Stranger in a Strange Land

Have you ever been a guest in someone else's home? Well this ancient idea of hospitality was so key to the ancient Greeks, it was a central theme in one of the most famous epic poems of all time. The Odyssey by Homer, is a story told of a stranger traveling in strange new places trying to make his way home and surviving by the mercy and hospitality and others. Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, went away to fight for the Achaeans in the Trojan War and was cursed by the gods on his travels home. The Odyssey

Bernie Calderon English M01A Nov. 19, 2012 Prof. Patrick Eagan Argumentative Essay: Jewish Rights to Israel Since the Independence of Israel in 1948, there has been a greater tension between the Israelis and the Palestinian community. It is very important to know that both have been living Israel before it was considered an independent state. Not only Palestinians have been in conflict with the Israelis but also Arabs and Muslims. They might not have the same issues with Israel as the Palestinians

At the end of The Stranger by Albert Camus, the protagonist Meursault says: "For me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate." (123). It is here that Meursault proposes a new look at the relationship between internal suffering and the external manifestation of that suffering: hateful spectators. Similarly, in Crime and Punishment, Marmeladov and Katerina have their individual miseries highlighted

daughter Pocahontas had rescue him comparing to the movie she throws herself on top of Smith to protect him from approaching death. Her face expression is worried, sad and curious for this stranger. He is than taken for a harmless ceremony inducting him into the Powhantan’s tribe. Captain Smith interacts with these strange creatures and also notices he does not know the king’s daughter name. In the movie Captain Smith is observing these savages behavior, their habits, there language, there dances. How

the real-world location. Just as Daniel Howitt was an outsider, Harold Bell Wright visited the Ozarks as a stranger and experienced the

Title: The Use of Strange Places in David Mitchell’s Slade House and Jordan Peele’s Get Out Published in 2015, Slade House is a horror mystery written by David Mitchell. While their storylines are quite different, the book has many similar fear inducing tactics used in Jordan Peele’s Get Out. The methods used in these two stories are what University of York professor, John Bowen would classify as gothic motifs. These motifs break down into groups he has labeled as “clashing time periods”, “power

end up quite that way. I can still remember it as if it was yesterday, and the horrors that I saw left scars in my mind and has made me see the world a lot differently than I did on September 10th. There was now a fear of the unknown, a fear of strangers and of people who are different than me. However, as the years went on I've come to the realization that while there may be evil in the world, not everyone is evil and we're all humans with humanity. That humanity has led me to care for those who

the exiled did was it created “generations of Palestinians strange to Palestine” (Barghouti 61). The fact is even if a person leaving Palestine was actually “voluntarily, [it] was always difficult because for many it was a concession to Israel” (Bornstein 124). There is no way being exiled proved to be beneficial for Palestinians, especially when it came to understanding their Palestinian identity now that they no longer lived on the land. Exiled people that were labeled as Palestinians were not even

many themes seen through Odysseus, Hospitality (xenia) is seen as a central and very dominant theme throughout the poem. hospitality is defined as a generous or friendly reception and entertainment of strangers, guests and visitors. Many readers would view the theme of hospitality as a little strange to see it literary works. In Homer's world, however, hospitality is essential, Fagles and Knox refer to hospitality as a dominant part of "the only code of moral conduct that obtains in the insecure world

Having immersed yourself in the text as a biblical, historical, and literary document, how do you think it felt to be one of the first hearers of the text in that situation? As one that might have belonged to the Jewish faith tradition, I would have felt very humbled being one of Abraham’s descendants. I would have prayed saying “the God of Abraham, bless me, the way you blessed him.” d. How much of the feeling of the first hearers would you like to relay to your congregation? In the contemporary