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    In Ibsen’s A Doll’s House‚ the characters believe they know and control the situations in their lives. The reality is that they have no idea how many lies and secrets they are part of. Each character is hiding their true intentions and feelings‚ making a fool of themselves and others as they desperately try to conceal the truth. The worse the action or the secret‚ the more they lie and attempt to act innocent. However‚ as the truth is revealed‚ it becomes apparent that nothing is as it appears.

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    IFUGAO HOUSE OR ISKET It is a small enclosed structure‚ a one-room affair that serves as living and sleeping room‚ kitchen and dining room.  It is elevated above the ground by four posts made of sturdy tree-trunks with roots intact.  It has solid panels for walls and tightly thatched roofing. The two main base girders – the horizontal support (at the front and back) just on top of the posts are held to these posts by dowels.  No nails are used.  The Ifugao carve each part of the house as interlocking

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    Analysis of Gregory House By Becca Kinkoph 6th per. Psychology 4-15-09 In the show‚ House M.D.‚ there is an especially difficult doctor whom people cannot help but love despite his unpleasant demeanor. This is Doctor Gregory House. He specializes in diagnosing rare medical anomalies with the help of his team of diagnosticians: Foreman‚ Chase‚ and Cameron. House is somewhat a mystery to his team members and everyone else. He is a cynical and bitter medical genius who can sometimes come

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    From a feminist point of view‚ Ernest Hemingway’s "Hills Like White Elephants" uses a plethora of symbols to convey the idea that a young girl named Jig is a typical woman dealing with a woman’s choice. Although the word abortion is never used in the story‚ the reader is lead to that conclusion through the use of symbolism. The story begins with Jig and her American boyfriend waiting for a train in the valley of Ebro‚ a symbolic use of the word "Embryo". In addition‚ the valley of Ebro has a river

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    Winchester House

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    Abstract The Winchester house is full of twist and turns. Mrs. Winchester built things upside down‚ doors leading to no where‚ and staircases also. Mrs.Wichester had a great life going for her‚ good at music and everybody loved her. Once she got married‚ it seemed everything went downhill. Her only child dies as a infant and couple of years later her husband. Now she is left with tons of money and owning half of the stock market‚ she goes and meet with a medium. The medium tells her that her husband

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    House Of Usher

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    narrator approaching a large and dreary-looking estate. As he approaches on horseback‚ he muses on the images before him‚ the darkness of the house‚ the oppressiveness of the clouds above‚ the eye-like windows‚ the ragged fissure in the side of the house‚ the fungi on the walls‚ and the reflection of it all in a nearby lake. He notes that some parts of the house are crumbling and other parts are not. He sits astride his horse‚ thinking about the letter he received that initiated his trip and feeling

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    The main thing is‚ why don’t they just leave? The answer in the best haunted house literature is‚ they don’t leave because they cannot. Something keeps them inside. When someone takes on a house they form a bond between self and architecture. Houses are where people have to go when they are trying to hide. This makes it all the more terrifying when the houses turn on us. Our houses are everywhere. Author Shirley Jackson doesn’t require her characters to investigate and discover the real identity

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    The Eames House Analysis

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    alleyway‚ past all the gated post-modern mansions that seem to each exist in their own worlds behind lines of lush green foliage and stark white concrete walls. At the end of the road is The Eames House‚ Case Study House #8—the archetypal symbol of post-modernism. The moment you walk onto the grounds of the house‚ the world changes—removed from the bustling traffic of Pacific Coast Highway‚ away from the beachgoers indulging in the California summer in the middle of winter. The birds chirp‚ sing‚ and flutter

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    Roderick Usher is a symbol. The Fall of the House of Usher’s a comprehensive‚ symbolic account of the madness and dishonesty of an individual’s personality. The death of Madeline and Roderick was the decision that Roderick chose to make. The symbol Wilbur is referring to is an allegorical figure representing the hypnagogic state which‚ the condition of the mind occurring ‘upon the very brink of sleep.’ Roderick Usher‚ standing for the hypnagogic state and the house collapsing‚ is someone falling asleep

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    BOARDING-HOUSE‚ a private house in which the proprietor provides board and lodging for paying guests. The position of a guest in a boarding-house differs in English law‚ to some extent‚ on the one hand from that of a lodger in the ordinary sense of the term‚ and on the other from that of a guest in an inn. Unlike the lodger‚ he frequently has not the exclusive occupation of particular rooms. Unlike the guest in an inn‚ his landlord has no lien upon his property for rent or any other debt due in respect

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