In the short story Where Are you Going Where Have You been‚the main character Connie is very promiscuous and struggles with finding herself. Joyce Carol Oates takes the reader on a journey of teen rebellion turned tragic and uses Connie to show that becoming independent is not easy. Throughout the story you can interpret that Connie felt vulnerable and neglected by her family and friends. Her mother always talked about how she should be more like her older sister‚ Jane “she was so plain and chunky
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Why do you want to become a Medical Practitioner? I can still vividly remember a terrifying night from my childhood when I suddenly awoke from my sleep because I was choking. My parents rushed me to the hospital and in the weeks that followed‚ I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. As an eight year old child‚ the kindness of one of the doctors who gave me a lollipop or another one who drew a smiley face on my band-aid after my blood test turned a situation that was difficult for me to understand
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Questions 2.Do you think the strategic use and display of emotions serve to protect employees‚ or does covering your true emotions at work lead more problems than it solves? 3.Have you enter worked where emotions were used as part of a management style? Describe the advantages and disadvantages of this approach in your experience. 4.Research shows that acts of co-workers (37 percent) and management (22 percent) cause more negative emotions for employees than do acts of customers (7 percent). What can Laura’s
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE JUST ONE INHC TALL Being just an inch tall …. Sounds really strange‚ but if I were really such‚ I would really be very unique and special. All the equipments I would use had to be very diminutive. It might sound strange but I would have lots of leverage. I can go anywhere I wish to without a travelling mode. Just a small crumb of bread would be enough for my lunch and I can also explore many new things and get new experiences. If I wanted to go surfing‚ I
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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? Innocent‚ young‚ naïve; this is how Connie was at her age of fifteen. She liked the attention boys gave her and how it made her feel. A man named Arnold Friend‚ whose much older than her‚ has stalked Connie and wants to convince her to go for a ride in his car. Connie doesn’t notice the man’s older features and this causes her young mind to contemplate going with Arnold in his car. Connie is more conflicted with herself‚ she battles to make the right choices
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“Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?” In the story‚ repetition and strands of music take on a role of a character for Connie‚ offering a safe haven for a troubled girl. Throughout the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?”‚ Oates uses the element of strands and repetition of music to create a safe haven for Connie in which she can escape. The theme from a 1950’s song “It’s all Over Now‚ Baby Blue.” By Bob Dylan connects to the theme of escaping from “Where Are You Going? Where have
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“Where are you going‚ where have you been” by Joyce Carol Oates In the short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” author Joyce Carol Oates depicts the main character as a fifteen year old daydreamer. Her name is Connie‚ and she is obsessed with her appearance. Connie’s mother constantly teases her about looking in the mirror and always obsessing over her looks. Connie believes her mother does this because her own looks have faded. Connie has an older sister‚ June. June is constantly
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Death is something humans all naturally fear‚ but what about when it comes to death of a phase in your life?Through the themes of duality and reality vs. fantasy‚ Oats takes us on a journey through Connie’s transformation. Imagery and symbols throughout the story strengthen the main themes to show the contrast of Connie’s fantasies and reality. “Where are you going‚ where have you been.”‚ leaves us with the question can we handle such a change? Good and evil‚ yin and yang‚ the idea of everything
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“Watching TV Makes You Smarter” Johnson states that; "For decades‚ we’ve worked under the assumption that mass culture follows a path declining steadily toward lowest-common-denominator standards‚ presumably because the "masses" want dumb‚ simple pleasures and big media companies try to give the masses what they want. But as that 24 episode suggests‚ the exact opposite is happening: culture is getting more cognitively demanding‚ not less."(214). Johnson talks explicitly about what a scholar might
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the dresser of his vineyard‚ Behold‚ these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree‚ and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?8And he answering said unto him‚ Lord‚ let it alone this year also‚ till I shall dig about it‚ and dung it:9And if it bear fruit‚ well: and if not‚ then after that thou shalt cut it down. Subject: “The Ish… (stuff) that makes us Grow! Church I must say today everyday of my life has truly been interesting‚ challenging‚ and a blessing. Also as I stand
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