... getting a new base of life, if one can have all the good things of life. Every child during the early years of school read stories and fancy many of the characters portrayed in them. I once read a Chinese story illustrating this point of view. There was a man who was in hell and about to be reincarnated, and said to the King of ... own conditions." "And what are they?"," asked the King. The man replied, "I must be born the son of a cabinet minister and father of a future cabinet minister. I must have ten thousand acres of land surrounding my home and fish ponds and fruits of every kind ...

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... , he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens- (Guterson, 69). This description of Carl Heine's home, realistic as most physical descriptions exist, has a more cavernous meaning than simply a layout of ... . Thus the description of Carl Heine's home apparently alludes to his very character. The presence of setting, in its most transparent realistic form, swabs the otherwise blasé backgro...

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... , he thought - blunt, tidy, gruffly respectable, and offering no affront to the world, though at the same time inviting nobody. It sat back fifty yards from the road on three acres of alfalfa, strawberries, raspberries, and orderly vegetable gardens- (Guterson, 69). This description of Carl Heine's home, realistic as most physical descriptions exist, has a more cavernous meaning than simply a layout of ... . Thus the description of Carl Heine's home apparently alludes to his very character. The presence of setting, in its most transparent realistic form, swabs the otherwise blasé backgro...

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... a sailor in many parts of the world, but he decided to quit sailing and settle in Monterey . In the summer of the following year, he purchased the lot on 0.59 acres of land. The lot was in southwest corner of what is now Pacific and Scott street. He built a small, rectangular two-story adobe building typical of the time to be ... value. In the fall of 1848 , four army volunteers who came from the East Coast on military duty asked Jack to do plays at his building for pay. "Three local characters were designated as "Tips, Taps, and Tops". "This company gave two minstrel performances in th...

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