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    acts of the late 1960s. The members were Jim Morrison‚ who was singing‚ on the guitar Robbie Krieger‚ the drummer John Dencemore and Manzarek playing the organ. At first they arose on birthday or weddings. Then came the day where they signed an contract with Columbia‚ which was dessolved after a short time. The Doors played for little money in pub called "London Fog"‚ where they devoloped their unmistakable music style. In the first time Jim Morrison sang with the back to the public‚ because of

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    Georg Simmels’‚ The Stranger‚ gives us an in depth view of who strangers are and how they affect the community they are apart of. It combines the seemingly contradictory qualities of nearness and farness and how they connect to the broader social communities. The behavior of a normal or "inside" group within a society is standard‚ thus causing every other behavior that is different to this norm to be negative. The stranger is valued for his or her objectivity‚ for being able to take a distanced

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    Talking to Strangers Online In recent years‚ the Internet has proved itself to be a niche of ever-growing clientele‚ offering its users a multitude of venues of entertainment‚ education and other beneficial uses; but other venues of mischief it provides as well. It has been a matter of public discord and a concern of parents and educationalists that millions of teen patrons are now ’online.’ A lot of them use the internet regularly‚ interacting with all sorts of content and technologies‚ and yet

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    1) Summary of “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” “I’m donating my kidney to a stranger” is an article written by Richard Wilson in 2008. The article is about a woman‚ Paula Wilson‚ who is considered to be Scotland’s first altruistic organ donor. Paula’s decision began when her mother suffered from kidney failure. Paula wanted to donate her kidney to her mother‚ to save her. Unfortunately Paula and her mother’s blood type wasn’t the same. Therefore Paula couldn’t donate her kidney to her mother

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    Sisyphus" was the basis for future reference to what literary critics and the like would refer to as the "tragic hero". The tragic hero‚ as defined by Camus‚ is a character in a story‚ play‚ or novel that is forever doomed to an undesirable fate. In The Stranger‚ the story’s protagonist Monsieur Meursault would be defined as a "tragic hero". He is eventually doomed to a most horrible fate‚ he feels no hope for himself or his survival‚ and he accepts what he has to do with no question. As a result of the

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    question. I believe that people aren’t truly evil‚ rather that their actions and behaviors are evil. You can be the holiest person on this planet‚ and still fall into sin. But‚ that does not make you a bad person. In chapter 4 of the first part of “The Stranger” page numbers 38 and 39‚ old Salamano lost his dog at the Parade Ground. He went to take his dog there‚ as always‚ and old Salamano stopped to watch “The King of Escape Artists.” and when he went to leave‚ the dog was gone. Meursault tried helping

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    Helen of Troy found herself caught in the middle. Yet her struggle is never examined. Toni Morrison harkens back to this irony with her character Helene in Sula. Helene‚ like Helen of Troy‚ fights to find a middle ground between ontological extremes in her life‚ a struggle that history has yet to examine. Helene’s only relevance in Sula is that she mothered Nel‚ the main character’s best friend‚ but Morrison utilizes a small section about Helene’s life to explore the bigger ramifications of

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    the child in school. It was Jim Morrison‚ lead singer for the the band The Doors‚ who said‚ “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us

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    The protagonist of Beloved even kills her own baby! Inside of the woodshed at 124‚ “two boys bled in the sawdust and dirt at the feet of a nigger woman holding a blood-soaked child to her chest with one hand and an infant by the heels in the other”(Morrison 175). Morrison’s use of vivid imagery purposely makes readers uncomfortable to show the overwhelming power of maternal love that drove Sethe to kill Beloved. Sethe would much rather endure the emotional pain of killing her own child than allow her

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    B: Living with Strangers Siri Hustvedt is famous for her essays and an interesting one is "Living with Strangers"‚ where Hustvedt enlightens us with her viewpoints on the two different types of living; suburban and urban. Siri Hustvedt shows exactly what a talented writer she is in this essay. Hustvedt manages to place the essay "Living with strangers" just in between a short story and an article‚ as it’s not purely fiction and yet not entirely literal either. All-though‚ she keeps her main focus

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