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Old Classes
1,419 wordsHurry up, Kent, you don t want to be late for your first day of school, mom called as I was eating my blueberry muffin. I picked up my muffin and bag and headed toward her voice in the hall. I sure didn t want to miss any of my first day at Hair-gee House, or Heritage House, as the adults called it. Hair-gee House was a former residence that was converted into a preschool and Kindergarten for 3, 4, and 5 year olds. The building, which seemed immense to me at the time, was white with a large porc...
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Very Old House
752 wordsEnvironmental systems analysis of 2358 Flora St I chose to analyze an old three-story row house in Clifton. It happens to be the place I am subleasing currently. Although I have not had too much time to spend in it, since I spend all of my time in studio, I have noticed some major problems in the design and implementation of the environmental systems. I will go through some of these environmental issues and how they relate or don t relate to the architecture and recommend an improvement. The Hou...
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Total Effect Of Horror
626 wordsWhat is the total effect of a story? The total effect of a story is the specific response an author expects to get from his / her readers. In " The Tell-Tale Heart,' by Edgar Allen Poe, is complete and total horror. The setting, plot, character and even point of view contribute to this total effect of horror. The setting contributes to this total effect in several different ways. All of the shudders in the house were closed, so no one could see anything from the outside in or the inside out. Thi...
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Swimming At The Pool
616 wordsDrowning is the second leading cause of injury deaths of infants and children younger than 15 years old in the United States. I know many of you may have small children and relatives so this may be of some interest to you. A personal experience happened to me when I was around seven years old. I still can remember it like yesterday. This incident almost cost me my life, I was disobedient and it still has a big effect on me now. This little act of mine caused a lot of stress to many people, I was...
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Same Time Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon Visits Hepzibah
745 wordsTHE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES The story begins as Nathaniel Hawthorne lays down the setting and describes the house of the seven-gables and the story of its creation. The house is old and overrun by moss weeds and bushes, but the greatest aspect is the gigantic tree in the front of the house that seems to grow in size as it feeds off the misery of the inhabitants and the decay of the house. The very land that the house was built on was stolen from Matthew Moule. Since Colonel Pyncheon liked the ...
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Ben And Mark
1,165 wordsSalems Lot is the story of a man who returns to his home town to face the fears of his childhood, only to find a entire new set of fears awaiting him. Bens hometown now has a new occupant, Barlow, an evil as old as time. As one by one the inhabits of Salems Lot disappear only to turn up later in the night, as something worse than dead. Ben Mears is a successful novelist who returns to Jerusalem's Lot his hometown. As a child Ben had went through a terrifying experience in the local haunted house...
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Fierce In Hepzibah's Poor Old Heart
4,779 wordsThe First Customer MISS HEPZIBAH PYNCHEON sat in the oaken elbow-chair, with her hands over her face, giving way to that heavy down-sinking of the heart which most persons have experienced, when the image of hope itself seems ponderously moulded of lead, on the eve of an enterprise at once doubtful and momentous. She was suddenly startled by the tinkling alarum-high, sharp, and irregular-of a little bell. The maiden lady arose upon her feet, as pale as a ghost at cock-crow; for she was an enslav...
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Poor Old House
526 wordsSilent Was The House Silence was my companion as I walked along the lonely, dirt road. It was a dry, hot, summer's day, I could hear my footsteps and I could see the dust rise up at my feet with each step I took. I could see that it had been a long time since anyone used this particular road. As I followed the road I discovered it led to an old abandoned house. I couldn't help but stop for a few minutes and take in the details of the massive, strange shaped house. I noticed, it had been a long t...
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Pg 398 Bene Volo Before The War
295 wordsThe war of 1914-1918 seriously changed the direction of architecture and architectural thought in various ways. There were three factors that had changed to effect this. "The material conseqeunces of the war, the psychological and moral consequences and the artistic experiments and theories which came of age during the war years". PG 398 BENE VOLO Before the war there had been serious problems about the accommodation of civilians due to the dramatic rise in population however with the destructio...
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Old Stone House
1,194 wordsIt was a dark and stormy night. (I know that sounds corny, but it really was dark and stormy!) My friend and I were walking home from the game when it started to thunder, and lightening lit up the sky around us. It started to pour, so my friend suggested that we take a shortcut home by going down Washington Street. "No way!" I said. My friend asked me if I was afraid. I was embarrassed, so I agreed to the shortcut. To this day, I wish I hadn't. You see, there were three things on that street tha...
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Old Man
280 wordsGraham Greene lived between the years 1904 and 1991. She was born just outside the city of London and lived in different places throughout the city during her life. The short story, "The Destructors", was published in 1954. Nine years after WWII, from September 1940 to May 1941, many families of London lived underground in subway stations to avoid the bombing attacks. A few boys came together to rebel against their fears by using vandalism to express their anger. The 12 boys involved in the " Wo...
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Very Domineering Person Towards Opal And Laurie
1,309 wordsMary Higgins Clark started her writing career writing suspense stories and she hasn't changed very much since then. All her books are very interesting to read and they will always keep your attention to the end. All Around the Town was one of the stories written by Mary Higgins Clark. This book was a suspenseful, interesting, intriguing book. It held my interest until the end. The plot was twisty and unpredictable which meant that I would never get bored. The story takes place in Ridgewood, New ...
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