In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Arnold Friend‚ a conniving antagonist‚ charms a naive teenager named Connie into believing he will rescue her from her inattentive family. However‚ at the story’s climax‚ Connie fears for her life yet cannot resist Arnold’s temptations. Although details of Friend’s appearance‚ speech‚ and actions should warn Connie of his evil intentions‚ through Oates’s portrayal of Friend as a devil-figure‚ Connie is easily “conned” foreshadowing
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“Where is Here?” By Joyce Carol Oats is a story about a mysterious stranger visiting a family.The visitor discusses the idea of infinity.The drawing‚the house‚and the characters all support the idea of infinity. To begin‚the illustration the stranger draws for the son.The drawing is most obvious because the stranger himself explains it to the son using the word infinity.The stranger demonstrates the drawing to the son drawing a square then drawing a triangle‚a second‚third‚and a fourth inside
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From the article “Is This the Promised End?” The Tragedy of King Lear‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ King Lear is presented as someone who is “…overwhelmed by the authority of the title ‘King’… [becoming a] human being dying inside an archetype” (Oates 4). King Lear was someone who yearned for status and power‚ but never truly upheld any of the responsibilities that came with the title of being king. Because he was obsessed with keeping a royal façade‚ he disconnected with the ones dearest to him—his
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the environment. An open dump is an illegal waste disposal site and should not be confused with a permitted municipal solid waste landfill of recycling facility. Open dumps position the threat of fire and explosion‚
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Atmosphere Landfills create a clear and obvious threat to human health as well as a threat to our environment from the hazardous contaminated air emissions emitted from the landfill biodegradation. There are over ten toxic gases released from landfills‚ of the most serious of which is methane. Methane gas is naturally produced during the process of decay of organic matter. As methane gas is formed‚ it builds up pressure and then begins to move through the soil. In a recent study of 288 landfills‚ off-site
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Saturation of landfill In the densely populated city of Hong Kong‚ where land resources are rare‚ waste is a troublesome issue. According to the Hong Kong Environmental Protection Department(EDP) Hong Kong is running out of landfill space far earlier than expected‚ and the existing landfills will be filled up‚ one by one‚ in mid to late 2010s if waste levels continue to increase at current levels.) Unless solutions are identified immediately‚ we could face a crisis in the next decade of having
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Student Name Professor Name Subject Date The Motives of Fateful Meeting in Joyce Carol Oates’s short story “In the Region of Ice” In her short story “In the Region of Ice”‚ Joyce Carol Oates portrays the complexity of human characters‚ thus revealing the most intimate and hidden movements of human soul. In the given story‚ Oates intentionally makes the opposites collide‚ interact‚ and coexist‚ despite all seeming differences and conventions. And the main protagonists – Sister Irene
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recycling and reuse‚ most trash is still thrown away to fill landfill sites. To list just a few staggering facts‚ every year‚ 13.4 million tons of food waste‚ 28 billion bottles‚ 36 billion aluminum cans‚ and 200 million tons of garbage are landfilled in America each year 1. As trash is piling up‚ environmental concerns rise because of landfills’ large production of leachate and landfill gas. Leachate is the liquid drained from landfill sites‚ composed of dissolved waste material components and particles
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Emerson V.S Oates Compare and Contrast: Different views on Nature In class out of the three essays we read I choose to do a compare-contrast between Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and Joyce Carol Oates’s essays. I choose these two because they both had different feels towards nature. Oates is against nature and Emerson is about becoming one with nature. Even though both have different meaning‚ both Oates and Emerson successfully uses rhetorical strategies such as appeal to credibility‚ emotion‚ and
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My family and I live in a landfill. We have no money and fight for survival day by day. We live through people’s waste and the things they do not want. We struggle for food and finding a protective shelter. I receive no education a long with the rest of my family. Sleeping night-to-night outside is a struggle. I sleep on a tarp under a number of boxes set up. Mother nature plays a toll on our survival. When it thunderstorms or is below freezing temperatures our life is in danger. I suffer from
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