... encompasses just one evening, Gabriel learns more about Gretta in a single night than he has learned in their entire ten years of marriage. "The loud chatter and mirth of the guests leaving the festivities are overshadowed by the quiet picture of Gabriel gazing at his wife at the top of the stairs." (Loomis 150) He is captivated by her unmoving silhouette and wonders what she is doing when he hears ... encompasses just one evening, Gabriel learns more about Gretta in a single night than he has learned in their entire ten years of marriage. "The loud chatter and mirth of the guests leaving...

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... steps creaked under its weight as it mounted them one by one. "Don't forget to check the front door," mom called quietly to dad from the other room. Both of us sighed with relief. A moment later we heard dad also climbing the stairs. The hall light snapped off, and the door to the master bedroom closed. My heartbeat slowly returned to normal. "They must be turning in for ... the night," I whispered as I peered down once again at the backyard. There was nothing out of the ordinary. "Do you think we should tell them what we saw?" "What did we see ... Cory's horrified gaze to the hardwood...

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... My moodiness increased to hatred of all things and of all mankind, and from my frequent outbursts of fury my wife became the most usual and patient sufferer. One day, she came with me, for some household chore, in to the cellar of the old building that our poverty had forced us to live in. The cat followed me down the steep stairs, and nearly tripping me, ... broken, like the sobbing of a child, then quickly swelling into one long , loud and continuous scream - a howl - a wailing shriek, half of horror, half of triumph. A scream that could have only arisen out of hell, from the throats o...

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... he does so. They come to a crossroads and Frodo sees the stone figure of one of the kings. The head has been replaced with a round stone with one single eye on the forehead, symbolizing Sauron. As he looks around he sees the original head lying on the side of the road. The setting sun casts a yellow glow about the discarded head. The Stairs of Cirith Ungol Once more Frodo is being dragged down by ... the Ring, which seems to want to preserve itself. In the distance ... Minas Morgul looms larger than life and the sister tower of Minas Tirith towers over the moon. Their steps seem to slo...

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... contrast to that of the way her husband wanted her to, "There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself (77). This would soon come to an abrupt end as Brently Mallard enters the house to see his wife descending down the stairs. "When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills ... (78). The irony arising from this is that while the doctors say she died of joy, the reader knows that she actually died because of the freedom which was stripped away instantaneously from her, leaving her ... to the will of her frag...

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... I was holding a flower bouquet in my hands and replied. I am Khalid. He immediately opened the door and came out and closed the door behind him. He took me with him in the corner, on the right side of the corridor. He was wearing a black t-shirt and black jeans. He seemed very gentlemen and spoke to ... with you and for the respect and courtiers you extend." I shook hands with him and left. Immediately, after coming down the stairs, I called my wife Delilah and informed her about my meeting with him. It is always said that the first impression of a person is the last one. The image built...

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... a timing belt that turns another timing belt pulley which is attached to the gun. All of the hardware is from McMaster-Carr. The vertical aiming assembly was built by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department machine shop at my college. (I had originally wanted to have a cool tank-treaded robot that could climb stairs like an iRobot Packbot, but my independent-study-project budget was only enough ... to pay for the vertical part of the aiming mechanism. The machine shop foreman still gave me a lot of helpful advice with my mechanical design, though.) Above is the timing belt an...

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... 's husband, who was reportedly killed in a train accident. Although Louise remembers him as a kind and loving man, she sees him as the primary reason of why she was reduced to the state of a typical obedient housewife. He came home without any knowledge of the accident. Josephine She is Louise's sister who carefully informed her about her husband's death. Richards He was Brently's friend who learned about ... (Mrs. Mallard). Conflict between man and nature can be seen in Mrs. Mallard's friend's and family's dilemma in telling her the news of her husband's death as carefully as possible as...

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... her mother being proud that all her children were born at home without any difficulties. Norine vividly recalls helping her mother nurse her father during the epidemic of 1918 and later her youngest sister when she was ill with meningitis. This was a hard experience for a young child as they both passed away ... at a time. In 1999, James went out to pick up breakfast for Emily. When he returned home, he found her lying at the bottom of the stairs. Emily had a cerebral hemorrhage and died four days later. James says it has been so hard carrying on day to day without her. He still ... wa...

