...or a physically disabled person is a resident there or the burglar goes for a person that is weak and unprepared for these heartless crimes. In certain events, there has been times where the victim ends up getting injured or killed trying to protect his or her belongings from the person that is trying to invade his or her home. “Having a home security system installed makes your home three times less likely to be targeted by burglars (home invasion statistics...
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...MMH Design Guideline “Home away from Home” Introduction MMH Lounge, located in the Statler Hall, is an exclusive space dedicated to the students in Master of Management of Hospitality program. In this design guideline, we established the emotion characters of the new lounge to be home, relaxing, belonging, and warm, control and connected. All the design need to follow the base emotion characters of the new space. A list of detailed functionality and respective physical requirements are also detailed in this guidelines, such as study, eat, rest, presentation etc. Building on the required functions, the new MMH lounge will be relocated at the back of the existing one and the space will be double to 850 Sqft. Emotion Character Keywords: home, relaxing, belonging, control, connected, vibrant, neat, trendy, warm The base of emotion character generation lies on the analysis of target users, who are the MMH students. As graduate students who are in such an intense program, MMHers spend majority of their time at school even on weekends. The base line of emotion we want to high light is the feeling of home, where the concept of “home away from home” comes from. Derived from the base emotion, we can set other emotions that we want to express through design process. Relaxing: The feeling of home is relaxing and stress free, so the design of MMH Lounge should be able to convey the emotion of relaxing. Most of MMHers take on six to seven courses each semester which impose...
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...A Few Tips For Placing Your Belongings In Long-Term Storage If you're temporarily moving into a smaller living space, you may be left wondering what to do with all your excess belongings. You could sell them and buy new furniture when you move back into a larger place. However, if you're attached to your things, you'd probably rather put them in storage. If you decide to use a storage unit, you'll want to prepare your belongings so they won't be damaged while they're out of your sight. Here are a few tips that might help. Use Plastic Bins Plastic storage bins are much better than cardboard boxes for long-term storage because they are more rigid. There is little risk of them getting weak and collapsing over time. They stack perfectly on top of each other so there is little chance of them toppling over. Also, the bins are available in a variety of colors. You can assign each room in your home its own color. Then, when it's time to get things out of storage, you'll know exactly where each bin goes without having to read every label. Consider Climate Control Although climate controlled storage units...
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...for the study of belonging and the politics of belonging. Her article is divided into three interconnected parts. The first explores the notion of ‘belonging’ and the different analytical levels on which it needs to be studied: social locations; identifications and emotional attachments; and ethical and political values. The second part focuses on the politics of belonging and how it relates to the participatory politics of citizenship as well as to that of entitlement and status. The third part illustrates, using British examples, some of the ways particular political projects of belonging select specific levels of belonging in order to construct their projects. KEYWORDS belonging, citizenship, identities, intersectionality, politics of belonging, social locations Belonging and the politics of belonging y aim in this article is to outline an analytical framework for the study of belonging and the politics of belonging. It is important to differentiate between the two. Belonging is about emotional attachment, about feeling ‘at home’ and, as Michael Ignatieff points out,1 about feeling ‘safe’. In the aftermath of 7/7, the 2005 bombings in London*the time at which this article was written*such a definition takes on a new, if problematic, poignancy. Belonging tends to be naturalized, and becomes articulated and politicized only when it is threatened in some way. The politics of belonging comprises specific political projects aimed at constructing belonging in particular ways...
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...all, any individual living in the dorms will have to face the reality of rooming with up to three other people. At times dealing with others can be a pain, especially if they are uncooperative. Secondly, the dorms do not provide the individuals with an actual kitchen and contains a small space for refrigerating food. This means that students have to eat in the cafeteria where the food may not be the best quality. Thirdly, the dorms are very small. The average dorm is 12ft by 19ft, which is supposed to house two people and all of their belongings, such as clothes and electronics. Being cramped inside a room can be very uncomfortable as there is little to no privacy because of the closeness of everyone. Living on campus is vastly different than living at home. Home living is another option sometimes chosen by young people. First of all, home living allows the student to have access to healthy food, freshly cooked in a normal kitchen. These meals can be substantially more nutritional then on campus food as well as it’s cheaper. Secondly, staying at home allows one to have access to their own rooms. These bedrooms are generally smaller than dorms, but they contain all of one’s personal belongings. Also, living at home ensures that one will have...
