The story‚ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? By Joyce Carol‚ is a story told in a third person perspective‚ regarding Connie‚ a 15-year-old. She and her mother have not at all gotten along. Her mother consistently compares her with her sister‚ and her father barely ever speaks with his daughters. One night‚ Connie and her best friend go to a shopping plaza. As instantly the adult is out of sight they cross the highway into a drive-in restaurant and stay on the restaurant’s counter. Thereafter
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Joyce Carol Oates’s short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” focuses on the seemingly typical life of a teenage girl‚ Connie. The character irony is found in the fact that a teenage girl in the 1960’s struggled with the same issues teenagers battle with in present society. Connie‚ the main character‚ fights with her parents‚ does not want to be like her older sister‚ and thinks very highly of herself. As a teenage girl typically believes‚ Connie imagines she is the center of attention
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Connie in “Where are you going‚ Where have you been”‚ has a lot of underlying mental issues. Joyce Carol Oates created the perfect character to receive psychoanalytic criticism. The relationships Connie forms with her family‚ friends‚ and outsiders are all affected by Connie’s issues which come to consume her future. One of Connie’s biggest faults was the recognition of her beauty. She “knew she was pretty and that was everything” (Oates 1). This constant checking of herself in mirrors to make
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the woman. In Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing‚ the constraints of oppression were alive in her thoughts. Olsen’s fa’ade was being a housewife‚ she would have rather had other choices in her life and wanted more for her daughter as is told by the last quote in the story: In summary‚ all three women had no choice in their lives or they chose not to have a choice but to follow society’s way of thinking. "It was the only way we could be together‚ the only way I could hold a job" (Olsen 225). They did what
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Death of a Hired Man – Robert Frost Introduction and Context Published in 1915‚ ‘Death of a Hired Man’ deals with death‚ much like other Frost poems such as ‘Home Burial’. In fact‚ these two poems share certain similarities‚ in that they are both dramatic dialogues between a husband and wife‚ allowing their thoughts and characteristic to be portrayed clearly to the reader. Set on a farm‚ Frost writes the poem displaying the gendered stereotypes of men and women of the time‚ and how they act towards
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I’ve seen a lot of resumes that would have been better off without an objective statement. These days‚ you don’t need to include an objective on your resume‚ but some people still do. Be warned: there are two major ways to screw up an objective statement: Not matching your application to the position you’ve applied to or Writing an objective so painfully bland that it could apply to virtually anything Let’s discuss some examples. Objectives that have nothing to do with the job Although
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consider my self successful because I have achieved a lot of analytical and leadership experience at certain jobs or occupations that I can apply for new strategic projects and always I am looking for fresh challenges and I know I can perform this job successfully because I am hard working and patient. I am willing to enhance my skills‚ using my talent and ability. I want to prove to all of you that I can perform well and you will never regret that you hired me. I am positive minded and believe in
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You Just Don ’t Understand by Deborah Tannen‚ Ph.D. William Morrow and Company‚ 1990 Reviewed by Laura Morrison That men and women are on different wavelengths when it comes to communicating is probably not news to you. However‚ "Can We Talk?" the cover story of the December issue of New Age Journal‚ provides some excellent new perspectives on this age-old problem. The author‚ Peggy Taylor‚ interviewed sociolinguist Deborah Tannen‚ who has written a book called You Just Don ’t Understand: Women
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In‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Joyce Carol Oates shares a story about a fifteen-year-old girl named Connie who encounters Arnold Friend‚ a predator whose first words to Connie are‚ “Gonna get you‚ baby” (Oates). One day‚ while Connie is home alone‚ she receives an unexpected visitor from the mysterious boy she saw the other night while hanging out
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Joyce Carol Oates is an 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.
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