lingered around me. It was cold‚ like at the end of the spring after the frost. I slowed my pace just enough to rethink my adventure I was about to proceed‚ but still carried on. I was about to enter the realm of an abandoned house left many years ago‚ and discover what secrets might be held inside. Before entering‚ I took a good observation of the outside. Vines had clung itself to the outer walls of the house‚ while the top floor window looked as if a baseball had been thrown through it. The roof
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Abandon House 1. Dust lay over every surface like dirty snow‚ pristine dust layer‚ not a foot print anywhere‚ dust bunnies the size of bowling balls tumbled across the floor boards toward unseen skittles‚ free papers piled up to the letter box and cascaded all the way to the foot of the rough wooden stairs‚ old tea cups lay on a coffee table thickly encrusted with dried up mould‚ dust covered mirrors‚ smell of mildew‚ stale air‚ air thick with dust‚ shafts of light bursting through gaps in the boarded
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Haunted House “Come on you big baby” my friend Ron said. It was Friday the 13th and we were at a real life haunted house. It wasn’t one of those haunted houses they put together for Halloween; it was a real life haunted house. Let me start at the beginning. It was Thursday the 12th and me and a couple of my friends decided we were going to go for a walk down the scariest street in the neighborhood‚ the town‚ and maybe even the world. Rumor had it that more than 50% of the houses had murders occur
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Did you ever notice how people try to act perfect or like they are fine? Melanie Martinez writes about not being perfect in her song “Dollhouse.”Melanie’s music represents a mixture of electropop‚ indie rock‚ and alternative rock genre‚ which are mostly similar but all creative. People are not always perfect and it’s okay. As shown in her music Melanie Martinez and many more artists talk about how they try to be perfect or don’t even try because they know it’s ok not to be. Melanie Martinez is 22
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House to House by David Bellavia (Bell) is a personal memoir of his experiences during the Iraq war. The book follows Bell and his men on their mission to clear opposing forces out of buildings in Fallujah‚ which was the most dangerous city for armed forces in Iraq. While following through with the task they faced staggering opposition and at times overwhelming odds. In order to survive this suicide mission Bell and his men transition from average men to machines that are programmed to survive at
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Progressive Era 21-6 Jane Addams‚ Twenty Years at Hull House (1910) Based on a similar movement in England‚ settlement houses arose in American cities in the late nineteenth century to address various social problems connected to immigration and urbanization. Among others‚ the settlement houses attracted middle-class‚ college educated women who had no other employment outlet. Jane Addams founded the most famous settlement house‚ Hull House in Chicago‚ where she and others tried to help European
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novel‚ The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros’s narrator‚ Esperanza‚ gradually learns there is no real correlation between a physical structure and a home; rather a home is made from things such as love‚ family‚ culture‚ tradition‚ and memories‚ not bricks and mortar. The opening vignette of Cisneros’s novel‚ introduces the reader to Esperanza’s intense feeling of displacement. Throughout the book‚ she feels as though she has no place to call her home. Although they have a house‚ she is embarrassed
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Literary Analysis As with many of Edgar Allan Poe’s pieces‚ "The Fall of the House of Usher" falls within the definition of American Gothic Literature. According to Prentice Hall Literature‚ American Gothic Literature is characterized by a bleak or remote setting‚ macabre or violent incidents‚ characters being in psychological or physical torment‚ or a supernatural or otherworldly involvement (311). A story containing these attributes can result in a very frightening or morbid read. In all probability
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Analysis of the extract from “Heartbreak House” by Bernard Shaw The text under review is the extract from the play “Heartbreak House” by B.Shaw. The author is the greatest satirical dramatist‚ who marked the beginning of a new period in the history of English drama and revolutionized English drama in content and form‚ where he exposed the vices of the society he lived in and condemned the hypocrisy of bourgeois marality. The functional style of the text can be defined as belles-lettres
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incorporation of modern values. Mary Shelley’s canonic text ‘Frankenstein’ and Robert Zemeckis’ modern film ‘What Lies Beneath‚’ are both examples of traditional and modern adaptations of the gothic horror genre. The novel‚ ‘Frankenstein’ contains the hallmarks of a canonic gothic horror text‚ and represents the context and values of the time that the genre was developed. The film ‘What Lies Beneath’‚ however‚ contains subversions to incorporate the feminist rhetoric but still retains the hallmarks displayed
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