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…to exterminate the heathen, but to enlarge the bounds of God’s heritage, and to convert these strangers and aliens, to servants and children of the most High!” (283). Eliot, although speaking in defense of Magawisca, reveals a motive of dispossessing the native…

…luxurious ride, to a very short choppy, uncertain lifestyle. blanche further reveals that she is very lonely by stating, “After the death of Allan-intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with....”(pg.1731). The statement…

…of vice. At the same time, Oliver's incorruptibility undermines some of Dickens's assertions. Oliver is shocked and horrified when he sees the Artful Dodger and Charley Bates pick a stranger's pocket and again when he is forced to participate in a burglary…

…and the schoolyards and pretty soon after that, everything "we" believed in was wrong and "we" were strangers in our own land.…

…) Torvald literally says that he is capable of forgiving a man, a complete stranger, for the act, but as it is know later on in the novel he can not forgive his own wife for such an act. In Act II Nora’s disposition begins to unraveled some more. "Someone’s…

…retired. If someone were to know a stranger’s social security number they could use it to rack up charges on credit cards or even become the person whom they stole it from. There are countless numbers of credit cards available and each credit card number…

…on life has changed. Although she obviously cares for the child she is carrying, the relationship is not fully developed because she still feels somewhat detached from the life inside her body. The fact that she feels the baby is still a stranger to her…

…. The Nacirema has a ritual where they insert, “a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures”(7). Miner feels that to strangers this ritual can be confusing…

…. (He was trying to decide whether or not to shoot at this figure, or maybe wake up the rest of the soldiers. He finally decides that he should just try and scare off the stranger by throwing a grenade in his direction.) When he does this the grenade explodes…

…the terrible awful dark deed that savaged our nation, we are stronger than ever before. Watching the firefighters and policemen rush into the Trade Centers, I realized we do have compassion and mercy for strangers, even in modern America. If we had become jaded…