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Napoleon I's Life and Times

Still, Napoleon is remembered in Poland as well as in France. But of course, France was Napoleons home turf. He was of course more...

Man's Soul and God Contemplated in Philosophy Essays

In three pages philosophers Hume, Descartes, and Aristotle are applied to the concepts of man's nature, the existence of God, and ...

Analyzing the Painting Rembrandt Contemplating the Bust of Aristotle

In five pages this painting is analyzed in terms of three aspects of the subject's psychological mood, light, and shadow which is ...

Joyce Carol Oates' Dark Writings

and families. Turners Rebellion was squelched before he ever reached Jerusalem, and after six weeks of hiding from the authorities...

On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates

In 3 pages the life and boxing analogy developed by Joyce Carol Oates in On Boxing is analyzed. There are 2 sources cited in the ...

Fantasy Symbolism in Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going and Where Have You Been?'

Symbolism used by the author and what it reveals about the childhood of the protagonist are examined in this analysis of Joyce Car...

Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk Film and Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

attracts someone she doesnt anticipate -- an considerably older man named Arnold Friend. Vaguely sinister from the beginning, Arno...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

How Abraham Lincoln Overcame Social and Political Obstacles in the Elimination of Slavery and Preservation of the Union

great impact on the national notions and approach to freedom and civil equality. From as early as his Inaugural Address, Pr...

Short Story Analysis of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

Been? Oates makes an ordinary tale extraordinary by juxtaposing two powerful legends: the modern rock hero (the story is dedicated...

The Distinctly American 'Best Essays Of The Century'

of racial struggles. In one of her most well known pieces - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Angelou addresses the concept of op...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

Gender Perceptions on Rape and Responsibility

Although she does not discuss this case specifically, Jacobys "Common Decency" allows insight to the Schmid cases and Oates fictio...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

Arnold Friend in 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

his deceptiveness, and the danger the ensuing adventure holds for her become more understandable when Friend is viewed as the mani...

An Analysis of the 'Fear Cripples the Soul, So You Just Have to Fight It' Aphorism

occult meaty tumors that terrify - I see as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on... I am used to seeing" (Selzer, 2005, p. 636). He ...

'The Lady with the Pet Dog' by Joyce Carol Oates

and inwardly becomes free, realizing that what they have done is not wrong, but natural, and that she is truly, in her heart and s...

Storytelling and the Film Adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?'

as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...

Fires of Jubilee by Stephen B. Oates

them extensive evidence of plagiarism in two of Oates biographies. In his own defense, Oates accuses Burilngame of taking quotes o...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Literature, Female Characters, and the Theme of Phenomenal Women

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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' by Joyce Carol Oates

appearance, her style, and her young sexuality. She plays with it in a very dangerous manner that she is completely unaware of for...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Oates' Short Story Characters

Joyce Carol Oates intertwines the element of tragedy in The Crying Baby, The Passion of Rydcie Mather and Where areYou Going? Whe...

Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?

look at her, playing the woman although she is not a woman. "She was fifteen and she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of cranin...

Emancipation Proclamation, The Debate

This essay summarizes the opposing views of Stephen B. Oates and Vincent Harding on the question of whether or not Abraham Lincoln...

Setting in Stories by Joyce, Oates and Boyle

This essay pertains to setting in of James Joyce's "Araby," Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," and T. ...

"Where are you going,…" by Joyce Carol Oates,

This essay presents a character study of Arnold Friend from "Where are going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, Three pa...

Where are You Going, Where Have You Been and Everyday Things

say to her" (Walker,56). Maggie views herself as mentally inferior to Dee or as Walker puts it "she knows she...

Coming of Age: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

revolved around her. She was, in many ways, experimenting with her sexuality as well, a very significant part in coming of age. Sh...

Oates, Updike & Kafka

the police, will not protect her or her family from this predator. As this suggests, this writer/tutor disagrees with the interpr...