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... came to chocolate bars and she was adamant when it came to her decision about Robert having to kill Rowena's rabbits. After the death of Robert's sister Rowena, the Ross family seems to be broken. Family members question whose fault it was that she fell and who should ultimately be held ... empty glass. How long had it been empty? Hours? Minutes? Years? (Findley, 23). Mrs. Ross stood on the landing of the stairs. The bottle fell from her hand. It was empty and it rolled to the bottom step. She gave a final agonizing cry (Findley, 204). Robert constantly wrote to his parents to tell them...

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... , Quentin was getting ready for school, and she was begging Dilsey to give her another cup of coffee. Jason came down the stairs and he saw Quentin, as he recalled, "She brushed her hair back from her face, her kimono slipping off her shoulder- (183). In the text of the novel this vision Jason had appeared to be somewhat sensual, probably do to Jason's lusty nature ... to slowly. Later before Jason read his letter from Lorraine he said, "Earl was busy up front. I went on to the back and read Lorraine's letter- (193). Instead of going up to the front of the store to help Earl, Jason snuck...

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... injured not even a scratch he just kicked the door open as if he was superman. I didn't like the imagination that the writer had when he add booth traps in the ancient temple which Indiana Jones and Mutt visited. "As Indy and Mutt visit and explore the inside of an ancient temple, Mutt sets off a booby trap and a flight of stairs turns deadly! That's not likely to happen ... to real archaeologists. Temples-places of worship weren't booby-trapped, and though ... Crystal Skull takes place in Peru, in South America, the movie temples were based on Maya temples in Mexico. People could ... ...

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... was an ice-cold night, the dark of the moon, but the two brothers shivered not from the wind blowing down the lonely murky street but from pure horror of the house that had so fatally thrust itself into their lives. But the wind remembered when the sighs it heard here were only the sighing of the ripe grain, when the cries it heard were only the crying of birds nesting in the reeds, for all these ... . It was they who had closed the front gate. A policeman volunteered to enter the house through the back door; Gene said he would try the front one. He peered in at a window and could detect...

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... to the home of Karen and Will Navidson. Within the theme of the labyrinth in the novel, it is clear to see the influence that Jorge Luis Borges. He uses the labyrinth in one of his works "The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths. Borges uses the labyrinth as it is conventionally thought of. In his story, a Babylonian king has a labyrinth of walls, stairs, and doors. The Babylonian ... king is then visited by the Arab King who is entering the Babylonian King's request. The ... Arab King comes out of the labyrinth humiliated. Mark Z. ... ...

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... the most appropriate of gods to worship during the period of war. Perhaps, the Athenians hoped that their show of dedication to their goddess would coax her to help them defeat the Spartans. In providing Athena Nike with a beautiful shrine, the Athenians were giving evidence of their love for her and their hope she would ensure their continuing welfare. Religious observance of Athena Nike took place on the stairs leading up to the ... in front of the entrance of the acropolis and a tower. After the surrender of the Turks, the temple remained in dilapidated condition till the time of the...

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... the author of Farmer Giles of Ham, The Hobbit, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Lots Tales and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Songs and rhymes are used in Tolkien's books to forward the plot. Songs that Tolkien writes in his books also suggest the telling of the history of Middle-Earth. Because Tolkien uses songs in Lord of the Rings for telling the history of middle earth, it also helps develop the plot, which might be the reason the ... and finally overcame them with the help of the Ents' trees. Gandalf then rode to Isengard and the Company of the Ring was almost unite...

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... from coming down. Nat tried to lighten up the situation by cheering up his children with jokes about the birds. When Nat goes upstairs to check on the bedrooms he realizes that the birds have gotten into one of the bedrooms. He gets furniture from the other bedroom and stacked it at the top of the stairs. They listened for the news bulletin that was going to give them instructions on what ... to do. It never came on and we can, at that moment, sense the graveness of the situation. That marked the ... end of the BBC and Nat ... ...

