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- 161: The Fall Of The House Of Usher
- In "The Fall of the house of Usher," Edgar Allen Poe creates suspense and fear in the reader. He also tries to convince the reader not to let fear overcome him. Poe tries to evoke suspence in the reader's mind by using several diffenent scenes. These elements include setting, characters, plot, and theme. Poe uses setting primarily in this work to create atmosphere. The crack in the house and the dead trees imply that the house and its surroundings are not sturdy or promising. These elements indicate that a positive outcome is not expected. The thunder, strange light, and mist create a spooky feeling for the reader. The use of ...
- 162: The House of Seven Gables: Hepzibah Pyncheon
- The House of Seven Gables: Hepzibah Pyncheon The protagonist in The House of Seven Gables is Hepzibah Pyncheon. She is an aging gentlewoman who in the past had lived in luxury, but she has recently run into troubling economic times. She is an ancestor of a patrician Puritan background that goes all the way back to the colonial days of the United States. One of her earliest relatives was Colonel Pyncheon who built a house with seven gables on property which was formerly owned by a man named Matthew Maule who was executed for witchcraft. It is said that Colonel Pyncheon was one of the main figures in having ...
- 163: Harriet Stowe
- ... of the common grief they shared. In later years, Mark Twain s daughter Susy Clemens saw Calvin Stowe merrily reported to her father, Santa Clause has got loose. (Husbands and Wives, William J. Petersen, Tyndale House Publishers, 1989, page 111). The work of the Underground Railroad deeply touched both Calvin and Harriet. They sheltered fugitive slaves in their home until they moved to Maine when he accepted a position at Bowdoin ... but what else can I say? Perhaps Mark Twain is more familiar to me because of how I came to think of him at all. When I went to elementary school in Hartford, the Twain House had been a frequent destination for school field-trips. So for me the relationship was made manifest early. The mere mention of Twain's name brings forth the image of his ostentatious manor located on ... Beecher Stowe is from reading Uncle Tom's Cabin as a Middle School reading assignment. Unfortunately, the impression made by this reading assignment could not compete with the impressions made by visiting the Mark Twain House several times and the movie that I will admit made a favorable impression on me. Perhaps I'm rationalizing about a time long behind me, but today I am more aware of her than ...
- 164: The First Atomic Test
- ... set for July 4, 1945. However, final preparations for the test, which included the assembly of the bomb's plutonium core, did not begin in earnet until Thursday, July 12. The abandoned George McDonald ranch house located about two miles south of the test site served as the assembly point for the device's core. After assembly, the plutonium core was transported to Trinity Site to be inserted into the thing ... immediately after the war to turn Trinity into a national monument. By 1953, much of the radioactivity at Trinity had subsided. Later that year, about 600 to 700 people attended the first Trinity Site open house sponsored by the Alamorgordo Chamber of Commerce and the Missile Range. Two years later, a small group from Tularosa, NM visited the site on the 10th aniversary of the explosion to conduct a religious service ... 64-wheeled trailer, then pulled and pushed 30 miles to Trinity by four Caterpillar D-8 tractors. Jumbo sitting among the ruins of its 70 foot steel tower after the Trinity test. Schmidt-McDonald Ranch House The Schmidt-McDonald ranch house is located two miles south of Ground Zero. The property encompasses about three acres and consists of the house and assorted outbuildings. Surrounded by a low stone wall, the ...
- 165: William Faulkner
- ... Estelle regularly, he met a man named Phil Stone who was dating one of Estelle's friends, Katrina. Katrina had told Stone about Faulkner and his poetry. So one afternoon, Stone went to Faulkner's house to get to know him better, and during his visit he received several written verses from Faulkner's poetry. Stone not only became a very close friend of Faulkner's, but also a mentor to ... the death of her father and her brief relationship with a man from the north named Homer Barron. The story basically addresses the symbolic changes in the south after the Civil War. Miss Emily's house symbolizes neglect in the new times in the town of Jefferson. Beginning with Miss Emily Grierson's funeral, throughout the story Faulkner foreshadows the ending and suspenseful events in Miss Emily's life. The continuing symbolism and Faulkner's descriptions of the decaying house coincide with Miss Emily's physical and emotional decay. As an example, the house is in an area of town that was once a prominent neighborhood that has now deteriorated. Originally the house was ...
- 166: Chronical Of The Death Foretold
- ... mentioned in the book, we chose some of the main places to describe and to explain their relation to the story. These places will be Santiago Nasar's place, Clotilde Armenta's store, Xius's house, and the main market place. Santiago lived in Plácida Linero's house. This house was always barred from the inside and Santiago carried the keys to the back door of the house and this is where he always entered and left the house. The house always had a ...
- 167: Comparison Between The Red Roo
- ... man who thinks that it ‘Will take a very tangible ghost’ to scare him, but panics when confronted with occurrences which challenge his scientific hypothesis. On the other hand Hill’s story of the ‘Farthing House’ reveals a timid yet experienced and mature woman who does not panic because she understands and feels sympathy for the ‘crying’ ghost. In ‘The Red Room’ the young man is on a mission to explore and expose the tale of the ‘The Red Room’ that is supposedly haunted, because he says, ‘It’s my own choosing’ He is in that house to go into ‘The Red Room’ to prove that the ‘Spiritual terrors’ of the house are nothing that cannot be proven by science. He is obviously very brave and determined but inexperienced as pointed out by the old couple that say, ‘Eight and twenty years you have lived and ...
- 168: Architecture In 1975 Focused Mainly On Environmentally Frien
- Home! Home! Sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home, the quote written by Payne shows how dear a home is to a person. Whereas a house is referred to as a place of dwelling, a home is more than that. A home is what a person makes of it; a home is given life by the dweller, making the home part ... land. Other than that, a few horizontal houses were built to allow more area for solar energy panels. While most of the projects dealing with barns were renovations, the first project presented that year in House and Garden dealt with an easy to construct pre-fabricated barn house. Barn houses were popular back then because they provided a vast open living space. This allowed its dwellers to organize the room in a variety of ways to suit their tastes. This particular barn ...
- 169: Short Story Essay On Poe
- Short Story Essay On Poe I basically thought Poe and his story, " The Fall of the House of Usher", was a good one to choose. It has irony, imagination, and description put into it. I enjoyed this short story a lot because of the meaning involved. Poe always finds ways to write ... was exactly about. There are three characters involved: Madeline Usher, Roderick Usher and the narrator whose identity is unknown. The basis of the story focuses on fear and death. When the setting first emerges, the house appears to be supernatural and uninviting. The mansion is filled with beautiful decorations with a sense of insanity in the air. There is a lot of imagery and description that Poe uses in the story ... dark side. I don't really seem like the kind of person who likes the gloomy and melancholy aspects of writing but appearances are deceitful. The main deceitful appearance in the story is the dreaded house. (University of Texas) Poe uses life-like characteristics of an otherwise decaying house as a device for giving the house a supernatural atmosphere. At the beginning you can sense that the supernatural characteristics are ...
- 170: The Trials of Toilet Training
- ... learning by teaching, a partial reinforcement schedule with rewards that increase the need and the negative reinforcement of disapproval are all employed. Children learn best by imitation and teaching with the aid of a hollow doll. The child gives the doll a drink then is told the doll has to "peepee" and he must help her. After the child assists in removing the doll's pants, the liquid is released. The child must observe the flow of liquid. into the potty chair. ...
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