The shadows grew long as the sun set slowly on a beautiful Indian summer day. Rebecca was hurrying to complete the harvest of black walnuts that had fallen in her back yard. As she gathered the walnuts‚ she could hear the wind as it played among the dried corn stalks in a field close to her driveway. This sound reminded her of all the sounds of fall‚ the crunching sound the cars would make as they drove over the walnuts she had placed in the driveway‚ braking the hard hulls off the walnuts she would
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Royal World Palace Outer Lands "Haah.." A farmer wiped his sweat off as he was farming the white lotus tuber plants. He finished his daily sowing routine. The farmer looked up at the sky. One with yellow the other with red‚ two suns’ waves were touching his with their might. The weather was hot summer‚ but the harmony of the luminous red and yellow colors in the blue sky reflecting on the greens was worth to look at. The clarity of the view was vivid to remember for a lifetime. "What a
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The texts‚ “Undaunted Courage” and “The Way To Rainy Mountain” depict the land as a spiritual entity that’s worth being worshipped and respected as shown by man’s praise of it. The way man‚ rather than exploit it for profit‚ respects the land through animism shows their gratitude for it. From the detailed descriptions that give the reader an illustration of what man has seen‚ it is clear to say that man had this religious relationship again‚ but was also in tune with the lay of the land. In “Undaunted
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On May 7th 2006 I had just graduated Ranger school with my best friend in my platoon. We had both started the school as PFC’s and were immediately promoted to specialist after graduation. We also were moved into team leader positions as soon as we arrived back to our unit. At this point in time most of our platoon has been deployed at least once‚ either to Afghanistan in 2005 or the initial invasion of Iraq in 2003. Upon our arrival back to our unit we immediately went into training and preparation
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Robert Morgan‚ author of the article‚ “There is No True History of the Westward Expansion‚” has central ideas to his articles that can be agreed with. His central ideas are that it wasn’t just the well-known people of history that made history‚ most of it was the masses. Morgan’s central ideas of crediting history to the thousands of people that aren’t well known are agreeable‚ in which this composition will explain why his central ideas are agreed upon. In the book‚ Undaunted Courage‚ by Stephen
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The Palace of Versailles and Contemporary Art: Takashi Murakami The Palace of Versailles located approximately twelve miles outside Paris‚ France and is viewed as a place to showcase modern art. Much of the art that the palace has put on exhibitions over the years has brought a lot of controversy including the most recent one by Japanese artist Takashi Murakimi. Looking back at the 400 years of history at the Palace of Versailles it was once a home for the French royal family‚ a center for
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Louis XIII‚ Versailles is now a grand palace and a popular tourist attraction. Louis XIII’s son‚ Louis XIV‚ disliked his palace and wanted to live somewhere else. After searching‚ Louis found what he wanted‚ his father’s old cabin. He hired‚ Louis Le Vau‚ a famous architect‚ to build this humble estate of his father into a luxurious palace. Le Vau built much of the modern-day Versailles. Taking many years‚ Le Vau extended this building into a stone and brick palace‚ and added buildings that make up what
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Versailles‚ Hampton Court Palace‚ and St. Peter ’s Basilica as well as looked at numerous pictures of artwork and architecture in and of the buildings. These three places have things in common as well as many differences. They all have the evidence of the baroque era but they each show different values that are most important to their community. It seems to me that Versailles was more concerned with showing their successes in politics‚ economics and the arts. Hampton court palace seemed more concerned
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The history of haunted houses goes back extremely far‚ in fact it goes back to the 1800s. This essay will be about haunted houses and their history. The history of haunted houses is displayed in the form of newspaper articles‚ essays and polls to show that people still love haunted houses due to many reasons. In the article‚ “It’s Just Not Halloween Without a Haunted House‚” it stated that there were many professional haunted houses in just america alone. Meaning people make money off of scaring
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Haunted houses have been a go-to horror location especially around Halloween. These sometimes gorey mazes attempt to freighted visitors with fictitious characters including demons and spirits that pop up out of nowhere. All the same‚ could some of these supernatural entities be real? Could ghosts actually travel through our world with little to know trace of one ever being here? Since young ages‚ people have been interested and excited by the existence of ghosts and the supernatural. Now that these
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