Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is about a 15 year old girl named Connie. Connie is the dark blond haired girl who catches all the attention and knows she looks good. The story is somewhat journalistic in the sense that there are few extreme stylistic flourishes or complicated sentence structures. Oates’s spare style allows the images in the story to stand out in realistic coherence‚ in a way that makes one feel they have some unexplainable importance. “There’s your
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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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I still remember the first experience that I had at the Health Care Center and how it change me into who I really am right now. As a volunteer with my high school friends‚ we were given the opportunity to attended and to help to explain how the program works. A woman named Kathy came and approached me. Although I could tell that she was exhausted‚ but she offered a warm smile as she greeted me . Afterward we began to walk towards the table‚ she informed me that she was a mother of five children
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You Have No Reason for Cloning Humans Think of walking down the street in thirty years and running into an exact replica of yourself. Is it your twin? No‚ you do not have a twin; it is your clone. Your biological makeup could have been cloned as an embryo and raised separately as an experiment. I bet many of you have seen Star Wars‚ Jurassic Park or many of the other movies that describe cloning. Most of what you see in these movies is false. What you do not know is if that cloning could be
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It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose‚ It’s How you Play the Game St. Louis University‚ School for Professional Studies English 190-LO Advanced Strategies of Rhetoric & Research July 8‚ 2013 It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose‚ It’s How You Play the Game Most people here on this beautiful planet aspire to be successful. There are many different measures of that success. To some it may be money‚ to others fame or recognition. For some folks it may be the simple
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“Can You Hear Me Now” by Sherry Turkles is an examination of increasing technology use in everyday life and how it has become a crutch for daily human life. Turkles‚ who is a professor of social studies of science and technology at MIT‚ elaborates immensely on her views of what technology is doing and has done to society since its arrival. She states‚ people have begun to be caught up completely in technology and social media. The goal of social media was to initially connect individuals across long
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Do you believe that your choices are free? Do you hold yourself responsible for your choices? Life is full of endless choices‚ opportunities‚ new ideas and changing scenarios. To overcome the obstacles‚ we have to be ready to juggle the options that appear on our way. Every day‚ every hour‚ even every second‚ people make decisions. Small‚ large‚ important‚ funny‚ mundane‚ all those countless choices with the speed of light forever change us‚ turning the world into one that the second time will
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Lurvin Magana-Calles Heidi Kozlowski English 1B September 28‚ 2014 Where Are you Going‚ Where HaveYou Been? Analysis “Where Are you Going‚ Where Have You Been? Is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about a fifteen year old girl’s that lives a dual life for self-importance‚ an unforgiving desire for irresponsibility‚ yet doubtfulness to leave the security of family and the comfort ‘of sleeping on her bed again’ ( Oates 77) . Connie is a young girl that likes listening to music ‘that made everything
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in the mortgages-backed securities. Facing the pressure to find new types of investment for the investors‚ he looked into the historical data of mortgages‚ and concluded that because the no income loans existed so far performed well‚ they would not have much risk in the future. His reasoning was flawed. The historical data set him the wrong perception and it anchored in his mind. Bazerman and Moore further argue that people tend to think that the subsequent information is in consistency with the
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” should not be read through a fantasy/allegorical lens‚ but through a lens of reality. Reading it through the former limits the potency of the story. Everything that takes place in the story is believable‚ and in fact‚ many details of the story are based on real events. Arnold Friend is based on Charles Schmid‚ a real life serial killer who was responsible for the murder of three young girls. Schmid was arrested in 1965 for the rape and murder of Allen Rowe;
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