Danielle Shubert November 6‚ 2012 History 202 Response #8 What was life like for children and why were they known as box car kids during the Depression? The Depression occurred as a result of an economic collapse that began in 1929. Unemployment went from 3 million in 1929 to 12.5 million by 1932. This eventually led to families not being able to make ends meet. Nationwide families were becoming homeless. Multiple different families lived in one room shacks. Others that weren’t so fortunate
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door was locked. Its locked I yelled as I leaned against an old metal pole that probably once held a flag. Then clunk clunk creak {pause} the metal pole had been pushed down by the weight I had placed on it and the door had opened. As I entered the house I thought it was the end of me for I stood atop an endless void. Correction I stood in the center of a void looking down into a never-ending drop. Wait a second. There was something wrong here and it wasn’t the fact that I felt like I was going to
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different meanings. Not every house is a home. When I was younger my dad built a tree house on a piece of land we own that is two lots away from our house. During the time he was building it I was reading “The Boxcar Children” by Gertrude Chandler and I loved the idea of living off of what a person could find. I got the idea from those books to try to stay at my tree house for an entire day without going home. I tried a few times but I always ended up back at my house because I became bored. I learned
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A mystery tale of a strange house with strange events. Short story by famous gothic writer‚ Edgar Allen Poe intrigues the element of mystery in the story of the “House of Usher”. Poe’s short story process with a mysterious tone as it’s progress to describes the setting and characters. Poe has describe the setting into a mysterious way. The narrator had this attraction to the house‚ he questioned himself‚ “What was it - I paused to think - what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the
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Virginia Hamilton. The Mystery of Drear House. Greenwillow Books‚ 1987. 217pp In concluding her series of stories about the Small family‚ Virginia Hamilton compliments the original plot perfectly in The Mystery of Drear House. The books dark secrets begin to slowly unveil and are brought to end with a surprising friendship. The book is again set around the house of Dies Eddington Drear‚ in a current year. The surrounding property and underground tunnels on premises play major roles in
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What made this boxcar unique was the extreme probability of it being used to transport thousands of the holocaust victims to concertation or extermination camps across Nazi Occupied Europe. It clearly demonstrated the bleak conditions faced by those caught up by the Nazi
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Ivy Gwin Hensley English II Honors / 4th period 26 January 2017 Leaving The Yellow House Saul Bellow wrote the short story Leaving the Yellow House. The main character is a seventy-two year old woman named Harriet Simmons Waggoner. Harriet is known as Hattie throughout the story. The setting of this story takes place in Sego Desert Lake‚ Utah. Very few people live here‚ and according to Hattie there are only six white people that live there. Her neighbors were the Rolfe?s‚ Wicks‚ Pace‚ and a widow
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The Winchester Mystery House is located in San Jose‚ California. It’s known for being one of the most confusing houses of all time. The house has doors that when opened‚ show nothing more than walls or even drops that are over 30 feet high. One in particular opens up above the kitchen sink. There are staircases that lead to nowhere and “sunroofs” in the floor. The house has over 1‚500 stained glass Tiffany windows. Some being where sun doesn’t even reach. So‚ what would drive someone to build such
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beautifully large house called the Winchester Mystery House. This house is toured and pondered upon by many‚ and this is because of its story. It was once owned by a woman named Sarah Winchester who many say was crazy because of her constant around-the-clock building of her large home and the way she built it. Because of how weird the house is‚ it has been all over the media. It is visited in the show Ghost Adventures more than once and has many movies based off of the house. The story is so
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The Mystery It was Halloween night and I was throwing a Halloween party. My two friends Ella and Rachel were staying the night. I couldn’t wait because we were going to tell scary stories. Rachel started she told the story of the hand. Ella sat a thought for a minute when it hit her the story of the girl that got murdered a hundred years ago. She told us we would have to go to the grave yard to make it fun. We arrived at the grave yard a spent a half hour looking for the grave of Mary Louise
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