Stranger in a Strange Land

wealth distracts people from what is ethical and what is not. Another study was conducted where hundreds of rich and poor members of the community were given ten dollars each and given the option to keep the money, or share it with a less fortunate stranger whom they never met before. The poor members gave 44% more of their money than the rich members of the community did. This study shows that the wealthier a person becomes the

Once upon a time there was a faraway land called Prisma. The population of this kingdom is twenty-four thousand, one hundred and forty people. It is on the east side of the Emerald Kingdom. Prisma is ruled by one of the best kings that people will ever meet and his name is Luke. King Luke has a wife named Annabelle, together they have five kids named James, Serenia, Megan, Liam and Ella. They also have a dog named Sugar and a cat named Thalia. They were the happiest family in the kingdom. King Luke

expel from the land of Thebes an old defilement that it seems we shelter… By exile or death, blood for blood. It was murder that brought the plague-wind on the city… My lord: long ago Liaos was our king, before you came to govern us.” (DiYanni 1310) Then, Jocasta’s description of what happen to the previous king by stating, “An oracle was reported to Laius once…That his doom would be death at the hands of his own son… Now, you remember the story: Laius was killed by marauding strangers where three highways

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad “I freed thousands of slaves, and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.” (History.com) This Harriet Tubman quote is a great representation of the kind of person she was. Harriet Tubman was a great woman, not only did she escape slavery; she went back several times to save more people. She conducted the Underground Railroad and did great things that have changed our history in one of its darkest times in our history. Being

Crane, Steven. 1895. The Red Badge of Courage. United States of America: D. Appleton & Company. 163. The Red Badge of Courage focuses on the journey of a young private during the American Civil War while showcasing his hardships and emotions. Courage and manhood are the themes of this book (Shmoop 2008). Steven Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey and attended both Syracuse and Lafayette College. While in college he was fascinated by literature and focused on liberal arts. Some of his other major

Romanticism and Modernism as Strange Bedfellows: A Fresh Look of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven! O time In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways Of custom, law and statute, took at once The attraction of a Country in Romance! The Prelude—William Wordsworth (Come in under the shadow of this rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening

might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.” “This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, —or whether, as there is fair authority for believing

What they feel for him is only an emotional obsession and a strong desire for the sexual satisfaction that they lack with their European partners. For him theirs is a possessive love, exactly like the relation between the colonisers and the occupied land. They exploit it, exhaust it and drain all its resources for their enjoyment. He marries the fourth one, Jean Morris, after chasing her for three years. She is addicted to his body but she has never treated him as a husband. She never forgot that

Being American: As Seen Through the Writings of Benjamin Franklin and John Winthrop What does it mean to be an American? This question has often been purposed throughout American Literature. This answer depends on one singular important factor, time. Timing is everything, it determines what is happening in the present, what has occurred in the past, and it gives us a glimpse of the possibilities yet to come. Benjamin Franklin and John Winthrop, both knew a very different America, because of this

that Wales had a stronger national identity before the Thatcher government destroyed the mining communities. He refers to people as ‘scattered grains’ indicating that he feels that Welsh people are there to feed the land, their identity is to serve the land for future generations. A land that has been ravished by the conservative politics of the Thatcher government. Furthermore individuality is conveyed through Sheers reference to ‘ Ebbw Vale’, a Welsh place name, emphasising his strong attachment