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…more that lies beneath these plain descriptions. Fenstad says that he likes to teach because “he liked teaching strangers and because he enjoyed the sense of hope that classrooms held for him” (page 117). Harry seems to be a very distant person in that he…

…, cultivated crops, and got ‘settled in’. The natives of the are understandably disliked strangers invading their land. The East India Company tried to keep the tension at a minimum, and limited the amount of land the settlers could use and the amount of crops…

…elements suggesting strangeness, conflict, the use of physical and social power, are both explicit and implicit. They are explicit in Heathcliff’s suspicion of strangers, in Joseph’s sour aloofness, in the aggressive guard-dogs. They are implicit in the nature…

…home of Corinth in fear of fulfilling the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. During his flight, he Oedipus kills a caravan of presumed low-class travelers. Oedipus comes into Thebes a stranger and hero who solved the riddle…

…it on the otherside Centuries are what it meant to me A cemetery where I marry the sea Stranger things could never change my mind I've got to take it on the otherside Take it on the otherside Take it on Take it on Chorus Pour my life into a paper cup The ashtray's full…

…I was not a stranger to trouble. A lot of the trouble I got in to was for the attention that I received from it, if I wasn’t yelling at the teacher I was tearing everything up or fighting with the kids out on the playground. I kept getting into more…

…of a good soldier. Socrates told the men that the best qualities that a soldier should have can be found on a well-bred guard dog: swift, strong spirited, and philosophical. A well-bred dog will react harshly to a stranger but will welcome someone he knows. In my…

…of pornography (2). Sexual abuse most commonly occurs an individual known by the victim, parent, or other family member. The abuser is rarely a stranger (2). Neglect, however, accounts for more deaths than physical abuse, such as medical needs neglect which occurs…

…. The novel not only tells the story of an ex-slave but of a woman’s life. The bulk of the story deals with a mother (Sethe), her daughter (Denver), and a female stranger (Beloved). The African-American spirituality reflected in the novel by Baby Suggs character…

…, A notorious street gang called the Bloods initiates its new members by requiring them to slash a stranger across the face, or even kill. The media has a big impact on youth gangs, Oftentimes, young peripheral or associate gang members get their first…