The book I read was The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. ... They also don't have to share a the yard with the people downstairs because no one lives down stairs it's there house. The house on Mango Street is not what Esperanza thought they would get. The House Esperanza wants, is a house with running pipes, stairs and real hall ways, at least three bathrooms, so you would not have to tell every one when you needed to use the bathroom. ... She thought it was going to be a nice house in a good neighborhood. ...

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The door led to a corridor then to a set of stairs. ... As the house was not well lit I felt my way down the side of the wall. ... I put all my attention on trying to get down the stairs. ... I had busted my lip on one of the stairs. ... Thinking about that it, it was like the whole house hadn't been used in a long time. ...

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My grandfather's house in Grantsville, Utah. ... The vines that grow up the sides of these houses are clinging on for their survival. ... The house is covered with weathered, light brown bricks all the way around. There is a stairway consisting of three stairs leading to the white painted door with a rusty name tag reading "Wilder.... Walking into the house, cold air hits like a ton of bricks. ...

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Each building housed about 300 people, which made the building very tightly packed and overcrowded. ... The stairways were in the hallways as to avoid the original design that had the stairs at the front and rear ends of the building. ... No matter what people thought at the time, the tenement house act of 1879 was an important step in a sequence of events that would improve the lives of the underprivileged in New York City....

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When my mother and I arrived at my grandmothers" house, which is where my great grandmother had been staying, my aunts, uncles and cousins were there. ... When I went to her house she used to let me use the sewing machine, and I thought that was the neatest thing in the world. ... "Who's that coming down my stairs, Who's that coming down my stairs, Who's that coming down my stairs, Is it Heather or Nancy?" She would see who was coming down the stairs and would insert their name and then use someone else's name that was staying there for the other name. ... But whe...

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With a large amount of gloomly shadows of furnitures and stairs, it empasis the dismal of the indoor surroundings strongly. ... This created a feeling of a hidden incident is happened or happening inside the house but the public outside is never known. ... n that she doesn't belongs to the dismal, gloomy house, she doesn't belong to the working peasant lifestyle. ... At the beginning of the film clip, Scarlet enters the house under the shadow of the stairs, and then Melanie walks into the frame from the stairs under the light. ... Cinematography The film clip starts with a long shot ...

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During the summer vacation of my 9th grade, I was spending time with my grandparents at their house in Moga, Punjab. ... As I rushed down the stairs, I could feel the knots in my stomach tighten. ... My parents wouldn't be able to reach my grandparent's house in time and my grandmother was succumbing to her fears. In our part of town, no doctor makes house call. ... First I called a cab to the house. ...

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My fondest childhood memory out of many would probably be Christmas eve night at my Aunt Vicky's house. She lived on a quiet street in Wall, and surrounding her house were several others that resembled hers. ... Through the eyes of a child, her house looked like a mansion. ... She had the stairs that have two sides on them and when you got upstairs, you could overlook the foyer, or the living room. ... Underneath the tree lay countless amounts of presents for everyone in the house that night. ...

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H, Potter  The Cupboard under the Stairs  4 Privet Drive  Little Whinging  Surrey"    However, he never has the chance to open it, and on the midnight of Harry's eleventh birthday; a giant enters with a bang. ... The setting first takes place in the  Dursley house, where Harry grows up. It is a small house, and Harry lives in the cupboard under the stairs. Soon, the setting moves to Hogwarts, a giant of a castle with towers and tiers, moving stairs, and bewitched ceilings.      ...

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With that, Sam climbed the stairs, following her brother. ... We'll just go back to Mom's house. ... She ascended the stairs and went right in to the apartment. ... Until you do that, I'll be cleaning the house. ... "Ron, I want those insane children out of my house. ...

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He had not achieved anything as an architect before the Schroder House. ... The Schroder House was the key to Rietveld architecture. ... The Schroder House is located at the end of a series of typical 19th century brick houses on the edge of the city of Utrecht and its outskirt at that time. ... As soon as you are at eye level with the upper floor on climbing the stairs, you can see an open plan living space, which is the main core of the Schroder House. ... There is no difference between the inside and outside of the house. ...

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The first time I discovered how nice it was spend time on the stairs of my house in Mexico, was because of a childhood fight with my mother. ... I was in front of the stairs. ... I ran my hand over the step and the touch was so soft that I went to the landing of the stairs and sat there. The stairs were surrounded by walls. ... Since that day I discovered that the landing of the stairs was the best place to escape my reality. ...

