The Stranger Beside Me

watching the whole time waiting for me to get to the right place and hop off though. You tried to get me there once and I stumbled because I didn’t have to tools or strength, I was put in a padded room surrounded my everyone from family friends to coworkers and strangers (its not paranoia). Once you saw I was poking the glass and I saw an opportunity for a job I wanted I’d get it together just needed the correct tools and asked for them you threw Home Depot and Lowes at me and I grabbed what I…

connect us to another person we might have not met if it weren’t for that one moment. Now, I could’ve offered to bring someone’s groceries to their car or put the cart they’d been using back in it’s proper place, but I did not. Instead of talking to a stranger, which I’m not…

in order for a person to do something evil they would first have to have evil intentions. Meaning they would not make that “mistake” unless they have thought out what they were going to do and what they wanted the outcome to be. In the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus his characters Old Salamano, Raymond, and Meursault among others are faced with the results of their evil actions. And they see their reflection of their self as inherently evil. For example, when Old…

In the primary source Usmah Ibn Munqidh (1095-1188) Autobiography, he talks about how things were going on during that time. First at all, Usamah, he was a muslin warrior and counter, who fought against the Crusaders with Saladin. In his autobiography, he stated his adventure, with a Frankish reverend who had arrive from their land. This frankish began called him “ my brother” and one day by sea, the frankish told him, that he would like that he send his son with him, so the boy can see and…

the United States is really a great opportunity that I have ever experienced. Since many international students have value the importance of studying overseas, especially in the States, I learned much knowledge of how others’ culture tends to work. Besides from housing numerous kind of esteemed places for learning, America also is a place that cultural exchanges is apt to happen among the locals and international students. Based on my experience, there are some differences and similarities of…

the toughest times, and this theme is shown through the characters of George, Lennie, and Candy & His Dog. In Of Mice and Men Steinbeck shows George and Lennie's loyalty to one another when george says "... because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." (Steinbeck ) This quote shows that even if no one else cares about them, George and Lennie will always stay loyal and have each others back. In chapter one, George says,…

go out more and communicate with other people, I felt upset. I kept thinking that my English is horrible, especialle when people did not understand me, so I decided to remain silent as much as possible. I was angry…

famous soccer player. He is illiterate and refuses to go to school. Then, after a bad day at work, a mysterious stranger leads him to a night watchman at a newspaper office that decides to tutor him. At first Obdulio is reluctant, but he soon learns to read and write as well as helping the watchman deliver lyrics for a theatre group that Obdulio is an equipment manager for. A Dios Momo taught me that education is very important and although people from first world countries take it for…

Eternity, a word that I have never really thought about before-- that was, of course, before today. I gripped the rigid metal that barely held me above my death, sweat dripping off of my face. Blood seeped from the deep wound that scared my hands from holding the sharp strip that jutted out from the rocky wall of the ravine, the only thing separating me from my death. I contemplated my fate. I could either keep clenching onto the handhold, or I could submit to my death and let go. I decide…

question what happened to kindness and humanity, but someone rises up and shows me that those qualities still are very much alive in our society. I was the fortunate recipient of such an act of kindness from a complete stranger who I will never forget. There were grey clouds in the sky, a chill in the air, and not a ray of sun, as I struggled to buckle my two-year old son Max into his car seat. A car had parked so close to me that I could barely open the door and squeeze myself in. It was…