Dark house

Sort By:
Page 50 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    I was about 13 at the time, wasting the night away over at a friends house. Me and my friend, lets call him Joe, went way back to grade school. We were quite the troublemakers in our early days, causing most teachers to separate us or the class would have to endure our smart-assery. When we were finally separated it’s almost as if the class collectively sighed of relief for they could finally get things done. As we screwed around, waiting for the light to fade before we hit the streets in search

    • 767 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    Putting these three life modes into a house/home, or affordable housing perspective, one could relate them as follows:- The first mode is self-employed where means of production are owned and included within the house.Therefore, the house serving as both living and working place, and no separation between working time and space time. The second mode is wage-earner, where the house is either regarded as a primary place serving for recreational purpose, or as

    • 866 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Today for my service learning project I headed over to Pulaski County to volunteer with the Habitat for Humanity to help build houses. The trip to Pulaski took about forty-five minutes as the I-81 was calm. Upon arriving at the work site, I took it upon myself to get acquainted with the supervisor currently present. Although, I was unable to locate the supervisor immediately, someone working at the site instructed me to fill out a wavier before I could be assigned any duties. After all that was said

    • 516 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Maggie Shi Cadra LA II H, Pd. 6 13 January 2015 Just Mine Choosing just one querencia has proven to be a difficult challenge for me, for I have rarely ventured out of the safety and comfort of the four walls I fall asleep and wake up in. This is why my querencia is not merely a physical place. It is my home unlike any other that has molded me into who I am today. It is a time, it is a memory, and it is just mine. In times of helplessness and defeat, my eyes close and I am whisked back in time to

    • 1180 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    international designs many houses were decorative thus there was the emergence of the Californian Bungalow within the 1920s. This housing structure began during the “early nineteen-twenties which became a leading fashion” (Boyd, 1962, p.70). Due to the fact that Australian designs were not as independent as it is today the Californian Bungalow was mainly influenced from the American Californian Bungalows. The bungalows in Australia was an approved style for a suburban house as a result of its simplistic

    • 316 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    On 04/02/2018, approximately 1545 hours CSW Anderson arrived at JEFFERSON COUNTY JUVENILE DETENTION CENTER IN MISSOURI and met with a male teen later identified as the child, Eyan R. Isoline who is 16-10 months old and a junior at Fox High School in Arnold, MO. Eyan claimed that he was living with his mother, Carroll Smith and his half-younger brother, Jaxx Smith in Illinois circa summer of 2017 [Eyan indicated Jaxx is autistic]. Eyan specified that he and his mother do not get along “we just argue

    • 429 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I arrived at the address and pulled into the driveway of what looked like a residence, it was a small yellow house, with a sign on the side of the building that read, “Storrs Friends Meeting House.” There were no religious symbols or elaborate stained glass windows, which are things I would ordinarily use as indicators of a place of worship. After I parked, I walked into the building and entered the front hall, through the main door, which also had a homey feel to it. I was looking at a big window

    • 1432 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    mountain in the northeastern part of Tennessee, the population remained near one thousand. Even though some of the families had lived there since before the town was settled, others who moved, were soon replaced by the next searching soul. Company houses made of wooden slabs sat either in the level part of the valley or were scattered about the hillside. Overall, the dwellings appeared unlivable, for the various sized boards had darkened over time and the dust of coal and smoke. Unappealing cracks

    • 681 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    There once was the big bad wolf and the three little pigs. The pigs all survived by running into the bricked house of the oldest pig. That was months ago and they thought the wolf was long gone. They had a new threat to their lives which was the bear named jeff. Jeff was fully grown and didn’t take no for an answer. The three little pigs have watched him destroy beehives in search of honey and terrorizing fishermen by the river. Oscar the youngest pig was picking apples one day and saw the big

    • 629 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The qualities and characteristics of Bill Wilson that were present when he was not intoxicated or preoccupied with drinking were that of an ambitious. Bill Wilson set out to make a name for himself and built an empire. Bill Wilson was a lighthearted man and loving considerate husband. Even when Bill was in the throes of his addiction, the film depicts scenes of Bills underlining love for his wife Lois and the remorse he felt for placing her in such a position. In describing what it was that enabled

    • 259 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays