Barahona Cortese ENG 102 B09 18 February 2012 Essay 1 The not so Friendly‚ Arnold Friend In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Oates uses imagery to show the antagonist‚ Arnold Friend‚ as frightening and portrays many qualities of the devil. From the beginning Connie is shown as selfish and promiscuous and what easier target for the devil than a sinful teenager that’s only living for fun. Throughout the story‚ Arnold Friend has a Rock & Roll vibe that attracts
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Arnold Spirit “Junior” is the protagonist of our story. Funny‚ smart‚ emotional‚ poor‚ brave‚ persevering‚ all of these are traits that describe Junior. Born at the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit‚ Washington‚ Junior was expected to die during the surgery‚ but miraculously lived. However his brain suffered major brain damage during the surgery‚ which gave him 10 more teeth than usual‚ and seizures. His head was much larger than the usual‚ and his feet were that of a clown; and as you may
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Arnold Schoenberg was one of the greatest musical influences of the mid 20th Century. He was born on September 13‚ 1874‚ to a Jewish family in Vienna‚ Austria (Schoenberg 1). Schoenberg was a young Jewish man during World War I (WWI) living in Berlin. He was directly affected by the invasion of the Nazis. In 1933‚ he had to leave Berlin and desert his faith for Lutheranism later on taking on the faith of Judaism. At the early age of eight‚ he began violin lessons and almost immediately started
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a heated debate form coast to coast. A large part of the ebonics controversy is the fact that many of today’s students do not get a good enough grasps of standard written and spoken English to compete successfully in the job market later. In this essay‚ I will discuss the issue of whether ebonics should be considered a second language. The argument of ebonics advocates is that their unique programs will permit black children to excel at what critics of ebonics say they want black children to learn:
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If she did not go outside of her comfort zone to experiment with her maturity‚ then Arnold Friend might have never noticed her and taken advantage of her. As a teenager‚ you are very vulnerable and need to be very careful about who you hang out with‚ especially as a female in this day in age. Connie got too wrapped into her experimentation that she was unable to see a threat when it stood in her face. Arnold Friend gave off a very creepy aura when they first met in the plaza “He wagged a finger
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My claim asserts that Arnold has experienced overwhelming positive changes. Junior’s journey had lots of ups and downs that made him realize a lot of things about life because of the conflicts he faced. Junior has become more mature throughout the story. At first‚ Junior feared white people and disliked them because of the way they treat the Indians differently. For an example‚ on page 2 says “ I had to have all ten extra teeth pulled out in one day..our white dentist think that Indians only felt
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or prey‚ we tend to think about something like lions‚ preying on gazelles in the wildlife. Arnold Friend‚ however‚ in the story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ Arnold is not a lion preying on gazelle‚ but he is a middle-aged man that becomes predatory and preys on 15-year-old Connie. Scheming and being a predatorial is what make Arnold Friend the villainous man he is. Arnold Friend‚ is a middle-aged man that uses himself as bait to fool and befriend young Connie.
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Arnold Palmer Hospital was founded in 1989. It is one of the largest hospitals for women and children in U.S.‚ with 431 beds in two facilities totaling 676‚000 square feet. Located in downtown Orlando‚ Florida‚ and named after its famed golf benefactor‚ the hospital with more than 2000 employees serves an 18-country area in central Florida and is the only Level 1 trauma centre for children in that region. Arnold Palmer Hospital provides a broad range of medical services including neonatal and paediatric
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Shanelle Ramos Professor Purugganan English 112 5 June 20 Dealing with the Devil: Arnold Friend and the Idle mind Everything that glitters isn’t gold. In life everyone reaches stages where they consider what’s normal isn’t fun anymore and they choose to take a look into what is attractive and popular. It is common for people to think the grass is greener on the other side‚ but an idle mind will always leads to destruction and the devil loves an idle mind. A protagonist by the name of Connie
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Prior to his act of treason‚ Benedict Arnold was highly regarded as America’s greatest Revolutionary general. Due to his high rank and excellent performance on the battlefield it seemed most unlikely that Arnold would defect to the other side. "Arnold has betrayed us. Whom can we trust now?" asked George Washington who now felt that no one could be trusted once Arnold had betrayed his country of which he had shown so much love for beforehand. Arnold had been a die-hard patriot who at the Boston Massacre
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