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- 61: The Book Of Sand By Jorge Luis
- ... him in his writings, and a brief history of his place of origin, Argentina. Borges' The Book of Sand is the story of a man who is visited by a stranger trying to sell a "holy book" called the Book of Sand. The narrator looks at the book and is unable to see the first or last pages of it because, as the stranger explains, the number of pages is infinite. The narrator is fascinated by the book and buys it, only to become obsessed with it, until the point that it is all ... Borges sitting on a bench, as he feels as though he had lived that moment already. He begins to speak to the man seated besides him, and finds out the stranger has the same name, and the same address as he does. When Borges asks the man what year it is, the man answers 1918, even though it is 1969. ...
- 62: The Book Of Sand
- ... him in his writings, and a brief history of his place of origin, Argentina. Borges' The Book of Sand is the story of a man who is visited by a stranger trying to sell a "holy book" called the Book of Sand. The narrator looks at the book and is unable to see the first or last pages of it because, as the stranger explains, the number of pages is infinite. The narrator is fascinated by the book and buys it, only to become obsessed with it, until the point that it is all ... Borges sitting on a bench, as he feels as though he had lived that moment already. He begins to speak to the man seated besides him, and finds out the stranger has the same name, and the same address as he does. When Borges asks the man what year it is, the man answers 1918, even though it is 1969. ...
- 63: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... 1983 to 1992, the arrest rate for murder grew 166 percent among blacks, but also grew 94 percent among whites. The increasing juvenile murder rate coincides with an increase in "stranger murders," suggesting juvenile predators are less discriminating in their targets. * While in the past most murders occurred between family members and friends, the FBI recently reported that 53 percent of homicides are committed by strangers. * "Stranger murders" are now four times as common as killings by family members. * Perpetrators of stranger murders have a better than 80 percent chance of not being punished. Source: Andrew Peyton Thomas (Assistant Attorney General for Arizona) --- Local police, prosecutors, and inner-city preachers know ...
- 64: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... in a costume of the red death itself and This frightens the other guests. The Prince is angered at what he believes to be a practical joke. He orders the stranger seized and hanged from the battlements. Prince Prospero follows the stranger into the red chamber. It is there that Prince Prospero falls dead at the feet of the stranger. The others capture the unknown person in the costume. To their horror they find there is no living form in the costume. One by one they die until no ...
- 65: The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... in a costume of the red death itself and This frightens the other guests. The Prince is angered at what he believes to be a practical joke. He orders the stranger seized and hanged from the battlements. Prince Prospero follows the stranger into the red chamber. It is there that Prince Prospero falls dead at the feet of the stranger. The others capture the unknown person in the costume. To their horror they find there is no living form in the costume. One by one they die until no ...
- 66: On Happiness
- ... of one's disturbance by problems remains constant over time. If somebody breaks his leg, his problem is the broken leg and not, for example, being yelled at by a stranger on the street. In such a situation the encounter with this stranger doesn't matter at all. On the other hand, if he didn't break his leg, the great problem accounting for a sleepless night would be this stranger. Therefore, the solution or avoidance of one problem does not help at all in being content, a new one is just ready to take its place. I thing this ...
- 67: The Flute
- ... and eating everything but metal. The town had a meeting and begged for the Mayor to do something. Poison did not stop them and all the cats were dead. A stranger came to the meeting dressed in brightly colored clothing, with a long feather in his hat, and waving a gold pipe at them. The man said that he could rid the town of the rats for a thousand florins. The mayor yelled that he would pay fifty thousand florins if he succeeded. The stranger took the offer and claimed that by the next morning there would be no more rats in Hamelin. At dusk that evening, the pied piper was seen playing his flute through the streets. He slowly made his way through houses and behind him flocked the rats. As the stranger played he marched down toward the river and straight into the water, up to his waist. Behind him the rats continued to follow him into the water where they ...
- 68: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... in a costume of the red death itself and This frightens the other guests. The Prince is angered at what he believes to be a practical joke. He orders the stranger seized and hanged from the battlements. Prince Prospero follows the stranger into the red chamber. It is there that Prince Prospero falls dead at the feet of the stranger. The others capture the unknown person in the costume. To their horror they find there is no living form in the costume. One by one they die until no ...
- 69: The Effects Of Excuse Validati
- ... effectiveness may depend on whether they are validated by others. The present study was conducted to assess the emotional impact on participants of having their excuses validated by a supportive stranger in a conversation about a real life negative event, as compared to receiving no support from an attentive audience. Participants were thirty one male and thirtynine female undergraduate students, who participated for course credit. participants' affective state was assessed prior to and after talking to a supportive stranger who either validated or did not validate their excuses. It was hypothesized that participants in the excuse-validation condition would report lower levels of negative affect at the post-conversation ... was a first attempt to test the effectiveness of excuse-validation as a social support strategy in a controlled experiment. Participants discussed a real-life negative event with a supportive stranger who either validated their excuses or listened attentively without providing excuse-validation (Denton & Zarbatany, 1995) and related research on the effects of implicit (Mehlman & Snyder, 1985) and explicit (Schonbach, ...
- 70: The Theme of Death in Poems
- ... could not stop for Death," "First Death in Nova Scotia," and "War is kind" death is presented by each narrator as something different. To one it is a kind gentle stranger while to another it is a cold cruel being. A kind gentleman stranger personifies death in, "Because I could not stop for Death." The narrator of the poem is a busy person, with little time, and definitely no time to die. Her carriage ... and is shown to be that through the use of sarcasm. In these three poems death is personified and viewed as several different things. One sees it as a kind stranger. In another death is viewed as a cold, occasion, yet almost like a party. Lastly we see death and dying as a noble thing in a sarcastic tone. The ...
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