Stranger in a Strange Land

We are introduced to the most beautiful girl in all the land (Abishag the Shunammite), an influential queen mother (Bathsheba), a royal daughter who becomes a royal wife (Pharaoh’s daughter), an ambassador queen from a foreign land (Sheba), a compliant and chameleonic king’s wife, (Jeroboam’s wife), prostitutes, and two widows. Although socially outcast, vulnerable, and powerless, it is the…

The dynamics of any family can be complicated. A family that is in a strange country will have even more stress than the average family, especially if that family does not speak the language of the land, and is unfamiliar with the customs. This is the situation for Richard Rodriguez 's family as explained in his autobiography Hungar of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez. In his memoir, Rodriguez explains the transfermation he makes during his education. Rodriguez details how he becomes a…

than others. If I’ve learnt anything its to not seclude yourself into your own mind to escape from your surroundings because they will always find their way in; Always. But one day a glimmer of hope subsided in my lungs, as a stranger came to my comfort. I remember how strange this felt knowing someone, actually cared. *Breathes out* I want you to know that it gets better, I want you to know that there are people out there that care about you and sometimes… you won’t even know their name. I…

decide another person’s happiness for them. We talk about how you can do anything and be anything in America but people are banned from marring the love of their life. Divorce is legal for couples, which is stated in the Bible as a sin. Two perfect strangers that are not in love and are not taking the sanctity of marriage seriously can get married just because they are heterosexual. But on the flip side homosexual couples have been committed to each other without a legal obligation to. A long…

brutal, comprising the world’s greatest powers vied against one another in a strenuous conflict. In this war there had been two sides, which fought one another for both heroic and selfish reasons. Mainly though, they had only been trying to safeguard land and nobility from the threats of the opposing side. This war had many various reasons for beginning, but all had been complex and delicate matters. Results scarred countries forever, and to this day its consequences are still recognized. Not…

perhaps a diner, the speaker witnesses the strange curiosity of a young woman failing to follow the protocols of ordering…

From a historical perspective, the U.S.-Mexican border was changed after the war’s ending, placing Mexican people living on the border as “strangers in their own land” (short stories 389). Although a dangerous place, the border is also a space of fertility, where language and cultures take new meanings, “places where the fluidity of cultures allows new formulations and transformations to occur” (Short…

Cell phones have also changed the way that people interact with each other. When we call someone, we are actually calling the person and not a place. This enables us to be more spontaneous when making plans as you rarely get a busy signal and unlike a land line telephone, someone is always…

anyone in the land. Then came the Seven Warriors. Seven humans born with extraordinary powers over the elements. Fire was born first. Then came Earth, Sky, Water, Industry, Nature, and finally Ice. The Warriors saved the human race, and peace spread across the land. The seven Warriors then lived out the rest of their days as peace keepers keeping a healthy balance between the elements. As each of the Warriors neared the end of their days a replacement was born. Generations of Warriors continued,…

two actors; a father who turned his back on his family, and a mother who lost her life to tuberculosis, poet Edgar Allen Poe is quite familiar with being faced with isolation. Isolation; the process or fact of isolating or being isolated. Being no stranger to this, Poe uses not only mood, but imagery and diction to illustrate isolation in his work. Imbedded in each piece of writing by Poe, whether it be a poem or short story, is a mood. Lakes that endlessly outspread Their lone…