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Two Housing Types Of The Chickasaw
285 wordsThe Chickasaw culture was very unique. They were the most feared warriors of the American Southeast, and anyone who messed with them came to regret it. The Chickasaw took on all comers, including tribes four to five times their size and never lost until they picked the wrong side in the American Civil War. Even then, this nation was the last Confederate government to surrender to Union forces. The Chickasaw have little or no memories of the platform mounds left by the earlier Mississippian mound...
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Steve's Soul
1,194 wordsLightning Never Strikes Twice A few miles off the cost of Cape Cod, sits the island of Nantucket. On this island, during the 1600's lived the Haley family. Tom Haley was the only tobacco farmer on the island and due to this fact they were extremely wealthy. Their estate was the largest on Nantucket and was located right over a beautiful cliff. Tom and his wife Janice ate breakfast every morning at 6: 00 am everyday with their son Garnet. Late Thursday night a storm was getting very close to thei...
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Two Story House In The Woods
529 wordsThe strange doctor One day I went to a new doctor who I heard had a bad reputation, among the practicing field. I went to the doctor because he was cheap, only eight dollars per visit, he had diplomas all over the walls. He did not look like a quack. I went to see him about a problem with my neck that I had had for three months. His nurses were very beautiful. They put me in a trance. As I was sitting there, I heard a strange noise. It came from the basement. Then the walls started to move. This...
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Black Man At His New House
1,207 wordsBesides providing an interesting story line, texts may portray attitudes and values connected with many aspects of the society in which they were written or represent. This is the case in the novel, Cloudstreet, in which values and attitudes of Australian life are presented in the story of two families sharing one house. The author, Tim Winton, may have directed these attitudes and values at the Australian society to provide the people involved within, an understanding of themselves and their cu...
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Double Standards Of Society
664 wordsIn both The House of Bernarda Alba, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the double standards of society are clearly illustrated through sex, marriage and everyday life. These aspects of society, both in the physical form and the very concepts expose the double standards of people. It is not only the males that contribute keeping these double standards, but almost all individuals within the society. Throughout both novels, sex shows the double standards of society. Males use their sexuality as pow...
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Jekyll Poole And Utterson
2,692 wordsDr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde Chapter 1 The story begins with a description of Mr. Utterson, a lawyer in London. Mr. Utterson is a reserved, conservative man who does not reveal his true, vibrant personality. He tolerates the strangeness and faults of other. Early in his life, he watched as his brother fell to ruin, and it is noted that he is often the last respectable person that men who are turning to evil or ruin have to talk to. This foreshadows Utterson's involvement with upcoming evil. Mr. Utters...
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Allen County Poor Farm
367 wordsThe Allen County Poor Farm The Allen County Poor farm was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1936. During the New Deal era, seven agencies were involved with public works construction projects, the WPA being one of them. The general idea behind the Works Progress Administration was to put as many people to work as possible. The Allen County Poor Farm was publicly owned and it provided a useful service to the county. The house provided a much needed improvement to the old w...
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House
298 wordsIn reading A Rose for Emily, I personally didn't not vs. are for it. I feel the tone was to nasty for me. How can you live in a house with a dead man in your house for 10 years. That is just unhealthy. Why would she subject her manservant to live in such conditions. What was going on with her and her father? Why didn't he want to let her marry, it is almost like he wanted her all to himself, and when he died she could not handle it. I also din't understand why Homer didn't want to marry Emily. W...
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Leon
1,481 wordsChris Carey 8/28/02 6th period Doing Much of Nothing With No One in Particular The night was dark and modestly stormy. I was on a holiday from school and was visiting my fathers' humble abode. While I was relaxing in front of the television watching one of my favorites called Shasta Mc Nasty, there was a strange uncomfortable sensation building up in the pit of my stomach. I was on the brink of starving, the feeling of panic started to set in. There was half a pint of milk in the fridge and a bo...
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Gang
379 wordsDream Chaser Dreams Journal #V Creative Writing Dr. Decker Fall Semester 2003 Cheryl Goodall Dream Chaser Dreams Journal # V "Faster Lightening, faster! We almost have it made!" Horse and rider were going at breakneck speed through the night. Yet the gang was inching up on him. Around the curve in the woods and down the long dirt lane to the ranch house he flew. Once at the house, he grabbed an overhang and swung himself up on the roof. There he would make his stand. He had been on the roof many...
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Knives In The Study Of The House
494 wordsJanuary 27th, 2001 -It was a cold", normal" Monday morning, 4 a.m. in Chelsea Vermont, little did this small town know that a homicide was being commited right under their noses. A friend and dinner guest of the couple had found the bodies and then notified the police shortly after leaving the scene. Suzanne and Half Zantop were both professors at Dartmouth University and were found stabbed to death in their off-campus home. Susan zantop, 55 and Half Zantop, 62 were knives in the head, and torso...
