Connie, the main character of the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?... She was described as having long, dark, blond hair that she wore " part pulled up on her had and puffed out and the rest she let fall down her back" (Oates, 15). ... The other side of Connie's social life would come into play when she went into town with her best friend, Betty Schultz. ... Joyce Carol Oates describes Connie from there different points in the story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?. ...

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What does it mean to "go mad" and who fits that defenition? ... The next to "go mad" is Ophelia. ... When Hamlet comes back after he is exiled Ophelia soon finds out and comes to see Hamlet. ... Hamlet's madness comes from a revenge of his father's death. ... But Hamlet's own anger will come back and haunt him in the final scenes of the play when he fights with Laertes. ...

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As wars come and go, they leave a legacy and traumatizing experience for some folks. Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home", is a short story about a soldier, Harold Krebs, who comes back from World War 1 as a whole new person. ... After years, things had gone back to regular and no one wanted to hear his interesting war stories. ... When Krebs comes back home, his apathy begins. ... This line comes when Krebs is pondering about becoming involved with women. ...

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After his leave he is sent back to the front. ... When the French, who is fighting the Germans, come along they began shelling the village. ... After a few weeks Paul goes back to the war and Kropp goes home after having his leg took off. When Paul went back to the front, he watched his friends die one by one. ... With today's world and me being of age to go to war, this story was realistic and frightening to me. ...

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He goes through about every emotion a person can go through in this book, and still ends up by the by the end of the story ready to take on life again. ... However; all of his fame and glory comes to a screeching halt when he is in a freak boating accident. ... He does in a may because they are both very serious when it comes down to what needs to be serious. ... Lacey, a bus driver and a pimp who is the reason why Willie got his life back together. ... Here Willie gets back the self confidence and much of his physical ability back though lots of physical therapy and friends to talk to. ...

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When things do not go as planned, we are let down and sometimes left feeling lost and confused. ... And Jesus would come into his life! ... As Hughes recalls, "I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen. ... This indicates how guilty he felt about the situation, even now, looking back on it. ... In fact, he saw no reason to "believe there was a Jesus anymore, since Jesus had not come to help him" (210). ...

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Things just come and go from spontaneous generation to spontaneous combustion. ... So, it all comes down to balance. ... You can go and drown, coming back just feeling better to get it out. ... People in general have come to be bad. ... Happiness is awesome, but it doesn't come without it's downfalls. ...

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A trigger, such as a car backfiring or helicopter passing, can send a war veteran's mind right back to the battlefield. ... "I turn this way--the stone lets me go. ... In lines 14 through 18, the reader can almost feel the internal war that the narrator is having as he "go[es] down the 58,022 names" (Komunyakaa 14). ... Unfortunately, there isn't much a person can do to help someone who has experienced the trauma that comes with war. When soldiers come home from a combative war, more than likely they want to forget it ever happened and try to move on with their lives. ...

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Everyone goes through these stages at their own learning pace. ... We can accomplish certain goals, lose them, yet still gain them back as well. ... In time, these groups start to fade and we go back to our actual families. ... The twenties also set the pattern of life that we will most likely follow for many years to come. ... Then comes a period in which we realize that we are at the midpoint of our lives. ...

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This excerpt is when Beowulf and his warriors are waiting in the mead hall for Grendel to come and attempt to kill more people and get away, like he has done in the past.But this time they are going to surprise him, with an army ready for Grendel's "surprise attack". ... In the movie Beowulf by Zemeckis, one scene comes to my mind, which exhibits hhat he is misunderstood, and just innocently lashing out at the world that has just totally rejected him. ... Beowulf gets on Grendel's back and starts thrashing him with his sword, and right at the end when Grendel pretty much gi...

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A good example of that is when he comes back to his home after a concert, he feels a "loathing of respectable beds, of common food; a shuddering repulsion for the flavorless, colorless mass of everyday existence." ... But unlike what Paul seems to think, he doesn't come from such a poor environment. ... Although he chooses to cut himself out of the world, the world didn't cut back on him. ... But the main event that motivates Paul to kill himself is when he finds out that his theft has been discovered and his father is on his way to bring him back to Pittsburgh. ... (Cather, 224) Pau...

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She just could not grasp the fact that her father was gone and he was not coming back. ... Since she sent the letter back to the mayor, the Aldermen go to her house talk to her about the tax problem. ... Going back to when the Aldermen came to her house, again, Emily is very impolite and short worded with them. ... A sad person does not just affect their self; they also affect everyone that comes into contact with them. ... They must be able to let go of things and people when it comes time to. ...

