My ideal home. In the 1950s the average home was about 983 square feet and the average cost was around $8‚450 Homes were usually built with two or fewer bedrooms and children shared bedrooms if needed. Closets were around two feet by eight feet---just big enough for your clothes. Bathrooms were built out of necessity and most homes managed with just one. It was a luxury to have a garage or a carport and the majority of homes in the 50s did not include any protection for a car. Central air conditioning
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Date: 9/21/12 To: Patricia Willis From: George Farman‚ Sales Committee Supervisor Subject: Office Work Can Best Be Done At Home With the advancement in computer software and technology in general‚ office work can now be easily done within the comfort of one’s own home. In fact‚ working at home has proven itself more successful than at the office because many variables that cause working inconsistency are removed and worker productivity increases exponentially. For example‚ co-worker interference
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9/15/12 Home Depot Learns Chinese Prefer ’Do‑It‑for‑Me’ ‑ WSJ.com Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal‚ noncommercial use only. To order presentationready copies for distribution to your colleagues‚ clients or customers‚ use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now BUSINESS Updated September 14‚ 2012‚ 5:52 p.m. ET Home Depot Learns Chinese Prefer ’DoItforMe’
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Close to Home By Bell Hooks Bell Hooks essay “Keeping Close to Home”‚ describes her struggles after she was accepted at Stanford University to further her self-realization. In this essay Hooks talks about her journey to educate herself and no losing her sense of where she came from as African American woman from a working class background. Hooks parents wanted her to go to a school close to home‚ a non-diverse like Stanford was. They wanted her to go to a school no just close to home but were
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The home is the first and instantaneous unit for every child. He or she is born into and consider as a full member of the home. Home is a recognized group of people who are joined together by marriage. According to G.W. Davidson et al (Edo) marriage is the ceremony‚ act or contract by which a man a woman who becomes a kind of a agreement on fixed terms‚ a bond which is expected to be respected and adhered to by both parties to the agreement. Both the bride and groom usually promise to live
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An outline plan for a home energy management course Author: John McCreesh Date: 8th December 2008 Table of Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 List of Contents 2.1 An Introduction to the Course 2.2 What is Energy? 2.3 Energy Generation 2.4 The Effect of Energy Generation on the Climate 2.5 Where we Use Energy in the House 2.6 Heating 2.7 Water Heating 2.8 Lighting 2.9 Electrical Appliances 2.10 Good Practices 2.11 Renewable Energy Resources 2.12 Course Review and Future Objectives 3.0 Learning
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Home puts a human face on the issue of the stolen generation “ Discuss. Between 1910-1970 up to 100‚000 aboriginal children were taken forcibly from their homes and families‚ by police or welfare officers. These children were known as the ‘stolen generation’. The novel Home‚ by Larissa Behrendt puts a human face on the stolen generation by illustrating the acts perpetrated against them. In the novel home‚ this is delivered through the story of Garibooli and her family. Most children of the
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parent household. There has been countless research done on this issue suggesting that a single parent household is more likely/will espouse to delinquency. The daily telegraph highlights this issue with shocking statistics that “Children from broken homes ’nine times more likely to commit crimes than those from stable families’”. Work and pensions secretary Duncan smith said “the breakdown of marriage had led to the fracturing of society‚ as well as addiction‚ crime and lost productivity and tax revenues
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“Soldier’s Home” Literary Analysis It is an undeniable fact that war changes people‚ and this change becomes especially apparent when soldiers return home to their families. In the short story “Soldier’s Home”‚ Ernest Hemingway paints a picture of a soldier’s state of mind after arriving home from the war and shows the difficulties of trying to live a normal life‚ fit in with society‚ and start over. Hemingway introduces Harold Krebs as he returns home from World War I much later than the rest
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going to the lake for the day and fishing. Nobody really‚ truly thinks about what life is like when you can no longer take care of yourself. You will make it to that point eventually in your life‚ but nobody should think of moving into a retirement home as a bad thing! Things change with time‚ including these facilities. For instance‚ Chia-Hsiu Chang conducted a study investigating the effect on the resident’s satisfaction when bringing a visual art-based environment into the facility. He placed pictures
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