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door that enters into the dining room. The interior of the house was laid out to be an open-floor plan with high-interior ceilings. Inside of the home, the staircase is the first thing to come into view then to left is where the living room and fireplace is located and then pans out to the right where the dining room is located. Also, on the first floor, there is a kitchen that had a Black Dutch oven and a barn sink that looked out to the backyard. There are no doors, all of the rooms are…

Homesteading: Do You Know What It Really Means Today The various Homestead acts, yes there were more than one, essentially gave an individual, called an applicant, ownership of land, with stipulations attached, without paying cash for it in the United States. The first act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. A person was given a grant for 160 acres or 65 hectares, which was considered a one quarter section. People from all walks of life applied for the grants, and this…

One of the most shocking aspects of life and etiquette in Elizabethan England is hygiene. Can you imagine living in a world without running water or plumbing? Where bathing was rare and toilets were nonexistent? A world without toothbrushes? These are all things that the people who lived during Shakespeare's lifetime had to deal with. Hygiene has come a long way since 1600. In Elizabethan England, hygiene depended on your social class. You got what you could afford. When considering hygiene in…

When first enrolling in this Buddhism course, my main objective was to further my ever growing interest in world religions. Although it is every student’s dream to fully engage themselves in the subject they are learning by actually experiencing it, I never thought I would have this opportunity with Buddhism; this was before I was introduced to the possibility of participating in the Zen Center Assignment. I had very little expectations coming into the assignment. At the time we had submitted…

The one day in my life I would choose to re-live if I could would be one that occurred a couple of years back. My father, mother, along with myself took a Wild Africa Trek safari at the Animal Kingdom Lodge where we stayed at one of the Walt Disney World Resorts. What an invigorating experience. I can not wait to go back and experience it all over again. The Animal Kingdom Lodge is set on four lush savannas’ that is home to some thirty species of wildlife that includes Zebras,…

On November 27th, 2008, I was ecstatic and ready to have the best day ever. But little did I know, that what was about to happen would change my point of view on friends and honesty forever. When I depended on some kids I had just met, I was introduced to the hateful world of trust, lying, getting busy, and time. It was 7:00 am sharp and everyone was still asleep, quiet as a mouse. That is, everyone except me. How could I be asleep for a day like this? My birthday only comes once a year and now…

Love exists in every culture but differs in practice, function and need. Culture plays a dominant role in the way love and marriage are celebrated and conceptualized. Collective and individualistic culture influences how marriage is experienced. In India marriages are highly inclusive because of collective values, while in the United States they are exclusive because of the focus on the needs of the individual. Although the concept of eternal love and happiness is universal the manner in which…

other. When Harker first arrived in Transylvania Dracula was certainly weird, you could tell he was trying to be as normal as possible and trying to be kind with hospitality. “I found my supper already laid out. My host, who stood on one side of the fireplace, leaning against the stonework, made a graceful wave of his hand to the table.” (Dracula. 25) Towards the end when they were on to Dracula he was desperate. He tried to flee back to Transylvania with what he had left. He kind of played the…

to create a certain mood at particular times during the film. To create the feel of unease and tenseness during the death scene of Frankenstein’s monster they play an orchestral piece of music that sounds haunting. When the monster burns in the fireplace they use a mix of screeching string instruments and actual screams of the monster that makes the viewer feel uncomfortable as they watch. Lighting also played a big roll on the dramatic scenes in the film. Shadows were created in scenes to make…

Janie Bolitho was an American author made famous for her detective crime mystery series. She also wrote under the alias Jodie Sinclair for a variety of freestanding novels. Just like many other authors, Bolitho fits the cliché of following the clichéd working life before and during their writing career. Just like many fellow published writers, earning a living was never a separate pursuit from her writing as she drew a lot of her stories from her previous working experiences. Before becoming a…