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They both knew the day would come when it would be time for them to go their own ways. ... When the news got to Mary Lee she left everything in Colorado to come take care of the person who had taken care of her, her whole life. ... James might have lost one love but got his first love back his baby sister. ... But then Mary Lee got a job offer back in Colorado one that she couldn't refuse. ... A lot goes through a person's mind when they are out on the open road. ...

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Many of the men were in the back out of fire. ... I often wonder what must have been going through his head. ... We have already pushed them back. ... That is when his men would come over and converse with him or make him play a game of poker with them(260). ... If that wasn't enough poor, old Armistead reached the top of the hill, only to come face to face with death. ...

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The act of persuasion comes from Aristotle's ethos, logos, and pathos that emerged over 2000 years ago. ... IS the horse going to miss him? Is the puppy going to be alright? ... When you see the man, the horse, and the puppy back together again it creates an image of friendship. ... The commercial was memorable and kept the audience on their toes wondering what was going to happen next. ...

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Jimmy has to make some difficult decisions while in his tour, and most of them come to his attention after his friend Ted Lavender is killed. ... She was a girl back home who he had loved dearly, and had remained in contact with throughout the war. ... He needed something to keep his thoughts away from the horrible tragedies going on around him. ... Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper ." Because of Martha Jimmy cross could not let go. ...

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Jimmy has to make some difficult decisions while in his tour, and most of them come to his attention after his friend Ted Lavender is killed. ... She was a girl back home who he had loved dearly, and had remained in contact with throughout the war. ... He needed something to keep his thoughts away from the horrible tragedies going on around him. ... Go limp and tumble to the ground and let the muscles unwind and not speak and not budge until your buddies picked you up and lifted you into the chopper. Because of Martha, Jimmy Cross could not let go. ...

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These two things go well together. ... They advice her to loose a few pounds, tone her thighs and come back in two weeks for another audition." ... Clearly after such a catastrophe, one would not put themselves back in the same situation. ... Most women wouldn't think twice about going back to that situation. ... When the next best thing to making money is prostitution, a huge reality check comes in to play. ...

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That's the basic feeling that was going through the town throughout the entire story. ... He wanted his wife back and she never left his mind while he struggled like everyone else to cope with the plauge. ... He gave up his initial goal of getting back to his wife, risked his life, and helped Rieux (a stranger compared to his wife) save a town in which Rambert himself didn't even belong. ... Just when you think it's going to have a kind of sappy, sweet ending - there's a little twist. The plague can remain dorment and come back completely unexpected. ...

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Tess is left to survive by herself only to run into Alec D"Uberville again, who quickly becomes obsessed with trying to win her back. Tess refuses all of Alec's advances until he convinces her that Angel will never come back. ... Angel changes from a caring liberated man into a cruel, unjust man who goes against everything that he preaches by leaving Tess and not accepting what happened. ... Love is a theme in this novel because without the love that she felt for him, Tess would never have accepted that he would come back. She would have believed that he would never come back but Tess was...

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The opportunities that come maybe very large or they may be very small but it's the opportunities that you take advantage of that really Shape who you are. ... My mom and my dad could tell that I wasn't myself when I would come home and go straight to my room and just listen to music. ... When others would complain about going to practice I would look forward to it. ... But everything must come to an end. ... Be careful who you are friends with, you never know who will stab you in the back tomorrow. ...

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The one thing I remained doing through all my feelings is going to church, I felt that if anything could help me it would be God. ... Am I strong enough to hold on until a miracle comes my way? ... For some reason a faint voice in the back of my head would tell me to hold on the break through is coming. ... I was at the point in my life where I was going to just end my life instead of ever suffering again. ... I felt a strong peace come over me like I had never in my life experienced. ...

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Maxine doesn't come right out and says what she means. ... It also shows us that sometimes we try to take a different road but often that road leads us back to the road we started from. ... You start to feel what she is feeling; the feeling of power, excitement and the satisfaction that comes to you when you know it's almost over with. ... You can see her going crazy because a woodchuck is outsmarting her, almost as if he were laughing at her. ... She is ready to go no time to rest until this woodchuck is down. ...

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It tries to show how a date can go terribly wrong in just a few seconds. ... And that is when the tag line comes 'DON'T PAY EXTRA FOR EXTRAS'. ... As the car comes to the traffic light, that is when the mood is changed. ... As he searches for more coins and notes, he runs out of them and the date goes terribly wrong. ... Logos in short is used by the advertiser at the right time when the audience is trying to get back to normal from the unbalance of the mood setting in the ad by telling the viewer that they can enjoy the luxuries without spending a lot of money. ...

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It comes on all at once but it also builds up, like a plotline with intense suspense. ... So go out. Go find what makes you happy. And maybe if you understand it, you could come back and tell me. ... We can all go together. ...

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