...troro twme. He prcters working from hoinr because hv can spend more time ivitli his family and have a better work-life balance. Sunjit isn't alone: in Britain, there are 2.1 million people who work from home at present. In addition, about eight million people spend some time working in the home rather than in an office. This is almost twice as many as ten years ago. This rapidly-growing trend towards working from home is the same in many countries. But what are the reasons for it? The main reason is technological: easy access to broadband and the availability of phone and vidco-conferencing. These enable people to use their home as an office in an efficient and cost-effective way. Other reasons for homeworking are the benefits to both employers and employees: office space is costly, so if an organisation can reduce its workstations, it may be able to move to a smaller site. Employees often work better at home: travelling to work can be very time-consuming and tiring. Many homeworkers save a lot of time if they don't commute and they can start the day fresher and therefore work more efficiently; parents with young children appreciate the flexibility that homeworking allows and are more relaxed. Siinjit Patcl s;iys, 'fK'avelSeen working itom home stnce my son was born and have been really i.-iijoyins it. liut. i can tell you that homeworking requires special skills like self-discipline and time management. I've known my boss and colleagues for a long...
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...Tina Grenon Professor Schmitt English 1101/48 10 September 2012 My Dream Home My dream home that I design will be all that I imagine and more. It will be a three bedroom, Ranch-styled, brick home with a three car garage and a massive double front door. Some of the interior features will include a chef’s kitchen and spa-like on-suites. Outdoors will consist of meandering pathways through colorful shade gardens that lead up to a flagstone terrace that overlooks the in-ground swimming pool. The ultimate chef’s kitchen in my home will have cool black granite countertops lining the walls, breakfast bar, and island. A double-oven and pasta sink is a must for an Italian inspired kitchen. An oversized copper sink with the apron showing would be housed around the breakfast bar for easy access. The warm glow from the pendant lighting surrounding the kitchen with rich copper undertones sets the perfect mood lighting as I cook delicious creations with sinful aromas. Afterwards, I can wash my cares away by visiting one of the spa-like on-suites just off of any one of the bedrooms. Each one includes a walk-in shower with stunning rainfall showerheads and travertine tiles. If I prefer a soak, I can slide into a warm bubble bath in one of the copper claw-foot tubs situated by a picture window overlooking the many gardens. Once my senses have been renewed, I can wander outdoors...
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...The Fall of Affordable Dream Homes How well can someone know the reasons for failure of a business? In my case, intimately. I partnered with my husband Dave for five years as a general contractor in our business Affordable Dream Homes. We became a statistic, one of the fifty-five percent of businesses that fail before their fifth anniversary (Hatten, 2009, p. 17). In the years that have passed since our business failed, I’ve mulled over why and have wrestled with what we could have done differently. Businesses fail for many reasons. Our case was classic. We failed in the long run first and foremost due to poor management. We also lacked capital, expert advice, marketing know-how, and we were pricing our product incorrectly. Off to a Great Start We started the business with great prospects, however. My husband Dave and I had dreamed of opening our own business for over ten years. Both of us craved the independence afforded us of working for ourselves, but between the two of us, we didn’t possess much in the way of small business management experience. I worked as an accounting and administrative clerk. Dave had a degree in construction management. He had managed a Winchell’s donut shop for two and a half years fresh out of college and then worked in residential construction as a construction manager and finish carpenter for five years. We became homebuilders in March of 1992. Our goal was to build beautiful, affordable new homes for clients and we named...
