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    Patrick Shores is a small town in Florida that border the Atlantic Ocean. It is ideal for visitors who want to spend some time at the beach. This area of Florida is known for its beautiful sandy shores. It is the perfect location for anyone who is looking for someplace to get away and enjoy some time splashing in the waves‚ surfing‚ collecting shells‚ or just catching some rays. Take a look at everything the beaches near South Patrick Shores have to offer. Loction South Patrick Shores is a small

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    Living With Strangers

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    Living with strangers - essay analysis How people behave around eachother‚ and how they act and speak in manner of specific norms and unwritten rules‚ that is culture. What in one culture may be quite normal and reputable‚ such as kissing in the street‚ can in another culture seem provocative and offensive. Those are the cultural conflicts that can appear when you move from fx the countryside to the city. This subject of conflicts and cultural diffenrences are what Siri Hustwedt has experienced

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    The Stranger Reflection

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    My understanding and appreciation of cultural and contextual considerations shown throughout stylistic choices developed throughout this discussion. When I was reading The Stranger‚ there was a notion of hotness and higher temperatures that Meursault experienced throughout the book. During this discussion‚ one of the leaders pointed out that there was a reoccurring motif of the sun. Right then it clicked for me that the idea of hotness was really a part of the much larger motif‚ the sun and its multiple

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    Living with Strangers – Siri Hustvedt Every society and culture have their own way of behaving among one another. In a rural community‚ it is usually a custom to greet bypassing people politely‚ when it might seem as a strange gesture in the eyes of an urbanite. These norms are discussed in Siri Hustvedt’s essay‚ “Living with Strangers” (2002). Through descriptions of her own personal experiences‚ the surroundings and life in the city‚ Hustvedt reflects upon urban life and how society has developed

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    Strangers on a Train

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    An obvious yet very effective theme in Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train is that of “criss-cross” and doubles. The list could be endless with mentions of double crossing‚ and criss-crossing‚ however each example is very effective and important to the film. One double that truly sticks out is that of Bruno and Guy. “Doubled” together in the film‚ they constantly are double crossing each other‚ and yet are completely opposite personalities shown in the film. One could argue that this is shown in the

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    The Stranger Tandy

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    readers are given what appears to be a short break from the narrator’s destruction of the views of stable and complete heterosexual relationships by presenting the story of a young girl where a stable relationship is not presented but a suggestion about the way the young girl should act is presented as a solution. A stranger appears and becomes friends with Tom Hard. The stranger begins to talk to the little girl and give her some advice. The stranger seems to describe a feeling that some other female

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    stranger in the village

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    12-11-2013 5th period Being a stranger in the village to me‚ means that you’re new and don’t know how things are performed. I was a stranger in the village when I joined a new soccer team. I was fifteen when I started playing for them. The team was full of Bishop Brossart girls and the girls have been playing together for six years. When I went to my first practice I didn’t know anybody. The only impression I had of Bishop Brossart girls were that they were mean and rude from experience with playing against

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    Observing a Stranger

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    Observing a Stranger I picked to do my observation of a woman at a park playing with her son. It was on Monday are last day of nice beautiful warm sunny weather we had this week. And the park was packed with lots of children and their mothers. All enjoying themselves before the rain was to return. This woman I observed was about 5ft 2in and about 130lbs. She had long brown hair with some blond and purple strips in it. She was also very tan for this time of year. She was dress in black short and

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    The Stranger Ambiguity

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    Albert Camus‚ a well renowned existentialist author wrote many novels unlike others of his time. In his book “The Stranger” the role of ambiguity is seen throughout the books entirety. The title of the book is based off of the main character‚ Meursault‚ a French man‚ who seems to be an outsider to the world around him. Meursault’s actions mean nothing to him‚ and he is completely opposed to agreeing to social standards nor does seem to care about those around him. Albert Camus uses Meursault’s relationships

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    Living with Strangers - Siri Hustvedt In all cities and cultures around the world are there unwritten rules‚ who people outside this place will not understand. That was what has inspired Siri Hustvedt about New York City. She moved from her little hometown Minnesota to New York‚ which was a big difference from the life she used to live. Especially the unwritten law: "PRETEND IT ISN’T HAPPENING-Law" fascinates her the most. That is how many in New York are thinking‚ even though most of them actually

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