., and magazines. in this story the narrator that is called Estelle in the story claims that the ideas that the other women in at their table are considering rape fantasies isn't rape at all, but a fantasy that they have about having sex with a complete stranger. ... She believes that Greta and Chrisy's idea of a rape fantasy is just a vivid, wet dream about having sex, a "one night stand" with a complete stranger and never seeing them again. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Notice how Steinbeck describes how Elisa's irritated face has vanished as a result from the stranger's question, which is Elisa's interest. ... She covers her emotional distress from her husband because she doesn't want to further explain the story of how foolish she had been to believe what the stranger had told her. ...

• Word Count: 1566
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Rip being the kind hearted soul he usually is to strangers (everyone but his family), he proceeds to help the dwarf carry this keg of liquor. ... Rip helping the stranger is like an "American" trying to help his fellow countrymen (which at the time, there were two types of people, those who were still loyal to English rule, and those who wanted a free, impendent country ruled by their own laws and regulations). ...

• Word Count: 1834
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Specifically, because they know that Brom Bones is given to midnight trickery, they might have reason to be suspicious of ghostly intervention, whereas Ichabod is disposed, both by what he knows (spooky stories from New England and New York) and by what as a stranger he does not know, to see ghosts in the Sleepy Hollow shadows. ...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

KARBALA, Iraq - With thousands of other Shiite Muslims, I walked through the infamous "Triangle of Death" where suicide bombers, presumably Sunni extremists, had attacked fellow pilgrims two days before. Our trek covered 50 miles from Baghdad to the holy city of Karbala, and we passed through 14 cit...

• Word Count: 1514
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School