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...Questions on A Raisin in the Sun Answer any 8 questions, but make sure to answer #8 1. What does Mama’s plant represent, and how does the symbol evolve over the course of the play? Examine the end of the play. Why is Mama returning for her plant the last action we see on stage ?Mamas plant represents her faith in her dreams. That regardless of their living arrangements and life’s struggles, but never to give up on anything. She took care of it every day it was a representation of her dreams to always live in a bigger and better house with a yard. It showed how strong she was throughout everything life gave her. That’s why she took the new plant to the new house to show that never giving up and keeping your faith her strength in believing in dreams that they come true. Struggle but to maintain your dignity. Dreams do come true. 2. How does the description of the Younger’s’ apartment contribute to the mood of the play? The apartment sets the mood because it sets the surroundings and the environment . It is a small apt with one window it gives the feeling of being cramped and trapped. It lets you know there in the ghetto and are poverty stricken. 3. How does the idea of assimilation become important? The family shows in the hope to succeed regardless of any obstacles. The struggles with their identity as with being African Americans. Beneatha with her academics to be a doctor to heal, and as well as her conflicts with Everyone. ...
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...A dream is an idea or vision that is created in your imagination and that is not real. If a dream is just a figment of the imagination then there is no way that an American’s dream for ones’s life can be surreal, right? Nowadays, being a stay at home parent is a phantom of the mind, money is peoples’ happiness, and unemployment is becoming more and more prevalent. Dreaming about the way one wants their life to be one day is simply just a dream. At sometime in a person’s life everyone dreams of being a stay at home parent: taking care of the kids, having the house cleaned, and dinner cooked on the table when their significant other gets home from a long day at work. Being a stay at home parent is not as common as it use to be. If an American...
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...Diabetic. My senior year started like it was going to be the best year of my life. I had planned out my future to one day reach my dreams. Varsity cheerleading was working its way to the top. I was so excited about all the things I had accomplished. But on August 22, 2013 my life changed forever. As I was diagnosed I realized I would be changing my lifestyle, adapting to all new things. I saw that my future was not going to be easy, at all. But with my family and friends I knew anything was possible. Beginning of senior year I was ready to conquer the world it seemed like. I was ready to go out and fight for all my dreams. I wanted to make them reality. As a varsity cheerleader I was planning on continuing what I love in college. I was planning on continuing on into college to eventually become a veterinarian. But on that day, the day I was diagnosed I realized everything would be put into a different view now. Everything I had planned now came with the question, “but what if…” Cheerleading is my one love and being diagnosed really impacted it for me. My first practice back was the hardest. I lost most of tumbling because my body grew weak. As the practices continue on though, I will work my hardest at all I do. It is my senior year and a dream of mine used to be to go on to cheer in college. As I look at it now though, it seems as if my dreams were taken from me. High school cheerleading is one thing, college is another. As a senior, working my hardest and being a role model...
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...1) Divide the stanzas: Stanzas 1-3 A request for making a mutual attempt at letting America live up to the dreams that were once dreamed about it – by the pioneers and in its Declaration of independence Stanza 4: An interlude – someone asking who the lyric speaker is Stanzas 5-7: An elaborate answer to the question above: The lyric speaker, the “I” is (a representative of) the black man, the Indian, the poor white man, the people Stanza 8: The same person as above, now described as the pioneer who left his home country because of a dream – but it remains a dream Stanzas 9-10: repetition of the request to make America what it was intended to be – a country for every man, including the lyric speaker (representative of the people) Stanza 11: The land must be redeemed by the people (we) and they (we) must “make America again) 2) The situation( who is telling us the poem, what is being told?: The poem is written by a person telling us about how he wants America to be as it used to be. How all us people should all be the same. How both the indian, the black man, and also the poor white man is innocent in this chancing of America. He says that he is all the persons in one. He is the poor white man searching for gold, he is the Indian disappearing in his own country and he is the black man being dragged to another country to serve white men. He even says that he is the man “who says grab the land, grab the gold, of owning everything for one’s own greed”. He is...
