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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For the second reflection paper I chose to write about the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. When I started reading this book‚ I had no idea what I was going to read about. I learned many new concepts on the culture of Hmong and their views. A brief section of the book also was about how they came to America and the experiences they had while doing so. I learned that there was a secret war in Laos that caused a tragedy among the Hmong people leaving them to abandon their homes in the
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one‚ we are forcing the world to lose its own identity and culture. Without language we couldn’t read texts and stories from other countries‚ or even from further back in history. I love learning other languages and I love speaking them. To speak another person’s language‚ to me‚ is like being about to connect and understand them better. It also helps me to enjoy their culture. How many times have you went into a city or a shopping mall and heard people speaking in their native tounges? Language is
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Her voice was quiet; he wasn’t sure if he was even actually hearing it or if he was imagining it. "You are my sunshine‚ my only sunshine…You make me happy when skies are gray…." This song…it was one that she had taught him. He couldn’t recall exactly when she taught him it‚ or who had been the one to teach her it. He was positive it was one of the humans‚ either John or Jade. It seemed like a song that they would know‚ sappy and cheesy. It was probably John that taught her it. Either way it didn’t
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101 (30) Mr. Clifford 20 March 2013 What You See‚ Is Not Always What You Get When you hear the word janitor‚ obviously nothing glamorous comes to mind. All we think about is scrubbing toilets or mopping floors‚ basically cleaning up after other people who most of the time show no appreciation. When asked what comes to mind when you hear the word janitor‚ some people would say someone who is poor and not well educated. Not very many people
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Paper Life as we knew it quickly evaded from us as the sirens swam around our bodies embedding their screams in our ears and as the consistent sound rang through us‚ the dread over took my body. The war that we all prepared for was here‚ the one we read in our holy books‚ the one which many people spoke about but didn’t prepare themselves for. It was looked upon as a myth‚ but for us it spiraled around fusing itself with time‚ making the war between worlds reality. Nothing that I was grown to know
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How Do You Get People To Like You Be polite. Be yourself. That way‚ people like you for who you are. Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong or conceited‚ to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time berating ourselves for our negative qualities‚ thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However‚ a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can hinder our efforts to make friends with other people. How can we have the confidence to make
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1. Describe a time when you tried to bring about a change in your self-concept and were not successful in doing so: I have always viewed myself as an outgoing person‚ getting along with everyone but I often speak before I think. Too many times to count…I fear I wasn’t born with a mouth “filter”. I find myself genuinely trying to express myself and taking it to the point of a coming off rude. It seems so clear to me and frustrates me when others don’t see it that way. An example of
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hardships. When we go through these hardships in our lives is when we truly get a better insight of how the world works around us. As things get rough and you are learning to cope with different situations‚ we start to get better at making decisions. We think before we react‚ we listen better‚ and intellectually we act more ammended. You give yourself the option of becoming a lion or slug in the world. The philosophy of it is that you can let life smack you in the face and do nothing about it or you smack
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Would You Give Up Your Cell Phone? Me neither. I have my life in that little black box – appointments‚ phone numbers‚ addresses‚ birthdays‚ e-mail‚ grocery list‚ music‚ and more. Texting is the only way I can contact my daughter. I can’t imagine what I would do without it. And yet‚ I was one of the late adopters. When everyone else was raving about their flip phones (remember them?)‚ I was rationalizing why I should avoid being seduced by the new technology: “I don’t use the phone much anyway
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