brown hair‚ and her eyes of similar colour creating a wonderful blend‚ that was finally contrasted by a full-toothed smile‚ with teeth kept really quite well. Dressed in red‚ it was easy to attract attention‚ but she never had. Why should that night have been different? Founded by Salaster Lowseck‚ Axinthia was a rather small‚ poor place‚ deep in the south west of Draconia‚ the
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thousands more were injured‚ or scarred for life. A blemish in the history of the world. But what if that terrible event had never happened? I believe that World War ll could have been prevented‚ if only the League of Nations and countries like France and Britain had been harder on Germany. One thing that would have prevented World War ll is if the League of Nations had done something. Germany should have been stopped from the beginning‚ back when Adolf Hitler was still gaining power. They began to
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How have aspects of gender been represented through music? Literature and visual art are almost always concerned with the organisation of gender and the construction of gender. Since listeners know how to explain how it creates its effects‚ music gives the illusion of operating independently of culture mediation. Music based on gender and how that is seen or heard is able to contribute heavily (if surreptitiously) to the shaping of individual identities: along with other influential media such
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The ambiguous resolutions of Where Are You Going Where Have You Been and The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed is a coincidence that I found quite strange. In Where Are You Going Where Have You Been‚ the author doesn’t tell us what happens to Connie after Arnold Friend forces her to go with him. Does she die? Does she Live? Similarly‚ the Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed‚ the answer as to how Casandra will manage to overcome her friend’s sudden death and her life’s struggles remains to be open to
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In Joyce Carol Oates’s short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” (1966)‚ Connie is an adolescent that faces literal and psychological challenges. Within the conflicts of the story‚ there are two compelling questions that allow you to take a special interest of a deeper meaning. Taken from the title‚ where has Connie been? Where is Connie going? In a surprising twist‚ the story is not only about a naïve girl that gets lured out of her home by an older gentleman‚ but can also be taken
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"500 years later" reflection “500 years later” is a documentary filmed the tragic and inequality treatment for African people after the slave trade. At the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ European colonists increasingly turned African slaves for labor to Caribbean and Europe. In the 200 years of slave trade‚ hundreds millions of African slaves were shipped to America‚ Caribbean and Europe. The Black inferiority and White supremacy is still dominate in the Western societies and it results
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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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Finding Her Identity: An Analysis of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Joyce Carol Oates‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been is about a fifteen year old girl named Connie who is searching for her independence from her mother. The exposition is in the month of July at their home‚ where Connie is being scolded by her mother about her being obsessed with her looks. Her mother says‚ “Stop gawking at yourself. Who are you? You think you’re so pretty? (171) Her mother wants her to be more
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” should not be read through a fantasy/allegorical lens‚ but through a lens of reality. Reading it through the former limits the potency of the story. Everything that takes place in the story is believable‚ and in fact‚ many details of the story are based on real events. Arnold Friend is based on Charles Schmid‚ a real life serial killer who was responsible for the murder of three young girls. Schmid was arrested in 1965 for the rape and murder of Allen Rowe;
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Lurvin Magana-Calles Heidi Kozlowski English 1B September 28‚ 2014 Where Are you Going‚ Where HaveYou Been? Analysis “Where Are you Going‚ Where Have You Been? Is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about a fifteen year old girl’s that lives a dual life for self-importance‚ an unforgiving desire for irresponsibility‚ yet doubtfulness to leave the security of family and the comfort ‘of sleeping on her bed again’ ( Oates 77) . Connie is a young girl that likes listening to music ‘that made everything
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