The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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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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these laws‚ there were also limitations on what the government could and could not do to protect the people from the government as well. One of these controlling factors is the Fourth Amendment‚ which protects our citizens and visitors from an array of items. A few in particular would be; right to privacy‚ search‚ and seizure. The Fourth Amendment also sets the tone for how arrests are affected and how reasonableness is weighed on heavily. The Fourth Amendment grants American citizens protection from
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When dealing with rights‚ laws‚ and amendments there will always be particular uncertainties‚ especially if they are in the best interest of the people. Amendments are meant to correct‚ provide change and make improvements for past amendments‚ making new ones more specific to each citizen that is involved. Amendments for the constitution involve making sure that rules and laws are put forth correctly and properly obeyed. Many amendments were made under the circumstances of the time period in which
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In the bill of rights there are ten amendments that are very important to us the people. This limits you to what you can and can’t do. The bill of right was written in 1689. It is an act of the parliament of england that deals with the constitution matters and set out certain basic civil rights. the Bill of Rights to protect the citizens was not initially deemed important‚ the Constitution’s supporters realized it was crucial to achieving ratification. Thanks largely to the efforts of James Madison
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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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Gabriel Guillen The 14th Amendment – Due Process Clause The Fourteenth Amendment was a direct outgrowth of the national debate over slavery1‚ and the subsequent emancipation of the slaves during the Civil War. In the aftermath of that war‚ Congress confronted a number of thorny issues: what would be done about the rebel leaders? Would the defeated states contribute to paying off the Union’s debts? Would slave owners be compensated for the loss of their property? What measures would be required
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frustrating and confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving us a glimpse
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Eng � PAGE �4� Eng 3 The Twenty-sixth Amendment The Twenty-sixth Amendment was proposed March 23‚ 1971‚ to lower the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. It was decisively authorized on July 1‚ 1971. The official amendment is‚ "Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States‚ who are eighteen years of age or older‚ to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate
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“Where are you going. Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates. The similarities between the song and the story is that they both share a common theme of being forced or getting into something mysterious. Through the short story Arnold Friend tried to influence Connie into escaping her father’s house and going away with him. It was almost as if Connie was forced by Arnold because of his words. One thing Arnold said was “be nice to me‚ be sweet like you can because what else is there for a girl
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