...The White House The White House is an extraordinary building, how it was built, burnt, and rebuilt is fascinating. The cost of the White House was $232,372 and started to be built in 1792. The White House was known as many things, such as, “President’s Palace”, “President’s House”, and “Executive mansion”. The building was not called The White House until 1901 and was not the house of the President until 1800. There are many rooms, antiques, windows, etc. and some have been around since the 1800’s. George Washington selected the location of the White House in 1791. Virginia and Maryland were pro slavery states that ceded the decision to have the White House on land. Washington chose the person who built The White House, James Hoban's. The designs...
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...How to Build Your Own Greenhouse Building your own greenhouse can be a fun and exciting activity. There are various designs and different sizes that you can choose from. You just have to take note of how much empty space you have in your yard and you can begin constructing right away. A greenhouse can give you comfort and relaxation. It’s also a good place to keep and take care of your plants, vegetables, flowers and even orchids. It provides the right sunlight and humidity these plants need to grow healthy. You, on the other hand, will feel more relaxed and rejuvenated every time you visit your greenhouse. It can enhance your self-worth knowing that you’ve used all your own efforts in building such a calm and wonderful place. If you are reluctant to spend a lot of money on your greenhouse, you can choose to build a small one...
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...ability to build things that could be twice as big and twice as fast doing it. Snow plays a big role in the construction side of life than anything else. In our world today people are building stuff on every piece of ground and you see the same lay out on every house and that is the structure of the house. In figure 13.23 you can see all that goes into a house when building it. It shows all the wood that makes up the house and how it is laid out when the contractor builds it. When building the balloon framing house it is really just held up by nails that are shot in the concrete with a gun that shoots with a cab that pushes the nail through the wood into the concrete. With the use of nails it made it easier to put the wood together to have an abundance of them. Snow had the idea of using wood because it was cheaper than other materiel and that it would hold up longer. Snow also made it possible to build a house with multiple stories to live on. In figure 13.23 you can see the other floors in the house and how...
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...extinct, humans building their houses on the homes of some animals. For example, the Piping Plover. The Piping Plover is a bird that nests in the Michigan coastline, The Canadian Great Plains, and the Atlantic Coastal Beaches. Due to the rising housing market, and the demand for beach houses, the Piping Plover’s population had decreased to only 30 mating pairs in Michigan. Only 1,398 in Canada, and 1,372 in Newfoundland. There are a million reasons of why the Piping Plover is going...
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...Selection of the Civic Project For my civic project I chose to assist in building houses for Habitat for Humanity. I have been volunteering for Habitat for Humanity for about eight years now. Originally I volunteered through school when I was attending college at Ohio State University, ever since then I have devoted at least a couple days a year building houses for different families. I enjoy volunteering for habitat because over the years I have become very handy when it comes to home projects and it’s my way of giving back to families that are doing everything they can to make it in this world. There is a very extensive selection process for the families that end up purchasing these homes with a zero percent interest mortgage and then once a family has been selected they have to put in 350+ hours of sweat equity into their home or other families homes. This is a great opportunity to meet the people that you are helping and get to know them on a personal basis. I think this is one of the best parts of volunteering with Habitat because you are helping to give someone shelter for them and their kids but you get to do it right next to them, many times the flood of emotions these families have can be overwhelming and it makes what you are doing that much more meaningful. I think this project is very important to the community because not only is Habitat for Humanity helping to get low-income families out of substandard overcrowded rental housing but they are assisting in revitalizing...
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...Once upon a time there were three brothers that lived with their parents in a big house for their first 22 years of their lives. Their names were Peter, a rocker, Jax, a pretty boy who only wanted to party, wear expensive clothes and drive fast cars and Brian, the big, responsible brother. Only Brian went to college to study and get his degree. Brian was the only one to get a good job. Peter just preferred to sing in his heavy metal’s band and Jax preferred to go out to parties, buy designer clothes he couldn’t afford and sleep around. When was the Peter’s Birthday, their parents went to buy a guitar-shaped cake as a surprise. Unfortunately, they were hit by a drunk driver and they died in the car accident. So, the 3 “little” boys decided to sell the house, and with the money they went to a lot of parties and clubs. Two months later they came to the realization that they really needed a house. So, with the money that they still had left over, they went to buy materials to build their own. They decided to build their three new homes in the local village. The village was peaceful with nice neighbors, very quiet with large parks and fountains. The village was perfect, but with one exception…in the forest next to the village lived a local politician who was incredibly greedy and very harsh with the restrictions and taxes. Peter decided to build a cabin, because he was very lazy. The cabin only took him a week to finish it. When Peter finished his cabin, he started to play his...
