28. A smile goes a mile! What is a smile? Genuine To greet and say farewell to others A smile while your helping others A smile for someone sick or lost or down A smile is for your loved ones throughout the day A smile to say Thank you and Please A smile when your giving What a smile isn’t! To act as if you are ok To smile to make the other person smile Smiling to make out your life is amazing Smiling as a mask Smiling to get someone’s attention (flirt) A smile because isn’t that what someone
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Does money make you happy? Is money all you should ever care of? Due to the world we live in‚ It has come to my realization that most people have minds which have been dominated by the thought of money. Everywhere I go‚ whether it’s at home or in the streets‚ I will hear at least a word relating to money. So why talk about it so much? Does it make us happy?! ! Most people‚ when they hear the word money‚ they think about the happiness money can get you‚ they think about the luxuries. The
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Language of Terror When a person is put in an incredibly horrifying situation where the outcome is unpredictable many physical and emotional changes take place. Joyce Carol Oates’s story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" places Connie‚ a typical teenager‚ in this situation. Throughout the story‚ occasionally using religious undertones‚ Connie’s language of a typical teenager gradually changes‚ from calm and somewhat curious to nervous and terrified. Early in the story on a
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mood. Smiling does a lot more than only letting everyone around you know that you’re happy‚ it boosts your health. Smiling is beneficial for us; it boosts our mood‚ health‚ and appearance. Smiling and laughing go hand in hand; when you smile or laugh you release chemicals that boost your mood. Smiling releases the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine which are linked to depression when we have too little. When we smile or laugh we experience an increase of endorphins and a reduction
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almost any channel. If they were to pause on one of these shows they might not know it but they would bettering themselves on a personal level. Based on the ideas of Steven Johnson the average person could learn a thing or two from reality TV. In his article called‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” Johnson states that; "For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common-denominator standards‚ presumably because the "masses" want dumb
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this character‚ Connie‚ in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is depicted as a self-centered‚ condescending‚ insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with her family; her frequent excursions with older boys that appeared to not have any interest after the first encounter
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automatically feel a sense of belonging‚ because they have conformed to that group’s opinion. However‚ it is also possible for an individual to rebel against the group and pursue their own path that differs. An individual is free to decide where they stand on an issue‚ but must be aware that they are also‚ subtly‚ making a choice on how they will relate to the wider group or community. An example of this can be found in ‘Five Ways to Disappoint Your Vietnamese Mother’ where a character rebels against her mother’s
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passing from one grade to another in school. Other changes are more intense‚ such as the transition from childhood to adulthood. In Joyce Carol Oates’ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Oates goes into depth regarding the transition from being a carefree‚ innocent child to adulthood. In the short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" two separate worlds are drawn to the reader’s attention. The first is the normal daily life of Connie‚ a fifteen year old girl living in a home with her
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In the article Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson‚ the author argues that by watching television shows various television shows‚ people actually become smarter and how it has a big impact in our lives. He feels that watching TV makes us smarter because why we view things we might have never heard of before. He also uses dialogs to explain for example he used dialogs from the show ER to break down what’s happening between the characters‚ what words and sentences there using. On response
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Imagine your mother leaving you at a young age and never coming back. It would hurt‚ right? Now‚ imagine how confused you would be if you received a postcard from your mother‚ the one who abandoned you. At first there is just the one postcard‚ but then there were two‚ then three‚ and they just kept coming. The postcards always seem to find you; you move‚ they move. Your mother has always known where you were living; yet you do not know if you can trust the address on her postcards. The short
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