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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Questioning the person for the interview, I felt a little uncomfortable as I am a stranger to their eyes as they are to mine. ... In our culture we use our right hand to eat but people look at us in a strange ways while eating ", he stated. ... She took Indian cooking classes and learned the most she could so I could still have a connection to my mother land ". ...

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The story of the American slave is thus the story of the African's search for a home in a hateful land. In Toni Morrison's Beloved, each generation hopes to find a better home despite a malignant world: Sethe's mother traveled from the slave ship to the plantation, Sethe from the plantation to Cincinnati, Beloved from Cincinnati to death, and Denver from a strange, haunted land of ghosts and despair to her community at large. ... Garner's "soft" slavery; for all slavery robs the man of the his home because all slavery dynamics destroy his identity, makin...

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WordsWorth Interview with Arundhati Roy Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things (Random House, 1997) is living the dream of most first time novelists. When she finished the book, which took almost five years to write, she hoped to get it published by a small publisher in her native land of...

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The Hobbit begins simply: "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." The hobbit in this particular hole is named Bilbo Baggins, and his "hole" is actually a very comfortable residence known as Bag End. The narrator tells us that hobbits are a little people, half the size of a man, and they have...

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The Union believes in education, and they want him to study law so that he may help them with their land cases. ... On his return to Nigeria Lagos is almost a strange place and Umuofia an even stranger one. ... He speaks English with less formality (an English of "is" and "was") because he is used to the language, and it is not strange to his tongue. ...

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