Matt Merritt Professor Smith English 102 13 September 2012 Arnold Friend’s Identity in Joyce’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” In the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Oates portrays Connie as a beautiful young woman that is being coerced by a man‚ whom she doesn’t know‚ to come outside and go for a ride in his car. Who is this man that calls himself Arnold Friend? What does he represent? Looking at the things that Arnold Friend says and does will help to discover
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Kevin Coffman College Composition 2 Mrs. Johnson March 8‚ 2013 Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? The story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” is a very interesting short story written by Joyce Carol Oats. Her story begins in the summer‚ and 15-year-old Connie spends much of her time lounging around the house‚ going out with friends‚ and meeting boys. One night a strange guy makes a threatening gesture to her in the parking lot of a local drive-in restaurant. She thinks nothing
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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where are you going‚ where have you been?” is a short story by Joyce Carol Oates about an average fifteen year old girl who is not unlike many other girls her age‚ she is self-absorbed‚ and has a “Nervous giggling habit of craning her neck and glancing into the mirror‚ or checking other people’s face’s to make sure her own was all right.”(Oates‚ 388) The story takes place in Middle America. Oates wrote “Where are you going‚ where have you been?”
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In her essay‚ Where are you going‚ Where have you been‚ Joyce Carol Oates‚ underscores the importance of communication to develop her story. Both the presence and absence of communication are utilized in the evolution of Oates’ purpose. The author relates each of her subjects to archetypal characters in order to firmly cast them into a category. Through careful consideration of detail‚ Oates’ offers a particular understanding of Connie’s relationship with her parents and the world around Connie.
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What? How? When? Ten Years? It always amazed me to see that I constantly change my answer to the question of where do I see myself in ten years. I will be in the mid thirties in ten years from now‚ and by then I will probably be more grounded. As always‚ my answer is depended on whom I hang out with at the moment as well as leisure activities I am engaging in. Sometimes I see myself in my favorite movies characters such as babe from the movie "pig in the city‚" or a part-time working wife as in "Stepmom"
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Hope versus reality-where do you stand? Hope is the quintessential human delusion‚ simultaneously is the source of the person greatest strength‚ and the greatest weakness. It is true to say that somewhere between optimism and pessimism is where we usually find realism. Logically‚ it is impossible to stop yourself from hoping certain things‚ but it becomes a problem when hope for something good becomes a delusion. It is good to hope for better conditions‚ but it is bad to call hope a virtue
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1) How do you calculate average speed? Average speed = Distance Time For example‚ if you have a car that has travelled 50km in 20 minutes the average speed would be 1km/2.5min. 2) A student measures the distance their rocket travels and has also recorded the length of flight. He works out the speed with the two values measured‚ and exclaims “I’ve worked out its top speed!” Discuss this statement. This is a false statement‚ the student has not worked out the rockets top speed‚ they have
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author n. (ôth-au-r) - One who practices writing as a profession. 15 years is a long time and especially so for one who has not lived that long yet. Today teens like me are expected to know what they want do later in life. Maybe if it were not the twenty first century I could be imaginative but that would be childish (In case you didn’t know this is a CHILDRENS essay competition). However after a decade and a half I would like to be in a profession that is considered neither here nor there in terms
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By disecting the eyeball of a dog‚ researchers found that about 10% of the photoprecepters are cones. Cones are responsible for helping the brain detect colors. The photoreceptors in our eyes are 100% cones. This means that we can process all the colors and see them more vividly. A dog can’t tell the difference between red‚ yellow‚ orange‚ or green but they can see whites light blues‚ purples and different shades of grey. Besides just the cones‚ there are other photoreceptors known as rods
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In every person’s life they experience a transition from childhood to adulthood. This transition is significant in a person’s life and it can be different for men and women. Not all transitions to adulthood are peaceful; they can violent transitions as seen in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Was Almost a Man and Joyce Carol Oates’ Where are You Going‚ Where Have You Been. These two stories reflect how males and females are represented differently in society through the protagonist violent transition
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