The Stranger

George Simmel and W. E. B." Du Bois are two brightest mind in sociology history. Their theories and books has change the way people look at each other. In this paper is going to discuss and compare how George Simmel’s the stranger is parallel to "W. E. B." Du Bois’s double consciousness. How each theory or term are similar and different. Both theorists talks about being an outsider one way or another. Either being by society or by a way person look. W.E.B Du Bois in his books try to eyes to…

remains of his body. A couple of Hildalgo men try to steal the bones from the man's grave and fail. There leader is named Pepe Gonzalez. Not long after this event a stranger came to San Juan Iglesias for a birthday party of a girl named Sarita. She is turning 18. The stranger brings a package to the party and Saritas dad greets the stranger and brings him into the house. He sets the package down and goes to dance. He sees Sarita and goes to dance with her while they are dancing he proposes to…

he found a rather joyful, round bellied stranger in his doorway. The stranger welcomed himself in and sat by the small fire to warm up. The stranger chastized Claas for not keeping the fire hot, then, Claas admitted that he had nothing left to burn. The stranger then broke his rosewood cane in two and threw it into the fire. The cane caused the fire to blaze up and warm the entire room. The family squealed with excitement. A few minutes later, the stranger asked if he might have a bite to eat…

to show at least minimal care for others” (76). He argues that the liberal concern about the status of strangers is unfounded, and that caring equally about everyone is consistent with affording greater care to people one knows immediately. Radical egalitarianism does not advocate “equal relations of care,” but rather a social order where we do not discriminate strongly between “groups of strangers, in particular those with whom we are culturally or politically affiliated and those with whom we…

titled Why you should talk to strangers. Kio Stark, the presenter of the speech, discussed why there are many benefits to talking to people we don’t know. According to Stark, not talking to strangers causes the opportunity to create unexpected connections. She said people do not talk to strangers because of our fears. Her speech concluded with Stark encouraging people use their senses instead of fears and outlining the steps of how to appropriately talk to strangers. From analyzing the speech…

González is no exception and through both, his poems “Casa” and “The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” conveys current issues such as awareness of gender equality and a complaint about materialism. Although the author discusses different themes in both poems, its effect is equally shocking through the richness of rhetorical devices such as metaphors, similes, among other characteristics. In both poems “Casa” and “Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” it is employed rhetorical devices.…

The Incompetence of an Advanced Alien Race Dark City is a sci-fi film by Proyas in 1998. The film is about an alien race, the strangers, facing extinction and making one last attempt at survival. The strangers, for some unknown reason, believe that the key to their survival lies somewhere in humanity. In a grand scale experiment they attempt to extract/analyze/duplicate certain traits of humanity only to be thwarted and defeated by an unruly test subject. Good science is hard. Even with a…

An Analysis of Culturally Normalized Misogyny and Sexual Violence In early February 2017 Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger appeared in a Ted Talks podcast to deliver their co-authored speech “Our Story of Rape and Reconciliation”. In this talk, Elva and Stranger reflect on their adolescent relationship and discuss how Stranger sexually assaulted Elva. Nine years later, Elva wrote Stranger a letter expressing the emotional trauma she had been experiencing, and his apologetic response inspired an…

The first Dilemma is The Runaway Trolley. In short, The Runaway Trolley deals with a complex situation where Molly needs to push a stranger onto the tracks to prevent the trolley from killing five workmen. If she does not push the stranger the five workers will die. According to the Utilitarianism, a philosophical school of thought, Molly should push the stranger onto the tracks to save the five workers. Utilitarianism would argue that five lives is greater than one. Therefore, Molly would have…

next door to him, throwing away their TVs, and spending more time together. Across the notable differences between Emerald Island and their big city, and the changes in the father’s behavior, the author demonstrates how the social order surrounding strangers, civil inattention, and involved indifference leads to isolation between even family members by showing how the release from…