...Summary The Isaac Bell House, also known as Edna Villa, is a shingle-style mansion built in Newport, Rhode Island. It is one of the first and most notorious examples of the Shingle style. The house-turned-museum has a complex roofline with gables and proejcting porches. The ground floor is sheathed in brick, while the upper stories are of intricately patterned cedar shingles. The building is 2-1/2 tall with an additional attic story. The house is also one of the earliest of the gilded age Newport mansions. The house is in overall good condition for its age and retains much of its original intergrity and intent due to proper restoration and building campaigns. History The house was completed in 1883 for Isaac Bell, a cotton broker and investor. The house was designed by the renowned firm, McKim, Mead, and White of New York City, who would later become one of the most prolific architecture firms of the era. Bell, was only 35 years old when the building of the house began. He was only able to live in the house until his death in 1889. Bell was married Jeanette Gordon Bennett, the sister of the founder of the Newport Casino, James Gordon Bennett, Jr. The casino, built one year before the Bell House is also built by McKim, Mead and White and shares many details and design elements....
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...It is only human nature to strive to attain more material possessions. The Tiny House project invites individuals to stray from a lavish life to a more minimalistic life. These “tiny houses” are, essentially, houses stripped from expensive add-on features and left with bare essentials. The average American spends a third to a half of their income on housing. Over a 30 year period, the average American puts about one million dollars towards their housing. The Tiny House project is a positive departure away from expensive lifestyles many people may desire. There are many positives to living in a tiny house but, there are also negatives as well. Millions of Americans live a life of debt and uncertainty. The tiny house movement focuses on a lifestyle...
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...The house was supposedly haunted and that was the selling point for Stacie Billings when he closed on the place. At least one spook house inhabited every town and Wagner House was Gatlin’s. Stacie grew up running past the place, being dared to sneak up the front steps and knock on the door, and occasionally throwing rocks at the vacant windows. In elementary school, he watched Matt Jenkins open the door and venture inside. He exploded through the door after five minutes, white faced and screaming bloody murder. In high school, Wagner House changed hands and opened as a historical museum. Stacie was first in line for the tour through the cleaned and restored house, delighting in the retelling of Wagner’s gruesome history. But new attractions don’t stay fresh for long, especially in small towns, and so after a decade the museum closed and the house went on the market. The horror bug opened its...
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...A settlement house is defined as an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational and other social services to the community. Hilda, Rose, and Rosa were three young women who decided to share their experiences with settlement houses in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Each woman describes her unique life experiences as an immigrant and describes the struggles they faced here in the United States. Although these three women cannot represent all of the women in the U.S. at this time, they do represent some of the struggles that many women did face. Working for low wages, being forced to marry violent men, constantly being afraid to walk out of their homes, and getting their houses taken away from...
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...In the play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, the story follows Nora Helmer and the life she has with her husband Torvald Helmer, who treats her as if she is his doll. The play was written in 1879 and the play takes place in the same decade. Throughout the whole play, Henrik Ibsen demonstrates the importance that social class had in the nineteenth century. In addition to the importance of social class, Ibsen also reveals the role that people were expected to live up to during the nineteenth century. To express and show how it was during this time, Henrik Ibsen’s play shows how Nora and Torvald struggle to live in a society where you expected to act a certain way to uphold your social standing. The time that the play takes place is when there...
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...In “A Doll’s House”, a play by Henrik Ibsen a woman named Nora has decided to leave her family due to an unhappy marriage. Nora’s decision to leave her family and end her marriage isn’t the only way to reclaim her identity and humanity. Nora can distance herself from Helmer and slowly find who she really is. She can speak up about how she really feels about being treated like a doll and not as an equal in their marriage. This is depicted when she tells Helmer “But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll wife...” (Ibsen 67) Nora is upset at how she isn’t permitted to have her own beliefs or act the way she wants. She wanted to be her own independent woman and make her own decisions instead of being a typical submissive wife....
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...Earlier the usage of computers at home is less and more over, most of the families didn’t need or afford more than one computer. But, Now the computers at home are not just being used for e-mail but also using for school works, shopping , music, downloading and for playing games. Hence, for many families one computer is no longer enough to go around. As having multiple computers at home, home network is being a necessity. Home network is a method of allowing two computers to communicate with each other. This network allows to share files, documents, Internet connection , printers and scanners etc. To connect the two computers, network card in each computer and a cable is needed. The most commonly used cable is Category 5 Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cable. Connecting two computers directly with the cable: Ethernet Cable using a Router: This is the most commonly used network cable for wired network at home. This cable connects the wired devices together to the local network for sharing the files and to access the internet. For the Ethernet connection, the Ethernet router and cable are physically connected between each computer and the router. This is inexpensive and it works well if all the computers, routers and cable modem are located in a close area. Ethernet cable transfers the data traffic at high speed. These are required for setting up the connection: 1. Router 2. Network interface card (NIC) in each computer 3. Ethernet Cable Routers plays a major role...
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...the car. Back at Annie’s she introduces her pet pig named Misery to Paul, she then explains why she named her pig Misery. She first started reading Misery when her husband left her because reading the book helped her block her from the problems she had to face outside. When she purchased one of Paul’s newest books she had started reading it but later that night she went into his room angry asking why he killed Misery in the book then angrily started to shake the bed violently. She goes into the bedroom and forces him to burn his newly written book just so he can bring Misery back from the dead. Paul stops taking his pain killers because he thinks they are not helping him at all. He decides to save the medicine powder from the pills in a paper envelope. Annie buys him a used typewriter and the materials necessary to begin...
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...academic discourse • To further an awareness of oneself and others through the exposure to, study of, and experiences with the written word Course Breakdown INTRODUCTION Introduction and Diagnostic Exam Grammar Review Elements of Style by Strunk and White RESEARCH Definition of Research Research Topic Problematique and Thesis Statement CRITICAL THINKING Understanding and Evaluating Data Introduction to Reaction Papers BASIC ELEMENTS OF WRITING Audience, Point of View, Levels of Language, Voice, Style Structure of the Essay Proofreading and Editing PRE-WRITING Ideas and Data-Gathering Sources and Kinds of Sources Introduction to Report Writing Organizing Ideas Introduction to Concept Papers TECHNIQUES IN WRITING Kinds of statements Making Assertions Art of Persuasion Documentation and Plagiarism Introduction to Position Papers Requirements: Report 15% Reaction Paper 15% Concept Paper 15% Position Paper 15% Research Paper 20% Research Journal (Blog) 10% Class Participation 10% House Rules: 1. English Only Policy will be observed inside the classroom during class time 2. 6 absences = a grade of 5...
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...Dealing with Neighborhood Preservation Mike Stephenson. EN3220-Written Analysis December 14th, 2012 Abstract This is a short paper on one of my few dealings with Neighborhood Preservation in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The issue they had with me was the fact that our house had chipped and peeling paint on the exterior trim. The rest of the paper includes what I did to resolve the issue they had with me. Dealing with Neighborhood Preservation This all started when one day coming home from our capstone class there was a piece of paper taped to the front door. The piece of paper was from the Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation/Code Enforcement Division. It stated they were conducting inspections in our area and that our property was found to be in violation. The violations were for chipped and peeling paint on the exterior trim of the house. If the violations were not corrected within thirty days then there is the possibility of being fined up to $2,500.00. Upon receiving this, I began to develop a step by step procedure to help resolve the issue, since most of my time was already being spent on work for our capstone class. The first step was to call and talk to the Code Enforcement Inspector. This step took almost a week to complete because we ended up playing phone tag with each other. Once we were finally able to catch each other, I was able to ask a few questions concerning the violations, time frame for completion, and to notify them of my...
