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    Where You’re Going‚ Is Somewhere You Have Never Been As you read through this short story written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ you will read about the story of a normal teenage girl‚ Connie‚ that loves to believe that she is far more mature than she really is. Her maturity that she longs for throughout the story is then forced upon her and‚ then her true colors show. They show that no matter how mature she thinks she is‚ she is still pretty far from full adulthood and is well in the middle of adolescence

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    In “Where is Here?” by Joyce Carol Oats‚ she uses a few different methods of indirect characterization to describe the character who is only known as “the visitor”. The five methods are appearance‚ speech‚ actions‚ reactions of others‚ and private thoughts. To begin‚ we will analyze the physical appearance of the visitor. In the beginning of the short story‚ Oats describes the character as a man in his late forties who was wearing a dark‚ conservatively cut suit. His hair was described as “thin”

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    is the best method of disposing waste. One method of disposing waste is through landfills. A landfill is a site for disposing waste materials by burials. This is the oldest method of disposing waste. It is used a lot in many countries as temporary storage‚ consolidation and transfer. We can categorize landfill sites into hazardous waste landfills and non-hazardous waste landfills. In non-hazardous waste landfills there are a few specifications applied by which the wastes are: confined to as

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    700 Ackerman Road‚ Suite 235‚ Columbus‚ OH 43202 Landfill Types and Liner Systems Kerry L. Hughes‚ Ann D. Christy‚ and Joe E. Heimlich Introduction Modern landfills are highly engineered containment systems‚ designed to minimize the impact of solid waste (refuse‚ trash‚ and garbage) on the environment and human health. In modern landfills‚ the waste is contained by a liner system. The primary purpose of the liner system is to isolate the landfill contents from the environment and‚ therefore‚ to

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    landfill  landfill site (also known as tip‚ dump‚ rubbish dump or dumping ground and historically as amidden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. Historically‚ landfills have been the most common methods of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world. Some landfills are also used for waste management purposes‚ such as the temporary storage‚ consolidation and transfer‚ or processing of waste material (sorting

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    In Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Arnold Friend‚ a conniving antagonist‚ charms a naive teenager named Connie into believing he will rescue her from her inattentive family. However‚ at the story’s climax‚ Connie fears for her life yet cannot resist Arnold’s temptations. Although details of Friend’s appearance‚ speech‚ and actions should warn Connie of his evil intentions‚ through Oates’s portrayal of Friend as a devil-figure‚ Connie is easily “conned” foreshadowing

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    From the article “Is This the Promised End?” The Tragedy of King Lear‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates‚ King Lear is presented as someone who is “…overwhelmed by the authority of the title ‘King’… [becoming a] human being dying inside an archetype” (Oates 4). King Lear was someone who yearned for status and power‚ but never truly upheld any of the responsibilities that came with the title of being king. Because he was obsessed with keeping a royal façade‚ he disconnected with the ones dearest to him—his

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    “Where is Here?” By Joyce Carol Oats is a story about a mysterious stranger visiting a family.The visitor discusses the idea of infinity.The drawing‚the house‚and the characters all support the idea of infinity. To begin‚the illustration the stranger draws for the son.The drawing is most obvious because the stranger himself explains it to the son using the word infinity.The stranger demonstrates the drawing to the son drawing a square then drawing a triangle‚a second‚third‚and a fourth inside

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    the environment. An open dump is an illegal waste disposal site and should not be confused with a permitted municipal solid waste landfill of recycling facility. Open dumps position the threat of fire and explosion‚

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    Atmosphere Landfills create a clear and obvious threat to human health as well as a threat to our environment from the hazardous contaminated air emissions emitted from the landfill biodegradation. There are over ten toxic gases released from landfills‚ of the most serious of which is methane. Methane gas is naturally produced during the process of decay of organic matter. As methane gas is formed‚ it builds up pressure and then begins to move through the soil. In a recent study of 288 landfills‚ off-site

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