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Its name was changed to a skene house. ... Two large side wings were placed on each side of the skene house, called the paraskenion. ... It was located in front of the skene house and was about half the size. ... The front walls of the stage house were called the scaenea frons. ... The Romans also added aisles, which were wedge shaped sections with ascending stairs, around the auditorium and different kinds of canvasses and curtains in which were used as part of the stage. ...

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The smell of engine and brakes hung heavy the air as opened my car door and ran from my truck to my locker in the fire house. ... We started in the front door of the house me on the front of the hand line and one of my brothers at my rear. ... We advanced through the front hall and found a set of stairs. We started are climb up the stairs sounding each step not knowing where the fire was. ... The stairs behind me had fallen in and so had my partner. ...

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This place was more of a two family house rather than an apartment. ... The house had two stories with the bed rooms upstairs with a bath and the kitchen down stairs. ... This house's most interesting feature however had to be the basement. ... As I was searching for an outfit I heard a loud crash like something smashed into a wall down stairs. ... Needless to say they found me behind the bear, they took me down stairs. ...

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I could not immediately cut on the lights, so I slowly walked through the kitchen toward the stairs in the dark. As I approached the stairs I looked up the long dark stairwell and stared into the blackness. ... I stand there listening to see if I could hear the footsteps of a stranger in my house. ... I grabbed my bags, headed up the stairs to my room while cutting on all of the lights as I go and praying that there is no one in my house. ... I have been afraid of being alone in a large dark house ever since. ...

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The only thing that I could not observe him doing at home was walking up and down stairs. I have observed him performing this ability at his grandpa's house and other relatives that have stairs. ... He doesn't really walk down the stairs though, he will crawl down them backwards. (This amazes me since he was only shown once or twice how to crawl off of the couch backwards and not the stairs. ... Perhaps for Teilo to use his knowledge of backing off the couch and transposing that to the stairs must mean that he understands that as the couch is tall so are the stairs and the easiest wa...

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"This was the house Papa talked about when he held a lottery ticket and this was the house Mama dreamed up in the stories she told us before we went to bed." ... (p.86) Esperanza soon got sick of looking at all the nice houses: it just made her more upset and ashamed of her own house. ... (p.29) As a result, Rosa had to spend most of her money on food and could not afford a new or better house, so she is "trapped" within her own house, too. ... In Sally's house her parents are very strict, especially her father. ... "Somebody said because she's too fat, somebody because of the...

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"Bella, Olivia, Come downstairs, breakfast is ready." My mom screams up the stairs. ... This is the house that I have grown up in forever. ... My house looks completely different. ... But that's when we arrived at the house. Looking at the house, I couldn't help but think this house is huge. ...

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I had come home for winter break, and I remember it was just me and my dad in the house. ... My parents still lived in the house, but I was going to college. ... I walked up the stairs, making my way to the bathroom, when I heard a strange noise. ... It was one of many possessions she had left with us at the house. ... The cage had once housed a parrot belonging to my grandmother, but it had been empty now for some time. ...

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It also seems that the characters are prohibited from leaving the house until of course, Flora has left town because she had fallen ill later on. ... The governess also encounters Miss Jessel sitting on the lower stairs with her bowed in deep reflection. ... Quint is seen moving up the stairs while Jessel is sitting on a lower step. The stairs ultimately seem to represent the Victorian social hierarchy. By moving up the stairs, Quint is moving up in social through his relationship with Jessel. ...

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From outside, the building looks like another typical British house, with no big signs or windows to show that you are in the right place. ... After I walked around the first floor, I arrived at the main stairs, where a little pond with red fish was situated, making the place a little more exciting. ... There was a big window next to the stairs that allowed the sun to shine inside and created amazing tricks of light which brought color and life to the whole place. ... After I finished touring the three floors, I walked up the stairs to the last floor and was greeted by a small café. ...

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She remembered when she and her husband, Jake, had first visited the house. ... she called, reaching the top of the stairs. ... she said running down the stairs. ... Tears poured down her colorless face as she ascended up the stairs. ... "Don't worry, it was probably nothing." he said as he unhinged her fingers and started for the stairs. ...

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I've known Cory for as long as I can remember; he's lived in the same house down the street for his whole life, as have I. ... Of course she told us off and said that she was too busy with work around the house to take us today. ... I was going to jump from the top level of the stairs to the monkey bars and swing off. As I walked up the stairs, I felt as if my heart would beat out of my chest and runaway on the ground. For every step I took, the top of the stairs only drew further and further away. ...

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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate