Stranger in a Strange Land

unsurprisingly suffered another loss. After dropping a friend home, I began a fateful drive home. Driving through the an unfamiliar neighborhood, I found myself following a black Land Rover. Very suddenly, the SUV stopped. I thought it was strange but I stopped, giving maximum distance between our vehicles. Out of nowhere, the Land Rover jerked backwards, accelerating at me so quickly I could not react. The SUV hit me, tearing off my bumper and denting my hood. From my point of view, it was clear to see

In Billy Joel’s hit song, “We Didn’t Start The Fire”, he sings about the major headlines and influences on his generation. If you compare these allusions to the headlines today, you’ll see that our society’s issues and interests haven’t changed much. Political scandals, the race to space, pop culture, and best-selling novels; all crucial to the shaping of our society. Even though the 60’s and today’s world are decades apart, there are many similarities between society then and society now that suggest

Nicholas Bennis AP Literature and Composition Ms. Lawson 21 November 2017 Haunted “The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests. But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I

muses Harun, the narrator of Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation (Daoud 138). Daoud’s novel is full of questions and ramblings such as this one that serve as a response to Albert Camus’ The Stranger, which explores the trial of a French Algerian (Meursault) for killing an Arab man. In The Stranger, Camus fails to name the Arab victim and gives him no backstory nor significant reason for the cause of his murder. In The Meursault Investigation, Daoud gives the dead Arab a name: Musa. Much like

According to Collins Dictionary Online defines, “racism” means belief in or doctrine asserting racial differences in character, intelligence, etc. and the superiority of one race over another or others. Historically, there has always been many conflict of racism among ethnic groups in Canada; for example, the conflict between French and English Canadians and immigrants and Canadians. The Canadian government, who invited Chinese person entered to Canada to construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway

“dumb as a doornail.” The population of America is dying since there is a shortage of food. So they made food out of the fat unhealthy Americans to turn to food. As the problem was is that the small problem food was alive. So They gave us so much land to build and

and the conquistadors in their invasion. The motive behind this conquest was Cortes’ desire to bring a fortune of gold, spices, and land that can be claimed, back to Spain. Although these desires were admirable, they were sought after at the expense of the Aztecs and consequently changed an entire civilization, due to an initial drive for power, control, land, and money. Cortez along with the Spaniards ultimately destroys the Aztecs in their quest for fortune and fame. The accounts are

Final Thoughts on Canadianness The videos and written pieces I watched and read, all offered their own idea of what it means to be Canadian. The perspectives range from of a First Nations Cheif, a Canada-born, white woman, an immigrant man from Barbados, as well a more humorous perspective from T.V. personalities and artists. I think the variety of perspectives speaks to the diversity of the people in Canada, and the different feeling toward Canada that accompany them. I Am a Native of North America

Ariel’s father told her to stop going to the surface to watch the humans in The Little Mermaid, she runs away and stays on land for days. Not only did she run away, she went to the sea witch for help. These are both things that her father has forbid her to do. Ariel does not take much time to decide she is willing to go to the sea witch for help, or that she wants to go up to the land. In Cinderella, Cinderella is told if she gets everything done, she may be able to go to the ball (00:29:41-00:29:56)

The Search for America in Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow        In the early to mid-1800's, Washington Irving was an immensely popular writer heralded as one of the 'great' American writers.  Irving's importance lies especially in "Rip Van Winkle" and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," the sketches in which he creates the vision of the alternate America(n).  His critique of American society through his main characters-Rip and Ichabod-and the towns in which they live gives shape