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    The Battle at Bunker Hill

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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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    Douglas House

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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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    Hollow of the Three Hills

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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

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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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    A Tiger in the House

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    Author Ruskin BondRuskin Bond is born on 19th May 1934. He is a Indian writer and children author. Most of Ruskin Bond’s books are most influenced by the hill-station and the foothills of Himalayas where he spend his childhood. He writes about the landscape and background in clear and detailed writing. He writes also about the flora and fauna of the Himalayas. He has a assuming humor and quick wisdom.His stories are about love for nature and people. He has won a lot of awards and has loads of fans

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    Abstract This article is about Ernest Hemingway’s Hills like White Elephants. It is regarding its feministic aspect mostly about the power and assertion of Jig the female character. Since Hemingway’s texts often are ambiguous and open for interpretation i have found many different sources and likewise opinions of the text. However many of the latter texts that i found point to the assertion of Jig and that she is enigmatic. This is what interested me because in the texts of Hemingway that i have

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    Jumping Monkey Hill

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    1) The story opens with two robberies at the narrator’s house. The first one was when her family home was robbed by their neighbour‚ Osita‚ a ‘lithe and handsome’ popular young man whose father was a professor. He took the VCR‚ TV and some American videos. The second robbery was committed by the narrator’s brother Nnamabia‚ while their parents were visiting the grandparents in another town. In this he faked a robbery‚ stole the mother’s gold jeweler and after denying that it was him‚ disappeared

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    Introduction: Hook: Shékolih or hello? Are you a fragment‚ less than your name? Do you ignore the culture that inhabits you? Context: We sleep in a house of harvested wood with many of our brothers‚ sisters‚ aunts‚ and uncles. We slept in a house with dirt floors‚ a house with five fires scattered for warmth‚ and beds stacked one on top of the other all the way to the ceiling. We‚ like the speaker of Roberta Hill’s poem‚ “In the Longhouse.” fear nothing but the spider infestation living on either

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