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    were chasing me or even knowing that I had managed to escape from the mansion, but the main thing that preoccupied me was that I had succeeded in the mission. I was able to get the coveted and mysterious thing that many people had already tried and failed to achieve for years. I had already lost my sense of time and only knew that I had been running for a long time among the bushes and trees in the fields of the Black Mansion. I told myself I had to go on, but I had to rest for a few moments to…

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    All of the guests receive letters about them coming to the mansion for different reasons, with each of them obviously having their own unsolvable committed crimes and secrets. “Watch and pray,” he said, “watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand” (15). In ATTWN, a man on the train explained how the end is coming…

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    known for the lavish parties he throws each weekend at his mansion in the West Egg. The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, moves into a small house next to Gatsby’s mansion in an attempt of entering the bond business. Gatsby asks for Nick’s help in getting him and Daisy Buchanan together, who happens to be Nick’s cousin. In a way,…

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    differences worth examining. The Westing Game story focuses on a young teen, Turtle Wexler, who becomes the lead character in figuring out the Westing Game. The game began when Turtle went into the Westing mansion on a bet issued by Otis Amber, Doug Hoo, and Sandy McSouthers. When she went into the mansion she saw the dead body of Sam Westing. Then, the heirs from Sam’s past are brought together to help solve the Westing…

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    Arriving to Gatsby’s mansion was an experience so breathtaking that I will never forget for the rest of my days. Everything about this experience was unforgettable, from the music being played to the people attending the party to the delicious meals that were being severed. Gatsby’s chauffeur was the person that brought the invitation to my house. Anyone was allowed to go, hundreds of people from places such as New York and from both west egg and east egg had attended Gatsby’s amazing and…

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    Tap...Tap...Tap. . . This was the only sound in the small, dark room. Tap...Tap...Tap. . . That's all I could hear. It was the sound of slippered feet climbing the ligneous stairs. Steadily the sounds got louder. Eventually, she'd sense me. They all could do that. Every time I was put in this situation it didn't end well. Just last week I ended up falling down some concrete basement stairs, landing in a huge pile of crimson apples. I'd hit my head on the wall and had gone out cold. Now, I…

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    of his superstar lawyer, Richard “Racehorse” Haynes. He was retried years later for soliciting the murders, but he was once again acquitted. With two eye-witnesses identifying him as the killer. The question still remains, who was the man in the mansion? Most likely, the killer is a hitman that Cullen Davis Hired to kill his divorced wife. Cullen Davis was known…

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    styles. There were four main contrasts and similarities throughout the two. First was how the differences of the H.O.U.N.D. in both, the second was contrast between the car light and candle scene, the third was the difference between the Baskerville mansion and the military testing facility and lastly was the comparison of the two end scenes where they find the H.O.U.N.D. The use of science helped to create each setting which shaped the legends. The first contrast was how each one…

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    owls through the midnight air. The whistling wind rang the rusty, wind chimes dangling from the old run-downed mansion. The sign above read “Muddy Creek Manor”. I was only seventeen years old when I first seen it. Everyone use to go there to hang out. It was a beautiful place. A few years ago, I came back to reminisce but everything has changed. It gave me chills to walk by the mansion. They are vines hanging from the wall. The grass is all grew up, it's as tall as a hay field. The family that…

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    Jeffery Cardson

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    landed in New York City harbor and traveled inland toward the city of Philadelphia. The Cardson family was immigrating from England and was very rich so they decided to build a mansion in the city of Philadelphia. Then the price of death came and their father died falling off the roof putting shingles on his newly built mansion. The sons’ returning upon the scene of the father were in panic and quickly blamed each other due to the death of their father. When the inheritance was split up the…

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