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    hipped standing seam metal roof and a porch. The foundation is made of concrete block. The pillars of the porch are brick along with the two chimneys’, one located in the front right and one on the back left of the home. The walls are finished with clapboard board siding. The four-pane two-story bay window on the left front of the dwelling is board and batten with a hood that projects out and wraps around the bay window. The door is off set to the right covered by the porch, which is supported by square

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    he had them. I labor the earth from dawn of day to blink of night, and I tell you true, when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows - it hurt my prayer, sir, it hurt my prayer. I think, sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meetin ' houses." (pg. 65) This quote shows that Parris only cares about his image. He wants

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    Reggae music was a big part of Jamaican culture. Many artists practiced the style of reggae and some of the artists like Bob Marley influenced and showed people internationally all about this music. It originated around the time that Jamaica was being attacked by European countries like Spain and native people being taken into slavery. Bob Marley was born after the time of slave trading but whites still effected the native people and this is how he got his inspiration for his music. a) The music

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    Alaska. A freezing cold place of wilderness, a place not many travel to, but most of all a place that Chris McCandless held dear to heart. Chris McCandless is a young man who took a daring adventure to Alaska after finding out some news about his birth. But before taking this journey Chris graduated from college, stopped talking to his parents, and donated all of his money to charity and then decided to go to Alaska. Nobody knew Chris was going on this adventure, so when he was found deceased in

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    Solomon Northup was a free African American man from Minerva, New York. In the novel Twelve Years a Salve, Northup composed a tale about his life as a free man, and also his life as a slave. Slavery is not an engaging circumstance to be put through. This drastic change in Northup life had to be an emotional and challenging entity for him to stomach through. Northup was drugged and sold into slavery by two Caucasian men that tricked him by saying they would pay him good money to play in a traveling

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    Yet—something was missing, and it called to her each night in a dream, sending a message to come home. Placing the journal on her lap, she untied the knotted hemp and opened the cover. Bound to the first page was a black-and-white photo of a two story clapboard cottage. The weather-beaten house sat on stilts and showed what lay beneath it. On one side of the house a large oak tree stood. The Spanish moss hanging from its branches appeared as long-forgotten

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    Brinker reared back arrogantly. “And who do you think I am!” But Finny hadn’t heard that. His face had broken into a wide and dazzled smile at what I had said, lighting up his whole face. “Enlist!” I drove on, “I wouldn’t enlist with you if you were Elliott Roosevelt.” “First cousin,” said Brinker over his chin, “once removed.” “He wouldn’t enlist with you,” Finny plunged in, “if you were Madame Chiang Kai-shek.” “Well,” I qualified in an undertone, “he really is Madame Chiang Kai-shek.” “Well fan

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    he had them. I labor the earth from dawn of day to blink of night, and I tell you true, when I look to heaven and see my money glaring at his elbows - it hurt my prayer, sir it hurt my prayer. I think sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meeting houses" (65). Proctor continues to explain his absences by denouncing Parris' godliness when he Sullivan 3 says that he was unable to have his last born baptized because he could “... see no light of God..." (65), in the minister. Satisfied

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    Architecture Book a. Tepee: forms a cone shape; and the straight edges, where the smoke flaps are sewed, overlap and are held together with wooden pins. Most windows are cut out in teepees along with the entry ways. Tipis were used mainly by Plains Indians, such as the Lipan Apache, Comanche and Kiowa, after the Spanish introduced horses into North America about 500 years ago. b. Pueblos: apartment-like structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local material. These structures were usually

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    Her house was built in 1820 only one year after Alabama became the 22nd State of the Union, Ivy Green is a simple, white clapboard home design in typical Southern architecture. The main house is of Virginia cottage construction, with four large rooms on the first floor bisected by a wide hall. Each room boasts an individual fireplace. Upstairs are three rooms connected by a

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