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acknowledgement of another person. The house was almost finished. Nyx had spent all day setting up the wooden slats over the windows. “Don will be so pleased when he sees this,” she said to herself in almost a giggle. The house was almost a castle, it was so detailed. She dedicated every portion of the house to things Don likes; the color green, black lilies, symmetrical alignment. Everything in the house was perfect except for one small corner in the far reaches of the house, which had…

The stories in this chapter are typical of the times and vividly portray the gradual, disarming, and even confusing nature of the transformation that took place shortly after the war as the Valley began to shed its agricultural roots. I was born in San Jose in 1947 (a third generation native), and started working on my grandfather’s ranch of apricots, prunes, and walnuts at the age of eight. Like the other younger children, I starting out picking up "ground fruit" from under the trees. I…

from Austria, and Johnny’s family emigrate from Ireland to escape the devastation of the potato famine. As a result, Francie is born into a world where her family does not have enough money to even buy essential goods. When they have no food in the house, Katie plays a game called “North Pole” with Francie and Neeley, pretending they are trying to reach the North Pole and are awaiting provisions (Smith 246). Francie lives in a household where simple things like coffee or fresh bread are…

The New Chapter “I quit my job”. These are the exact words my dad told me. You would think he would put some cushion around that, but no that's not really how my family works. Most kids that were my age wouldn’t really think anything of those words. I was a little different. I knew what was going to happen as soon as he said that. There is only one of my dad’s jobs in every state and I knew he wanted to work in that profession for a long time. So this would most likely mean… we’re moving. Let’s…

sneaks out at night just To go to a party while bri sits down and reads books . Bri use to be the adventurous one but she changed since their parents passed away from a car crash .The sisters planned to go and grab stuff for the house just to get Bri out of the house ,on their way they so many people dancing and playing songs on the sidewalk. The girls absolutely loved it there but bri didn't seem to join in the fun with her two sisters. Nikki quickly notices that there…

The twentieth century was the century of urban revolution. The population of many cities has been growing exponentially, and cities are urbanising rapidly. Hence, many cities like Singapore, New York, and Tokyo are facing the issue of scarcity of land. One might say that many countries have abundant land in the form of forests and farms, which can be transformed into an urban land someday, but land is not created equal. Singapore and Hong Kong are of the most densely populated cities in the…

The Big Move After what felt like a lifetime of planning, our family was finally making the big move from New York to Texas. The house we lived in was my childhood home and my husband and I shared it for fifteen years together. This was not going to be an easy task. Our first hurdle was preparing for this huge adventure. Secondly, we needed to drive both cars down. That meant that we would not have the other person to take over driving when our eyelids became as heavy as weights over our…

always go to relax and get the stress of my mind, and that would be my humble abode, my home. Because I walked to school on a regular basis, I always knew where to go, even during the renovations. I mean, I could never miss the area, a light blue house right across the street from a Kraft factory. The front yard had a very large pine tree in the front yard, the bottom half full of life and the top bared to nothing but twigs and death. The front porch was white…

This selection was written to describe the conditions of tenement houses, overcrowded slums that filled New York City during the late 1900’s. The first sentence of this selection states, “The first tenement New York knew bore the mark of Cain from its birth, though a generation passed before the writing was deciphered.” The author means that tenement houses were “cursed,” or were terrible creations from the very beginning, but this was ignored and not tended to…

So I work for my dad in a family business we deal with pinball machines, slot machines, and restored arcade games such as Pac man. So on a day over the summer, I was hanging out with my friend Tyler fixing our cars and such. We went inside covered in grease when my dad came and talked to us about how he just received a call from a lady in Dayton. And that she had a broken Pac man machine that she wanted to get rid of. She said it had been damaged, but was still intact. This was a good deal for…