My little home is probably the oldest house on my street. ... Can you imagine thinking to yourself is there any way that I can take this old eyesore and raggedy house can be made a humble home again as was in the time of my grandfather. ... I can now say that this home has a lot of potential although it is very drafty in the winter months, and without a fan or small air conditioner is virtually unbearably hot in the summer months making it almost miserable. ... The house is not worth anything right now but wait until I am done with it I really believe that I can turn this deteriorating hulk...

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The Giersons" home represents a shift from old to new by having both past and present qualities. ... She recovers only when another man, Homer Barron, enters her life to take care of her. ... Even after Homer's death, she sleeps next to his dead body and leaves an "indentation of [her] head-(81) next to his. Emily can not let go of the old beliefs that are ingrained in her mind, the belief that she needs a man to be complete. ... Taking on the whole town, no one can make her pay taxes, go into her home, or put numbers on the house for free postal delivery. ...

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These girls are abducted from their home in Jigalong and they manage to walk over 1,500 miles (2,400km) home by following the rabbit-proof fence. ... The audience are able to comprehend the significance of their family bond and can know that the White society holds the absolute power over the aboriginals. ... This conflict reveals the tragedy of aboriginals being cast away from their own land as well as challenging the audience to consider the importance of family and their home connections. ... Yet film techniques such as camera angles, camera movement, special effects and music are used succ...

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Following a walk home-undoubtedly contemplating and self-chastising his behavior every step of the way-he approaches his wife about the matter. ... " From this it can be assumed that the clerk's wife also does not have the mindset that "all men sneeze" because to her, as well as her husband, the sneeze had somehow become a transgression. ... Following his fourth failed attempt at apologizing and being heard the clerk sullenly walks home, lies on the couch and dies. ...

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All of the characters on this soap opera have everything; they have a lot of clothes, a nice car, beautiful home, attractive furnishings, major social life and they seem like they have all of these things without working. ... The grandmothers look like moms and mothers and daughters look like they can be sisters. ... This comparison shows that escape fiction on television has a profound impact on our society; it has the benefit of entertainment but one must be cautious about the negative influences that escape fiction can carry with it. ...

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Oddly enough, Carl is more cruel for the reason that he can empathize, he find pleasure in watching Jerry's wife horrified and franticly stumble sightless. ... His thoughtlessness composed his idea that he can get away with it, his pride. ... The painstaking provider of the home is the wife, Marge, and homewards, the husband is the "Suzie homemaker", meeting up with Marge at a buffet restaurant, cooking her eggs when she is called on for work early in the morning, and fetching her hamburgers from Arbys. ... In the Lundegaard home, the spouses have customary functions; the wife is t...

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For instance, "some [men] desire to be accounted wealthy abroad and are yet ready to starve at home" (Radice, electronic version). ... Another had rather get riches by war than live peaceably at home. ... For in his eyes, it is absolutely ridiculous and hilarious how men can risk everything for the chance of money. ... Erasmus asks whether or not this can possibly be justified, or is this nothing more then another way in which the church can get more money. Money is very powerful in blinding the common people of society, but Erasmus is disgusted that it can blind even "the professors of relig...

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My mom has always been home for me when I need her. ... On the day that they went, my parents left early, and I was home alone despite my young age, only 10 years old, I knew how to take care of myself. ... My father gave a huge smile and said, "Lucas, you will have a brother" and he gave a happy laugh, like making joke of us, because we thought that it could possibly be a disease but actually it would be my brother coming, the brother that I always wanted is finally coming to give me company, even with the large age difference, it would be my company for all my life, I would teach him new thi...

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Similarly, the repetitions in the fifth paragraph serves to build the tension. " In the way the their rafts run, in the way they glide quicker in the way they little boils appear in the way waves begin to crest over in the way eddies become more pronounced and powerful", the characters can "feel the river in their arms- Also, the repetition makes the events real, physical, and tangible, symbolizing a living battle. ... Initially, Aljaz was equated with the river for his strength, control, and experience: "Aljaz's body feels more comfortable, more in control- The passage ends on an ironic ...

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This principle implies that nothing can exist or happen without a cause. ... These loops are symbolic of Leonard's absence of short term memory, and subsequently his inability to feel time "how can I heal if I can't feel time?- Members can thus relate this absence of linearity to the circle of life, or more simply the looping effect of 24 hour days, Sunday to Saturday, 52 weeks a year. ... He is merely a loner, with no home or family. ... In the final analysis it can be seen that Christopher Nolan employs a variety of filming techniques, such as the unconventional use of reverse ...

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By using her strength, perhaps she can remedy the isolationism and lack of communication that runs rabid throughout Winesburg. ... Such narrowly focused action can be potentially dangerous, and in Winesburg, it is the source of the people's grotesqueness and ultimate unhappiness. ... Eventually, our isolationism became obsessive to the point that America refused to join World War II until they were attacked on a home front, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ...

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Bertrande frequently dwelled on the issue, "Often I ask myself, can this man be an impostor? ... Martin's behavior seems contradictory as he left home to avoid the dishonor that he knew would arise when his father discovered that he had stolen grain to plant the field, yet he blames Bertrande for this dishonor that has befallen his family name. ...

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