The Stranger Beside Me

I was at the doctor's office with my mom today, and naturally, I reached for one of the dozens of magazines to occupy me. When I flipped it open, there was a description of a Netflix horror show, Dark, that read, “Like a sausage casing that doesn’t care one bit if it will burst from overstuffing, this German import has elements of Stranger Things… Set in a dank little town… it involves missing children [and] a cave that occasionally belches a terrifying roar…” First of all, I am not convinced…

the U.S, a tragic accident happened. Through the kindness of strangers, he had a change of heart, and he came to know God’s unconditional love. Now, as a man with a family, he is speaking out against radical Islam. Early in Kamal Saleem’s book, he proves that he is brave. When Kamal is seven, he is joins the jihad army. This is an army that spreads the Muslim faith through terrorism. Kamal is one the youngest trainee there besides his friend, Yahya. A specific training exercise shows that…

strut any fashion choices made by the characters of Stranger Things. Most of the time, they seem pretty cool and stay in their own spaces, away from the rest of the people who want to stay in this generation. Kids who go off campus, they are people that nobody really ever sees. Not just because they eat lunch away from the rest of us. It’s because these peoples generally are the juniors and seniors who have realized that the rest of high school, besides their college decisions that have to make…

Odyssey Quotes Paper Theme: Greek Customs in the Odyssey Quote #1: “Pausing beside her there, he clasped her right hand and relieving her at once of her long bronze spear, met her with winged words: “Greetings, stranger! Here in our house you’ll find a royal welcome. Have supper first, then tell us what you need”” Opinion #1: This quote of Telemachus greeting Athena disguised as a complete, albeit noble looking, stranger, Mentes lord of the Taphians, shows a bit of what was expected from Greek…

I’ll have the others explain once you get inside.” The stranger said to Henry as he looked around with a weird look on his face. “The others?” Henry thought to himself. Henry got out of the car but was very hesitant about it. The stranger was getting very irritated because he wanted to get inside so he grabbed Henry’s arm and pulled him up to the front door. When they walked in, 4 kids around Henry’s…

The squinted eyes gawked at me through the thick shrubs. In a flash of shock and terror, I swiftly turned around, only to be greeted with the rough surface of a pine tree. I had nowhere to go. In the grip of panic, fear shivered down my spine as my heart began to beat wildly. I have lost any sense of my surrounding as all the tension flooded my mind, turning my brain into a mental soup of conflicting instructions. Dread creeped down my spine like an ominous spider leaving a trail of silk. I feel…

neighborhood filled with blacks, Indians, Muslims, Christians, Jews and for the most part everyone got along. Besides Noor telling us about his life in District Six, then he had Jens read a passage from his book. The short passage explained how his carrier Pigeons went back to his home in District Six. Home is such a powerful concept. There was a quote on the wall that best sums what home is, “It struck me that our history is contained in the homes we live in, that we are shaped by the ability…

Jokes, Melanie, you got jokes. It was a great idea at least until I became a super uninspired shut in, who’s seen two Christmas, and three Halloween specials of The Office in the same week. I need to get out of here. The smell of warm vanilla has left me completely “nose blind,” as the febreeze man would call it. I sit here every day, with warm hands from peppermint tea, and a cold heart from Jacob Pusheen. (More like Jacob “Pusheen” the limits of my emotions.) Being twenty three is hard, and…

a few names with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurr’d to me as necessary, or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept,…

random unnamed stranger instructed Elie and his father to lie about their ages, and claim to be eighteen and forty years old This…