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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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    English 103 Mr. Anderson Thank You For Smoking: Rhetorical Analysis The book/article Thank You For Not Smoking  is a 1994 satirical novel written by Christopher Buckley‚ and written as an e-article by Peter Brimelow. It was also made into a dark comedy film in 2005‚ written and directed by Jason Reitman and starring

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    him the small portion of money that Sir Rowland left him in the will (a thousand crowns) so that he may leave and seek his fortune elsewhere. Oliver agrees to give Orlando a part of his inheritance and then turns to Adam and tells him to "Get you with him‚ you old dog" (1.1.69). Adam is offended to be treated thus after his many years of service to the family and leaves with Orlando. Oliver meets with Charles‚ the Duke’s wrestler‚ and asks what is happening at court. Charles tells him it is the same

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    Kiana Mims November 7‚ 2013 Critical Thinking T/TR 2:00-3:15p.m A video game is an electronic game that involves human interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. Video games typically use additional means of providing interactivity and information to the player. Audio is almost universal‚ using sound reproduction devices‚ such as speakers and headphones. Other feedback may come via haptic peripherals‚ such as vibration or force feedback‚ with vibration

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    August Alsina‚ “You Deserve” is one of his latest songs on his most recent album. In this song he sings to women indicating that they deserve more than what their spouse is giving them. In this song he is presenting himself as the man in the relationship that is doing the wrong. He’s trying to tell us women that there is someone out in the world that is willing to give us so much more than the small things that we are settling for. He plays both sides good and bad. In “You Deserve” August Alsina

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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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    n “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Sherman Alexie‚ the main character is a homeless Native American Indian who came to Seattle to go to college and quit after two semesters.  Alexie creates a world where the protagonist seems to find help from every turn that he makes. Setting  The setting is the 1990’s in Seattle. Jackson Jackson is a Spokane Indian. According to Jackson Squared‚ his "people have lived within a one-hundred-mile radius of Spokane‚ Washington‚ for   ten thousand years." Several

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    I Keep Expecting You To By Jewel I keep expecting you/to fade/to wake up one morning/and not care/so I/keep myself/one carefully measured step away/in anticipation/of your love’s decline/so when your cheek turns/and your attention/wanders/elsewhere/my heart will not be left/all awkward/hanging/from an elastic thread/you forgot to pull off/your old pair of socks/for it is in your nature to/lose interest suddenly/we are both artists/who suck the marrow out/of each lovely bone/It just happens to

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