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...A part of an individuals identity is defined by their surroundings. The interchanges that take place within a space can be helpful or harmful to an individual. Mary Oliver’s “Sleeping in the Forest” suggests that the relationship an individual has with the environment is beneficial to the human body. Whereas, Lower Lusatia’s “Little Red Hood” demonstrates how an external landscape can be harmful to an individual. Both characters in “Sleeping in the Forest” and “Little Red Hood” see the beauty of nature, gain a sense of belonging, and are reborn. It depends on how an individual becomes connected to an external landscape that determines how they will be effected by it. The poem “Sleeping in the Forest” brings attention to the importance of...
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...• Research Field Public spaces by their nature allow for the unfolding of real-life human dramas and the freedom of personal and social expression for both individuals and community groups. Carr for instance defines public spaces of a city such that its streets, footpaths, waterfronts, parks, plazas, town squares and laneways give form to the ebb and flow of human exchange and interaction (Carr et al, 1995). They are often where people find some of the most stimulating, exciting and worthwhile experiences of their lives (Beattie and Lehmann, 1994). The relationship between the public spaces and human behavior has been recognized for a long time. In order to explain its significance, psychologist Kurt Lewin argued that behaviors are not only...
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...Transfer line layout : For high volume products and of standard nature Other Layout Formats * Flexing process layouts to reflect varying levels of demand Examples: car assembly plants, bank and post office layouts, fast food restaurants process layouts) * Flexible office layouts Impact of IT on Delivery systems and layouts * Automated Banking * Call centres Detailed Layout Design Decision making about: * The position of staff, processes, equipment * The position, size and number of other facilities not belonging to the delivery system * The number of other requirements (entrances, exits, …, elevators) * The space that will be allocated to the above areas Must also be defined: * The steps involved in delivering products or services * The followed sequence * The process routes (Space restrictions must be considered) The features of good layouts * System flow charting * Use of space * Use of equipment * Cost of movement * Health and safety * Aesthetics and the quality of the working environment * Communications * Image and brand Designing Fixed Position Layouts Layout decisions are often made on an ad hoc basis, which reflects the current conditions of the task and situation. Uncertainty factors within layout decisions: * Delays in material shipments * Design alterations...
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...Prof. Dr. Somesh Kumar Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Module No. #01 Lecture No. #07 Random Variables So, far we were discussing the laws of probability so, in the laws of the probability we have a random experiment, as a consequence of that we have a sample space, we consider a subset of the, we consider a class of subsets of the sample space which we call our event space or the events and then we define a probability function on that. Now, we consider various types of problems for example, calculating the probability of occurrence of a certain number in throwing of a die, probability of occurrence of certain card in a drain probability of various kinds of events. However, in most of the practical situations we may not be interested in the full physical description of the sample space or the events; rather we may be interested in certain numerical characteristic of the event, consider suppose I have ten instruments and they are operating for a certain amount of time, now after amount after working for a certain amount of time, we may like to know that, how many of them are actually working in a proper way and how many of them are not working properly. Now, if there are ten instruments, it may happen that seven of them are working properly and three of them are not working properly, at this stage we may not be interested in knowing the positions, suppose we are saying one instrument, two instruments and so, on tenth...
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...Dalia Ugarte PA 311- Winter 2015 March 2015 Final Integrative Paper Assignment I’ll start off with a quote from Block and McKnight that we read in The Abundant Community, “it is one who chooses to create the life, the neighborhood, the world from their own gifts and the gifts of others.” Those are the acts of a Citizen in a community.” Now days we don’t go into the true meaning of what is means to be a Citizen in our communities. How many times do we have a conversation with our neighbors? How much time do we actual spend in our respective communities? For parents, do you know your children’s communities at school? What I’m getting to here is how much do we really spend connecting and building relationships within our communities? Like mentioned in Block and McKnight, we have turned into this world of consumers, the power that comes from within the community is diminishing because people are turning to products and services. Throughout this paper I’ll go into some essential elements that build and promote civic engagement. “Citizens create satisfaction by recognizing their individual capacities and skills. We begin to see that the neighborhood is a treasure chest” (Block & McKnight 2010). Citizens find gifts within a community, when we do this we start to realize the potential that lies within out communities. This ties directly with some main points in The Arts and Social Capital article we also read. “Whether visual, musical, dramatic, or literary, the arts allow...
