Following the stranger in a strange land motif Gulliver first arrives at the land of Lilliput. ... Secondly, Gulliver finds himself a stranger in a strange land of giants. ... The stranger in a strange land motif follows Gulliver as he travels from one strange land to the next. ... Gulliver next arrives as a stranger in a strange land of giants in the land of Brobdingnag. ... In every world, Gulliver finds himself a stranger in a new strange land. ...

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He further describes the stranger as an integral part of the economic sphere. ... Because he does not own land and trade is often regulated and restricted, the stranger attains mobility. ... He also believes this sense of "strangeness" can be found in other types of relationships, even the most intimate ones. ... He is not perceived as an individual, but a "stranger of a certain type." ... Simmel struggled with a precise definition of the stranger because at best it is the combination of the stranger's remoteness and nearness with respect to the group he approaches. ...

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An Exploration of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus The Stranger is a book of many facets and meanings most of which are not immediately apparent. ... The manner of story telling in The Stranger is unique and at first hard to come to grips with. ... This simple leap of thought, if the conclusion is correct is precisely the key to understanding The Stranger. ... He does mention getting a great deal of enjoyment from washing his hands before going out to lunch, which of course seems strange at first, but it highlights his uncaring almost lazy attitude towards life, he chooses to get enjoyment out...

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An Exploration of "The Stranger" by Albert Camus The Stranger is a book of many facets and meanings most of which are not immediately apparent. ... The manner of story telling in The Stranger is unique and at first hard to come to grips with. ... This simple leap of thought, if the conclusion is correct is precisely the key to understanding The Stranger. ... He does mention getting a great deal of enjoyment from washing his hands before going out to lunch, which of course seems strange at first, but it highlights his uncaring almost lazy attitude towards life, he chooses to get enjoyment o...

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The young Captain feels that he was somewhat of a stranger to himself, also being the youngest man on board (221). ... The young Captain was stressed and sleep deprived as his strangeness, which had made [him] sleepless the last few days (222). ... Once a stranger to himself, he knew how to use his voice, but was never in full command of it. Not only has he felt in full command of his voice when he gave an order his tone had a borrowed loudness reverberated from the height of the land (253). ... No longer has he felt a stranger to the ship or to himself. ...

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She believes that her brother, Sebastian, perished in the sea and in order to survive in this strange land, she must disguise herself as a male servant. ... She needs a way to survive in this new strange land. ... Viola believes that a disguise can be the only way into this new land for her. ... Another servant observes Orsino's feelings towards Cesario, "He hath know you but three days and already you are no stranger" (1.4.2-3). ... This is strange because conventionally women have softer complexions than men. ...

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Many had erroneous preconceived notions of a tax-free land of liberty, with rolling fields and snow-capped mountains in the distance. ... On the other hand, the Indians viewed the white man as a strange foreign group, slowly invading and taking over the land that the Native Americans had held for many generations. ... The Native Americans did not understand that these strange new people were as ignorant to the Indian way of life as the Indians were to the pioneers". The Indians thought that the white men were figures out of one of their prophecies, one that stated that a new and strange rac...

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The Indians, which were actually Native Americans, shared precious information with the settlers about agriculture and hunting on the land, which was crucial for survival. ... They did all of this only to have the peace broken by greedy strangers with guns and tricky explorers giving booze and making deals for land. ... Most people at the time were lucky to leave their village let alone go over seas and see exotic and strange new places. ... To this day islands and regions still bare the names that Columbus gave them, and when the news of these places got back to the mainland, people flocke...

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When it was rumored that gold was on Navajo land, Kit Carson to find and bring all the Navajo to Bosque Redondo, New Mexico. ... In 1868 the first of many treaties were made, gradually restoring the Dinehtah (land of the Navajo.) ... During the first decade of the 1900's, low-sulfate coal, uranium, oil, and natural gas deposits were located upon land covered by the Navajo and Hopi reservation. ... The ad agency to circulate "myths- that state the Navajo Indians were "Johnny-come-lately- not deserving the land occupied and the only problem is a land dispute between the two tribes....

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Maidens Tears Long ago in the land of Skyloo a mother was giving birth to a baby girl. ... Maiden did not know of the Goddess of Lydian nor did she know the reasons for her parents" strange ways. ... Being he was a stranger to the town the only polite thing to do was to take him in. ...

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Natives and Strangers. ... "Throughout out history many Americans looked upon outsiders as strange, inferior, or potentially disloyal."" (Dinnerstein, Natives and Strangers P.216) When the first Europeans arrived in America, it was inhabited by Native Americans. ... If anyone was an outsider, it was the settlers who tried to remove the Native Americans from their own land. ... Native Americans and Strangers. ...

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Gulliver's fourth journey, widely considered to be the most profound, is to the a land populated by talking horses with more rationality than the average human. ... They may have friends to whom they enjoy conversing with but no real attachment is formed, and so everyone, even a distant stranger is treated with the same mutual civility. ... A point can easily be disputable in a land populated by tremendously individual people all with different interests in mind. Along side these horses of reason, Gulliver also finds the most primitive and repulsive version possible of the human race l...

