In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Carol Oats uses characterization including methods such as symbolism and allusions to develop her characters‚ and thus establish her theme of the cross roads Connie faces in her transition from the innocence of her adolescence to the impurity of adulthood facilitated by the antagonist‚ Arnold Friend. From the beginning of the story‚ the reader sees Connie has a strong desire to make her early transition into adulthood. Although
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believe that you can tell a lot about a person by observing what they wear. Is this true? A man in a nice pressed three-piece suit‚ carrying an expensive briefcase is obviously a businessman‚ right? A woman wearing a long ruffled colorful dress‚ with many jewelry pieces around her neck and wrists and colorful beads braided onto her hair must be a hippy or a gypsy‚ right? It is easy to label people based on how they dressed‚ sometimes too easy. Let’s face it; the first thing you do to a person
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So‚ You Want To Be a Writer? Here’s How. Allegra Goodman The article “So‚ You Want to be a Writer? Here is How”‚ written by Allegra Goodman‚ emphasizes the major difficulty for most writers is the lacks of time; it also lists four pieces of advice for writers to follow. First‚ a writer should write about other people instead of himself. A writer will be able to understand others more by observing others’ faces‚ conversations and behaviors.
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People all over the world have all different cultures and beliefs‚ and what may be one’s person’s norm may be rare or insulting someone else’s culture. To avoid such misconceptions and conflicts‚ censorship of media such as books is put into place. Some books are completely banned in some areas‚ and many books are admonished for containing ‘controversial information.’ Many people are divided between the dilemma of whether or not censorship should be enforced. Some parents or religious followers wish
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Sponsor This Essay 316 Be careful what you wish for. You might not like what you get. Some people wish for things without thinking about the challenges that await them ahead. Such as‚ wishing for a promotion and then getting more tasks then they can do. Or they wish to have children when they end up with twins‚ which they can barely handle. Or winning the lottery and spending all the money at once and not having it when they need it the most. I made a wish; I wish my father was out of my life. Unbelievably
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It all happened on a warm sunny saturday morning in “Where are you going. Where have you been’’ by Joyce Carry Oates. It started with an unfamiliar car bouncing along Connie’s long drive way. When she first heard the car she rushed to the window excitedly‚ frantically fixing her hair. Making sure she looked good‚ seemed to be an insecure habit for Connie. She saw an uninvited boyish looking man who was situated in the car parked now in her driveway. There was a tension of unease about the boyish
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Like all the other students who got their SPM (Malaysian Certificate of Education) result‚ I am waiting for the offer of the scholarships and matriculation. Before the result was being announced‚ I got matriculation. I was happy that I got the offer but my mother against me because she feels that the college was too far from my hometown. But still I insisted on my decision because I was not confident enough to get any scholarship. Besides‚ there was a voice deep inside my heart that asks me to follow
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First of all‚ I must comment on the fact that this was a beautifully constructed essay. Like the letter Einstein wrote too Miss Wright‚ it flowed like water‚ with smooth and fluid transitions from topic to topic. His main focus was the basic building block of all matter: the tiny atom and how it makes YOU. Those simple particles‚ bonded together in such a unique way that it can only create one individual: You. The author says‚ "To begin with‚ for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had
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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
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be held responsible. If you do something because you are forced to do it by threat‚ or you are not mentally capable to form the right choice about the action‚ then the choice of ethics does not matter. We are held responsible only for actions that we have a choice in. If an accused person claims to have been insane at the time of the crime and if a jury finds that the person was insane at the time of the crime‚ the person is felt to have been incapable of making a free choice and is then not responsible
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