The next home was closed up tight. The second home was at the intersection where they wanted to make another right turn. It was a battlefield. The long ranch home sat back from the road with a once nice paved driveway. The smell from the twice dead bodies
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A cat may look at a king A chain is only as strong as its weakest link A change is as good as a rest A dog is a man's best friend A drowning man will clutch at a straw A fish always rots from the head down A fool and his money are soon parted A friend in need is a friend indeed A golden key can open any door A good beginning makes a good ending A good man is hard to find A house divided against itself cannot stand A house is not a home A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
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agent Harold Nye asked around about Hickock, he came to a farm that was nearby to Hickock’s family’s farm when he wife of a farmer yelled “Dick Hickock! Don’t talk to me about Dick Hickock! If ever I met the devil! Steal? Steal the weights of a dead man’s eyes! His mother though, Eunice, she’s a fine woman. Heart big as a barn. His daddy, too. Both of them plain, honest people. Dick would’ve gone to jail more times than you can count, except nobody around here ever wanted to prosecute. Out of respect
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Aunt Alex eventually convinced Atticus to teach Jem and Scout how to behave more proper • Atticus was changing because Aunt Alex made him and the kids started noticing this • Scout didn't like that and said that this was the women's job and not the man’s Chapter 16 • When they got home Scout started crying when she laid down • She started crying because everything that happened that night had hit her hard all at once right there and she was scared • Jem told her to sleep with him for the night
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This is the place on which, years ago, I fell. It is the place where my corpse was covered with cold, dry, dirt and left to decompose. I, however, am not entirely gone. I know this because I can hear the sounds that occasionally pierce the muffled silence above my grave: the icy clang of a shovel against hard rock, the shy crackle of a footstep pressing lifeless grass, and the dismal cries of those who have come to mourn. These sounds do not come often, so most of the time, I brood
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Friday, June 20th, 1913. A huge fire broke out in John Seamer’s barn. And it was a big one. With flames reaching so grand, they were visible from Clinton. It is suspected that it started when lightning struck the barn during the storm we had. What a shame that the fire torched 6 fine horses to death along with 20 tons of hay. Along with that tragedy Minnie Seamer’s body was found hung in her barn. The young boy named Walter Winkle Saturday morning discovered her. Winkle went to the Seamer’s
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But, I wasn’t picking up tonight. I was too tired. I had to leave in fifth-teen minutes flat if to catch the 67 bus. I had to take two buses to work and two buses home. It didn’t help that my shoes was crushing m y feet like an elephant stepping on a peanut. I couldn’t wait to get home to take off these shoes. When the first bus finally came it was like a child seeing a ice cream truck coming down the street ringing its’ bell on a hot summer’s day. The bus ride was quiet, and peaceful. It was
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O'Sullivan's and Alexander Gardener's photographs of the Gettysburg battlefield so disturbing? Answer They removed the dead soldiers' shoes and turned out their pockets No American battlefield had ever before been photographed with dead on it They stacked the bodies into a pile to emphasize the number of dead Their clarity enabled people to identify their dead family members 2 points Question 7 1. Which nineteenth-century artist was most enthusiastic about the Japanese
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The second bath could use some updating. There were three more bedrooms on the second floor. The room she used, the one her parents used, and a third guest room. These all needed minor repairs mainly the wood floors needed refinishing and the walls fresh paint. She jotted down more notes. There was one more area to examine, the attic. Remembering that boards covered the windows, she needed something to pry them away to allow light into the space. Casey returned to the car to grab the flashlight
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“A Rose for Emily” Tajia Kelly English 201 Prof. Elise Denbo “A Rose for Emily” To many resistance to change is the underlying theme of American author William Faulkner’s short story entitled “A Rose for Emily”. To others, resistance to change merely did not exist at all, Tyriese Simone states “the main idea of Emily was to show the willingness to change, changes brought on by the post-Civil war, death, change in society and loss of wealth”. Upon review, the real theme of this story is the
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