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Home Front Light
647 wordsDarkness has fallen across the land. The harvest moon struggles to show itself through thick, dark, shadowy clouds. A lazy breeze brings waves of goosebumps to the surface of my exposed flesh. Each time I hear the whisperings of the wind through the decaying tops of the trees, an involuntary shudder courses through my tensed, overstressed body. I can hear the screams and cries of the frightened, their discordance swelling and ebbing like the tide. I walk on, shoulders bent forward, eyes darting ...
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Tha Block Is Hot
1,257 wordsholly grove 17 tha hood where i was raised in dey be bustin heads hoe runnin dublin feds hoe rocks under they tongues hoe ki's under dey beds hoe good for tha real soldiers 24 - 7 hustlers (ehh) untill we shove a barrel down yo pipe sucker ain't no love for no buster no fear for no coward no respect for no slut aint no money without power we deep and make it hotter (blue) dats sick and sour pile up in the eddie bauer and (pouch) every hour some of em like that powder pile it up on trains? , dey ...
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Proper Eye Protection Wearing Proper Eye Injuries
1,548 wordsDue you want to see me take my eye out? I can and you can too! That is if you dont use proper eyewear when doing various activities that may be hazardous to your eyes. I would like to take the time today to explain to all of you why it is important to wear the right kind of eye protection when, lets say, working with tools. I am also going to try and persuade you to use proper eyewear and I am going to do this with some facts, a little data, and a short story. Do you play sports, such as tennis ...
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Jem And Scout Kill A Mockingbird
4,365 wordsChapter 1: To Kill a Mockingbird begins, "When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewell's started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out" (9). Only after one fin...
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God Or Goddess 8 Th Century
1,619 wordsGreek architecture begins with the simple houses of the Dark Age and culminates in the monumental temples of the Classical period and the elaborately planned cities and sanctuaries of the Hellenistic period. As in any time or place, the raw materials available and the technologies developed to utilize them largely determined the nature of the architecture. The principal materials of Greek architecture were wood, used for supports and roof beams; unbaked brick, used for walls, especially of priva...
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5 Th Century North And South
1,653 words... regions of this early temple are significant. With 6 columns across the front and back and 16 on each side (counting the corner columns twice), the temple has a ratio of length to width of nearly three to one. As time passed, Greek architects felt these proportions were too elongated. They progressively reduced the temples length relative to its width, until by the mid- 5 th century the ratio was slightly more than two to one. The Parthenon in Athens (447 - 432 BC), for example, has 17 colum...
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Flowers And The Garden Grandpa Backyard Life
989 wordsMy grandpa's house may seem like just another house, but it actually explains an entire existence. It has every component of a typical house, but there is something about his that makes me think of life and how brief it really is. There are the flowers and the garden in the backyard that have characteristics of one's childhood and the development process. His house has the look of defeat, telling me that life will soon be over, and its time is up. Finally, near the backyard there is a garage whe...
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Greek And Roman Architecture
1,032 words... ple did not meet in the temples to worship, as if it were a church. And last, that all gods demanded they be satisfied by sacrifice, and so sacrifices were made at the temples. For this there was a great altar outside the east porch of every temple. Some temples only had a porch for the altar and a hall leading to it, while others were much complicated. The Parthenon is one temple that is very famous and beautiful, but also very basic in its construction. Built between 447 and 438 BC, it was...
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The Lady Her Porch And Chair
542 wordsOnce there lived an old lady named Clair Higgins. Every summer day she would sit out on her porch in her rocking chair drinking lemonade and reading a book. She looked like a nice person, but rumor had it that she was a mean old lady. Some people say that she killed her husband, others say that her husband ran away from her. It was so hard to believe though. Clair didn't look anything like a mean person. She looked so gentle and kind. She hair fair skin and rosy cheeks. Her hair was a shinny sil...
