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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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Music is one of the symbols mentioned in this story. The author mentions the music played in everywhere in the story. The author says that "The Music was always in the background". The music comes from restaurants‚ homes and cars. Music symbolizes the feeling and the emotions of the characters. For example‚ music for Connie is a pattern for romantic relationship. When she is happy‚ she hears music in everywhere. On the other hand‚ when she is sad‚ she
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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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How could the ENRON scandal been avoided? The Enron scandal could have been avoided had they had an organizational culture of honesty‚ integrity and ethics 1. There should have been stronger management and better ethical oversight. Even employees should have had a sense of the expected ethical values and try to maintain a strong sense of organizational culture. 2. There should have been measures in place to oversee the activities of accounting firms (Arthur Andersen)‚ as they acted as both Enron’s
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Ever heard of waist high pants‚ or maybe you heard of the infamous trench coats‚ probably not‚ these designs might be called ancient or retro‚ but most of them just blend into the fashion of the current generation or they have faded away. Most likely‚ these terms haven’t even been heard since the late 1960’s‚ or maybe even the 70s‚ the point is both of those terms were popular fashions in the 30s‚ these terms were known all over America and most likely owned by most of the male population. Boys tended
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BBI20 Assignment#5 Opinion Essay on Inventions 1st March 2011 In my opinion‚ the most important invention of all time in the history of human civilization and enterprise is the internet. Why the internet? Simply because I believe this invention has made the world a better place. In almost everything we do‚ we need the Internet. Whether it is to look for a job‚ research for a project or even find love. The Internet is a dominant factor that plays an important role in our lives. We just simply cannot
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There are numerous of similarities between a song called “It’s all over now‚ baby blue” by Bob Dylan and a short story name “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
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pay‚ they benefit from holidays and summers off‚ and they have the option to choose their career and select their school of choice. I disagree with the idea that educators are overworked and underpaid because if educating is their passion they shouldn’t care about the pay. For example‚ in order to become and educator‚ a teacher obtains lots of coursework toward that profession. If they didn’t want to become an educator‚ why would they invest in the career? Next‚ if teachers don’t like the
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June 7‚ 2012 The Microscope Introduction: The purpose of a microscope is to see either enlarge images of small objects and or make seen what is invisible to the naked eye. We have two types of microscopes available in the lab. The dissecting microscope is designed to study objects in three dimensions at low magnification. The compound microscope is used for examining small or thinly sliced sections of objects under magnification that is higher than the dissecting microscope. In this lab we
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You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about an average fifteen year old girl who is not unlike many other girls her age‚ she is self-absorbed‚ and has a “Nervous giggling habit of craning her neck and glancing into the mirror‚ or checking other people’s face’s to make sure her own was all right.”(Oates‚ 388) The story takes place in Middle America. Oates wrote “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” in the 1960’s
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