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    by Robert Hayden, he writes about a special memory he has of his father when he was a kid on a wintery Sunday. The memory starts out regarding how his father would wake up early on winter mornings, on all days of the week. His father would get the house ready for the day before everyone else woke up. Years later when Robert is all grown up, he feels guilty for never thanking his father for all that he did for him and his family. This poem, possibly took place somewhere during the…

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    grandpa and his tree stand. We drove all the way to Wabash and we were with my 2 other cousins. They got one side of the woods and we got the other side. My grandpa and I were in a tree stand that was probably about 20-30 feet off the ground, but it was a pretty big stand so 2 people could easily fit in it. We waited about an hour until we saw a doe walking by. It wasn’t very big but we didn’t come there to leave with nothing so he took the shot and hit it straight in the heart. It dropped…

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    Rose helped get Wilder’s articles published in two national magazines, McCall’s and Country Gentleman” (Barnett). The journal opportunities that Laura took advantage of helped her form a sturdy foundation for her future accomplishments in the Little House on the Prairie book…

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    Finally, they arrived at the house. It was old and worn down. Daniel could pick out every single detail that was wrong with the house. After they unpacked, Erica was clinging to her mom as much as she could because she felt something wrong with the house. She kept hearing someone call out a whisper of her name, but no one else heard it. The next day, Mr. Anderson, Daniel, and Erica went exploring the woods surrounding their house.…

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    After the pigs went through two houses and were freed from the wolf, they wound up living with the oldest and the wisest pig, in the brick house, the one that didn’t blow down. Being the oldest of the three he thought it was tough always having to take care of his brothers, they were starting to become a nuisance and it was time for them to go. That day the three little pigs set out on an adventure to find one spot where they could build them a well structured house, one that wouldn’t get…

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    Wilder likes to read and write. Another thing she likes to do is make books. She was the one who made the book series The Little House on the Prairie. Her series had nine books about two little girls and her family living on a prairie. Her connection to MIssouri was that she lived in Missouri when she was a little girl. That is where she published the book series The Little House on the Prairie. Childhood This paragraph is about…

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    The outbuildings that surrounded the big house were arranged in a manner that reflected the social hierarchies of the owner and those enslaved on the plantation. A number of outbuildings were strategically located around the main house that included the kitchen located directly behind the main house, usually adjacent to the dining area; and a carriage house, ice house, gristmill, distillery, cotton barn, garconnieres for older sons, the overseer's house, and perhaps, a plantation store. Louis…

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    Normalcy: A Short Story

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    mostly okay with who I am. I’m a little strange, maybe, but so is everyone. The people I know who look the most common on the surface are the most delightfully bizarre when you scratch that veneer off. For the most part, I know who I am. I’m little w weird – weird in hobby and lifestyle because of the bits of my life I choose. But every once in a while I’ll get swept up by the big fat dream of American-middle aged normalcy, and last summer I tried to buy a house. It began with picking up a flyer…

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    In many ways the rich and poor men of Rome were vastly different. The rich men had many luxuries whilst the poor men had little to nothing. One way they were different was the food they ate. Rich men has feasts and ate exotic food. They had big meals, and had their own kitchens.They also usually ate laying down because it showed that they didn't have to serve themselves and they had enough power to pay other people to serve them. Poor men ate basic food, they’re meals were very small causing…

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    It was a enourmous, hairy beast and weighed a billion tons. The boar had a huge snout and big bulging eyes. It was overlaid in mud. It had tusks as sharp as a needles. It was still before her. Jenny’s heart seemed to skip a beat. She took a quick glimpse at it and sprinted. Hopefully, Jenny was getting closer to the old black dodge. I looked behind myself. It was charging at Jenny with great speed. She turned right and it zoomed past her. She had a few seconds to decide which direction to go.…

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