“Where Are You Going Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol‚ showcases the inevitable effects of youthful exuberance in a teenage girl. The story is a compelling tale which unveils the vulnerability of Connie‚ a young teenage girl who could barely substantiate fantasy from reality. She prides herself as a pretty girl who understands the basic principles of life. Her encounter with Arnold Friend reveals her as someone who lacks the mental ability to make meaningful decisions and accurate when necessary
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HAVE YOU READ A NEWSPAPER? ABSTRACT Have you ever wondered; why we find the lead story in the farthest upper-right hand column? Like most people‚ we try to keep up with the news by watching it on television. That is how 65% of us get 100% of our news – from the 24-odd-minute television news broadcast. What television news bring is primarily a front-page headline service only. To get all one needs to know‚ one has to amplify these headlines with a complete account of the news from a well-edited
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The article "When the Cyberbully Is You" by Nick Bilton discusses the problem of online shaming faced by our society. According to him‚ there is nothing new about cyberbullying‚ but now the debate is happening everywhere: on radio shows‚ movies‚ books‚ talks‚ TV shows‚ blogs‚ book reviews including social media. With serious concern‚ Jacqui Shine states that online shaming has come to the point that anyone can be a victim of that kind of shaming‚ and that is the reason why it is being discussed now
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MODERN SOCIAL WORK THEORY Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface to the Third Edition A Note on Terminology xiii xiv xv xviii PART 1 Thinking about social work theory 1 The Construction of Social Work Theory What this chapter is about MAIN POINTS Practice and practice theories Practice and other theory The social construction of welfare and social work Are there paradigms of social work? Is social work theory ‘modern’ or ‘postmodern’? Arenas of social work construction The social
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Can a blood test really tell you when you’ll die? Author: Giles Tremlett. Source: http://thelonggoodread.com/2011/10/13/can-a-blood-test-really-tell-you-when-youll-die/ As a taxi takes me across Madrid to the laboratories of Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre‚ I am fretting about the future. I am one of the first people in the world to provide a blood sample for a new test‚ which has been variously described as a predictor of how long I will live‚ a waste of time or a handy indicator
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"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" By Joyce Carol Oates A short story titled "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" tells a tale of an adolescent girl who suffers consequences of growing up in the unsupportive environment and the society preoccupied by the media. It is considered to be the most famous work of Joyce Carol Oates‚ an American writer‚ the winner of many significant literary awards and a two- time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The story was first
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Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been? “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ is one of Joyce Carol Oates best short stories. Oates shows the reader what it is like to take things for granted and make mistakes through the main character‚ Connie. Throughout this story‚ Connie finds her identity and grows as a woman. In “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ Joyce Carol Oates shows us the struggle of a young woman dealing with her family‚ sexuality‚ and common mistakes that can be made
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In “Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have “Nothing to Hide””‚ Daniel J. Solove presents his argument over the reasons a person gives for wanting privacy and the issue of it being more than just someone trying to “hide” something. Solove says that‚ “The nothing to hide argument is everywhere. In Britain‚ for example‚ the government has installed millions of public-surveillance cameras in cities and towns‚ which are watched by officials via closed-circuit television.” (341) Solove gives the reader his
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The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character
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