Carol Shields

I met with Joy Ahern, the Health Promotions Supervisor at the Metropolitan Council. Joy’s responsibilities, on top of managing individuals in the Health and Wellness group within Human Resources, are to collect health related data, presentations on health topics and pre-planning health and wellness promotions with Council wide facilities. Growing up Joy lived a life many would only dream about. When she was 16 she lived in South America and Uruguay. At the age of 19, Joy lived in England…

Caring for a cerebrovascular accident in Augusta Georgia. Augusta is known for its many hospitals, so well-known that when I was younger there was talk of changing Augusta’s nickname from the garden city of the south to the hospital city of the south. This did not happen, however the area does have four major hospitals, and two major military facilities. The large number of medical facilities with varying means of funding allows people to receive care to find quality care regardless of their…

I first started looking for a summer internship during the spring 2015 school semester. I used various outlets and applied to many jobs in Long Island, NY and in Albany, NY. I found that using career websites, such as CareerSaint or Indeed.com, did not result in me finding much because I would send out my resume, and not really know who my resume went to so I could not follow up with the company if I wanted to. So, I started researching online, mainly using search engines such as Google.com,…

E. Sharice Fair Mr. Chase English Comp. 2 2/24/15 Symbolism on “A Rose for Emily” The short story by William Faulkner tells how Miss Emily grew up as a very shelter girl from a well known family of her town. Never could anyone image that her upbringing that her father decided for her would have so much effect on her adult life. She faces the falling of the South alone with adversity. Faulkner has several instances of symbolism with the house, dust as well as her aging symbolizing…

inability to know the future. It also permits us to observe our own lives when reflecting on our own motivations for interpreting the incomplete ending in a certain way. Three short-stories that capture this practice nicely are John Updike’s “A&P”, Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, and Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love.” By examining the non-resolution of these…

There are two components to the literature genre, Southern Gothic being Southern and Gothic. The Gothic aspect focuses on grotesque and gruesome topics such as disturbed and/or distorted characters. The Southern aspect focuses on the issues specifically located in the Southern states which include, racism, differentiating between men and woman’s labor, and most importantly the era (the short story takes place in 1894). In the story, “A Rose for Emily”, written by William Faulkner, one of the…

In the short story “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, the plot revolves around a young narcissist named Connie. Connie is a 15 year old normal teenage girl relatively speaking. She has no interest in responsibility and often dreams of the Disney-like life of a beautiful girl being met by an extraordinary man. Connie’s desire to be rebellious, her desire to be better than others, and her desire to be noticed are the focus of this story. Despite the similarity in these…

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s most well-known pieces of writing. It has been widely anthologized in many college English textbooks throughout all of America. This story is actually based on a true story about a serial killer named Charles Schmid based out of Arizona. He is responsible for the death of four people from the Tuscon area in 1960 and was sentenced to death for his actions. Oates creates her own version of this story using the characters…

and the Fritz sisters. Oates gained the idea for her story from a Life magazine article about Schmid. She wrote the story similar to legends of “Death and the Maiden”, and made her main character a young and vulnerable girl (Ramsland, n.d.). Joyce Carol Oates based Connie mostly on what had happened to Alleen Rowe. Connie, like Alleen, was lured out of her house while her family was not home and was not seen again. Oates elaborated on the real crime and added some fantastical elements to her…

William Faulkner’s short story A Rose for Emily was one of his first published short stories, published in Forum magazine in 1930. “A Rose for Emily” has become one of Faulkner’s most read and praised works due to its portrayal of aberrant psychological and political ideas. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner portrays the death of the traditional Southern way of life through his characters, including Miss Emily and the townspeople, places, such as Emily’s home and the town, and events that take…