Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is one of Joyce Carol Oates best short stories. Oates shows the reader what it is like to take things for granted and make mistakes through the main character‚ Connie. Throughout this story‚ Connie finds her identity and grows as a woman. In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ Joyce Carol Oates shows us the struggle of a young woman dealing with her family‚ sexuality‚ and common mistakes that can be made
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Earl Smith III Professor Vining English 1301 February 5‚ 2012 The Most Disturbing Place I Have Ever Been To Going to jail was no fun. It started off with a police officer placing me in handcuffs. The handcuffs were so tight that my hands went numb. Then I took a long ride in the back of a police car. I had to lean to the side so that I could ease the pressure of the handcuffs on my wrists. Next I arrived at the inmate-processing center. From the moment the door closed behind me‚ I was
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occupy every ecological niche. Arthropods are not only extremely diverse but are also numerous as individuals. There are approximately 200 million insects for every human being on the Earth.(1) They have a huge impact on humans and our activities. They are pests of both food and animals‚ and are responsible for disease transmission. They also create important food sources and are beneficial through processes such as pollination and scavenging. The high degree of insect diversity is due to a combination
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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 with them
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates A short story titled "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" tells a tale of an adolescent girl who suffers consequences of growing up in the unsupportive environment and the society preoccupied by the media. It is considered to be the most famous work of Joyce Carol Oates‚ an American writer‚ the winner of many significant literary awards and a two- time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story was first
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killing spree that we have ever seen. It killed children‚ a lot of families. The Genocide was sparked when the Rwandan president Juvenal Habayirmana by getting shot down outside Kigali airport( he was a Hutu). The Genocide could’ve been prevented many many ways‚ outside leaders could have interfered with the whole mass killings and stopped Kalimanzara from supplying all the weapons. Tutsis also had a name or a symbol for them to be easily recognized by the Hutus for them to been killed. The Genocide
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NICs have been and continue to be the driving force of globalisation. Discuss. An NIC stands for a Newly Industrialised Country. It is a term used to describe a country that has moved away from an agriculture-based economy and into a more industrialised‚ urban economy. These countries have a high growth rate. Current NICs include China‚ India‚ Brazil‚ Malaysia‚ Mexico‚ South Africa‚ Philippines‚ Thailand and Turkey. The average growth rate between these countries is approximately 7.64% compared
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world have been changed by globalisation. Normally‚ we just know that globalisation makes technologies around the world have changed such as software‚ smartphones‚ or computers. Because in nowadays everybody use very smart technologies in dairy life for example people can communicate with each other by use application on internet even they are not in the same country. Actually‚ globalisation makes almost everything around the world such as economy‚ politics‚ trade‚ fashion‚ etc. have been developed
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Question : Critically analyse whether the implementation of responsible tourism principles makes better business sense than traditional mass tourism. While responsible tourism is fast becoming a global trend nowadays‚ some may wonder if it makes better business sense than traditional mass tourism. By defining the words “business sense” from Cambridge dictionary‚ it means an understanding of the ways in which business works successfully and/or if something makes good business sense‚ it will help
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Could the American Revolutionary war have been avoided? The American Revolutionary war is a war that changed the American history because America was able to gain freedom from England. When looking at this war after many years and analyzing all the conflicts that lead to it‚ it can be concluded that the war could have been avoided. There are several reasons that ignited the war such as the refusal of the Olive Branch Petition by King George III‚ the Pamphlet‚ Common Sense‚ published by Thomas Paine
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