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    authority in her parents. For instance, Rex and Rose Mary insist on keeping the doors and windows open for airflow persistently. Until one night a perverted man comes into the house attempting to touch Jeannette in her sleep. Confronting her parents, Jeannette suggests they shut the doors at night but her parents won’t consider it. Jeannette justifies saying, “We needed fresh air, they said, and it was essential that we refuse to surrender to fear … so the windows stayed open.”(103). This…

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    St. Denis is a gothic church, and is often cited as the first church with a gothic style. It is classified as gothic because of its inclusion of flying buttresses and stained glass windows, a frontal facade with three sections, three portals with decorated archivolts, and a rose window. It also has an interior with ribbed ceilings, pointed arches, stained glass, and a sense of light and airiness. 4. Today, St. Denis matches its environment only somewhat well. Just as the church’s…

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    and the choir vaults are even higher measuring in at 157 feet high. The cathedral made full use of the flying buttresses and had the majority bulky stone walls eliminated. In their place are many intricately placed stained glass windows, including an even larger rose window on the west end. A new notable feature that was added at a later point is the central tower over the crossing, which was absent in the Chartres cathedral and Saint Denis. By simply observing the two west towers, you can…

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    to be welcoming and include everyone, a universal religion. There are many features of the Cathedral that are relevant to the church’s history and have meaning for us today. On the interior of the Cathedral, the large and beautiful stained glass window is extremely symbolic and has a deeper…

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    She sits in the darkness of the room, hands tracing the wilted roses in front of her. A sense of longing arouses inside Lilith as she feels the remnants of the velvety crimson and ghostly white petals and the thorns brush underneath her fingers. The moon outside paints a silvery strip of light in the room, creating flickering shadows on the wall. Lilith looks around the room, eyes taking in every inch of the cramped room. A window sits opposite the table, allowing the moonlight to reflect off…

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    with her parents. Rex and Rose Mary were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models, made selfish acts and failed to be concerned about their children’s safety. Rex and Rose Mary Walls were unfit parents because they were inadequate role models. Jeannette’s parents were giving the wrong examples like using inappropriate language and setting bad examples. Rex and Rose Mary had a dispute that caused Rose to get out of the car: “Dad stuck his head out of the window as he drove,…

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    It was September 11, 2002, a night Melinda and Richard had looked forward to since freshman year. Richard was turning 16 years old today, had passed his driver’s test and was driving his sweet Melinda to homecoming - music blaring, windows down and all dressed up. That was until an enormous, orange pickup truck told them other wise. Melinda was buckled in the passenger seat. All Melinda remembers is seeing a blur of orange run through the stop sign and come full speed ahead at the driver’s…

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    with her. Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does. She is very selfish. For example, on her account of her roses, she said she never gave any of her roses to anyone. Not even any of the tourists that asked nicely. She said they belonged on her street, Pleasant Street. She also said she was disgusted to think of her roses anywhere else. Also in the story, Miss Strangeworth felt that there should’ve been a statue of her grandfather and not of Ethan Allen even…

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    The delivery of a righteous and just verdict is depicted in Reginald Rose 's naturalistic play, Twelve Angry Men. On the surface, the use of rationality and morality is demonstrated to create an honest deliberation of justice. However, despite this depiction of the American jury system, Rose raises an awareness of the questionable integrity and efficacy of the jurors and the jury system. On a deeper aspect, Rose underscores human subjectivity as the main inhibitor to a righteous judgment, whilst…

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    Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose, an 18-year-old is on trial for the murder of his farther. After many pieces of evidence were presented, the three that are weak include the one of a kind knife that the boy had used to kill the father, the saying “I’m going to kill you!” and the woman that seen the scene of the killing without her glasses. One piece of evidence that proves the boy’s innocence is the unique knife. The knife was a switchblade that the boy said he got before the crime scene at…

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