In the first section of Going South‚ the narrator focus on portraying Lourdes‚ who is the older daughter of Celia. She lives in Brooklyn and operates a bakery alone. She has a plain lifestyle‚ like wearing the same shirt everyday‚ and she does not care about her appearance so much. She has a daughter named Pilar‚ who does not play well with her and always refuses to work for her in the bakery. Then she gets a call from a nun who witnesses the death of her father. The nun tells her that her father
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Lurvin Magana-Calles Heidi Kozlowski English 1B September 28‚ 2014 Where Are you Going‚ Where HaveYou Been? Analysis “Where Are you Going‚ Where Have You Been? Is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about a fifteen year old girl’s that lives a dual life for self-importance‚ an unforgiving desire for irresponsibility‚ yet doubtfulness to leave the security of family and the comfort ‘of sleeping on her bed again’ ( Oates 77) . Connie is a young girl that likes listening to music ‘that made everything
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of them decide to travel to find themselves. Reasoning that going to college will mean being dependent on their parents for another four years‚ high school graduates choose to get a job and win their freedom. College is not necessary anymore to ameliorate their life. Years before‚ there were not as many people with a degree. Today is considered a normal pathway in life and is common to have one. As a result‚ companies do not hire you given your education‚ and they find other things such as experience
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Early Maps Cartography was used as far back as the time of the Greeks but the first sign of even a single drawing was in the time period of the Cave Men and with that it has developed over the years up until today where Cartography is called Maps which are used of the people of the twenty first (21st) century and maps are essential tools to help define‚ explain and navigate their way around the earth. Maps began as two-dimensional drawings but can also adopt three-dimensional shapes (globes‚ models)
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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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and taken away from everything she loved. This girl is the protagonist‚ Connie‚ from Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been.” Rather than heed the gut feeling most readers have at this moment in the story‚ Connie ignorantly emerges from her house and engages the stranger‚ Arnold Friend. As soon as she leaves the safety of her home‚ she has unknowingly surrendered to Arnold
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strength of the forearm muscles. The only equipment you need is the handgrip dynamometer. The participant has to hold the dynamometer in their hand to be tested‚ with the arm at right angles and the elbow by the side of the body. The base of the dynamometer should come into contact with your palm and your 4 other finger should go into the gap and this will make you go into a fist position. You must then squeeze the dynamometer as hard as you can for 5 seconds without moving any other part of your
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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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In the image "Going to the Olympics‚" by Frank Romero‚ he used specific images to symbolize the city of Los Angeles. In the top of the painting we can observe a couple of men fighting and a horse. The two men fighting might represent the effort that the city has made to get where they are at this point‚ while the horse might represent the power that the people have when they’re together. It also shows five cars‚ each with a heart above‚ which might mean all the missions in California and how lovely
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Why developed countries’ firms fail in emerging economies Abstract This article is based on giving advice to John Lewis on expanding to an emerging foreign market‚ China. It evaluates the dynamic challenges that western developed companies faced when expanding to emerging markets. By analyzing two case studies of failure to enter emerging markets‚ which are the cases of Wal-Mart entering into Brazil and Best Buy entering China‚ a few recommendations are made to John Lewis to consider and be aware
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