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    they are. This can be seen when the Islanders made excuses on why not to accept the Stranger and didn’t get to know him before judging him. This is also shown when the Villagers locked him away in a goat pen and when they sent him back out to the ocean. The Villagers became paranoid about the Stranger so they sent him back out to sea and built a wall to keep everyone out. The Islanders became so afraid of the stranger because he was different, “They hadn’t asked for him, but he was here.”. They…

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    Jump Cabling Poem

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    Cabling" however, is a short poem about jump starting a car as a metaphor for an intimate love story between the two strangers. Pastan's poem uses a peculiar but important structure and form along with alliteration, metaphor, symbol, and allusion to bring the mundane affairs of romance to life. The poem itself is a metaphor for an intimate encounter the speaker has with a stranger. The author uses the woman's car breaking down and the man stopping to help along with the process of…

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    so important to care for strangers? My parashat hashavua is Parashat Mishpatim. In the story of Parashat Mishpatim, it explains what happened when there was slavery and all of the laws. Also, it shows how God and Moses helps the slaves. Rabbi Moses ben Nachman wrote about the importances of caring for strangers, he provides,“You should not think that strangers have no one to save them from violence or oppressions of your hands.” This quote develops the caring for strangers by revealing there…

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    Conformity In My Life

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    I meet strangers everyday, and they affect my life in miraculous ways. The quote from The Five People You Meet In Heaven, “ ‘ Strangers,’ the Blue Man said, ‘ are just family you have yet to come to know.’” , explains that those who I meet, like random strangers in the street, can change my life in such dramatic ways (pg. 40). The Blue Man, Joseph Corvelszchik, said this because of all the people, complete strangers, that have affected his life, and how the people at Ruby Pier, at one time…

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    happiness and empowerment when the stranger speaks with her about her lovely yellow chrysanthemums, but her happiness is then thrown to the ground carelessly, which is why she being to cry at the end of the story, supporting the isolation…

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    The purpose of this experiment is to show the effects of how children react to different scenarios. It consists of three people, a mother, her baby, and a stranger. The experimenter wants to see the different ways the baby will act when the mother and stranger either enter or leave the room. The reason this is important to the reader is that it informs them of the baby’s different reactions. As the experiment goes on, the baby’s reactions continue to evolve. The method is called “Strange…

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    A Fistful Of Dollars

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    arrived at is called San Miguel. After arriving to the town he discovered a feed between the two families. Like in most western movies the feud is over power. The feuding families consisted of the Rojo brothers and the family of the town sheriff. The stranger took note of an opportunity to make some money. This is where the film ad fistful of dollars gets his name. The nameless man saw an opportunity to gained a “fistful of Dollars” in his pocket. The idea was to rival the two families against…

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    of Christopher wanting to be left alone. Christopher hates interacting with strangers and prefers to not talk to them if possible. Throughout the novel, Christopher also wishes that he could be in confined spaces all by himself. However, towards the end of the book, Christopher must interact with strangers and sit on the train with them to complete his mission of finding his mother. In a world where complete strangers have long conversations, most people do not understand why Christopher…

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    three main figures in the story that are used to express infinity. The house, the family, and the drawing that the stranger drew for the son. Oats utilize these items to express an interesting idea to the reader such as to enable them to draw their own conclusions about what they could mean, and how they shape a very peculiar answer to what actually happens within the house. When the stranger comes into the house and begins looking around; he points out a few characteristics of the house that…

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    Virtue In The Statesman

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    virtue of a political community is an issue and risk throughout. In the Statesman, he uses a particular method to show the various effects of the king, and genuine statesman “naked and alone by himself” (304a). However, the stranger isn’t all about logic. In the text, the stranger…

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