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…that he is a good man. Elizabeth justifies Wickham’s violation of propriety when he revealed confidential information to a stranger. "A man in distressed circumstances has not time for all those elegant decorums which other people may observe."(67…

…the numerous members of the New York City Fire Department, EMS, New York City Policemen, and The New York & New Jersey Port Authority Police that gave there lives without thinking twice about there own safety just to save strangers. They call New York the city…

…their status. Also, you are never to introduce yourself to strangers, but rather wait to be introduced, as this can be considered inappropriate. Such high-context indicators such as eye contact are also important. Very indirect eye contact is the Japanese custom…

…on their own for so long, made their own assumptions about the strangers who came from so far away. In Africa, the Portuguese gave people generous gifts to trade for slaves, who would be brought back to the New World. In the eyes of Nzinga Mbemba, the King of Congo…

…this. It is a play that pits rationality against emotion, civilization against barbarism. It is a play about the center and the edge. Who holds the power? Medea is different - an outsider, a foreigner. How do we deal with the stranger... and what will the consequences…

…and deserving apology. After a while thing got so normal, it wasn’t like being around a stranger. He was my father.…

…the experiences of total strangers; is the main theme in this story. From the beginning of the story it becomes apparent that Miss Brill is starving for warmth and companionship. She tenderly caresses her fur as if it were a beloved pet when she rubs “the life…

…, about three years old, was sick in her arms, and all she could do was to make it comfortable as circumstances would permit…she could only carry her dying child in her arms a few miles farther, and then she must stop in a stranger land and consign her much…

…? Will forgiveness of debts "impeach the justice of the state"? Is this a state that assumes a universal common humanity, or makes such universalism conditional on being "in Christ," a citizen rather than a stranger? It is also interesting to note that Venice seems…

…big day. I was to finally make use of all my training and set out on my first audition. I was trying out for a great part in a Broadway show: a beautiful damsel in distress living in a household full of strangers. I had dreamed for nineteen year…