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    The people whom we want to be are often not the people we are. In fact, we are molded by so many things in the society around us that our true nature gets lost early on. As people, events, and objects influence and change us, we often drift far from the actual person we are. In times of conflict when we lose so many of these objects we thought had molded us; that is when we discover who we truly are. In All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr proves that in times of conflict, the true…

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    The lives of the Trueba family members are tumultuous ones. The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende stretches through over seventy years of time in Chile, providing the political and socio-economic backdrop to the continually fluctuating perspectives of the characters. The first half of the novel sets-up the characters and provide juxtaposition to the second half. Beginning in roughly 1900-1910, the stagnation of life, especially for the wealthy is evident. The dominant political party…

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    lose their grip on reality and in their insanity meld their mental illnesses to the environment around them. Within the world of horror novels such a break from reality could certainly be hastened by a malevolent antagonist. In The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson the protagonist, Eleanor, begins to form an attachment to the haunted mansion in the wake of her mother’s death. Between her mother that required constant care and her less that compassionate sister Eleanor is left less than…

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    you realize that both political parties are at the table with a formal setting (suits, wine, napkins tucked in shirt collar, ect). The Republican elephant (left) is holding a menu with new candidates that have little to no experience in the white house. While the Democratic donkey (right) is thinking “leftovers…” as it holds a fork and knife while looking at an old and wrinkly Hillary Clinton that is curled in a ball on a plate in the middle of the table. I personally think Hillary’s record…

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    arm and began to cry some more. Then he suddenly looked up and asked, “What about Grandma and Uncle Jake?” Uncle Jake, the way he said it made my stomach turn, he referred to him as uncle Jake because he simply didn’t know why he was living in the house. “We have to go away for a while, but they’ll be right here when we get back.” A little lie because god knows what grandma and Uncle Jake would do to us once they found out Rufus wasn’t coming back around. “Are you okay now?” I asked. “Yeah I…

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    fight evil. The speech reads as a piece of persuasion, dedicated to convincing both the legislative and executive branches of the United States’ government not to get comfortable in the relative peace that marked the Clinton years in the white house. Wiesel’s perspective was forged in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, and he speaks as one who has known the evil he now speaks out against.…

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    within Hill House on people for a summer. Although Eleanor’s feeling is conflicted by the death of her mother, she is extremely contented with the fact that she is freed from her imprisoned life. It is time for self-discovery. As she approaches Hill House, she excitedly imagines a different her with a different family, in which she would meet many great people and would be enjoying her simple life. Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House incorporates the idea of family into a haunted house.…

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    Introduction Housing needs vary according to family life stages or person’s perception of what they need in a house. The very first phase in finding a home is considering what type of shelter suits the household. There are factors that affect housing needs: climate, location, cost, aptness and lifestyles. Those aspects should be considered in order to satisfy the needs for a home. This paper investigates the states of mind and opinions of utilized inhabitants of the public housing…

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    is not a recent development; Americans have been apathetic to tragedies since before World War II. Elie Wiesel, a man who became a human’s rights activist after residing in Buchenwald and Auschwitz for two years at age fifteen, spoke at the White House about The Perils of Indifference during the 1999 Millennium Lecture series. His speech urges the audience to take action against injustices rather than remaining indifferent to human suffering. Wiesel takes advantage of the timing of his speech…

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    by which that person will live their life by. The concept of private and open is created, and as the world expands outside of the confines of the routines of an adolescent, the person begins to categorize what is assigned to the interior of their house and what is acceptable for external presentation. As a child grows, they discover things that are now even more limited. As sexuality develops an interior within the human develops, and private is a bodily thing, limited to the intellect and…

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