The music. The sweet‚ sweet music. It’s melodic tone so alluring‚ so enchanting. Relaxing‚ as she rode away‚ with the strangers that she didn’t want to know. Connie woke up with a jolt. She couldn’t see anything‚ she couldn’t feel anything either. It was dark‚ but she could make out enough details to know that she was in a room. The only source of light was something that reminded her of one of those fancy lightbulbs that she seen on comercials‚ and from what she could see‚ the cell had a stone
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Mrs. Connie Dacus is a Health and Physical Education professor at Alabama State University in Montgomery‚ Alabama. Professor Dacus became a teacher because she saw early on the impact a teacher can have on molding a person’s character. Professor Dacus says that “A teacher spends the majority of his or her day helping you become the best person you can be often with little or no reward but perseveres because of that passion for teaching”. What excites Professor Dacus about her work is seeing the dynamics
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Although Connie works hard to present the appearance of being a mature woman who is experienced with men‚ her encounter with Arnold reveals that this is only a performance. She has created an attractive adult persona through her clothing‚ hairstyle‚ and general behavior and gets the attention she desires from boys. But Connie confuses her ability to command attention from boys with her desire to actually have them pursue her in a sexual way. The love and romance evident in songs she listens to and
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were able to listen to this new music and rebel from their parents in ways that they never could before. There are many artists that made enormous impacts on rock and roll music in the fifties‚ and one such significant artist was named Connie Francis. She was originally born as Concetta Franconero on December 12‚ 1938 in New Jersey. She started her music career at age three when her father bought her an accordion. Later‚ she won first prize on TV’s Startime Talent Scouts at age 12‚ and
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makeup done up nicely. This was goodbye. Your grandmother has now reunited with her husband who died almost twenty years earlier‚ in the eternal happiness called heaven. Though you know that all of the pain and suffering your grandmother endured has ended‚ it is still hard for you to picture what life will be like without her. You are forced to go on with your life with your loved one only alive in your heart. In a way‚ it seemed like your grandmother was dead for a while. She had a stroke‚ and
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lady‚ represents her misguided moral code. When the grandmother prepares for the car trip with the family‚ she dresses up to be prepared for a car accident so that anyone seeing her dead body would know that she’d been a lady. The grandmother seems to be entirely unconcerned with the fact that she’s dead in this scenario and oblivious to the fact that other people—including her three grandchildren—would have probably died as well. For the grandmother‚ the only thing that matters is her standing as a
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Character Analysis on “Connie” in “Where are you going‚ Where have you been?” “Where are you going‚ Where have you been” is a famous story that was written by Joyce Carol Oates. In this story‚ Connie is fifteen years old girl and the main character. She seems to have always lived in her sister’s shadow‚ June‚ who was apparently better all-around. Connie seems to be the more attractive of the two due to which she felt that her attractive personality would succumb to pleasure in the arms of a random
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Connie who finally gets attention from an older person she gets frighten‚ she neglects her childlike fantasies for realities of being a mature woman. Too look mature she dresses older‚ wear her hair different‚ her behavior and the way she acts when she’s away from home. She even gets the attention she wants from an older person‚ hang out at restaurant’s and listens to romance and love songs. Connie has two sides to her‚ one at home which she acts immature and when she goes out with her friends which
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Talking to my grandmother‚ she ask me did I remember the time I dislocated my elbow. I thought and thought but no‚ I did not. I told her I could only recall the pain when someone tried to touch my arm. Or to go back: It was my great grandparents 50th anniversary‚ I was three years old. All of my family members came together to celebrate their anniversary at the Golden Palace‚ a chinese restuarant. My cousin Erica was playing with me‚ I was running and laughing while she was chasing me. I was running
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“A Visit to Grandmother” Analysis In the short story “A Visit to Grandmother”‚ William Melvin Kelley writes about a man who brings his son to his mother’s house for an unexpected visit in an attempt to resolve his childhood traumas. Despite those conflicts‚ the main character‚ Charles‚ progresses as a human being due to his leaving home. One example of conflict that Charles faced as a child is his older brother‚ GL‚ getting all the love and attention from his mother. But not him he thought his mom
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