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Home Front Light
648 wordsDarkness has fallen across the land. The harvest moon struggles to show itself through thick, dark, shadowy clouds. A lazy breeze brings waves of goosebumps to the surface of my exposed flesh. Each time I hear the whisperings of the wind through the decaying tops of the trees, an involuntary shudder courses through my tensed, overstressed body. I can hear the screams and cries of the frightened, their discordance swelling and ebbing like the tide. I walk on, shoulders bent forward, eyes darting ...
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Didn T Wasn T
1,570 wordsDue you want to see me take my eye out? I can and you can too! That is if you don? t use proper eyewear when doing various activities that may be hazardous to your eyes. I would like to take the time today to explain to all of you why it is important to wear the right kind of eye protection when, let? s say, working with tools. I am also going to try and persuade you to use proper eyewear and I am going to do this with some facts, a little data, and a short story. Do you play sports, such as ten...
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Hustlers Ehh Untill Dey Jaws Umm Uhhh Tha
1,385 wordsStraight off tha block hoe Vest in my hand trusting no man Got my glock cocked Running in sand you understand It be steaming blazing i swear boy its crazy holly grove 17 tha hood where i was raised in dey be bustin heads hoe runnin dublin feds hoe rocks under they tongues hoe kis under dey beds hoe good for tha real soldiers 24 - 7 hustlers (ehh) untill we shove a barrel down yo pipe sucker aint no love for no buster no fear for no coward no respect for no slut aint no money without power we dee...
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Ticking Clocks Master Bedroom House
912 wordsWhile walking down the driveway of my grandfather s house one can see the one story ranch with out bushes or trees to block ones view. The long drive way leads to the garage, which is on the far right of the house. A path separates from the driveway and leads to the left to the front porch. This path passes along old knee high bushes that surrounds the porch. The bushes only have a small gap in them to let the path go up to the porch in alignment with the front door. The several chairs on the po...
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Native American Culture House
3,055 wordsIn Linda Hogan? s 1998 novel Power, much is learned about Native American culture. The main characters, Omishto and Ama help reveal this culture. The novel is divided into nine chapters. In Chapter 1, ? Omishto, ? a girl is in a boat that is floating on a pond. She notices that there is a storm coming in. She describes the pond and the area around it. A snake tries to enter the girl? s boat, but she pushes it out with a pole, and then she moves the boat to land. As she does this, she feels somet...
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Men And Women Wedding Ceremony
2,270 wordsThe Konyak Nagas The Konyak Nagas, Indian tribes living in the northeast frontier of India are an interesting culture to research. They were considered in the 1930 s as a culture still daily living as they did in ancient days yet by 1947 the government of India took effective steps to bring them under its administrative control. The tribes are separated into several villages such as the Santa, Chang, Karl Kenya, Angami, Konyak and the Wakching Nagas. The villages differed in language, political ...
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Miss Glory Maya Angelou
1,946 words/Maya Maya Angelou Finishing School /Maya Angelou/ Maya Angelou (b. 1928) has had careers as dancer, poet, television writer and producer, ac-tress, and writer. She has served as coordinator of the Martin Luther King Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her books include I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), from which this selection is taken, and a memoir, The Heart of a Woman (1981). The irony of the title is immediately apparent to the reader of this graphic portrait of Angelou's racis...
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Back And Forth Alice
1,154 wordsI remember when I was young, about seven or eight years old, how I use to go outside in the summer and play with my stuffed animals and imaginary friends from early morning to the break of dusk. I was quite a rambunctious kid with a huge imagination. My next-door neighbor Alice, would watch and observe as I played in my backyard, then she? d laugh and go back to tending her lovely vegetable garden. Alice and my mom both had vegetable gardens and would exchange different kinds of veggies through ...
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1,228 wordsAndrew Moss (The buy-buy is a great louse that sucks. Repeat. Start. Repeat. Start. ) Ruth Stones career has been recently celebrated in a volume of essays edited by Wendy Barker and Sandra M. Gilbert. The volume, excerpted on MAPS, lauds her poetry via reader response, feminist politics, and the unwinding of the tragic and comic entwined in her poems. Without too much more (deserved, I say) unrestrained appreciation, Id like to look at the ways From the Arboretum is worth repeating, and at the ...
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