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…on which to rest the kindness of strangers ( This value placed on an individual's reputation is again visible in her opening dialog with Odysseus in which she describes Phaeacia's dedication to the sea and its lord, Poseidon, and dislike of tools of Artemis…

…don’t believe angels exist. I believe there are angels among us every day, in everything we do. Little Sara McCloud shares my belief. One day last winter, Sara was boarding her school bus for the afternoon ride home when a stranger approached her…

…of the life cycle and helps the survival of another. In giving a part of herself to a stranger, she experienced a spiritual movement that extends beyond herself and unifies her with the vast human family. She gives herself to a stranger and realizes we are all…

…remembers as a schoolboy, how he "gazed upon the bars, / To watch the fluttering stranger." He describes both the film and the stranger as "fluttering." Then the speaker moves even further in his past to recall how while at school, he dreamt of his birthplace…

…produced Cosi` fan tutte, and then shortly after that came Die Zauberflote. In 1791, a stranger, masked and dressed in gray commissioned Wolfgang to compose a requiem. The stranger represented a wealthy nobleman who asked famous composers to produce works…

…doctrine of the absurd--his view that human life is rendered ultimately meaningless by the fact of death and that the individual cannot make rational sense of his experience. These works include the novel The Stranger (1942; Eng. trans., 1946), perhaps his…

…. Then Roger said that Mrs Ferras had not killed her husband. Mr Ferras had been poisoned. There was a letter from Mrs Ferras and Roger wanted to read it alone, so James walked home. At 8.00 at the gates he met a stranger who wanted to know the way to Fernly Park…

…stranded on Ogygia, the island of Calypso. Throughout his journey, he is warned to avoid the island of the Sun under all costs. If he does not follow this advice, then his crew will be lost, and he will go home a broken man, in a strangers ship. Odysseus…

…a complete stranger. It was like war, where you don’t shoot at men, but into the night… you never know whether any of the enemy was killed, or which one. To execute a stranger would be the same thing. If I were to see him as only he died, I would feel as if I shot…

…A significant change in today’s world has come from the creation of the Internet. The average person would never have the opportunity to chat with a stranger living on a different continent. Now the Internet presently allows many people all over…