"Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Music is one of the symbols mentioned in this story. The author mentions the music played in everywhere in the story. The author says that "The Music was always in the background". The music comes from restaurants‚ homes and cars. Music symbolizes the feeling and the emotions of the characters. For example‚ music for Connie is a pattern for romantic relationship. When she is happy‚ she hears music in everywhere. On the other hand‚ when she is sad‚ she
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Where Have You Been?" Oates goes into depth regarding the transition from being a carefree‚ innocent child to adulthood. In the short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" two separate worlds are drawn to the reader’s attention. The first is the normal daily life of Connie‚ a fifteen year old girl living in a home with her parents. Connie’s daily life is simple childhood. The second is the day Arnold Friend shows up at her doorstep and brings with him the difficulties of what the future
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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 who he is.
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English 112.060 October 9‚ 2012 Essay #2: “In what ways are women objectified and what are the consequences?” On any street corner or at the turn of a page there are advertisements showing men‚ women and children for various products. Whether it is trying to sell a simple beauty product or lingerie using a scantily clad model‚ the images depicted somehow catch your attention. But have we ever stopped to think what that ad is really trying to accomplish? While evaluating that photo‚ has it
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relationship with the law. He claims that in order to become a responsible legal subject‚ we are required to recognise differences between ourselves and others‚ thus demonstrating consideration‚ and ultimately love. Through a legal analysis of Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’‚ Manderson explores Max’s entry into the law‚ describing him as having eventually ‘discarded the caput lupinum‚ and returned home a responsible legal subject’‚ due to his learning from transgressions with the law. Adherence
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Throughout the book‚ “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed” there is various situations where people have made mistakes and have regretted it after being publicly shamed. Everyone who post things on social media is at risk at putting himself or herself out for public shaming. After all public shaming only takes one mistake or misinterpretation. Jon Ronson decided to make a book with different stories of people getting publicly shamed. There are also different forms of public shaming demonstrated throughout
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Could the Cold War have been avoided? Discuss with reference to the key schools of thought on the origins of the Cold War. The cold war is the product of confrontation between US and USSR‚ reflected by conflicts of interests in political‚ ideological‚ military sphere and so on (Baylis et al. 2010‚ p51)‚ and it lasted nearly half century and ended up with dissolution of Soviet Union. There are so many debates about its origin and some people argue that cold war might be avoided. However this essay
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The short story “What I Have Been Doing Lately” by Jamaica Kincaid‚ is told from within the dream of a young girl. She encounters many conflicts throughout her dream stemming from personal problems. The story is written in a circular structure that continues without resolution since her troubles are never resolved. The story makes use of small‚ choppy sentences which help the reader follow the quick‚ fast-paced actions happening during the dream. The non-traditional circular structure helps show
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Connie is a young fifteen year old who cares about her sexual drive that men have toward her. “The 1960s unleashed the so called sexual revolution. It seemed more a source of comic relief and tragic nostalgic recirculation than political inspiration…” This revolution consisted of women demanding their own rights so they could become more and more independent. There were significant shifts in social attitudes‚ behaviors‚ and institutional regulations at the beginning of the 60’s and also lasted through
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“Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Paper “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is a short story that poses many questions centered around the protagonist‚ Connie and the antagonist Arnold Friend and his “comrade” Ellie. The fate of Connie at the end of the story is still up for debate after all these years after the story was published in 1966. The main question posed is who actually is Arnold Friend? Is he the devil or something else? The answer may never be fully known but in
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