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    My Home of Yesteryear

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    back about 200 feet from the road‚ and as we saunter up the narrow dirt pathway‚ lined with neat rows of flamboyant orange gladiolas on each side‚ the tidy appearance of the small‚ unpainted frame house entices us to enter. Up the steps and onto the porch‚ we can’t help but notice a high-backed rocker on one side and a bench worn smooth by age on the other. Both remind us of the many vesper hours spent here in the absence of modern-day entertainment. Turning the door knob and entering the parlor is

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    What am I going to do? I laughed the dare off thinking he would forget. I dared him to go first. John and his friends call me fraidy cat. I felt so bad. I got mad thinking I’ll show them. What would you have done? I crept up the sidewalk to the porch. The house needed paint and there were broken windows. The door was wide open so I peeked in. There was old furniture and cobwebs all over the place. It was dark and smelled funny. The door creaked on its hinges as I walked in. This place was in need

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    Ralph walks through the door after a day at work to find his wife‚ Alice‚ icing his favorite dessert. When he inquires as to the occasion‚ Alice tells him it’s for the new neighbor and asks him to introduce himself later. Ralph’s good friend‚ Ed‚ joins him and they discuss plans to play checkers with the new neighbor‚ “cuz them old guys like playing checkers”. Mr. Sanchez knocks on the door and Ralph and Ed discover the new neighbor is a bit younger and more suave then they imagined. Fear and panic

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    Malfoy: A Short Story

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    long night. I wasn’t expecting to spot Draco sitting on his front porch. "So what’s keeping you up‚" I inquired while taking a seat alongside him on the steps. "Nasty dreams and you‚" I could tell Draco hadn’t slept in days. Under Malfoys’ eyes had dark circles moreover‚ his usually orderly hair disheveled. "Thinking about things I’d rather not‚" I admitted begrudgingly. With an exaggerated sigh‚ I lay back on Draco’s porch stairs a position that is just as uncomfortable

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    The author is leading the audience in suspense‚ making us wonder what is going to happen next. Imagery "We strolled silently down the sidewalk‚ listening to porch swings creaking with the weight of the neighborhood‚ listening to the soft night-murmurs of the grown people on our street." (chapter 6‚ page 57) In my mind‚ I can hear the porch swings creaking and the soft night murmurs. The descriptive words used adds meaning to the text by creating suspense as well as allowing you to put sound with

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    continuum

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    both make and break the fluidity of the poem. Indeed it is very difficult to understand the meaning of the poem when reading it because each sentence is broken down in very unnatural ways (“Better barefoot it out the front//door and lean from the porch across the privets/ and the palms”). The sentences loose some of their meaning in this breaking down. However‚ it also makes the fluidity of the poem‚ as we follow the irregular train of thought of an insomniac man in the midst of the night. Time:

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    Miss Ada Short Story

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    pneumonia. I don’t know why I hated going to Miss Ada’s‚ but I did. Maybe it was because Miss Ada and Ole Joe were so old or how they were always saying things about how big I was getting. Anyway I did not want to go‚ so I hid out on the front porch. “Patty Sue Smith‚ for the last time get in here and help me.” I know Daddy could have heard Mama way out in the pasture where he was fixing a fence. I slowly got up and stomped into the house to find that Mama had all the food ready to place in

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    Byzantine And Pantheon

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    The Pantheon‚ while being a central plan church‚ has a typical porch of a Roman church and an intermediate block transitioning from the porch to the cella. There was a large forecourt leading up to the Pantheon‚ which gave patrons a frontal view of the building. From the forecourt‚ patrons would climb a set of stairs up onto a podium where the temple

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    Pantheon Architecture

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    The pantheon is an artistic and imaginative blend of three major architectural focus: the unification of traditional temple form and the new domed space‚ the technical development of concrete constructions‚ and the tendency to obscure construction and structural elements. This paper discusses the Pantheon by analyzing the architecture from various aspects such as its three distinctive spaces and the experience they brings‚ the lighting of the interior‚ innovation such as coffering‚ the skillful use

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    Descriptive Writing

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    has finally arrived and is a much anticipated awaited aesthetic show. As I’m observing the dark night sky waiting for the gorgeous meteors to enter Earth’s atmosphere‚ I see the sensational stunning spectacular sparkling stars. While sitting on my porch in the small town of Malton‚ I hear a small owl chirping on my backyard tree and the soothing summer breeze gusting throughout the trees. I can hear the constant chatter of my neighbours as they eagerly wait for the show to begin. This being my first

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