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    As girls grow in life‚ they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ Scout‚ the main character‚ begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book‚ she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone‚ but at the end‚ she lowers her fists because her father‚ Atticus‚ tells her not to fight. Scout’s views of womanhood‚ influenced by how Aunt Alexandra‚ Miss Maudie‚ and Calpurnia act‚ make her think more about becoming a woman and less

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    Heart by Jose La Villa Tierra The night was so dark‚ For the moon was young‚  And the Stars were asleep and rare‚ The clouds were thick‚ Yet youth went out‚ To see his Maiden fair.   Dear one‚ He pleaded as he knelt before her feet in tears‚ My love is true‚  Why have you kept me waiting all this years? The maiden looked at him. Unmoved it seemed‚ And whispered low.   Persistent Youth‚  You have to prove by deeds‚ Your love is true. "There’s not a thing I would not do for you‚

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    These was good kids once‚ I thought to myself. I’d watched them growing up for years. Here I am‚ rocking in my chair on the porch listening to them brag about running drunk through the streets. Don’t know why they come here. Maybe because I just listen and don’t let on how this old grandpa sees all the growing up they still need. Their stories prove my point. Skipping school‚ staying high‚ fighting‚ rampaging through the neighborhood earning themselves the name “gangsta”. Nothing I didn’t do when

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    was in diapers up until the summer before seventh grade‚ I would travel to their cabin during the summer. Sitting on the porch with my grandpa‚ I learned so much about life‚ family‚ and even how to spit sunflower seeds properly. Although most of my porch memories blend together‚ there is one that will always stand out to me. My grandpa and I always sat on the old wooden porch with sunflower seeds and peanuts. The cool afternoon breeze hit our faces‚ wafting the smell of pine and horses towards us

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    heavenly sphere. The oculus also known as the “Great Eye “symbolises the eye of heaven looking down on the earthly sphere. Each of the three types of columns‚ Ionic‚ Doric and Corinthian represent different things. The Corinthian columns on the porch of the Pantheon represent a tree or “tree of life”.

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    out of instinct. They watch Janie walk by and they are left speechless‚ “The porch couldn’t talk for looking” (19-20). They judge Janie without knowing her background the same way the white people judge them. They are astonished that Janie is different and does not respond to their questions but only says “good evenin” (18). Janie’s response shows that she does not let their judgment damage her emotionally unlike the porch sitters who are

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    was Tom Robinson raping her/ He ran to get into the house‚ but the man ran out before he could catch him‚ so he ran for Mr. Tate. When Atticus has Ewell write his name‚ it was found that Ewell was left handed. Mayella Ewell Mayella was on the porch when Tom Robinson came by‚ she asked him to chop up an old piece of furniture for kindling‚ and when she went inside to get a nickel to pay him he attacked her from behind‚ and she screamed and fought back. She couldn’t really remember what happened

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    girls‚ but instead they didn’t. They decided to leave them alone. In the Mennonite story the black man asks the white man to do something for him knowing that the white man couldn’t say no. “He went up to the man and asked him would he paint our porch and the man said yes” (27). The reason the white man couldn’t say no was because as a Mennonite it’s against your religion to say no when people ask them to do something. Laurels dad felt privileged. “It was the only time he’d have a white man on

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    elementary school which was constructed before the permanent church‚ and also carries the name of St. Vincent Ferrer. The church is a combination of Romanesque and Gothic features although it tends to be a little bit more Gothic. Its main entrance or porch has a pointed arch and in the middle there are two doors. These doors are mainly made of wood with stained glass in the middle of them. Above the doors on the tympanum is placed a sculpture of a Saint Vincent. And on top of it there is a shield and

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    across the frieze‚ giving credit to Marcus Agrippa. It reads: M AGRIPPA L F COS TERTIUM FECIT‚ which translates to - “Built by Marcus Agrippa‚ son of Lucius‚ third consul for the third time‚ built this” There are two main features to The Pantheon‚ the porch and the rotunda. At 43m wide and 43m high‚ it is a perfect sphere resting in a cylinder. It is made of concrete reinforced with strips of glazed bricks. Each brick is stamped with Emperor Hadrian’s insignia. The walls on the inside are either solid

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