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    Essay #1 2. Characterize Connie in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” and make a case for why she gives in and goes with Arnold Friend. The short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” written by Joyce Carol Oates was quite interesting. Even though it was fiction‚ I believe that it could be based on a true story. There are times that young girls get themselves into situations that they feel they cannot escape. This story is a perfect example of why teenage girls

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    Prohibition of the 1920's

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    The 1920s was a time of major social change in the United States. The social changes during this period were reflected in the laws and regulations that were brought into play at this time. One of the most prominent examples of this was prohibition. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution‚ also known as the Volsted Act‚ which got its name from its sponsor‚ Representative Andrew Volsted of Minnesota‚ was created to eliminate the use of alcohol in the United States. In doing this‚ the proponents of prohibition

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    Billion and a GDP of 7321508 Million US dollar. Population explosion in China was an outcome of high economic growth as well as a reason of heavy profits and surpluses of manufacturing industries in China. Through this paper I Intend to compare the similar relation among other countries like Japan and Sweden. Aging population brings the availability of cheap labor down and hence impacts the economic performance of countries. I will examine fertility and mortality and age structure pattern of population

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    “Where are you going‚ where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates In the short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” author Joyce Carol Oates depicts the main character as a fifteen year old daydreamer. Her name is Connie‚ and she is obsessed with her appearance. Connie’s mother constantly teases her about looking in the mirror and always obsessing over her looks. Connie believes her mother does this because her own looks have faded. Connie has an older sister‚ June. June is constantly

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    In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” the author uses clothes as a symbol to reveal our protagonist and antagonist individualities. Connie who is our protagonist is a fifteen-year-old girl who has the habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors. Connie wears a pullover jersey blouse that looked one way when she is home and another way when she is away‚ in where she wears shorts. In the text‚ it states that “They must have been familiar sights walking around the shopping plaza in their

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    the 1920s was widely regarded as an era of prosperity. There was social‚ political‚ and cultural change. The city life was difficult as a farmer in the 1920s. “Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s‚ but after 1929 things began to be hard for city workers as well”. The stock markets crashed so that led to unemployment. Which wasn’t good for the farmers at all. It wasn’t good for the farmers because without work they would go bankrupt. When they go bankrupt they wouldn’t have enough

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    rid of dictatorship aimed at democratic form of government in these countries through violent or non-violent means. To date‚ rulers have been forced from power in Tunisia‚ Egypt (twice)‚ Libya‚ and Yemen; civil uprisings have erupted in Bahrain and Syria; major protests have broken out in Algeria‚ Iraq‚ Jordan‚ Kuwait‚ Morocco‚ and Sudan; and minor protests have occurred in Mauritania‚ Oman‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Djibouti‚ Western Sahara‚ and the Palestinian Authority. Related events outside of the

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    opportunity to tell differing views on creation in their classrooms. Also‚ most notably‚ there were women who were tired of being forced to be housewives and demanded to be treated as equals among the men. The crisis in values that occurred during the 1920’s‚ as insignificant as it might seem today‚ forced Americans to reshape their way of thinking and make changes that left important effects on the years to come. Contrary

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    Southern literature paper In the short story “Where are you going and Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates one of the main things that readers find is the suspicion surrounding the character Arnold Friend. Supporting this is Friend’s words which are so impactful on Connie‚ and why she didn’t just pick up the phone and call nine-one-one to end the whole conflict in the first place. Much of the research I found was based off this question pointing out how a person would react to this scenario

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    The Japanese American citizens should not have been interned. Interned meaning‚ “the state of being confined as a prisoner‚ especially for political or military reasons.” It was not fair to blame the American citizens no matter the race‚ because they had nothing to do with it. They could be inclined to help out their country‚ and that’s why we blamed them. This is misleading because every single American citizen that happens to be of enemy descent‚ has the same power to do anything that the Japanese

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