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...First of all, according to the case study, New Zealanders like to some changes on their houses. They spend a lot of money to build their houses and buy furniture. Nevertheless, as family members grow up, their living way changes as well. For example: an empty room could be changed to a study room. New Zealanders enjoy the culture of nature. Because of the increase in climate change, New Zealanders always consider about the sustainability and environment choices when they are choosing the houses and accommodations. Green building affects people’s lives on how they live, work and play. Recently, New Zealand building regulations have been changed due to the climate problem. New Building has been required with solar hot water heating. Nowadays, New Zealanders try to build green houses by using green materials such as wools to build their houses and using renewable resources. However, building a green house is more expensive than the normal one. It will also take more time than expected. Furthermore, Doug and Paul have been in building industry for many years. They both think the standard Eco-Shack and Urban Eco-Shack have potential. Eco-Shacks are basically transportable buildings. It can be easily transported by a Hiab truck or helicopter. The standard Eco-Shack is built in modular form, thus it is more easily to modify. It is flexible for customers, depending on their needs. It is also easily transportable and sited. The Urban Eco-Shack has already attained a council permit, so...
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...and time again. The Israelites would follow the law but then they would break the law. Because of the love God had for them He forgave them. God wanted them take advantage of the laws of the covenant and keep them. Moses would not reach the promise land with them but he did give them instructions on the aspects of life when they reach the promise land. ``They had low houses, ill built, and flat at the top, as they are generally in the east; for they cover their houses with a flat roof or floor, so that you may walk about as far as the houses go, and the neighbors walk over the tops of their houses to visit one another; and sometimes in the summer they slept on the top of them.'' 1 Step 1 Grasp the text in their town Summarize the original situation and the meaning of the text for the biblical audience. The children of Israel are traveling to the promise land. When they get there they will build new houses for themselves. Deuteronomy 22:8 KJV says, “When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, 1. Wolf, Herbert M. An Introduction to the Old Testament Pentateuch. Chicago, IL....
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...of normative male identity in the novels of Mason. Full Text Word Count: 7599 ISSN: 0038-4291 Accession Number: 15418214 Persistent link to this record (Permalink): http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=15418214&site=ehost-live Cut and Paste: The Wounded King: Bobbie Ann Mason's "Shiloh" and Marginalized Male Subjectivity. Database: Humanities International Complete Several of Bobbie Ann Mason's works have been approached from the perspective of myth-ritual criticism--especially the Grail motif--with mixed results.(n1) Perhaps the most central element of the Grail motif is the king's wound, which is clearly sexual in nature, and critics who approach Mason's work from this perspective have pointed out how she develops central characters, most notably Emmett in In Country and Leroy in "Shiloh," who seem to play analogous roles to that of the wounded king in Grail legend. However, if we approach these characters--and most particularly their wounds--from the perspective of psychoanalytic semiotics rather than myth-ritual criticism, we arrive at some very different observations about them,...
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...1. Describe how Dr. Gotmann with colleagues arrive to predictions of what leads to successful/unsuccessful marriages. * Dr. Gotmann with his colleagues invited couples to their Love Lab where the couples were tested while being observed and analyzed. * First, they separately complete some questionnaires about their marriage. (questions about their financial problems, kids.) * After that, couples together with a researcher completed an oral history Interview. ( they were sharing the story of how they met) * The next step was the conflict discussion. (the heart rates, facial expressions, emotions were monitored) * The back stage was analyzing the results. * Dr. Gotmann met the couples and talked about the findings. 2. What Dr. Gotmann and his colleagues claim to be able to predict? By analyzing the video tapes recorded of the couples, the researchers are able to predict the relationship stability. 3. Describe the “master” and “disaster” of relationships (in details). Listen for the patterns of distructive communication (4 hourses of apocalypse) the “disaster” use that you’ve also read about. Master- the couples who are together, didn’t divorce and are pretty happy. They are very gentile with one another even during an argument, take responsibility for even a small part of a problem. Disaster- couples who broke apart or stay together but are unhappy. Are pointing their finger at their partner, are critical, are diagnosing their partner’s...
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...Technology & Information Management Individual Assignment Technology & Information Management Individual Assignment Introduction Furntown is in the business of furniture manufacturing and sales. The organisation is currently considering implementing a mobile application for customers. With this new software application problem comes the question on whether to build or buy. The acquisition decision is a difficult one due to many competing interests and the different factors that affect the decision. This report aims to highlight the differences between the build and buy decision by providing an outline of the advantages and disadvantages which are inherent of each and finally deliver a recommendation for the course of action that will be best for Furntown. The organization choosing the build or buy criteria would make such a choice depending on the size of the business, the complexity of its structure, the demands of its service and how its rendered. Applications differ in use according to how they are built to suit the organizations catered for. Small organizations usually use standardized commercially built software as they work efficiently for their model whereas bigger and more developed ones need specific software uniquely made for them to cater for the complex and more demanding models they serve. A budget of any organization also forms a fundamental basis from which this choice can be made. Buying an Application from commercial vendors is more cost effective...
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...The film Smoke Signals began on the bicentennial fourth of July in 1976 in the Coeur D’Alene Indian reservation in Idaho. A fire at the house of Matty and John Builds-the-Fire was the how the lives of two Native American infants, Victor Joseph and Thomas Builds-the-Fire, first became intertwined. The road trip to Phoenix, Arizona occurred after Arnold Joseph had died and Victor was sent to retrieve his father’s ashes. Throughout the film, director Chris Eyre used symbolism, such as fire, ashes, and the names of characters to illustrate the journey of self-discovery for two long-time childhood Native American Indians. The film, Smoke Signals, started out with a house engulfed in flames on the bicentennial Fourth of July celebration in 1976....
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...The House On Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros, follows a young girl named Esperanza through her coming of age. The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, written by Sherman Alexie, also follows their young protagonist, Junior, throughout his coming of age. The setting, conflict, and characterization of both novels intertwine and build up one another. The final picture created in each book, once these three aspects come together, have little differences; and overall leave the reader with a similar take away. Mango Street, the setting of The House On Mango Street is a poor neighborhood. The setting of The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, is an indian reservation, which is also impoverished. The state of poverty in this indian reservation is shown when the author writes, “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.” (Alexie 31). In the quote the author is describing the moment Junior opened up his geometry book and saw his mother’s name written on the cover. The fact that both settings are poor expose...
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...among the best illustrated children’s books of the year by The New York Times Book Reviews. Red Riding Hood by James Marshall is a retelling of the traditional folktale. The illustrations and text add humor to the suspenseful tale. This gently humorous retelling of the classic fairytale of Little Red Riding Hood combines the familiar Grimm Brothers tale with appealing engaging character. The characters’ personalities come alive through the boldly colored detailed cartoon style watercolor and black ink line illustrations. The simple text works well with the sprinkling of subtle humorous illustrations, like the empty box of after dinner mints next to the loud snoring wolf. Red Riding Hood encounters a wolf on the way to her grandmother’s house, and is later tricked into thinking the wolf is her grandmother. At the end Red Riding Hood proves she has learned a lesson about talking to strangers. This book would be most appealing to K-2nd grade students. This story could be used as a starting point to begin discussion about not talking to strangers. Students could also make predictions about what they think will happen when Red Riding Hood encounters another stranger on the last page. Hazel and Gretel by James Marshall is about two...
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...Information is not knowledge, merely one of the raw materials needed to obtain it. Just as a pile of bricks is not a house -even though bricks are the raw materials necessary to build it- a pile of data is not a doctoral thesis, not even a newspaper article, although information is also the raw material you need to write them. Nobody in their right mind would mistake a house for a pile of bricks. However, this rather clumsy equivalence between something necessary –but not sufficient– to obtain an end in itself is often found in the public discourse on knowledge and information. This causes serious damage when understanding and managing the processes for acquiring knowledgeand assessing the capacity for action and communication between people, all of which are essential issues for human coexistence, the economy, and one of the cornerstones ofsociety. Before a pile of bricks can become a house we need a few more elements, but above all we need something fundamental, something that’s missing from the pile of bricks: order. The bricks in the pile are disordered, unlike the bricks in a house which are arranged in groups and joined together following a very complex order in order to achieve a specific end, namely to build a house. Exactly the same thing happens with knowledge: information, data, and other items of information arranged haphazardly or in elementary groups (for example in a database) are like a pile of bricks and –although some people insist on claiming otherwise– are...
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