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    thus it is only a bit more particularized than Song of Myself. In The Base of All Metaphysics the lyrical subject speaks of “the attraction of friend to friend” (Whitman 141), the Socratic notion of love, and it is this kind of love that Whitman seems to be most interested in. Worth mentioning is that in Whoever You Are Holding Me Now in Hand, for example, Whitman has abandoned his mission to be the bard of democracy and took on his own private voice. According to Davidson, “He has become assertive

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    values as a means towards redemption. Southey 's poem seems to have been inspired by Samuel T Coleridge 's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, however, his focus in the poem shifts away from vivid imagery into a thought provoking tale of the Middle Passage. The poem focuses on two men. One man is called the Stranger and the other is named the Sailor. Southey utilizes capitalization in order to distinguish the two as name identifiers. The Stranger is meant to act much like the reading audience, absorbing

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    he says in a stern tone. “Who?” My voice was in a whisper. I wasn’t even sure that he can hear me, and if he did then he would not understand the words I am saying because of my shaking voice. I still stare at him, and he is still looking away. It seems as if, if he looks back at me we would be locked into the same gaze we were in just minutes before; but this time there would be no escape. For me, at least. He doesn’t look back he just stands there leaning against the door. He stares at the floor

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    the film most of the events are taking place as Forrest seats and narrates his life to strangers while waiting for the bus which could be a little ironic as he had been told not to ride with strangers as a young boy. “My mama always said you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes, where they going, where they been.” A quote said by Forrest as he starts his conversation with the women of color that seems to be a nurse that seats by him which at first she was ignoring him not until he said this

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    scared to say anything. It seems Emillia made these people feel more comfortable. I patted her head. She gave me a face no father could love. There was a person in this car that covered his head with a cowl, and didn’t talk to anyone. Perhaps he came here alone? The car suddenly stopped, even a passenger fell, No one seemed to want to help him up. A soldier opened our car. “Mr.Terra, come here immediately.” Everyone looked around in concern, worried. I looked at the stranger with the cowl, I looked

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    people and does not allow for society to see how a mental illness affects an individual. The false popular opinions are all that people really know about mental illnesses. People suffering from mental illnesses are isolated and viewed as strangers in society. They are viewed as dangerous or aggressive, which increases the likelihood of being discriminated against. These two factors will lead to social distancing, which is the greatest contributor of the stigmatization of mental illness. Without

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    Essentially, Golding portrays the human struggle with evil in the world, or the influence of Satan, corrupting people, who, in turn, destroy society and civilization. The book was initially called ‘A Stranger from within’ before publication, which relates to the evil part of human nature that was a ‘stranger’ to the boys before landing on the island. Lord-of-the-flies could also correlate to the dirty, savage lifestyle of the boys. They are sweaty and they live like pigs, which attract flies by the hundreds

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    Albert Camus Death

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    The thematics of death are almost infinite. And with many possibilities there is no surprise that death can play an important role into the theme of a book. One case of this is shown in Albert Camus’s “The Stranger” where Meursault, the narrator of the book, dies. When approaching his execution he understands that no one person has significant worth. That shows a philosophical view/theme that no other book has shown as clearly before it. Throughout the book you can sense the buildup to Camus’ central

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    Suspense and How It Is Created in Stranger Things The Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things, a thrilling, science-fiction series, keeps viewers’ eyes glued to the screen with its nail-biting suspense scenes. The filmmakers use contrasting camera movements and powerful lighting techniques to create suspense throughout the pilot episode. The opening scene immediately grabs the viewer’s attention with the use of a slow zoom-in shot towards a dark door. Behind this door could be anything, and the suspense

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    time the stranger made her dig it up and the narrator says, “she was holding her dream in her hands,the thing she had always longed for, and which a miracle had set before her”and this is evidence of how Chantel wanted more but living in a such small town it was always out of reach until she realized the gold could be her way out (30). This would also ensure financial stability while she went out and tried new things instead of being stuck working at the hotel. In another spot the stranger is talking

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