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…a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick” (Steinbeck 72-73). Crooks' openness of his inner self and his ability to speak his heart's desire to a stranger illustrates his degree of loneliness. Furthermore, as bitter as he is about his exclusion from other men…

…that could justify this oracle as true. “Now you remember the story; Laios was killed by marauding strangers where three highways meet; but his child had not been three days in this world. Before the king had pierced the baby’s ankles and left him to die…

…trials of 1692 and springboard from them into a detailed inquisition into the entire history of the small village of Salem. In their own words, Boyer and Nissenbaum have exploited the focal events of 1692 somewhat as a stranger might make use of a lightning…

…for teens as high school football games and trying to get laid at the prom. Consequently, an entire generation of Americans has grown up dancing all night and hugging strangers.” The Rave scene is flourishing in America’s urban centers and even finding its way…

…. " ‘It was an old fellow - a stranger - and he sold out his chance in him for forty dollars'"(203). The Duke and the King are so cruel and desperate that they can not even wait to sell Jim back to his owner for $200, they must have some kind of money, even just $40…

…, Come a Stranger, Izzy Willy-Nilly, Sons From Afar, Trees by Leaf, Seventeen Against the Dealer, On Fortune’s Wheel, The Vandermark Mummy, David and Jonathon, Orle, The Wings of a Falcon, When she Hollers, and Bad Girls. Dicey is the oldest kid…

…certainly don’t have a reason to view themselves superior to blacks. Ironically, this is exactly how they view themselves when they sell Jim. “It was an old fellow-a stranger- and he sold out his chance in him for forty dollars” (159). For forty dollars the king…

…where the cuffs were supplied by strangers" (1). Houdini set a challenge that challenged any person to try to lock him up in chains, manacles or boxes. A man named "Mirror" accepted the challenge and presented a lock and handcuff that took five years…

…that they “started off by murdering strangers but then realized it was a lot more fun to kill their friends” (Torr 69). Releasing a movie to millions of viewers in which high school students brutally kill their friends is outrageously dangerous. With the millions of high…

…. "Beautiful isn't it," said a voice that startled me from my own little day dream. The warm yet undeniabley weary voice spoke again, "you know there are only about five beaches like this in the world," said the stranger. Not knowing it then, this was only…