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...runs, it hurts. His legs hurt. His arms hurt. His back hurts. His head hurts. When Dieter runs, his whole body hurts. Then, Dieter starts thinking. He starts dreaming. He dreams about his job. He dreams about his home. He dreams about his family. He dreams about his friends. He dreams about the world. At first, running hurts. No one likes it when it hurts. When it hurts, Dieter dreams about things that do not hurt. This is why Dieter loves running. Running gives him the best dreams. Sometimes, Dieter forgets that he is running. Sometimes, he runs all morning. Sometimes, he runs all afternoon. Sometimes, he runs all night. Dieter runs and dreams. Questions: 1) What does Dieter love to do? A. B. C. D. He loves to run. He loves to dream. He loves to think. He loves to hurt. 2) When Dieter runs, it hurts. What does this mean? A. He feels good. B. He feels bad. 3) What does Dieter do while he is running? A. B. C. D. He dreams. He sleeps. He eats. He drinks. 4) What does Dieter dream about? I. his job II. his family III. his future A. B. C. D. I only I and II II and III I, II, and III Answers and Explanations 1) A The first line of the story says, “Dieter loves to run.” Therefore (A) is correct. Dieter loves running because it “gives him the best dreams,” but the story does not say that Dieter loves to dream. Therefore (B) is incorrect. When running makes Dieter’s body hurt, “Dieter starts thinking.” The story does not say that Dieter loves thinking. Therefore (C) is incorrect...
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...Therefore, he gets out and get a job as a helper of a window cleaner. He spent time to cleaning windows. One day he meet a boy from his school named Martin. Martin is interested about his job and how much he earns. Martin threatens him whit a knife and he gave Martin his bag. He tell his boss about the episode, together they confront Martin and his mother, but they do not have any evidence, so they could not get the bag back. In the end of the story, the boy goes home, after his boss has told him not to come back the next Monday. 2. The boy lived whit his foster mom and we do not know why. He work whit cleaning windows so he can’t earn money, instead of going on college. There was a time when he lives whit his reel parents, he was fit and was the best runner in the school. He will be fit again, so he cant get the sport leadership on college and he won’t to go to the gym again so he can be fit. He is a daydreamer and he is very slow to her work. He is fascinated to look how people lived and love the smell of their homes. 3. His boss called Phill thinks he is stable because he always shows up no matter the weather. But he also thinks he is slow to do the work and he really trust at him as a person, and he try to help him whit get the bag back. His foster mom thinks he is lazy because he just sits and watch TV. She mean that he should learn to stand on her own feet, and learn something about the real world. Martin are from his school, and he is very cruel to him, he calls...
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...Women and Journeys As John Gartner once said, there are only two plots in all of literature, either the main character goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Women have however never been the one going on a journey or a stranger that comes to town. Though women have longed to explore the world, they have always been denied participation in public life. “Women and Journeys” by Mary Morris discusses this problem. Mary Morris describes the differences in acceptability and possibility of travelling for the different genders. Historically it has always been the men who went out explore the world, while women stayed at home. This division continued up through time. Women were limited in order to keep them at home. In the western world women were to wear corsets. Significantly the bindings in the corsets were called “stays”. The corsets kept women from going far and from going fast, since corsets are very tightly bound together. In the eastern world women’s feet were broken repeatedly, in order to bend the toes under the bottom of the feet. This made it completely impossible for women to walk, since it was extremely hurtful. Eventually the women’s feet were caught with gangrene, which caused death. So not only were women psychologically restricted from going anywhere, there were literally restricted physically as well As a cause of the conditions women only got to experience the part where a stranger comes to town. As the feminist Elaine Showalter said it: ”Emotions rushed...
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...ictionary ictionary D D KINGSTON’s KINGSTON SOTELO I LIFE Let me ask you a question. In your own point of view, what is life? It’s a simple question yet, hard to explain. Well son I’ll tell you, life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. Is it familiar to you? Haha well it’s from a famous poem written by Langston Hughes. And it’s true. Life is not that easy, there are many challenges to meet. Well for me, life is… a word of course. Let me tell you a story. Hi! I’m Kingston and I’m going to tell you the story of me. Before we go to the end, we start from the beginning right? Okay? Okay. There was a little boy born in the city Vigan. He was the cutest and the most… haha lol just kidding. Okay here’s the real one. My life wasn’t that easy. I always got bullied in school and always be the last one to be chosen in all the activities. I think that my classmates hate me. It’s true but there’s this guy who can accept who am I, the name is Warren Jay Parada. He was my best friend since the last summer for maybe how long? Ohm… 7 months? Yeah well he was the happiest person I’ve met yet, he had the most incurable pain. Why? Well you’ll know this in the next chapter. So Let’s go back to the story… I always got bullied it’s true and the one started it was my so called “FRIEND”, Mr. Rei Christian Presto. Oh, what a nice name but wait it’s the exact opposite of the attitude, personalities, and the face! And all other things. Well he was best friend actually, but since...