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He sets his narrative on the small island of Negros, a land associated with fields and fields of sugarcane that dates back during the Spanish colonization. ... Within the boundaries of this land, a tightly knit community of hacienderos and obreros lives. ... She has a tendency to do strange and disturbing things when one of her emotional spells is upon her. ... George Torrecarion, 46 years old and a landowner, is perceived by all of Bacolod to be a loony as a result of his strange interests and even stranger behavior. ... She is frequently doing strange things like shoplifting or trailing c...

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Set on the mysterious and gloomy Yorkshire moors in the nineteenth century, Wuthering Heights gives the illusion of lonesome isolation as a stranger, Mr. ... Nelly offers her impression when narrating, " he would certainly have struck a stranger as a born and bred gentleman- (130; ch. 14). ... Meanwhile, she finds the inner core and a profound connection with the stranger who enters her own father's affection and her life so young. ... The dramatic and anguished scene is described as, " The two, to a cool spectator, made a strange and fearful picture" (141; ch. 15). ...

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Isa's first change shocks her mother when she reacts, "[she] put her hand on Isa's check, wipes off makeup, and then rubs it between her finger as if it were a strange kind of dust" (200). ... Moreover, the phrase "strange kind of dust" conveys the mother's hunch that Isa would become a stranger to the family and soon blow away. ... In fact, America is a land of opportunities that an individual can become very successful if they are aware of themselves yet they could fall very easily if they follow their desires base on an unrealistic concept. ...

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For example, they measured every strange angle of Gulliver's body for fitting him with clothes, yet the clothes did not fit. ... Eventually, using the island's land for testing each new agricultural theory, the scientists ended up sterilizing the once flourishing land. ... "I [Gulliver] soon discovered, that both of them were perfect Strangers to the rest of the Company, and had never seen or heard of them before" (Swift 148). ...

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The first owners that he -2 was with were from Africa and their land resembled that of the land that Equiano grew up on. ... Especially noted of the English language, which was very strange to Equiano, but he learned it because he needed to. ... After being at sea for about three years, Equiano comments that, "From the various scenes I had beheld on shipboard, I soon grew a stranger to terror of every kind, and was, in that respect at least, almost an Englishman"(Alison 71). ...

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What might once have been a grand estate, Blanche bitterly describes as having been lost "as piece by piece, our improvident grandfathers and father and uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications- (SND, p. 43). What was left of the house and a few acres of land, Blanche tells Stella, was lost to the expenses of the many family deaths: "now you sit there telling me with your eyes that I let the place go! ... Blanche confirms the story Stanley has reported by telling Mitch "Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan "intimacies with str...

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As the city expands, it will have to gain land from its neighbors and will soon be at war. ... Through examining the nature of a dog, hostile to strangers, and loving people they know, they realize that dogs judge things as hostile or friendly only through knowledge and ignorance. ... Strange is your image, he said, and your prisoners strange. ...

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They arrived in a pristine wilderness (Canaan), and proceeded to rid the land of heathen Indians just like the Hebrews had done with the idol worshiping Canaanites. Winthrop mentions the marked destruction of the Canaanites by God when he says "upon this ground the Israelites were to putt a difference betweene the brethren of such as were strangers though not of the Canaanites." ... It is strange to look at love as possessing physical properties, but Winthrop is very adamant about this. ...

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In the bars and brothels were the Tango was created by the "portoneos (To Tango)- came to drown their sorrows of being "strangers in a strange land (History of the Tango )- in a few drinks and to find some companionship. ...

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This seemed strange because ivy isn't very common in central Nebraska, but nevertheless it had decided to take up residence there. ... With no cars for miles speed limits signs were just nagging strangers. ... As I stood, the stalks of wheat that had long since claimed this land as their own welcomed me back. ...

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The two plays which I have chosen for comparison are "Bent," by Martin Sherman and "Strange Fruit," by Caryl Phillips. ... "Strange Fruit," was first published in 1981. ... "Strange Fruit," tells the story of a black family who came to live in England after escaping from the West Indies. ... The Mother in Strange Fruit, alike to Max in Bent, also hides her true identity to a certain extent. ...

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"Bury Me in a Free Land" Make me a grave where"er you will, In a lowly plain or a lofty hill; Make it among earth's humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. ... I ask no monument, proud and high, To arrest the gaze of the passers by; All that my yearning spirit craves Is--Bury me not in a land of slaves! The poem Bury Me In a Free Land deals with the issue of having your final resting place in a place where there are slaves. ... We had told our little darling, Of the land of love and light, Of the saints all crowned with glory, And enrobed in spotless ...

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I want this person to live in an area for centuries and then have some strange people they don't know kill them unmercifully. ... The Taino are a friendly people that welcome strangers. ... In 1860 they were forced by the U.S. government out of their land. ... In 1863 The Utes sold rights to their land and minerals for just $20,000. They also sold 4 million acres of land for $25,000. ...

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