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…, McMillan emerged from the cab to check the license plate number against the assignment card. "The next thing I knew I was shot in the back. I turned around and saw a man with a shotgun firing from the side of a house on the corner of Lakeview." McMillan ran…

…, and women and men were apparently issued the same kind of shoes. It is said that these shoes burned and blistered in the summer and got stiff as a board in cold weather. On some plantations the same man shod slaves and horses (Olmsted, 67). The housing units…

…was in the hospital for 6 days. I returned home to find the house back as it was before the incident happened. There were neither candles nor dirty dishwater. The furniture was back in its original place and there were no signs of fire on our wooden floor. I went up…

…and she remembers the day. She was in the living room of her childhood home when a weeping neighbor called my Grandmother and broke the news. The telephone call was the beginning of a chain reaction that sent the entire house into uncontrollable sobbing…

…Robert Frost The Random House Dictionary of the English Language defines the term attitude as the following: “manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc. with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind.” (Random House…

…the entire house into uncontrollable sobbing. The event had that effect on the entire nation. Men and women, Democrats and Republicans, adults and children mourned the loss of their fallen leader. President Johnson, the Warren Commission, and every fascinated…

…Presidents, pg. 137-138) In his famous "House Divided" speech, which launched his campaign for the Senate in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared that "...a house divided against itself cannot stand....I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave…

…Maudie Atkinson's house can be seen as the prejudice of Maycomb County, as the fire melted the snow from the snowman, and left nothing but a clump of mud. The fire depicts the prejudice people of the county saying that blacks and whites are, certainly…

…always have an idea.' The fire that night that engulfed Miss Maudie Atkinson's house can be seen as the prejudice of Maycomb County, as the fire melted the snow from the snowman, and left nothing but a clump of mud. The fire depicts the prejudice people…

…their neighbours. Until one day, their neighbour Miss Maudie's house was found on fire. While Scout was standing outside in the cold watching the fire, someone from behind her and put a blanket around her shoulders. Later, Scout and Jem realized that there was only…