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...Every person has at least some sort of a dream. Some dreams can be easily accomplished, while others require a lot of work. There are realistic dreams along with unrealistic ones. But what exactly makes a dream doable? What makes it viable? In To Kill A Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, and the visual text, American Denial, the viability of a dream can be synthesized in order in order to show how the doability of one’s dreams can impact them. In the first text, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill A Mockingbird, incorporates these viable dreams in order to create a meaningful story. We are able to see this concept through some characters. One character is young and full of life, his name is Dill. Dill has many dream that many could say are unrealistic. “I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown.” (Lee 289) During this scene, Jem and Dill are discussing their future jobs. When Dill says he will be a clown, Jem is...
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...(The Dream I Once Dreamt) Submitted by: Faustino B. Asir Ed11 Universidad De Manila College of Education Submitted to: Prof. Nigel Cornejo The Dream I Once Dreamt Before I start telling one of the several stories of my lovelife, let me first introduce to you the person who serves as my guiding inspiration, the guy that seems to be perfect for me from then until now. Juan Antonio M. Oriondo or just simply Benjo for short, the guy whom I am really crazy for. His personality is merely the same as mine. For about two years of studying his life, I concluded that we’re very compatible to one another and maybe I think he’s the right person for me. April 25 year 2010, a moment for me and for Benjo to celebrate another year of our existence. One cool evening of that day when I received a birth day message from him. I was surprised that time because in the first place we’re not friends at all and we are not that close to each other for him to greet me in that very inspiring way. While reading his message for me, several different things came in my mind such as hundred feet mansion and thousand hectares land wherein we can live happily, peacefully and free from any disappointments, burdens and problems. I am on my way going home from computer shop when I saw him, sitting in the bench, having his cellular phone on his hands and maybe texting with somebody else or whatsoever. I have to ignore my heart’s palpitation and as well as the shame which I am bearing that time...
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...Dreams Dreaming, it is a part of our human nature. As people we dream about many things such as things we want, love, happiness and many more. In John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, during the great depression, the characters of the novel dream about having a better life. These dreams inspire them to persevere through their harsh lives, but many unforeseen events cause the destruction of these dreams. The two big dreamers in the novel is the main characters; George and Lennie. They always dreamed about having their own farm, which motivated the two to work and go on with life. Instead of blowing out their money every night like all the workers on the ranch, George and Lennie save up their money for their goal of having a farm. “Guys like us...
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...(that's the guy) drug use, and keeps him out of even worse trouble. Then he talks about people suffering from diseases because they aren't getting enough food. Chapter 2 Now we're in Dr. William Haber's office. Haber's staring at a giant photograph of Mt. Hood. Haber is distracted from the painting when George Orr walks into his office. George is thin, has fair hair and eyes, and seems like the most ordinary guy you could ever meet. Haber is a sleep doctor, and he guesses that George has been trying to stop his dreams. Well, it turns out that's a pretty dangerous thing. Something that could even be deadly. It takes a while, but George finally tells Dr. Haber why he's been avoiding dreaming: his dreams change things. The dreams don't just come true, and they're not just prophetic—they actually change reality. George tells the story of the first time he was sure he changed reality. He was 17, and he had an aunt who kept trying to have sex with him. One night, he had a dream in which she was killed in a car crash, and when he woke up, his aunt was gone. It's not that she left: the past was actually totally different. She was killed in a car crash, so she was...
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