You Only Choose Your Career Once (YOCYCO) Stories of depressed teenagers and overwhelmed students are not as uncommon as they used to be‚ especially when they’re nearing the ages of fifteen to seventeen. Those are the valuable years in a student’s life in which he or she has to make one of the biggest choices of their lives--their career. However‚ they’re not only important to the student‚ but also to their parents. While parents should play a supportive role in this tremendous decision‚ no one
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significant experience‚ achievement‚ risk you have taken‚ or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. Follow no one else’s path instead make your own and leave a trail for others to follow. Life is like a race and we are its runners. And in this race of life there are to be many obstacles and sharp turns to come and bring us down. Opportunities and challenges will come and pass. But one decision has made a huge impact on my life‚ so significant that I have many opportunities. Growing
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is the suspenseful tale of fifteen year old Connie and her situation with a strange man. Connie‚ who usually enjoys the attention of the older boys‚ sees the man randomly when she is on a date. Some time later‚ the man shows up to Connie’s house and asks her if she wants to go for a ride with him and his friend. The man introduces himself as Arnold Friend‚ claiming to be eighteen years old. Connie soon begins to realize the two men look much older than
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I’ve only done one exceptional thing in my entire life. It was two months ago but I feel like an eternity passed since that day. I always thought about myself as a person who’s impossible to get provoked. I based that opinion on my attitude towards Beca Baker‚ a girl who was trying to get on my nerves since the first day of high school. She was talking shit about me‚ pranking me - or at least trying to‚ she was way too stupid to pull of a successful prank - and making sure other people hated me as
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BACKGROUND The term Internet of Things is coined by Kevin Ashton‚ a British technology pioneer who cofounded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) & is presently executive director. Below is an excerpt from an article presented by him. Nearly all of the data available on the Internet were first captured and created by humans—by typing‚ taking a digital picture or scanning a bar code. Conventional diagrams of the Internet include servers and routers‚ but they overlook
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Mother Virtually everyone has someone that they admire. Most of my friends admire movie stars like Tom Cruise or superstar athletes. Have you ever thought of about who you admire? Well‚ I certainly have! The person I admire the most is neither world famous nor a multimillionaire. I save my admiration for a special woman‚ my mother because she is dependable‚ supportive‚ and attentive. That is‚ I admire her for many reasons. First of all‚ I worship the very ground that she walks on because I know
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In Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been Joyce Carol Oates uses compelling themes to convey real life issues to the readers. She also exploits many references to well know fairytales through symbols and motifs. This short story shares the theme of good versus evil to the fairytales Cinderella‚ Rapunzel and Snow White. The theme of evil is first expressed through Connie’s and Cinderella’s afflictions with their sisters that shape the essence of sibling rivalry. Like Cinderella‚ Connie’s sister
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Does Advertising really make you spend more? A standard claim is that people who watch less t.v. spend less on things they don’t want. But I started to wonder if that’s really true. How influenced are we by advertising? Do we buy things because we see them repeatedly on t.v. or would we buy these things to make us feel good? I bought a new vehicle without seeing one single commercial‚ I decided I wanted a new car‚ and I just went shopping for one. It’s pretty clear that advertising works on
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her about love and ends up saying something that made Connie “put her hands against her ears as if she’d heard something terrible‚ something not meant for her” (1416). The intentions of Arnold were only going to be harmful to Connie. Her journey may have ended tragically by him either raping or killing her‚ but the story doesn’t foretell her
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is a short story that brings many girl’s nightmares to life. The story is one about a young‚ naïve girl named Connie‚ and her deranged abductor‚ Arnold Friend. Oates uses the setting in Connie’s life to create a very realistic situation. Oates also uses descriptive language to create vivid images of the setting‚ charters‚ and the emotions Connie feels. By analyzing Connie’s home setting and the descriptive language Oates uses‚ we will
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