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…the biggest boys, and young ladies of eighteen and twenty, escaped lashing. Mr. Dobbins’ lashings were very vigorous ones” (502). Tom is no stranger to physical punishment from the instructor for his actions in addition to an incident when he takes the lashing…

…and strangers in our own country…” this shows how disgusted he felt about hour our country treated his people. John Ross was a leader of the Native Americans, and strongly apposed to removal. In 1836 he submitted a letter to congress saying that the documents…

…appear virtuous and pure to impress Mitch, when in reality she had been incredibly sexually active. Eventually all parties in both plays drop their facades and confessed that it was all in the name of love. “Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers.... So I…

…and raised by strangers. He would have known Jocasta was his mother. Ironically(and disgustingly, Oedipus marries her and produces several children). Also, without his violent temper, he would not have killed his father on the road to the Oracle if had had…

…short stories, the best known of which are "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1899) and "The War Prayer" (1905); philosophical, social, and political essays; the manuscript of "The Mysterious Stranger," an uncompleted piece that was published posthumously…

…the famine years of 1808 and 1809, and in the cold winter of 1812, when the sparrows froze to death. Famine was no stranger to them; they had seen his grim hand before. They knew how bark was prepared for bread, and how the cows would learn to eat moss”. Though…

…adversity THE OUTSIDER. Security is lost when a stranger is spotted within the group. Such a shock brings reactions that create a cascade of emotion. It is the figure’s appearance that defines his unequal status: specifically, the type of concealment over…

…, Antigone. He is an outcast from his city, through his own proclamation, and is forced to wander the countryside. He finally stops at Colonus and this play begins. When a stranger tells them that they are on holy ground Oedipus realizes that he is near his…

…was haunted by her inability to help or understand her young, troubled husband and that she has tortured herself for it ever since. Her drive to lose herself in the "kindness of strangers" might also be understood from this period in that her sense of confidence…

…. They shouldn’t be told that Mommy or Daddy is going to die unless that is the inevitable outcome. It saves the children from unnecessary grief and stress. The youngest children fear separation, strangers and being left alone. There are some dont’s…