‚ no matter how great or thorough

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    How Lucky You Are Maybe you think your life sucks‚ but if you look at the bigger picture maybe you should be grateful? The story takes place in London and we are in modern day. We meet our main character Max who is bulking from school taking all for granted. At first we are on the bus with Max where he meets Ishraqi who is an Iranian trying to immigrate to England. Together they decide that Max can give Ishraqi a little guided tour in London‚ but this is interrupted when Ishraqi must go to

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    Batkid You Rocked A photograph of Batman and Batkid was published on Friday‚ November 2013 from the Daily News. It is a reflection of San Francisco volunteers‚ TV crews‚ and even president Obama getting together with San Francisco’s Make-A-Wish foundation to help a 5-year-old boy fulfill his dream. (Kuruvulla) The little boy named Miles Scott‚ only 5 years old‚ already had a large number of audiences cheering on the cancer patient who wanted to be a superhero. He struggled with the illness

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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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    "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Music is one of the symbols mentioned in this story. The author mentions the music played in everywhere in the story. The author says that "The Music was always in the background". The music comes from restaurants‚ homes and cars. Music symbolizes the feeling and the emotions of the characters. For example‚ music for Connie is a pattern for romantic relationship. When she is happy‚ she hears music in everywhere. On the other hand‚ when she is sad‚ she

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    adulthood is frustrating and confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving

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    The dramatic irony of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” conveys the tone of warning about temptation. Connie’s situation is that she does not feel appreciated at home and uses her looks and actions to get attention and appreciation from boys even if it is short-term. She is self-conscious about her looks and is constantly worried about how other people perceive her. Friend’s fantasy is that Connie will willingly go with him and be his “lover” (605) even before he officially met her. The

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    Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is about a 15 year old girl named Connie. Connie is the dark blond haired girl who catches all the attention and knows she looks good. The story is somewhat journalistic in the sense that there are few extreme stylistic flourishes or complicated sentence structures. Oates’s spare style allows the images in the story to stand out in realistic coherence‚ in a way that makes one feel they have some unexplainable importance. “There’s your

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