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    heat‚ and air so thick you could cut through it with a knife‚ my dad and uncle labored on to build me the most beautiful tree house I have ever seen. Even though it was nearing twilight the heavy July air still laid upon the three of us like a wool blanket. They had just let me help hammer the last nail in place before my mom called out to us that dinner was ready. My tree house‚ my sanctuary‚ my refuge‚ was the only place that I ever felt invincible. It was built about four feet from the dark moist

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    A Doll's House

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    November 2012 Written Assignment Word Count: The Importance of Appearances in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen was a prominent realist writer in the 19th Century and his works were famous for broaching timeless topics that were not only prevalent in his 19th Century society but are still applicable in present day society. This trend is evident in one of his more known works‚ A Doll’s House. The plot of the play revolves around the consequences the protagonist‚ Nora‚ suffers after deceiving

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    The House of Mapuhi‚ Jack London Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines‚ the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze‚ and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water‚ a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide‚ twenty miles in circumference‚ and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell‚ and from the deck of the schooner‚ across the slender

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    The Hot House Life Inside Leavenworth Prison: DALLAS EARL SCOTT The forty-two year old convict‚ Dallas Earl Scott‚ looked like a cool and collected‚ devoted husband to his fellow convicts inside prison. But the reality was‚ and although he denied it‚ Scott was a seriously dangerous gang member who was a part of one of the most widely known racist gangs called the Aryan Brotherhood. In 1966‚ Scott was convicted of a bank robbery in California and sent to San Quentin‚ where he became one of the

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    Doll House

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    3/24/10 Block 2 Charles A Doll House In the book A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen‚ the title is expressed with great significance throughout the work. In this story‚ the main character Nora can easily be identified as a doll. There are certain aspects that become clear as to why she can be perceived this way. Ibsen demonstrates a unique point of view throughout the story and makes the reader explore an abnormal comparison for a human being. The title A Doll House demonstrates how Nora is nothing

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    itself. In literary works a symbol can express an idea‚ clarify meaning‚ or enlarge literal meaning. In A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen‚ Ibsen uses the title as a somewhat symbol to portray to the reader that the household within the story could be compared to a doll house which is pretty and well kept together on the outside but could possibly be in disarray on the inside. In A Dolls’ House the stories’ two main protagonists Nora and Torvald Helmer which is a married couple experiences many things

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    The Round House

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    he was only thirteen and lived a somber‚ isolated lifestyle from then on‚ leading to his inevitable passage into adulthood happening at an earlier stage in life than it should have. Louise Erdrich foreshadows this in the first chapter of The Round House through the image of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law‚ by Felix Cohen. This book symbolizes Joe’s mental coming of age and his rapid maturation into the new realm of adulthood. It is first evident that this book is a representation of Joe’s

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    A doll’s house Costume I think the costumes used in ‘A doll’s house’ were quite symbolic and symbolized the characters various roles in society. When we first see Nora she is wearing a shiny blue dress which shows she is well off which gives the audience the idea that she has a degree of elegance about her. In those times women dressed modestly and this was an example of the types of clothes they were supposed to wear while around the house. They were expected to cook‚ clean and look after

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    Life as a House The movie Life as a House shapes a touching story about how a father changes his teenage son’s degenerate life and deformed personality in his last 4 months of life. Besides‚ the father (George Monroe) has a dream to build a house with his son together during his last phrase of life. One of the most essential concepts in this movie is the characteristics for adolescences. Sam‚ George and his ex-wife Robin’s son‚ is influenced by his peer Josh and he does drugs‚ smoking‚ isolates

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    “A House Divided”: Falling Table By‚ Eileen Sanchez Mr. Balina March 4‚ 2015 Social Studies 321/8th Falling Table Standard rectangular tables stand on 4 legs: one at each corner. A table where half the legs are missing (2)‚ cannot stand. A table where 2 legs are shorter than the others cannot stand. Here‚ the table is the United States in 1858: times leading up to the Civil War in 1861‚ where those who were against slavery were part of the Union in the north and those who wanted

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