“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is the suspenseful tale of fifteen year old Connie and her situation with a strange man. Connie‚ who usually enjoys the attention of the older boys‚ sees the man randomly when she is on a date. Some time later‚ the man shows up to Connie’s house and asks her if she wants to go for a ride with him and his friend. The man introduces himself as Arnold Friend‚ claiming to be eighteen years old. Connie soon begins to realize the two men look much older than
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Wrong Impressions The short story‚ “Where Are You going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates explains how a young girl was struggling to find herself. Oates writes about a girl named Connie who was 16 years old and was lost in a world of fantasy. Connie had a split personality/image while at home and when she was out with her friends. Living in a world of fantasy‚ Connie would ignore her family by tuning them out and being distant. Connie would constantly be in front of the mirror admiring
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around him have. For example a change in government or politics could cause a change of view in society but he may have stuck to his original views which would mean people hate him for it. When really he’s just being loyal and doing what he knows. “And you see my harvest‚ what I reap” this shows people have changed‚ he did everything for them and this is the thanks he gets which reflects how misguided public can be. In the last stanza we see he understands that death is an unwanted but expected consequence
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insatiable hunger for success and the unquenchable thirst for supremacy transform many of us into slaves of our desires‚ fuelled by greed and its associates. In more ways than one‚ greed is fast emerging to be the prime reason for every single thing we do‚ and it is not hard to see why. Living in today’s globalised world feels challenging‚ even confusing at times‚ with distance no longer a reliable indicator of our involvements in the world. Some of our closest business ties may be stretched out over
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Oliver Davies To what extent do you agree that schools have a uniform? From the ages of 5 to 16 by law every child in the UK must attend school; whether the school is state funded or privately funded they almost all have some form of school uniform. School uniforms are a requirement at almost all schools but in some state schools the regulations on school uniforms are a little looser than others‚ Meaning that some pupil wear pretty much whatever they want to school taking no notice of the school
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Charles Howard Schmid‚ Jr. also known as "The Pied Piper of Tucson‚" was an American serial killer. In the story‚ Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates‚ the character Arnold Friend was based on the serial killer in which Connie was one of the many victims he had abducted. There are many possibilities on how the author intends the readers to understand it. Such as‚ it could be a dream that Connie is having‚ in all actuality it could be real; it could send a message
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However‚ this act may do more harm than good. Some groups‚ such as the American Library Association‚ state that the act infringes on Fourth Amendment rights guaranteed to us in the Constitution. Others‚ however‚ say that the legislation will help protect citizens from potential terrorist attacks. This essay‚ written and compiled by students in Presidential Classroom‚ will investigate the pros and cons of the USA Patriot Act and come to a conclusion about it. ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF THE PATRIOT
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“[Connie] had a quick‚ nervous giggling habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors or checking other people’s faces to make sure her own was all right.” (1) In the story “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” the author Joyce Carol Oates‚ deliberately shows us the level of innocence of the protagonist Connie‚ as well as the similar features an inexperienced young girl who lived in 1966 compares to those of a young girl who is raised in our era. Young teenage girls in 1966 are no different
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Hiyasmin Guy Yoche Peter Zollo English 100 September 10‚ 2012 Free Trade Free trade has become one of the most controversial subjects of modern times. Though despite its challenges‚ the positive role it has been playing in the lives of millions of people around the world is commendable. It gives us access to new foods‚ products and experiences‚ and creates economic opportunity and markets. Free trade also allows countries to specialize in the production of goods that they have a comparative
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within a school‚ whereas inclusion was establishing a more extreme set of changes that a school had to undertake to encompass all children. Moving from her initial 1978 report‚ Warnock (2005) questioned the issue of inclusion as to where a child was geographically‚ to where they belong in terms of social and educational security and the idea of inclusion was “possibly the most dangerous legacy of the 1978 report” (Warnock 2005: 22). However‚ the coalition government in the Teather Report ‘Supporting
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