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... victims, and as the ceremony comes to a close. The service switches to English, and the priest asks Michael several questions. After Michael says that he believes in God, Clemenza kills Stracci and Cuneo as they emerge from an elevator in the St. Regis Hotel. He walks up steps before committing the murder, implying that he is moving up in the Mafia world. The motif of stairs finds its way ... into several parts of this sequence. When Michael says that he renounces Satan, the takes get shorter, and the rest of the killings follow. The organ music stops, and is replaced by true nondiegetic...

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... they were Secret Service Agents (Fensterwald 228-9). Ninety seconds after the shooting, police approached Oswald on the second floor of the building. This gave Oswald ninety seconds to fire the rifle, hide it in the corner of the room, run down four flights of stairs and past a woman, Victoria Adams, who never saw him. When the police noticed Oswald on the second floor of the Texas Schoolbook Depository, he appeared calm and collected. "Reenactments ... of this feat found that it was very difficult, if not impossible ... ...

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... was divided by broad concentric belts, named diazomata, which served as lobbies, with eleven rows of seats between each, and these were further divided into wedges by transverse flights of stairs between the lobbies, converging on the centre of the orchestra. The latter resembled the passages in a trireme with its banks of oars, and hence were called selides or gangways. There were eleven subdivisions to each section, suggesting that there ... were as many benches as there were rowers. "Thus Aristophanes bids the audience to rise for a certain actor, give a splash ... ...

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... unsafe. He told them that his reason of going back to the country is that he is concerned about the Philippine's welfare and that he wants to help. (Reyes, year unknown, http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/marcosera.html) Unfortunately, his foot never touched the Philippine ground. While he was climbing down the stairs of the airplane in Manila International Airport, an unknown ... person shot him down. The senator was left faced down on the concrete full of blood. The nation was deeply saddened by this tragedy. Grievance can be spelled on the faces of the people while hatred...

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... wounds. They were covered in layers of blood. I could not tell where the nail ended and the skin started. I was even more shocked when one of those fingers inspected my crap hole. Once he was done, a rather large demanding woman ordered me to dress and a guard forced me out of the room. I stumbled down the back stairs and fell face first in the pile of limbs. I vomited so violently I passed ... blood. I regained my footing, realigned my duds, and was greeted by another reb guard. "Come, you dog!" he ordered. I joined a group of approximately thirty other soldiers, and we were escorted...

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... national treasures. They have ensnared the hearts and minds of the Filipino masses, and because the Beatles did not visit them, they will be punished. An exception to the one-sided frenzy is one of the main characters, Jun Hidalgo, as he catches up to John Lennon and offers his help in carrying their bags. "John Lennon made a bolt up the stairs, At the top he stopped and took off ... his coat and threw it down to Jun. "Here," he said. "Tell your friends the Beatles gave it to you."" (p.16). In the first chapters of the book, there are mentions of a "pale god", signs that the local peopl...

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... fun but this all seems like a blur now in comparison to what happens next. I arrived home at 1:00 in the morning. I went right to the bathroom and showered off the sweaty night of dancing. I remembered that my father was away on his annual vacation down south golfing with his friends. I decided I was ... but she did not. She usually did. "Mom, stop snoring." I groaned. "I can't sleep!" She didn't answer. Part of me felt nervous but I have the tendency to over-react. She took two big breaths like she was gasping for air. "Mom?" I asked worrisome. She didn't answer. ... her to know. She wa...

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... , Tyriek asked me "Why bro? Why do you continue to be friends with them? Is it because you are too self conscious about what the rest of the friend group will think of you?" and thats all I needed to hear. I was like woah.....hold on a minute.....now that you say that yes, thats exactly why ... quot;Keep your head up man you'll get through it. And you know I always got your back, we are FAMO now.", which was easily one of the best moments in our friendship, ever since then I have gone to him with every single problem or dilemma no matter how big or small. I know I can ... , making me have...

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