Spiral staircase

fault. I caused her to bleed. I caused her pain. I hurt the love of my life again. If we stay together an incident like this is bound to reoccur. “I love you, be more careful okay?” I mumbled with fear that my voice would crack. I walked up the spiral staircase and into our bedroom before she could respond. I bent down and took the black safe from under our bed. With shaky hands, I opened the safe and grabbed my gun while slowly pointing it up to my head while slowly closing my…

1. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, July 1951, late 1940’s early 1950’s. 2. Holden Caulfield (Main Character/Narrator): Protagonist, manager of the fencing team, kicked out of school (after Christmas break), heavy smoker, has t.b., attended 4 schools, has a large crush on Jane Gallagher Stradlater: Holden’s roommate, vain, and playboy Phoebe Caulfield: Ten-year-old sister, smart, affectionate Mr. Antolini: Only trusted adult in Holden’s life, wealthy, and acts inappropriately toward Holden…

year, Gabby was hosting the annual freshman Halloween party. The ring of the doorbell resonated throughout the house. The twins raced down the spiral staircase to the door. Balancing on her tiptoes, Izzy peeked though the window and recognized a familiar…

different from other two houses is that this is the only house that the architect paid more attention on its functionality regardless of its obvious artistic values. Therefore, the house is cube shaped (see Figure 3-2) and has two floors with a spiral staircase in the center (see Figure 3-1). Figure 3-1 Figure…

monuments. My favorite memories of France are the spontaneous, “we don’t know where we’re going, but we’re gonna go” ones. Like when, after stuffing ourselves with cheese and bread that somehow qualified as dinner, my friends and I unearthed a secret staircase to an elevated walkway leading around the enclosed city. We spent what seemed like hours guessing what TV shows were playing in each apartment and recounting hilarious “lost in translation” mishaps, all while watching the city change with…

Regret is a very strange emotion. It can build you up or it can break you down; it can vanish in an instant if it is just a small ordeal or it can hound you for years if it is something important. Depending on who you are or what you’ve done, regrets can be the best or worst things to happen to you. Regrets can impact people in a myriad of different ways. But regrets are not forever. Regrets are temporary emotions that are meant to test the strength of your will. If all goes well, you’ve learned…

Introduction of paper 2: According to the comparison of movements in paper 1, as for the topic of space, I found out that Minimalism may be one step forward for functionalism to purchase the spatial freedom which required by people as time goes by. Starting from earliest times to present day, people always make great efforts to purchase the freedom of space. And the reason why the works done by Le Corbusier have a strong appeal is mainly because of his quest for freedom in architecture. In my…

familiar voice “CHANCE GET BACK IN HERE AND WORK ON YOUR SONG!”. This was an average thing for Chance, his dad was a famous rapper so it was obvious that he wanted Chance to be a professional rapper too. Chance walked into his huge mansion with spiral staircases at the entrance and platinum records all over the walls. As soon as he walked in his butler, Ferdinand, told him that his father was in the studio. Chance walked into the sound-proofed studio with microphones everywhere and a crazy…

Court. Located in Washington D.C. built by Cass Gilbert from 1932- 1935 this building reflects a moderate amount of similarities to The Pantheon located in Rome, Italy. Some of the similarities are the elevation on a podium approached by fancy front staircase along with free standing columns located in the front of the building. When comparing them side by side you see Corinthian columns amongst both structures. “The choice of marble was deliberate to echo the authority of Greek and Roman formal…

”(4). This situation involves the protagonist being put in a choke-hold situation. Each event in between the rings is described to negative. along with the rings emphasizing the short amount of time it took to for the protagonist to go in a downward spiral, it creates tension by endangering the protagonist. Another example is when Peter goes on a walk, he starts seeing pictures and making assumptions about his biological dad while his heart pounds like crazy. “Thump. A picture of a man stalking…