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    In Their Eyes Were Watching God the people who are sitting on the porch are made into one entity in many ways. The sitters are referred to as one entity in the fourth paragraph of chapter one when the author says “ These sitters had been tongueless‚ earless‚ eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins.” They are referred to “skins” instead of individual people‚ which gives a notion that they are all equal and lowly. The author portrays the sitters as powerful

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    One of the main lessons that Scout learns in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is that you can’t fully understand who someone is until you walk in his shoes‚ a lesson that Scout learns while standing on Boo’s porch and seeing from his point of view. When Scout gets home from her first day at school with Miss Caroline‚ she recounts the “crimes” of her day. Scout sits on Atticus’s lap and tells him about Miss Caroline’s notion that he shouldn’t have taught Scout to read‚ and after some contemplation

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    Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra‚ India are a Buddhist monastery complex of twenty-nine rock-cut cave monuments containing paintings and sculpture considered to be masterpieces of both "Buddhist religious art"[1] and "universal pictorial art"[2] The caves are located just outside the village of Ajinṭhā in Aurangabad District in the Indian state of Maharashtra (N. lat. 20 deg. 30 ’ by E. long. 75 deg. 40 ’). Since 1983‚ the Ajanta Caves have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Excavation of the caves began

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    perspective. The book describes a series of events that changes their innocence‚ shaping their character and teaching them about human nature. Throughout the story‚ three main events and show this transformation‚ the trial‚ when she stands on Boo’s porch and Atticus. Harper Lee develops the idea that one’s loss of innocence often changes one’s perspective. During the trial of Tom Robinson‚ Scout‚ Jem‚ and Dill sneak into the trial and‚ while watching the trial‚ they are exposed to many different

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    in the middle of ten acres is a worn and faded domicile but thats not how it revealed to me. The lengthy front porch bordering the entire front of the dark-clored house always enlightened with the sun an mama’s brilliance. Aligned with taupe colored spindle rails that we would scramble through playing chase as children. Descending from the edge of the crest aligning the entire porch‚ were mama’s cheerully tinted corded plant hangers. The vibrant green and white hues of spider plants with limbs

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    my attention. His painting captures a group of people gathered around one gentleman who is reading the newspaper on the porch of a hotel. All the people have some expression on their face of what appears to be shock‚ disbelief‚ or even wonder. Woodsville use of vertical and horizontal lines brings shape to the hotel‚ its pillars‚ the porch and the steps leading up to the porch. Woodsville’s color pallet is mostly darker in color‚ greys‚ blacks‚ browns‚ while using a touch of white and red to accent

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    A good example of this would be coming home after a day of work only to find that the porch light is out when you knew you turned it on before you left to work. While most may err on the side of caution‚ their own scientific method starts to formulate in their head to try to put the pieces of the puzzle together. The problem at hand‚ and the question that should be asked‚ would be figuring out how the porch light went off. This first step of the scientific method helps narrow down the goal to

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    we’re told that Jesus was at Jerusalem at the Feast of Dedication and if winter was‚ the feast was held in commemoration of the restoration of the temple and after its profarmation by Antiochus Epiphanies. Jesus walks in the temple on Solomon’s porch‚ and the Jews surround him and endeavor to catch him by a question. After answering the question he speaks the word of the text. John10:27-28 I. The Good Shepherd Sheep There are only two kinds of people mentioned in scripture. Jesus divides

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    Asia Minor. An early house plan‚ typical of Trojan dwellings‚ consists of a long rectangular hall accessed by a porch‚ defined by extensions of the longest walls. Frankfort (p.208) observes that homes in Asia Minor were in general designed on a ‘very rigid plan’ like below‚ a portion of Troy at Hissarlik before the second millennium B.C. The rooms placed behind one another‚ with a porch leading into a main chamber and sometimes a room further behind. We will see that the Greek ‘megaron’ plan and ‘in

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    back of the house featured a sort of glassed in porch with a view of a totally private yard. Nobody could see in or out. In my dream house that lovely yard was always green and surrounded by all sorts of leafy trees. I don’t recall flowers‚ although there surely were a few. The important thing was an area of grass surrounded by tall trees on all three sides‚ with no fence. The trees defined the boundaries. This peaceful‚ protected‚ personal porch overlooking my private park would be my retreat

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