childhood and adulthood is 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
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HKU693 LU JIANGYONG TAO ZHIGANG PEPSI GROWS POTATOES IN CHINA After entering China in 1982‚ Pepsi continued to do well in the country‚ offering a wider range of products than its arch-rival‚ Coca-Cola. Pepsi’s potato chip business was successful despite competition from other multinational rivals and Chinese domestic brands. As its potato chips became more successful‚ however‚ the problem of how to secure a supply of quality potatoes also grew. In the North American market‚ Pepsi relied
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A grey world—cities‚ faces‚ grime—but two colours made their rare appearance: bloody red and asphyxiation blue. Spring‚ 1918: both gruesome shades were present in London’s hovels and had struck down the hardworking with fevers and coughs. The greatest of mysteries: How had Mrs Jim Dawson been felled by the Spanish flu? The squalid shack was filled with the drifting sounds of boisterous children‚ laundering women‚ loitering men‚ many unemployed catcalling the loose women whose ankles flashed beneath
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One of the main conflicts of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is person (Francie) vs. society. Poverty and judgment runs down the streets of Williamsburg‚ Brooklyn‚ New York. Francie dives head on into conflicts concerning gender‚ economic state‚ and religion. “She put the penny in her dress pocket and turned the rest of the money over to him. Neeley was ten‚ a year younger than Francie. But he was the boy; he handled the money” (Smith 8). In essence‚ this shows females were not trusted to
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Marketing – Red Bull Dietrich Mateschitz founded Red Bull in 1984 after discovering the widespread popularity of tonic drinks in the Far East. He developed the Red Bull Energy Drink‚ launching the product on the Austrian market in 1987. Since then‚ Red Bull has launched a range of products‚ including Red Bull Cola in 2008 and Red Bull Energy Shots in 2009. Today Red Bull has annual sales of around 4 billion cans in 160 countries. Red Bull has a distinctive approach to marketing. It uses
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The character in “where are you going‚ where have you been?” Connie is affected by the role she plays in modern society. Fifteen year old Connie has the confusing‚ often exterior behavior typical of those girls who are facing the difficult transition from girlhood to womanhood in the 1960s. She is caught between her roles as daughter‚ friend‚ sister‚ and object of sexual desire‚ uncertain of which represents her real self. The sixties were the age of youth‚ young people wanted change. The changes
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she try her best to hide it‚ i can still see that sadness deep down in that pair of beautiful eyes. Our relationship is more like lover than childhood friend‚ but i never have the courage to confess and neither does she. Momoko : "Your face is all red‚ Ren." She said playfully. In this life time other than my grandparents‚ this girl‚ Tanaka Momoko; is one of the few people who can break my ’Ice Prince’ expression. I’m about to reply but looking at Momoko make me speechless‚ today she’s wearing a
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In the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and in the memoir All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein‚ the topic of survival is notably evident. Francie Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Gerda Weissmann Klein in All But My Life survived conditions beyond what typical children in current society can imagine. The responsibilities that they had were far greater than the ones teenagers today have to face. Francie Nolan and her family had to survive poverty during the 1900s. Gerda Klein
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State of Feminism in Red Dog Red Dog Throughout history women have struggled and strived to gain equality and rights. In Patrick Lanes Red Dog Red Dog‚ lack of respect and mistreatment of women was obviously apparent; however‚ history and lack of authority left society believing that a woman’s only placement in life is her sexual being. Not only does it become apparent that men were disrespecting women‚ but women were withholding the same attitude and lack of appreciation for themselves
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sweep a whole house” or “How to grow okara”(Kincaid 185). The two previous statements explains and show in its own how the mother is taking her daughter underneath her wing and transition her into a what’s known as a women in this particular society. Lastly is the pity the mother reveals
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