Stranger in a Strange Land

popular culture and indigenous culture and people's thinking about morality. The story was beginning in the most treacherous desert—Kalahari. Kalahari is a beautiful place that far away from hustle and bustle city, and the climate in there are also strange. After the short rainy season, the water was drained by the desert in almost two weeks, and then there was no water to drink. People who live in there named Bushmen, and they are the most contented people in the world. They lead a…

Canadian culture is a broad term that describes the literary, traditions, political and a number of social elements that are on behalf of Canada and Canadians. Canada has been widely considered as a multicultural country. Things such as other neighboring cultures, immigrants from other different cultures and time can influence a culture. Throughout the history, Canada was not always a multicultural country; its own aboriginal culture and early immigrants from European culture and traditions have…

“Here I am noble; I am boyar… but a stranger in a strange land, he is no one” (Stoker 17). According to Dracula, at his castle he is master – he is in control and in power because everyone knows him and he in essence owns them. Boyar is a reference to the idea of feudalism – more specifically a feudal lord – and feudal lords own people – they are their masters. If Dracula should go to a foreign land, like London, he would lose power – unless he penetrated the land by usurping power from others.…

1.1 Communitarianism (a) Definition Communitarianism is the “doctrine that advocates a regime in which personal property is absent (it is distinguished from communism by its personal character).” (b) Source Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Kindle edition (Porto Editora 2013) location 47704. (c) Meaning This doctrine focuses on the community rather than the individual. Property does not belong anyone specific, but is to and is accessible to all equally - similar to socialism, different from…

He is then greeted by Eumaeus, who feeds him and tells his all the history of the land, his dead lord, about the suitors who came and took over. He then tells Odysseus that the suitors are planning and ambushing and killing Telemachus. Odysseus, disguised as the beggar, ensures Eumaeus that Odysseus will return and punish the suitors…

Starting in the 14th century, they adapted to the lands of central Mexico and gained power through alliances with the kingdoms already established around Lake Texcoco, eventually developing their own Empire. The indigenous populations of central Mexico attained an advanced level of knowledge in such areas…

not seen for years and strangers who were just friends we had not met yet! What a wonderful atmosphere of unity, diversity and love. Everyone had received a large…

or simply because it has never been involved with the outside world in any way. Iyer claims that this is yet another country frozen in time, one that is not evolving, nor will probably evolve any time soon. Finally, Iyer shines some light on the “strange” people of Australia. Many would ask “What’s wrong with Australia?” They are a well-developed country with a functioning monarchy, but Iyer would argue that its geographic location is unconventional to anyone, even Australians themselves. Being…

over 340,000 jobs and almost $27 million in economic benefit (NAFSA). Even though the ultimate goal is for cross-cultural interactions for the student population, this is often not reached, as international students more often feel like a stranger in a strange land, rather than just any other…

Losing Faith: The Unforeseen Corruption Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is the classic horror tale of a young man, Brown, who takes a surreptitious journey into a forest where he is met by a strange man whose intentions are just as mysterious and the young man’s journey. Simple as this short story may seem to some, there is a rather blatant and complex allegory confronting the fundaments and moral standings of religion. While Brown is to stand as representative to those who struggle…