"You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing." - E.B. White - "I always knew that when I looked back on the times I cried I would smile. But I never knew that when I looked back on the times I smiled I would cry." "My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation." - Helen Keller - "One day at a time‚ this is enough. Don’t
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Have you ever been to a college class? Did that class only consist of two exams‚ a midterm and a final throughout the entire semester? How much stress did you feel around the time those exams came around? These are the types of problems that Patrick O’Malley argues against in his essay “More Testing‚ More Learning”. In this essay‚ O’Malley takes the stand presenting the fact that there are courses in college that provide infrequent testing. He lets it be known that this is not the most effective
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was not home”(1369)‚ this character‚ Connie‚ in “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ is depicted as a self-centered‚ condescending‚ insecure fifteen year old girl growing into a woman. Connie comes off as a troubled young girl who consistently uses her sexuality for attention but at the same time is afraid of intimacy. This is said be due to her fractured relationships with her family; her frequent excursions with older boys that appeared to not have any interest after
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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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"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" and "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" While reading‚ "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" and "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" the readers find themselves lost in worlds of suspense‚ horror and comic relief through tone and symbolism. Although‚ the stories contain very different plots‚ they both have a sense of "good vs. evil." In "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"‚ Grandmother is a deep religious character that gives the story a depth of interest. The reader
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Matt Merritt 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
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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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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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frustrating and confusing‚ and in most adolescents‚ is filled with apprehension and anxiety. For the protagonist Connie‚ this distress is expressed in her dreamlike encounter with Arnold Friend. In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚” Joyce Carol Oates used the interaction between her two main character‚ to reveal the internal fear and conflict of a fifteen year old girl maturing into a young woman. Oates chooses narrate her story in the third person giving us a glimpse in to
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University of Tunis I Faculty of Humanities and social Science of Tunis Department of English Frozena (French Fries ) marketing mix at Al Rihab Company for International Trade Imen Bouhajeb ID:07078022 An internship report presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree license vocational master of applied English language. Submitted to: Mrs. Lassadi Boutheina November 2012 Acknowledgments: I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my parents‚ my son
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