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    Beach House

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    toes..Crabs running everywhere.. Then I see it..a blue house..with its paint starting to fade from the hot sun..pink shutters that storms have almost destroyed..but the house still looks amazing sitting there facing forever... A little girl with curly red hair playing with a little boy with blue swim shorts...running into the ocean they seem 2 magically disappear... I stand there watching the waves crash along the deck of the blue house..remembering a moment that time has never touched..In this

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    Boarding House

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    BOARDING HOUSE DESIGN A house with five or more sleeping rooms where boarders are provided with lodging‚ and meals for a fixed sum paid by the month‚ or week‚ in accordance with previous arrangement. Infrastructure guidelines for boarding facilities These guidelines refer to the provision of the necessary spaces‚ facilities and equipment required to make the environment conducive to learning. These guidelines are described in four perspectives‚ namely planning guidelines‚ architectural requirements

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    House on Mango

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    in Sandra Cisneros’s “The House on Mango Street” inevitably leads to disappointment; however fulfilling these dreams is still a possibility despite of its non-actuality. Esperanza lives out unfulfilling life disappointed by the uninspiring house she lives in‚ a worthless music box‚ and the dream of eating in the canteen. Esperanza had hoped for more‚ even believed in more than what she received; a shabby‚ broken-down house on Mango Street. The description of the house Esperanza’s parents provide

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    scary house

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    As I stood‚ gazing at the scary house. I shivered‚ as though‚ ice had touched my spine. The cold air went through my entire body. The multiple layer of clothing could not protect against the freezing cold. The walkway leading up to house were cracked. Weeds and dandelions poked out from these cracks. The moonlight makes a glow on the house. Vines covered the entire house making it look 10 times older. The house’s walls were black and covered in dust. Cobwebs covered the corners of the doors‚ tiny

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    The Boarding House

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    The Boarding House Who is a victim and who an abuser in The Boarding House? Since the first paragraph of The Boarding House‚ there is a sense that Mrs. Mooney is the victim of an abusive husband- “...Mr. Mooney began to go to the devil. He Drank‚ plundered the till‚ ran headlong into debt.” The reader sees Mrs. Mooney as the woman who illustrates the difficulties a single mother faces raising a daughter‚ however her plan to marry her daughter into a higher class banishes any sympathy the reader

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    The Guest House

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    Xavier Cuevas Cuevas-1 of 11 LA 110‚ Narrative Storytelling‚ Mon/Fri‚ section 03 Instructor: James Sidel Class Time 12:00-2:50 Class Location: Northpoint Date of Submission: 7/26/2013 Short Story: The Guest House (Draft 4‚ word count 3‚891) I closed my eyes and fell into an abyss of dreams and nightmares crafted by painful memories. I found myself walking through a golden field of crops in Northern Mississippi; at my side was my childhood crush‚ but before

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    House Of Usher

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    same story can get a whole new meaning. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”‚ Poe uses a first-person narrative instead of using a third-person narrative. This is done to give the reader a better sense of reality to the story. If the story was told in third person narrative the bedtime-story aspect would have been lost. Through the story being

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    Bleak House

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    Bleak House In the book “Bleak House” Charles Dickens expresses his contempt towards the vast amount of pollution in the air‚ water and lives of the citizens due to the filthy and unsanitary conditions in London. Throughout the book‚ Dickens describes very vividly the mud in the streets‚ the fog in the air and the dung in the streets. The polluted conditions in London were described as being a layer of thick fog that held within it components of gas‚ dirt‚ grime dung and grease. Just about every

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    The Doll's House

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    The lamp in Katherine Mansfield’s "The Doll’s House" and the monkey in Liliana Heker’s "The Stolen Party" illuminate the common theme by showing children in the middle of learning a harsh reality about the world they live in. The young main characters‚ Kezia Burnell in "The Doll’s House"‚ and Rosaura in "The Stolen Party"‚ live in a society where classism is common. They are both naïve though‚ to the fact that classism exists and that people are seriously affected by it. The lamp and the monkey are

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    The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.  ~G.K. Chesterton There’s lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven’t the time to enjoy it.  ~Josh Billings The greatest wealth is health.  ~Virgil I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life‚ provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.  ~Samuel Butler‚ The

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