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    In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the setting creates division between innocence and adulthood. In the story‚ the protagonist is a complicated and confrontational young woman named Connie. The narrator explains that “Everything about her had to sides to it” (Oates 1). Connie has two personas‚ the person she is at home and the rebellious and carefree young woman she is away from her home. Throughout the plot‚ the doorway symbolizes a threshold that Connie has to

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    Can You Find Me

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    Can You Find Me Now? How is a Nintendo Wii game console able to determine the location of a Wii Remote while a player interacts with a game? The answer is triangulation‚ a process that determines the location of any object by measuring the angles from two or more fixed points. Surveyors often use triangulation to measure distance. Starting at a known location and elevation‚ surveyors measure a length to create a base line and then use a theodolite to measure an angle to an unknown pint from each

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    criticism is critiquing literary readings‚ through the mind of a woman’s opinion of structure and being.         Like how day and night change‚ so do times. In our current era‚ being a feminist is seen as being hip and cool. Although‚ back in the nineteenth century‚ feminist were viewed as strange and were quickly overlooked. Go to a concert today‚ you see woman‚ even a teen‚ dressed in skin tight clothing‚ hanging out with the guys‚ drinking beer‚ and shooting the bull. Take our outlook on feminist

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    Where are you going‚ where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates In the short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” author Joyce Carol Oates depicts the main character as a fifteen year old daydreamer. Her name is Connie‚ and she is obsessed with her appearance. Connie’s mother constantly teases her about looking in the mirror and always obsessing over her looks. Connie believes her mother does this because her own looks have faded. Connie has an older sister‚ June. June is constantly

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    that not everything in the world is the way it was thought to be‚ the world crumbles into pieces‚ but how does it happen? Joyce Carol Oates portrays an amazing detailed moment of theft of chastity‚ or at least what is left of it‚ in "Where Are You Going‚ Where have You Been?" With symbolic imagery‚ major bibliomancy‚ and extreme personal conflict Oates easily manages to get her point across of the complete loss of innocence. A constant image that is brought to the reader’s creative thoughts is colors

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    The short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?‚” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is a tale about a teenage girl making the journey from her known world into something she has never experienced before. The main character lives the normal teenage life listening to the latest music and going out with her friends to the mall. “They must have been familiar sights‚ walking around the shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the sidewalk” (753). One night with her

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    ATOM Atoms are the basic building blocks of ordinary matter. Atoms can join together to form molecules‚ which in turn form most of the objects around you. Atoms are composed of particles called protons‚ electrons and neutrons. Protons carry a positive electrical charge‚ electrons carry a negative electrical charge and neutrons carry no electrical charge at all. The protons and neutrons cluster together in the central part of the atom‚ called the nucleus‚ and the electrons ’orbit’ the nucleus. A

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    Do You Believe

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    Do You Believe In Aliens Are we alone or do you believe in aliens? Most people would say no in public‚ but in truth most do believe. A survey was taken of 29 people; they were asked one to three questions depending on their answer. Question # 1‚ “Do you believe aliens exist?” out of 29 people asked 24 said yes‚ they do believe aliens exist. Those 24 went on to the next questionQuestion # 2‚ “Do you believe aliens have visited Earth (even if just to fly past)?” of the 24 that

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    Discussion 1 week 2 A.   Discussion 1 – Policy-making in the Federal System (e.g.‚ education policy): DQ1 has four parts.  Be sure to respond to each part.  Use information from assigned resources in both your main post and your peer responses.  While reading‚ use the table below to help you organize information from your sources in relation to different parts of the DQ.  Keep track of where you find information so that you can correctly cite sources in your posts. Recommendation: Print this table

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    Charles Schmid‚ the serial killer that Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? was based on‚ would try to look like Elvis Presley to lure girls to him. Music is a motif that shows up in the story multiple times. Joyce Carol Oates uses music to show Connie’s comfort‚ emotion‚ and the bait that lured Connie to Arnold. First of all‚ Oates uses it to show when Connie feels comfortable. For example‚ “... the music was always in the background‚ like music at a church service‚ it was something to depend

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