From a Basement on the Hill Essays

  • Personal Narrative Fiction

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    Everyone in the town knew who I was but not for good reasons. I believed most of the stuff I did was for the betterment of this world. I always had hated Orchard Hills, our gated community, so when one day “mysteriously” the owner of the gated community told us we must leave, after I egged his whole house, everyone in my family had a clue as to who had done this. When I woke up the next morning I got ready in a hurry. I grabbed the only pair of shorts and shirt I hadn't packed the night before and

  • Become A Lawyer

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    a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over. ― Gloria Naylor. The Linden Hill's Community is obligated by their address, but all citizens of the Hills are really only obligated to themselves.  Throughout the novel, you meet characters with intentions of mastering the art of self. Timing is everything in the hills; a time to plot, a time to scheme, and a time to kill is the perfect way to let go and "allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny."(Naylor).  Most characters

  • Pentothal And Sulph Character Analysis

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    NON SMOKER ALLERGIES : Pentothal and Sulpha Mrs. Frances Cavallo will celebrate her 83 birthday in September of 2016. She lives in her home in Greensburg, PA. She was married to husband, Tony who passed away in November of 2015. Mrs. Cavallo comes from a big family and herself has 4 children; 3 sons, Tom, Tony and Mike, and daughter, Patty. Mrs. Cavallo in past years loved to go camping and now enjoys watching movies and dramas on TV and loves to shop and visit with family. Her daughter, Patty

  • One Tree Hill Relationships

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    Throughout the former nine seasoned television series One Tree Hill, creator and director, Mark Schwahn emphasizes the importance of diverse relationships. Schwahn thoroughly expresses different relationships among main characters. One Tree Hill shows the importance of friendship, brotherhood, and romantic relationships. The strongest friendship is between Brooke Davis and Peyton Sawyer. Brooke and Peyton have been friends since elementary school and stayed friends throughout adulthood. During

  • Comparison And Palladianism: Thomas Jefferson And Benjamin Henry Latrobe

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    in Western history, it worked as inspiration as well as an architectural ideal. Furthermore, Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, played a large role in introducing neoclassicism as a style for federal buildings. Jefferson, apart from being president and an American Founding Father, was also an amateur architect. His early designs of the 1770s are clearly influenced by neoclassical ideals, namely the ones based on the ideas of the Italian Renaissance architect Andreo Palladio. In

  • This Old House on Sycamore Hill

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    At the top of Sycamore Hill, where the once neatly trimmed grass had become wild foliage, was an old house. Old houses are often perceived as if not retaining the spirits of its previous tenants they are at least thought to have retained their owner’s history. This house was no exception. Like most old houses set atop old hills, weather had taken its toll. The bricks were worn and faded from their red, pink, black shades. The softened wooden door looked as if one more heavy night of rain could take

  • Fear in Cellar Stairs

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    foreboding, a sense of fear. Will I make it back upstairs one more time? This poem exists on two very different levels. On one hand, the speaker is a child, sent to the dark, scary basement for a bag of frozen vegetables. But on the other, more sinister side, the very obvious correlations between the dark basement and Hell are directly meant to terrorize and intimidate the reader. It is not easy, these days, to be scared. This poem does an admirable job of making itself engaging and frightening

  • First Impressions May Be Deceiving

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    Michael Jordan For many years now, people have been fool by appearances. Someone may look at the exterior of an object and expect one thing when actually the exact opposite is waiting inside for them. For example, an unexpecting person picks off a grape from the bunch and bites into the fruit while dreaming of a mouthful of juicy, sweet grape but in reality receives a surprisingly bitter splash with the first bite. Or when a person first looks at a power vision 3-D picture they only see mass chaos until

  • Jeff Reddy's Aggressive Behavior

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    Late one night just as the sun began to set behind the distant hills a piercing scream was heard in the distance. Could this be the return of the psycho man that disappeared ten years ago that went around and knocked on children’s windows and would scream until he made them cry many years ago? The man’s name was Jeff Reddy , he was supposed to be shipped off to a mental asylum. When he was a child he was dropped on his head and his parents and siblings were mean to him. The psycho man did not graduate

  • Olyphant Central School

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    The place got its name because of a small dip in the topography, and a tiger had escaped from a circus that was held there. The tiger was never captured. This new four-room school was also designed by Lewis Hancock, Jr. It was built by Dickson City Lumber for $14,000. It opened on March 1, 1911, and was called the Roosevelt School. The

