In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚” Joyce Carol Oats uses characterization including methods such as symbolism and allusions to develop her characters‚ and thus establish her theme of the cross roads Connie faces in her transition from the innocence of her adolescence to the impurity of adulthood facilitated by the antagonist‚ Arnold Friend. From the beginning of the story‚ the reader sees Connie has a strong desire to make her early transition into adulthood. Although
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“I hope you fall in love With someone who always texts back And never lets You fall asleep thinking your Unwanted. I hope you fall in love with someone Who holds your hand during the scary Parts of Horror movies and burns Cookies with you when you’re Too busy dancing around the Kitchen. I hope you fall in love with Someone who sees galaxies in your Eyes And hears music in your Heartbeats. I hope you fall in love with someone Who Tickles you and makes you smile On hard days
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At first glance‚ the story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates seems like a regular story where a girl just has home problems like every other teenager. However‚ by looking more into the story you can see that the locations of where Connie is at‚ mean something different. In my opinion‚ I believe that the setting plays a significant role in the way Connie alternates her personality around her family and friends. When she is out with friends and not at home with family
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Literary Analysis As with many of Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces‚ "The Fall of the House of Usher" falls within the definition of American Gothic Literature. According to Prentice Hall Literature‚ American Gothic Literature is characterized by a bleak or remote setting‚ macabre or violent incidents‚ characters being in psychological or physical torment‚ or a supernatural or otherworldly involvement (311). A story containing these attributes can result in a very frightening or morbid read. In all probability
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from topic to topic. His main focus was the basic building block of all matter: the tiny atom and how it makes YOU. Those simple particles‚ bonded together in such a unique way that it can only create one individual: You. The author says‚ "To begin with‚ for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you. It’s an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist this
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“Amy Cuddy: Your body shapes who you are.” Body language forms who you are. From being hunched forward with arms crossing having the feeling of insecurity‚ to having a powerful posture with hands free of any way of making someone feel diffident. Body language can show a lot to a person and can shape whom you are. Our body language shows what people see in us and how we see ourselves. Amy Cuddy‚ a Social Psychologist‚ presents how “power posing” can be one of the smallest tweaks in your life to
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The first literary element in Since You’ve Been Gone is irony. In this book Emily‚ the main character‚ is left behind all summer without knowing where her best friend‚ Sloan‚ went. The only thing she has is a list of 13 tasks Sloan left that are extremely out of Emily’s comfort zone. Throughout her attempt to complete the list‚ Emily meets a guy named Frank and they become friends. One night they show up to Emily’s house to find her parents‚ two playwrights‚ in need of two actors to play parts in
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1. How would you boil down Kent’s analytic doctrine in understandable terms for policymakers? Kent explains in the document “Tensions in Analyst-Policymaker Relation” that there needs to be a relationship between the analyst and the policymaker. The policy-maker will criticize the analyst work to ensure that the evidence has been evaluated‚ the recommendations are not vague or biased and that alternative explanation and projections have been considered. He sums up the job of the analyst by stating
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Tan Sri Dato Dr Robert Kuok has been the 33rd richest person in the world‚ Over taking Tan Sri Dato Dr Yeoh Tiong Lay (YTL) ‚ Dato Ananda Krishnan and Dato Brian Tan. Kuok’s father arrived in Malaya from Fujian‚ China at the beginning of the 20th century‚ and Robert was the youngest of three brothers‚ born on 6 October 1923‚ in Johor Bahru. He claims he began in business as an office boy‚ and later started a business with relatives’ support. [2] In fact‚ upon graduation‚ he worked in the grains
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Hour‚ Frankie and Johnny‚ Roots of Temptation and the movie “He’s Not That Into You”. In all of these stories there is always one person out of the relationship that doesn’t know what it wants’. It makes the relationship harder because these feelings that they have‚ they don’t share it with each other. These make the relationship to fail and not to be a healthy relationship. People usually get really confused. When you have a relationship for a long time period‚ it usually becomes a routine and it
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