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...life. Right away they have contact with different types of communication from the start. Most children can identify basic signs and logos by the age of 2 or 3. From there they will begin to experiment with written forms of communicating long before they can read by scribbling. Reading and writing develop at the same time in young children who are unified or consistent. Children love to make marks on paper. As they do this, they begin to realize that the symbols on pages are letters that form words. This will help with the attempt to put their thoughts down on paper as well. The development of writing skills consists of stages that children go through. Parents can promote early literacy development for infants by presenting cloth or cardboard books with bright pictures, reading books that have rhyming words, surrounding children with fiction and nonfiction books, magazines or games, reading simple stories with one main character and a simple plot, responding to questions your child might have about print in your house or elsewhere, and supporting early writing by making sure that paper, crayons, pencils and markers are always available. Parents can also promote early literacy development for toddlers and preschoolers by...
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...9th grade English rules. My very first piece, “If You Give a Suitor a Cookie”, was an analytical 8-point paper about The Odyssey, and it was quite literally the worst paper I have ever written. It was so terrible, that I couldn’t even make it through the first paragraph, when I attempted to re-read it. I remembered my writing not being horrible, because, otherwise, I wouldn’t have turned it in. As I recall, it was so bad, that you didn’t even grade it, because I would’ve gotten an F (thank you about that, by the way). This paper exemplifies the very beginning of my career as a high school writer, and through re-reading...
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...Content: In terms of content, this essay does not seem to fully adhere to the essay prompt. Remember that we are required to find a major theme that relates “The House On Mango Street” to your own life. Make sure to begin incorporating your own life experiences to your essay before you run out of time. Furthermore, your essay also contains several MLA formatting errors that must be addressed, so make sure to review the formatting requirement for MLA. Organization: The organization of your essay requires several corrections to ensure it is adequately organized. The first problem I noted was that you need to complete your opening paragraph of your essay, which is a critical component of any essay. Additionally, your thesis statement and...
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...This assignment was based off of a paper we read in class. I didn’t understand what it meant at first until we went over it with everyone. I was confused when this was assigned because I was clueless about what to write. I still am so I am just rambling. As I am typing this paper, I am trying to think hard about what to write. I am going to start off with telling you a little bit about myself. My full name is Abigail Yvonne Brandon. My mom was going to name me Lily, but once she had me, she completely changed her mind and named me Abigail instead. My middle is from my great grandma. Her first name was Yvonne. I used to hate it and never tell anyone because I was embarrassed. I am not embarrassed anymore, I actually tell everyone and some...
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...~ Liz Witt OUTLINE: 1) STORY SONG • A House for Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle • Baby Beluga, by Raffi • The Three Little Pigs, by Paul Galdone • Dinosaurumpus, by Tony Milton • Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin jr. and John Archambalt 2) SEASONAL/HOLIDAY • Round the Garden, by Omri Glaser • Mud, by Wendy Cheyette Lewison • Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, by Lois Ehlert • The Snowy Day, by Ezra Jack Keats • Thomas’s Snowsuit, by Robert Munsch 3) FICTION • In the Tall, Tall, Grass, by Denise Fleming • Strega Nona, by Tommie DePoala • Little Cloud, by Eric Carle • It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Shaw • The Napping House, by Audrey Wood 4) POETRY • The Foot Book, by Dr. Seuss • How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?, By Jane Yolen • Brown Bear, Brown Bear, by Bill Martin Jr. • The Shape of Me & Other Stuff, by Dr. Seuss • The Wind Blew, by Pat Hutchins 5) NON-FICTION • Black? White? Day? Night! A Book of Opposites, by Laura Vaccaro Seeger • Apples Here! By Will Hubbell • Clothing Around the World, by Kelly Doundra • We Are All Alike, We Are All Different, by the Cheltenham Elementary school Kindergarteners • Little Bear Brushes His Teeth, by Jetta Langreuter SONG & DANCE LITERACY THEMES [pic] Title: A House for Hermit Crab Author: Eric Carle Illustrator: Eric...
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