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...development of urbanization, immigrants become one of the special and important parts of metropolises. The issue of their integration into local society has become a new topic for many researchers. Especially in China, with the thirty years of reform and open relations, a huge number of domestic immigrants have migrated into the big urban areas. They are facing many obstacles in their struggle to make a position in a new environment. Is there anything that the urban planners and designers can do to help them blend into the society and give them a sense of belonging and identity? This research will make efforts to address this question and discuss the relation between immigrants and urban environments, particularly the public open spaces by a series of research methodologies. Some literatures will be reviewed and discussed to give a general understanding of the relation between urbanisation and immigrants and the effects of public open space. Then, in order to narrow the research scope, the investigation of immigrants’ social integration condition will be conducted in Guangzhou which is one of the most developed metropolises in China with large amounts of domestic immigrants. Moreover, the white-collar immigrants were chosen as the main research target group. In general, “white-collar” refers to a salaried professional or an educated worker who performs semi-professional office, administrative, and sales coordination tasks, as opposed to a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual...
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...Diasporic Cross-Currents in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk HEIKE HÄRTING N HIS REVIEW of Anil’s Ghost, Todd Hoffmann describes Michael Ondaatje’s novel as a “mystery of identity” (449). Similarly, Aritha van Herk identifies “fear, unpredictability, secrecy, [and] loss” (44) as the central features of the novel and its female protagonist. Anil’s Ghost, van Herk argues, presents its readers with a “motiveless world” of terror in which “no identity is reliable, no theory waterproof” (45). Ondaatje’s novel tells the story of Anil Tessera, a Sri Lankan expatriate and forensic anthropologist working for a UN-affiliated human rights organization. Haunted by a strong sense of personal and cultural dislocation, Anil takes up an assignment in Sri Lanka, where she teams up with a local archeologist, Sarath Diyasena, to uncover evidence of the Sri Lankan government’s violations of human rights during the country’s period of acute civil war. Yet, by the end of the novel, Anil has lost the evidence that could have indicted the government and is forced to leave the country, carrying with her a feeling of guilt for her unwitting complicity in Sarath’s death. On one hand, Anil certainly embodies an ethical (albeit rather schematic) critique of the failure of global justice. On the other, her character stages diaspora, in Vijay Mishra terms, as the “normative” and “ exemplary … condition of late modernity” (“Diasporic” 441) — a condition usually associated...
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...A common question heard is, “Do humans have too many material items?” In my personal opinion, yes, we as humans have way too many material items. However, I am going to provide evidence to support my opinion on our obsession these belongings. Then, hopefully, my pint of view will be believable on this topic of discussion. The first piece evidence is that there are over three hundred thousand items in the average American home. That number is very near half a million items in one household which is fairly sad. It is a sad day in America when it seems that humans must have knick-knacks to feel the empty spaces in a house. Why is that we feel as if we must always have a simple space filled? Unfortunately, this bad habitat of ours only ends up leaving our house in clutter or shambles....
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...CASE STUDY ANXIOUS, DESPERATE & CANSINO (Elements of the Balance Sheet) 1.Anxious SA, a company which sells pins, has recorded the following items belonging to the Balance Sheet: Suppliers, trade bill payables 3.600 Capital ??? Trade receivables, trade bill receivables 3.200 Money in cash 4.800 Tables and chairs 2.400 Computers 1.800 Pins 12.000 Current payables to suppliers of fixed assets in 1 month 6.000 Suppliers 4.800 Shop and warehouse 14.400 Vehicles 3.000 Calculate the amount of Capital contributions made by the shareholders and prepare the Balance Sheet. 2. Desperate SA, whose main activity is the buying and selling of furniture, has recorded the following items belonging to the company’s worth: Contribution made by the shareholders, from the outside of the company 6.000 Loss made during the period 2.000 Short-‐term receivables over buyers of goods...
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...The two items I picked to experiment was spreading my belongings so as to occupy too much space and standing and talking with other people and not occupying too much space. In my algebra class, 3 of us sit at a table, with just enough personal space for our textbooks and notebooks. When I arrived to class, the other two people were already at the table, they are a brother and sister. I haven’t spoke too much with them because the class just started 3 weeks ago and with lecture going on, there isn’t much time to talk. After I sat down, I pulled my textbook, notebook and calculator out and placed them on the table. As the lecture started, I appeared to be writing notes in my notebook and reading from the textbook. As I did this, I intentionally moved them out to occupy more of the space from the guy sitting next to me. I noticed as I moved them inch by inch, he would move his items back away inch by inch, giving me more space. Over the next hour, I did this more and more, until I occupied at least half of his space. He occasionally started throwing me dirty looks, but didn’t say much. I could tell he was getting irritated. As I moved my items another couple inches towards him, he finally asked me what my problem was. I said sorry and that I didn’t realize my books were so far in his area. He said that he wondered how I couldn’t of noticed that, he was getting squished. I then explained the experiment to him, and he laughed and said that he was really starting to get pissed off...
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