  • seneca village

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    male, bought three lots of land from the Whiteheads in 1825. In addition, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church purchased six lots of land, which began the birth of the community. The Whiteheads eventually sold off their land between 82nd to 86th Streets. The majority of the buyers were African Americans. This became the first community for property-owning African Americans . The Seneca Village community started small but grew when it combined with York Hill, a neighboring African-American

  • Tornado Descriptive Writing

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    Since our school didn’t have a basement or an interior building, we are supposed to evacuate through the back of the building, or whatever direction the tornado is not going. Already running towards the exit, the tornado sirens starts to blare, and we feel a strong gust of wind blow our

  • How to Babysit Four Kids

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    hear Meghan screaming. Tim is mercilessly teasing her by hiding her teddy bear.  Pat is hollering from the basement at Tim; and the phone is ringing.  The ringing stops, which means Maura got it. When Meghan hears me enter she runs crying "Tim's teasing me and I'm hungry."  I ask the kids, "Why didn't you feed her?"  Tim responds, "she didn't say she was hungry."  Pat runs up from the basement and reminds me I have to take him to guitar practice now or he'll be late. Maura bounces down the

  • My Adventure in Greece

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    My Adventure in Greece I topped the hill, and looked back down the narrow, winding street, winded. My grandparents were still straggling up. I told my uncle that we should wait for them, and he agreed, reluctantly. He was used to the steep slopes and uneven sidewalks of the Athenian back streets, and didn't quite realize that visitors found them more than a little challenging -- especially after exploring the Acropolis most of the day. I should have been tired; I'd been climbing all day,

  • Architecture and Design: Antonio Gaudi and Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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    Gaudi. [1] Antonio Gaudi was a Catalan architect, with a distinctive style that is branded through the means of freedom of form, through voluptuous colour, texture and organic harmony. Gaudí’s elegance of architecture went from end to end in a number of phases. On development from the Provincial School of Architecture in Barcelona in 1878, he experienced a rather elaborate Victorianism that had been unmistakeable in his school projects. He quickly developed a manner of composing by means of extraordinary

  • Creative Writing: My First Vietnam War

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    They came in late August. The sun was just barely sinking behind the tops of the low mountains, the sky growing dark, the sounds of crickets audible from within the tall grass that covered dry dirt. I could hear the sounds of distant conversation and smell the sharp aroma of smoked meats from the people who had come back from the cassava fields early. They drove in military vans the color of dust. I saw them coming. I heard their growl and smelled the tang of gasoline. It intermingled with the dense

  • Dermatology and Acne Vulgaris

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    Bobick (2008) also state that, “Skin is a tissue membrane which consists of layers of epithelial and connective tissues” (p.42). Epidermis is the outer layer of the skins epithelial tissue and dermis is the inner layer of the connective tissue and a basement membrane separates the two layers. The appendages of the skin include sebaceous glands, sudoriferous glands, hair, and nails (Dr. Grass, 2013). Balaban and Bobick (2008) state that, “Scientists estimate there are between 50 and 100 trillion cells

  • Impulsive Decisions: A Study of Relationships in Wharton's Novel

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    she found the letter to Zeena and Ethan finally tells her his intentions. Throughout the talking they come across some children sledding. On an earlier occasion they said they wanted to sled together so they did. They went down the hill once, but on the return up the hill they both started to panic realizing this will be their last moments together. In the frantic state Mattie proposes a suicidal idea. She wants to die together by riding the sled together into a tree. Ethan without question or thinking

  • Comparison Between Jamie Ford's Hotel On The Corner Of Bitter And Sweet

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    and Sweet, which is the reason for the ingenious creation of the Bitter and Sweet Tour at the Wing Luke Museum. This tour, might I add, takes tourists to many of the famous places from the novel. Well-known scenes and major events take place in Chinatown and Japantown, being that the two main characters each descend from one of these cultures. Henry Lee, a young Chinese boy; and Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese girl, go through conflicts together and internally because of their heritage alone. The Bitter

  • Analysis Of Andrew Moody's The Mansion On The Hill

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    This essay observes the trauma of Andrew Wakefield in Rick Moody 's “The Mansion on the Hill”, a short story based on the accidental death of the narrator 's sister. The breathtaking story was the groundbreaker in Rick Moody’s novel “Demonology: Stories” published on April 10th, 2002. Moody’s point-of-view, tone of words, and character narration shines a headlight on Andrew Wakefield traumatic actuality of no longer being able to communicate with his beloved sister about the skirmish of romance and