Kyle watkins I’ll tell you why. when you go to school you can grow up to be anything you choose in your right mind to be. But if you just ditch school and take it as a joke you won’t learn anything and you’ll be on the streets begging for a hundred dollars. You can learn what you can and be serious about it. Don’t you want nice cars‚ a house and at least a job. if you don’t want it‚ then your life will be as miserable as you asked this question. It’s very important to get an education
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Debrionna Mulhall Jennifer Schaller English 1102 Sec. 53 10 October 2014 Peeling Back The Label “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. This popular short story made its debut in 1966. Dependent upon the interpreter‚ this short story may seem to be based upon many different themes‚ although my goal is to focus on analyzing the author’s use of stylistic devices such as a recognizable setting‚ and symbolism that Oates has effectively implemented in
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Fantasy versus Reality in Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates has a constant theme of reality and fantasy running parallel for 15 year old Connie. This short story begins with a description of Connie’s vain personality. The narrator describes her as pretty and self-centered (Oates 421). To emphasize her selfishness‚ Connie is contrasted with her sister‚ June‚ who is chubby‚ plain‚ and well-behaved. Connie’s mother always praises
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Going Home Again Driving past the large rectangular sign proclaiming Welcome to Shea Town‚ Home of the Wolverines‚ Population 9‚325‚ my heart-inured to most everything-bumped in my chest. I began to sweat‚ despite the early-November chill that penetrated my shirt and sweater I was wearing. I could not believe how many different emotions where going through me. Going home again after 15 years was not going to be as easy as I had thought. In just one glimpse‚ all my emotions where pulsing through
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see you all. Hopefully you all had a nice summer and welcome to a new school year. Before you all head to class I want to speak about a topic I feel needs to be addressed. Throughout‚ the years that I’ve been working here my fellow staff and teachers have told me that the students here lose focus during class and hopefully we can work together to change that. Everyone in this room is lucky to be here we have been given opportunities and we should take advantage of that situation whether you are a
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job things started to change. With two young kids to take care of‚ my mom had to start cleaning houses as a temporary job‚ but money was still tight. Finally my parents decided it wasn’t going to work and she had to find a more stable job. The only way to do that was to go back to school. So in 2006 my mom went to school to become a nurse. She didn’t receive and financial aid making paying for her college even tougher. My family had to make some sacrifices in order to help my mom go to school. We
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Catalina Pension Mrs. Wall English 1102 21 April 2011 Joyce Carol Oates uses characterization and the coming of age effectively in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been”‚ “Four Summers”‚ and “The Girl with the Blackened Eye”. She uses it to connect the three stories to each other. Connie and the girl in “The Girl with the Blackened Eye” are connected because they were both violated by a man. Connie and Sissie were both connected because they were both influenced by their families’ ways
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of judgments‚ firmness of decision‚ and effective implementation. Case Incident 4.2: You supervise 12 engineers. Their formal training and work experience are very similar‚ so you move them around on different projects. Yesterday‚ your manager informed you that an overseas affiliate has requested four engineers to go abroad on extended loan for six to eight months. For a number of reasons‚ he argued and you agreed‚ this request should be met from your group. All your engineers are capable of handling
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Do you ever just not want to eat the school food because you find it disgusting? Do you just want to be able to go to your favorite restaurant and eat? I would really like to have my choice to pick what I would like to eat and most other teens probably would also. I look around in the cafeteria and I see people wasting the cafeteria food or their either bringing their own food. I believe that if the high school had better food or we were able to have open campus for lunch then students would not
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Based on the short story “Back to the Dreamtime”‚ I would like to write a journal about the relationships of the two main characters. Two main characters that I choose in this story are Richard and Tom. This is because there are many things that Richard and Tom doing together. Richard‚ a teenage Aboriginal boy raised in white Australian society‚ is compelled to come to terms with his past by forces outside his control. He was adopted by the McDonalds. His father died when he was two years old.
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