The Stranger Beside Me

It is clear now and he performs an intense and thorough search of the unfamiliar area, and there is no sign to substantiate the presence of Michelle. Pulling himself to his feet, he notices a small rounded drinking well made of large jagged stones. Beside the well are many crushed and abandoned clay vessels used to carry the water. A few yards away several unbroken clay couplets lie on the…

someone receives help from a person, the bystander reads the situation as if there’s no need of additional help, thus leading to the term the “bystander effect.” Besides the negative effect of some participants, there were positive effects as well that receiving help from others allowed you to have a rapturous feeling to be generous toward a stranger. I’m guilty to the trend of “the bystander effect.” Residing in New York City, a place filled with a diverse amount of people, you’re bound to bump…

while looking right at me. I did not know how to explain what I was feeling, but I knew it was a sign that I was different than the rest of my classmates. I was one of the few Latino students that had to take a bus to a different school, I was placed into that system by a test. I remember guessing in everything, and by chance, I got the majority of them right. Sitting in a predominately white class I noticed that I had developed an inferiority complex.…

completing her graduate research. She arrives in Luisbari as a naive stranger who does not understand the tide country, besides what she has learned from books. Throughout the novel, Piya makes discoveries about her research, and about herself. At the conclusion of the novel, Nilima and others believed that Piya would leave Lusibara and never return. However, the reader learns that Piya has returned to Luisbari, and she tells Nilima, “for me, home is where the Oracle are, so there’s no reason…

Growing up with social anxiety has always been something that has defined me. It was something I never thought I would be able to get through. I was wrong. With the help of my best friend and my boyfriend I’ve been able to do things I never imagined I could do. I couldn 't have made this transition without them coaching me every step of the way. One of the biggest problems with having social anxiety is that you always feel as is you 're being judged or criticized. I hated going out and leaving…

tidy up the place and I've been a bit busy with royal duties." The bashful lady approached even closer, trying to now beckon you to fully enter the room. Image Krystal Aria Lovell wrote: "Please don't be shy. This room is big enough for both of us. Besides, you…

enthralled me. The story is about the main character Kino, an Indian pearl diver lives with his wife Juana, and his son Coyotito. One day, his son gets stung by the scorpion and needs treatment; meanwhile Kino finds a pearl, which is the savior to his family. Unfortunately, the pearl not only does not help him, but causes lots of tragedies. Kino realizes the pearl is evil and throw it back into the ocean. The book conveys many different main ideas, but the most interesting theme to…

Down in Flames started out with an attracted stranger stalking the heroine, Bryn. This incident then took on a chain of effects, Bryn found out she is a dragon-shifter, but here is the catch, she is one of a kind, a hybrid of Blue and Red dragon. As you can guess from the description, Blue-ice, Red-fire (pretty simple and straight forward). Both of her parents are exiled from the Dragons society, because you aren't allow to crossbreed with another kind of dragon-shifter (I know, how backward…

It is a widely held value held in Israelite culture, as well as Middle Eastern culture to be incredibly hospitable towards strangers. In Leviticus 19:33-34, it commands exactly that of the Jewish people, saying “When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for…

daughter’s congenital heart disease. Her grandpa, seated beside me on the hard plastic hospital chair, moves restless hands between his pocket and hanky, his eyes fixed on every rise and fall of her chest, longing to hold and comfort his first grandchild. My daughter’s birth wasn’t like the beautiful stories I’d heard or movies I’d seen. It was silent - her scrawny, little, blue body, static in the cold air of the big world. My father sitting beside me, mumbles, ‘heart disease is in the family…