story‚ “Where are you going where have you been?” Joyce Carol Oates describes the emotional ride of a fifteen year old girl‚ on the verge of becoming an adult and losing her innocence of mind and body along the way. She has a difficult time growing up and developing her own personality as they would have her react to her circumstances.“Everything about her bad two side to it‚ one for Home and one for anywhere that was not Home.” Connie feels that the best attribute that a girl can have is being pretty
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In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Connie is trying really hard to be an adult. Part of being an adult for her‚ involves having men be sexually attracted to her. However‚ there is just one problem. Connie is still a teenager‚ therefore she remains dependent on adults and her family. Despite the constraints of still being a child for all intents and purposes‚ Connie does her best to assert her independence and being adult. Connie actually works pretty hard on trying to show that she
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Oates "Where are you going‚ Where have you been?" is one that has had many interpretations over there years‚ by many literary critics and readers alike‚ generating a vast list of themes and meanings to the story. Some have declared the story to be a "feminist allegory‚" while others argue that one of the main characters‚ Arnold‚ is a "savior" or "messiah figure‚" as popular figures during the 1960’s were to young girls like Connie‚ the main character. Though many interpretations have been made‚ and
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Do you think adding another hour to our class periods can help us with our grades and other things that we might need help on it. I believe that having the school add more hours to our classes are helpful to us because one it can help us finish our work because our regular time is not enough time for us to finish our work‚ so if we don’t finish our work we will behind our work and have to catch up. Second reason why I think having the school. Adding an hour and a half is a bad idea because the more
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I would like to tell you about an achievement that had impact on me‚ is learning English language. I that that would be easy but I figured that is very hard to learn a new language‚ learning English helped me a lot. I can understand better movies‚ songs even people speaking in English‚ and knowing this language is going to help me to have a better education in university‚ and in English course I made a new friends. Now I can understand much more English. Knowing English helped me a lot‚ now when
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published the very next day (the competition ended in an arranged tie). The first analysis of it had revealed that there were just 30‚000 genes in it‚ not the 100‚000 that many had been estimating until a few months before. Details had already been circulated to journalists under embargo. But Venter‚ by speaking to a reporter at a biotechnology conference in France on Feb. 9‚ had effectively broken the embargo. Not for the first time in the increasingly bitter rivalry over the genome project‚ Venter’s
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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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Lesson 1 (3.0 points) What is a money market account? (0.5 points) A deposit account offered by a bank invests in government and corporate securities and pays the depositor interest based on current interest rates in the money markets. What is a liquidation policy? (0.5 points) Being told how and when your able to move your money in or out. What is simple interest? (0.5 points) Interest gain only by the amount in the account. What is compound interest? (0.5 points) Interest that
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Have you ever heard of this famous sentence by Confucius: “Choose a job you love‚ and you will never have to work a day in your life”? I have been wondering whether it applies to current trends of choosing job among the youth nowadays or not. Presently‚ there’s a sad fact that many young people have no idea about what they are going to do in the future. Doing what they want has never been much of a factor. It’s more like what they’re expected to do.The first criteria for picking a position is
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Contemporary Management Theory You And Your Career Question 1: Motivation: Chapter 17‚ page Is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs useful to managers? Why? Response: Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs describes the building blocks where an individual can reach their highest and full potential to have an impact on themselves and the world around them. There are 4 key stages to achieve self-actualization that are incumbent upon one another. To answer the question‚ first we have to understand what are those 4
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