acclaimed short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ a 15-year-old girl named Connie‚ with ever growing feelings of attraction toward the opposite sex‚ has a vexing encounter with a middle-aged man who goes by the name Arnold Friend. You can’t talk about Arnold Friend‚ his train of thought‚ and intentions without talking about and understanding Connie’s character. In the story‚ Connie is vain‚ self-centered‚ and fabricates the truth of her whereabouts to her parents. She and her friend
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Barbara Ehrenreich and Lewis Lapham asked themselves how anyone lives on the wages available to the unskilled. (Introduction: Getting Ready) Roughly four million women were about to taken off welfare reform programs to get jobs that paid $6 to $7 an hour; how will they survive? Barbara wanted to see how the 5 division of Dennis Gilbert and Joseph A. Kahl’s (1993) 6 part class structure handled everyday life without government assistance that she left her regular job and sat out on the journey. Although
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out‚” by Barbara Kingsolver‚ “Emma Marris: In Defense of Everglade Pythons‚” by Andrew C. Revkin‚ and the short article‚ “Sea Stars‚” by Barbara Hurd‚ we gain a greater understanding of how similar we are to nature in terms of adaptability‚ persistence‚ and resilience. The scientific essay “Called Out” by Kingsolver was about how adaptable and resilient ephermals are to their desert environment. The blog “Emma Marris: In Defense of Everglade Pythons” dealt with how successfully pythons have adapted
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Have you ever gone to Kansas City to go to worlds of fun? I have; I had to sit in a car for five hours in a tight space. It’s pretty easy‚ but you always need to stretch and go to the bathroom. We finally made it. When I first saw the rides I almost passed out‚ that’s how awesome it is. My family and I gave them our tickets and said can we all go on that one‚ my mom said yeah let’s all go on it. First we got on‚ then it started it was already going fast‚ speeding up every second. We were all holding
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American writer who has published over forty novels. Most of her novels are graphic and many of them depict death. In her short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Oates tells the story of Connie‚ a fifteen year old girl. Like in many of her previous novels Connie dies‚ or the reader is led to believe she does. Oates was inspired by Bob Dylan’s song “ It’s All Over Now‚ Baby Blue”‚ Charles Schmid‚ and from the book of Judges chapter 19 verse 17 in the Bible. While Joyce Carol Oates had many
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When will we ever have it all? Who says you can’t have it all? Having it all can vary from families to couples to your own self. Yes everyone wants a great job‚ a big house‚ the newest model car and great pay but that all comes from sacrifice. Anne-Marie Slaughter tells us in her article “Why Women Can’t Have It All” that it’s difficult to have a successful career and a family. Richard Dorment tells us in his article “Why Men Can’t Have It All” that yes men are becoming more involved in their
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Dr. Barbara Wilson’s view on virtue ethics is that one’s “moral actions are guided by positive inner traits (virtues)‚ which rightly inform and guide a person’s behavior” (131). One should just be a good person and not look for a set of rules to follow in order to be a good person. Dr. Wilson’s “who you are an important as what you do” (132)‚ is a statement I agree with because‚ one should not do what they think is right for sake of the results of such. Living life just trying to be a good person
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Vijay Dorasami English 1102-002 Professor Bruce 09/30/2014 Joyce Carol Oates wrote a short story called “where are you going‚ where have you been?” One of the main character in the short story is a fifteen year old girl whose name is Connie. Connie was self-absorbed by her beauty‚ and would not listen when her mom try to council her. She rejects the role of daughter to develop her sexual persona‚ which increase when she is away from her family and home. Connie concerns were to become a young adult
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Have you ever had a nightmare that is so realistic it speeds up your heart rate and takes your very breath away? In Joyce Carol Oates’s 1966 “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ she tells a story of a teenager by the name of Connie. Connie has a fate of being kidnapped by a strange man that seems to know everything about her. Connie is a typical adolescent with a vivid imagination and a difficult‚ unstructured home. She is at a delicate time in her life of transitioning to find her “own”
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Equally shared parenting offers a way for both parents to forge equivalent and deep bonds with their children. Parents collaborate on childcare issues‚ great and small‚ and each spend about the same amount of time alone with their children. As a result‚ both become experts and both get to know their children emotionally and practically. When one parent leaves‚ the other is not an understudy who needs instruction or reminding. Equal childraising also means that your children will be exposed
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