Implied lines in the lower half of the painting set the suggested geometric shape of a rectangle that houses the group of men standing on top and below the stairs of the building in an almost perfect quadrant. ... Shadows fall mostly from beneath the suggested masses in the painting, which indicates that light is coming from the top, moreover, the light source is coming from the windows in the domes and open arched door above and behind the stairs. ...

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The book was written by a SEAL under the pseudonym "Mark Owen" and relays a decidedly different sequence of events than originally reported by the White House following bin Laden's death. ... However, immediately after the raid, the White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan said that bin Laden was "engaged in a firefight" with the Navy SEALs when he suffered a fatal bullet wound that ended his life (Zakaria). ... Bissonnette says he was directly behind a 'point man' going up the stairs. 'Less than five steps' from top of the stairs, he heard 'suppresse...

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After the whole conversation of the Prom she asked me if she could have a ride home so I told her sure since her house is right up the road from me, as I dropped her off she said to me "I"m happy your ready for a change Matthew" not knowing what she meant by that I told her " thanks! ... I ran up stairs to my room to think because I just had a thought that came to my mind when my mom mentioned to me that "it was nice of me to do that", I was thinking about what Jennifer told me in the car. It was the night of the Carnival when I pulled up Jennifer's drive way, I went up the stairs that le...

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Esperanza and Cisneros share a similar idea of what a "real house" should be. For example, Esperanza later in the vignette says: They always told us that one day we would move into a house, a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn't have to move each year. . . But the house on Mango Street is not what the way they told it at all. It was a small house with crumbling bricks, small windows, no front yard, no trees, hallway stairs, one washroom, and everyone had to share a bedroom. (4) The house on Mango Street did not live up to Esperanza's standards of her drea...

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The setting of new technology, both in the form of "iron stairs through the roof of the building" (Old) upon which the man is standing and in the form of "tiny campfires we lit at night, back at the beginning of the world" (Old), allows this man to be imagined in a world that the readers find familiar, in turn, making this poem more relatable. ... Guin described the town in great mental detail such as, "In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, proces...

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Since James Barbour was an avid horseman, he laid out a racetrack in front of the house, "while stables, located on a hill nearby, had a columned portico similar to that of the Governor's own residence."" ... (Figure 5, 6, and 7) An unusual feature of Barboursville's exterior was the earthen ramp leading up to the northern columned portico, instead of stairs. ... (Figure 8 and 9) The north, main entrance of the house opened up into a two-story hexagonal salon with a domed ceiling and "the interior of the house was said to be among the finest in Virginia."" (Figure 10) Behind ...

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Willie asks Charlie if he can borrow money to make a payment on his house and as the conversation progresses Charley learns about Willies unemployment and offers him a job working for him, Willie declines this offer saying that he will be fine. ... Back at the Loman house Linda is finding out that Biff and Happy had abandoned their father at the bar babbling to himself and completely un-aware of what was going on around him. ... Willie, then gathering his coat and hat to leave with Ben is constantly interrupted by Linda, who is calling down the stairs to try and convince Willie to come to be...

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The audience would then be able to witness the events happening from both sides of the screen: on the left, they watch in anxiety as Arbogast ascends the stairs, on the right, the anticipation of the murderer bursting through the door, reinforced by the medium shot of the opening door before that scene, elevates the sheer impact of terror. ... In fact, the setting of the old, Victorian house against the motel becomes highly significant in the story. As a complement to her character, the foreboding, towering house on the hill seems to embody Mother, while the low lying L-shaped motel seems to r...

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With the luxury of having everything just a click away on the Internet, television, or telephone, people can virtually live in their house without ever needing to leave-or even move from the couch. ... This is where creativity and motivational strategies come into play-how are you going to get on overweight person to the gym, when you can't even get them to take the stairs? ...

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Deren's choice of having the settings be in and out of a house on the side of a beach gives the feeling of enclosure, mirroring the enclosure of psychotic thoughts the main character is experiencing throughout the film. ...

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Easily overlooked as just another plant but contrary to belief, this facility housed some of the most innovative and intellectual minds whose inventions irreversibly changed the way the entire world lives day to day. ... After exiting his office and taking a short walk further down the entry hallway I was led up stairs through the second and third floor of this vast construction. ...

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In a sharp transition from countryside to European-styled mansion, the viewer's attention is redirected sharply to the huge contrast between the two environments and the colossal difference between the frantic filled first scene and the calm and composed atmosphere of the white-columned house built for the rich. ... The old man's butler is called and walks down a lengthy flight of stairs to satisfy the needs of his master. ...

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By the time he was sixteen, Michelangelo had sculpted both the Battle of the Centaurs, and the Madonna of the Stairs. ... In reality, there was little left in his house, since some time earlier he had burned much of his artistic material, including, to the great displeasure of Cosimo I, the designs for the facade of San Lorenzo. ...

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Two films that espouse such ideals are Night of the Living Dead (1968) by George Romero and The People Under the Stairs (1991) by Wes Craven. ... The settings are all real places, the house in which the characters take refuge was practically unchanged from its natural condition, the characters respond in normal ways to drastic situations; in fact, only two of the actors in the film are professional actors, the rest are mostly local residents of the area in which the film was shot. ...

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(Feinman 1998: 267) The archaeology of the Indus Valley sites revealed that some houses were larger than others, indicating some form of social stratification. Although some houses were larger than others, none were significantly larger or more impressive than the others. ...

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In advanced stages of pulmonary fibrosis simple tasks become much more difficult and require a lot more energy, for example breathing, eating, walking down the stairs or taking a shower can all be devastating for the body and requires supplemental medical equipment (Personal communication, 2015). ...

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Large, well-trimmed houses and gardens symbolise an upper-class suburban setting, and it becomes obvious from the moment the characters begin to speak, that the city is American. ... This angling of camera shots between those of Kat and Bianca becomes even more striking a little further into the scene, as Kat stands at the top of the staircase, glowering down at her sister, who is speaks to her from the foot of the stairs. ...

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Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... About to leave for a piano concert tour with her father, Clara had Schumann over who escorted her down stairs to say goodbye. ...

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Schumann then, left his stay at the Wieck house and changed houses quite frequently as if to find a safe heaven from his inner turmoil. Finally, he found a house that suited him in 1836, a pleasant cottage which remained his home until his marriage. ... About to leave for a piano concert tour with her father, Clara had Schumann over who escorted her down stairs to say goodbye. ...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible"...

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