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    This year, Latin was hard, and for a student, hard often means that they did not like the class. My experience could not be further from this common belief. I absolutely loved my time in Advanced Latin II, and it made me enjoy Latin for the first time since seventh grade. Eighth grade Latin was bad. We have certainly alluded to it in class, but we have never truly expressed the terribleness of 2015-2016 Latin I and Ib. Mr. Moore, in 7th grade, was fantastic, but I learned the Latin Ib material…

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    Golden Goblet Analysis

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    important part of Golden Goblet is when Ranofer found the goblet , because it led him to answer many questions to prove him right, led to zau finding out by them running up to him telling him that someone found a goblet, and it led him to going to the courtyard gate. When Ranofer found the golden goblet it led him to having to answer many questions. It states ‘’ I’am going to ask you a question ‘’, where is the Goblet now’’.This shows that she was trying to find out if he did find…

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    Poosadas: A Short Story

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    Christmas in that town was fun, we would have multiple posadas at different friends houses. Posadas are parties done in December in which there is singing and breaking piñatas, and dinner is eaten. One particular December we went to three different posadas, one was with our neighborhood where all the people and kids gathered around the street and we all played and broke the piñata, the kids going crazy when it broke, the sound of falling coins and scrambling kids ringing in the chilly night air.…

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    Chilean Architecture

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    The region in which the courtyards were established is in Los Lirios, Rancagua, Chile in 2006. This house, that appears to be a single structure making it look like two houses, serves to assimilate its design to the houses of tenant farmers in countryside of Chile. Since tenant farmers are quite common in Chile, Radic decided to familiarize the concept of his design to theirs. One can view this in the standing walnut trees that are left untouched and on the outside, which it is being blocked by…

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    Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story, which was published in 1968, tells of the appearance of an angel in a couple’s courtyard. This story shows that there can be good and evil as well as not judging a book by its’ cover. Marquez shows that the appearance of the angel is not what many think of when thinking of angels. Many have the picture in their mind that angels are beautiful, white and feathery creatures. The angel in this story is anything but the images of angels that we typically see. This…

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    out and the insiders in4. This defines the space as a realm of the city. There is no questioning the dimensions of the Forbidden City because this wall does that job. There are also other, more porous boundaries inside the city, splitting up the courtyards and separating space. You can see from Figure 1 provided above how the city is split up into sections. The boundaries that achieved this on the inside were much less imposing than the outer wall. The inside of the palace achieved its grandeur…

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    - As the third largest international, multi-sport games, the Pan Am Games are already creating ripples of excitement in Toronto, its 2015 host city. But with select events happening in the Courtyard Niagara Falls' own backyard, fans of everything from kayaking to rowing can book a stay at this preeminent family hotel in Niagara Falls to find out who will take home the gold. The more than 6,000 athletes competing in the 2015 Pan Am Games from July 10 to 26 will represent 41 countries and…

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    Trajan's Forum Analysis

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    guide said represented their integration into the Roman Empire. While that is probably true, they also appeared to demonstrate the subjugation of the Dacians to the Roman military. On the northwest side there are two openings that lead to the courtyard where the Column of Trajan is…

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    As I am walking alongside the tall, thick, tan wall, I wonder how much history is stored inside. Two steps past the second entrance door and I am standing in the historical landmark, Mission San Juan Capistrano. Before me is the long courtyard rooms that create the perimeter of the mission, a small garden in the entrance with multiple trails, a beautiful, tall, octagonal fountain filled with green lily pads and white blossomed flowers, and to the left, standing high is what looks like a…

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    The Spanish Alhambra

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    beyond even for the 14th century. With the 12 lions representing totality of time and perpetuity, 12 verses of poems that are carved in the Arabic language that acclaim the complexities of its hydraulic system. In the Courtyard, the marble pillars of the colonnades that frame the courtyard are especially remarkable. The balanced, cube-shaped columns, with their edgings ornamented with engravings praising the draughtsman warrant particular attentiveness. The buildings architecture portrays more…

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