in Norcombe Hill. Gabriel Oak is a small time farmer with 200 sheep. One day he sees a wagon‚ with a beautiful woman inside‚ Bathsheba. He instantly falls in love with her. However he finds that she is quite vain but her flaws don’t deter his love. After meeting her a few times‚ he goes to her aunt to ask for her hand in marriage; he is however rejected‚ by her aunt and then Bathsheba as she felt she was above him. Later on‚ Gabriel’s sheep dog chases his flock of sheep over the hill‚ killing most
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The House of Wisdom The Bayt al-Hikma‚ or House of Wisdom was founded in Caliph Abu Jafar al-Mamun. The goal of the House of Wisdom was to become a wellspring of knowledge by gathering the best scholars and translators to translate the ancient texts from Greece and India‚ and then to further advance Arab sciences. Al-Mamun established the House of Wisdom in hopes that it would bring prosperity to the Muslim empire. In 833 Al-Mamun died and his son Abu Ishaq al-Mutasim ibn Harun became Caliph
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England’s mighty army and the navy‚ the loyalist who were colonists who fought on the Kings side‚ some hired Indians and a lot of Hessians who were also hired as Mercenaries. The important battles in the revolution were The Battle at Bunker Hill because it showed them that they need an ally that produces supplies like gunpowder. The Battle at New York was important because it showed them that the rebels needed training. The Battle at Trenton was important because it was the first win for the
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Daniel Chachanashvili English 2150 English 2150‚ Section KTRC Essay I Spring 2013 six elements of fiction :plot‚ character‚ setting‚ point of view‚ voice and style‚ and theme. “The theme of a story abstracts its meaning from the concrete details of its plot‚ point of view‚ characterization‚ setting‚ and style” “Theme is a generalization
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DOUGLAS HOUSE‚ RICHARD MEIER‚ 1971-1973 The Douglas House was built by Richard Meier in 1971-1973 for Jim and Jean Douglas. The house is gently placed on a steep slope over the water‚ almost as if it is floating amongst the trees. As Meier stated about the house‚ “So steep is the slope to the water that the house appears to have been dropped into the site‚ a machine-crafted object that has landed in a natural world. The dramatic dialogue between the whiteness of the house and the primary blues and
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The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorn portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place described by Hawthorne as "a hollow basin‚ almost mathematically circular‚ two or three hundred feet in breadth‚...the resort of the Power of Evil and
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Stereotypical women who flees to escape come back drenched in sorrow and remorse. The old lady in the story displays the foolishness of evading just to regret afterwards. She assumed that she would be happy even after she left her husband‚ daughter‚ and her parents. What was priceless seemed like a burden that only suppressed her. After the lady evades‚ she suffers in such grievance that leads her to the witch and eventually‚ death. This repertory appears commonly in famous movies and dramas; her
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Themes of the Hollow of the three Hills: -main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. -trying to run from it will only make the problem follow. -character as someone who is a plighted subject who had such a secret that she had to be where "no mortal could observe them. -She wanted this witch to help her see and hear what was happening with her loved ones; but she only had one hour to do so and after this one hour she would die Hawthorne did not come out and said
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House of Terror Last night I had a horrible nightmare‚ in which I was locked up in a house of terror. When I tried to find my way out‚ I found that the house was so big that I kept walking in the same place three times! Walking alone in the long corridor‚ winds were blowing from the windows‚ it made me tremble. It was so dark that I couldn’t see the end of the corridor. I walked slowly in the corridor and heard some walking sound behind me‚ after checking for a thousand times‚ I couldn’t saw
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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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