Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the
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2.5 Demonstrate your understanding of the ABCDEF‚ indicating how you would apply it in counselling. The ‘ABC framework’ was created by Albert Ellis in the 1950’s and is mainly used by counsellors who use Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) or Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). It is also used by some Cognitive or Cognitive Behavioural therapists. ABCDEF are acronyms for the sequential method of working through these types of brief psychotherapies. The ABC method of working with people can
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In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact
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"You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing." - E.B. White - "I always knew that when I looked back on the times I cried I would smile. But I never knew that when I looked back on the times I smiled I would cry." "My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation." - Helen Keller - "One day at a time‚ this is enough. Don’t
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Discuss two or more media texts you would describe as post modern and discuss why you would give them this label Moonrise Kingdom‚ Anderson (2012) is a film which explores a narrative through a combination of high art and kitsch. Anderson tells the story of a scout who flees his camp in order to pursue a love interest with a consistent use of many aesthetic post-modern features‚ such as nostalgia‚ parody‚ eclecticism‚ pastiche and hyperconsciousness in order to give further depth to the initial
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students. Some teachers will even devote Saturday mornings to conducting extra-curricular activities‚ such as the Scouts movement. Now‚ if only all teachers were like this! Furthermore‚ wouldn’t the school be a much better place to spend our adolescence if we did not have to cope with teachers who vent their foul moods on us? We should not have to walk on eggshells because our teacher has had a bad day. Another aspect of the school that needs changing is the set of school rules. Some are so irrational
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I would like to learn how to speak Spanish. I took lessons in highschool but I remember almost none of it. It would be very beneficial to me‚ as I work with the public in a city that has a lot of Hispanics. And I’ve always wanted to learn a language. There are countless recources on the internet and apps that can teach you how to speak different languages. I know several people who speak Spanish quite fluently. And if needs be‚ I could take a college class. I would like to learn it within the next
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Have you ever been to a college class? Did that class only consist of two exams‚ a midterm and a final throughout the entire semester? How much stress did you feel around the time those exams came around? These are the types of problems that Patrick O’Malley argues against in his essay “More Testing‚ More Learning”. In this essay‚ O’Malley takes the stand presenting the fact that there are courses in college that provide infrequent testing. He lets it be known that this is not the most effective
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what happened when Germany and Prussia finally became one. Next I will talk about all of the problems that this new empire had because of religious‚ and cultural tensions. I will talk about what I would’ve done to help ease these problems also. I would do things such as making different churches that people could choose from‚ then I would make a punishment for fighting‚ and last I would make churches were people from different groups could become friends. Frederick I was one of the leaders of Prussia
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Where Are 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
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