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 I could embrace the moment the world around me fast forwarded to the day she left me without reason. I woke up in the middle of the night; my eyes ricocheted off the walls‚ repelling off my
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My Dream House Ever since I was a little girl‚ I knew what my dream house would look like. I want my house to be located on a beautiful spring fed lake. It will be where my family and I live and would soon turn into a loving home. One of the most important details about a house is the location. My house will be located where it is quiet and peaceful. I want it to be located on a small private lake‚ but about two hundred yards off the edge. If it would happen to rain a lot‚ I would want my
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Insubordination or Unclear Loyalties?* Abstract Ellen‚ the program director of Omega House‚ a hospice‚ was wondering how to deal with the new development officer‚ George. He reported to her and was also part of a cross program task force on fundraising within the Social Action Consortium (SAC)‚ the umbrella organization for a variety of service agencies located in the Midwest. Ellen was accustomed to working in a team and found George’s communicative approach disconcerting. She was puzzled
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Old House Memories For many years I’ve been haunted by the little old house I grew up in as a child. There are so many bad memories it’s hard to remember the good. I would lose many nights of sleep. I would lie on my back and gaze into darkness and wait for daybreak. The memories of arguing‚ fighting‚ and horrible nightmares are all I could remember about the house. The house was located in Blackville‚ South Carolina. I was in my bed one evening when I was awakened. Voices filled the
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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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Night’ by Elie Wiesel is his personal account of his experiences in Nazi controlled concentration camps. The memoir begins towards the end of 1941 and records his experiences of the inconceivable horrors committed by the Nazi’s during World War II. The war had been raging for two years and was about to enter Sighet. The Germans believed in the Aryan race and attempted to commit genocide on the ‘lesser’ races‚ particularly Jews. Through the brutality witnessed‚ acts of selfishness‚ the death of his
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Michael Midence “Acquainted with the Night”: Robert Frost on Darkness In Robert Frost’s poem "Acquainted with the Night" Frost has left this poem up for many interpretations. The poem begins “I have been one acquainted with the night‚” it means‚ basically‚ that he has met‚ or has some knowledge of‚ the night. It is a neutral way to say something. You’d say you were acquainted with someone if you had met them‚ but weren’t friends with them. We can read that maybe the individual is restless and
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A Haunted House AnalysisSetting: The setting for A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf takes place in a centuries old house. The story starts off at dusk‚ just as the sun is setting. This house is on a tree-lined avenue close to a farm. The season is most likely spring or summer‚ considering grass and green leaves are described. The weather is stormy; it is very windy and raining.The moon is present as the setting transitions into night. “A moment lat er the light had faded. Out in the garden
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Species The average amount of carbon dioxide produced per minute was compared between two different species of crickets‚ the field cricket and the house cricket. It can be seen from the results that the field cricket produces more carbon dioxide per minute than the house cricket. Since the two different species differ in natural habitat‚ the difference in temperature can be said to have an affect on the amount of carbon dioxide they are able to produce per
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Cultural context In this essay I will be discussing the architectural qualities of the ‘Farnsworth House’ by ‘Mies Van Der Rohe’. Mies Van Der Rohe was born in Germany in 1886 and died in USA in 1969. He managed to complete projects such as ‘Commonwealth Plaza’‚ ‘860-880 Lake Shore Drive apartments’‚ Crown hall’ and ‘Seagram Building’ in which the structure for all was out of steel and glass. (Franz SCHULZE 2004:294) It could be said that architectural qualities can be the set of qualities
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