...For her entire life, Jeannette Walls struggles to find the delicate balance existing between the turbulence wrought by her homelife and the order of society so despised by her father. Growing up, Walls was subjected to her father’s alcohol problems and thus poverty ensued. Exhibiting unwavering loyalty towards her incompetent father, Walls would vigorously defend him against familial and outside antagonizers. Yet after this alliance shattered, she rejects her father’s precepts feeling ashamed of her upbringing and soon after moved to New York. When Jeannette asks her mother about what she should do when people ask about her parents’ situation or her past, her mom said “Just tell the truth” (5). In her memoir The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls...
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...at one end. It was this type that the early Christians adopted for their churches, possibly because similar halls in large private houses had been used for Christian worship before the religion was officially recognized by the Roman emperor Constantine in 313. St. Paul’s Methodist Here is one of the side portals at St. Paul’s. Since this is not one of the main entrances there are no portal jam works of art. Some of the portal decorations encompass all the elements and coordinate into a coherent iconographical plan focusing on the comings of Christ. St. Paul’s Methodist In this photo of St. Paul’s Methodist you can see Buttress Piers. They start from the ground level going up to support the walls and roof. The buttress pier block the equivalent force from the vaulting of the side aisle....
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...|RESEARCH WINDOWS ON GENDER MAINSTREAMING | | | | | | | |Dr.M.Neeraja Venkat MBA,PGD-IRPM,Ph.D | |Worked as an Assistant professor, Dept.of Business Administration, | |Sri devi women’s Engineering college ,Hyderabad . | |Mobile: +254771888277, Email:tummalaneeraja@gmail.com. | | | | | |...
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...Benefits of Business glass doors Nowadays, there is a great demand for the systems of glass which also seems to be great large market as well. No matter you are shifting from the local shops of furniture or any other online store, their you can also find the wonderful and ex citing shops and stores for you that fulfill many commercial purposes. The name also indicates that the exterior doors are developed to assist the professional with their every demand that is necessary for the maintenance and the development. Many people unaware of such places to find these kind of the doors and they find the expensive thing and products. To get rid of such type of issues and problems, you should go for the online shops where you can find the products in such range. The rating that are higher, the high acoustical, therefore don't think of such kind of sound proofing which you need. The sound ratings are of no use until the [partitions of the room that need the high voice rating. In such situation, the isolation is very crucial, so you may need to consult to the acoustician independently. When you are installing the partitions of doors, you might consider the storage space that is easy to place doors more far away the way you look at these kinds of products. The frameless sliding doors are creating the huge in thdemand in market today. These partitions are best that one can use to derive more functional characteristics at the workplace. If you wish to make the workplace more amazing...
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...the local employees and adjusting to and respecting the new culture should be analyzed. One of the main things to measure is to see whether his actions and work thus far is aligned with the original business plan for the Indian subsidiary. Although he got offices set up in Mumbai and Delhi, currently there were no sales, thus something must be done to see where the problem lies: diagnose it and come up with an adjusted strategy, especially with the new tax policies. 3) Silvio believes that installing the nonstandard glass wall elevator will be difficult for the new staff to get used to. But, installing it would allow the company to see how it is received in India and thus provide some way to gauge for future plans to install more of this nonstandard glass wall elevator. It might also increase sales. Perhaps they can do a trial run and install one and then adapt and change accordingly when they see how the people react to this nonstandard glass wall...
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...SITE SECURITY SURVEY TABLE OF CONTENTS SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS: Page 1. Entry Barriers 3 2 Signs 5 3. Lighting 6 4. Windows 7 5. Equipment Near Street Level Windows 8 6. Interior Patrol Visibility 9 7. Burglary Resistant Glazing Materials 9 8. Shrubbery 10 9. Skylights 10 10. Vents 10 11. Air Conditioners 11 12. Grills and Gratings 11 13. Doors and Door Frames 12 14. Strikes 14 15. Key Control 15 16. Equipment Locks 15 17. Hinge Protection 16 18. Roof Accessibility 17 19. Fences 18 20. Vehicle Security 19 21. Padlocks 19 22. Hasps 20 23. Chains 20 24. Safes 21 25. Inventories and Engraving 21 26. Reporting Crimes 22 27. Employee Participation 22 |SECURITY RECOMMENDATION 1 | |ENTRY BARRIERS | |A. Normal business hours | | | | |1. |Place signs limiting access to "EMPLOYEES ONLY" to discourage people from entering an area. ...
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...For young Jeanette Walls, the protagonist of her own captivating memoir The Glass Castle, life is much like fire in the way that it can be controlled for only a moment, before it begins to lose control and release its true wild nature. Throughout the book, Walls uses the motif of fire to portray life with her family and her own personal understanding of the damage and effects that such a life brought upon her. In my one-pager project, I used quotes to portray this evolution of understanding. As a five year old girl, Jeanette caught on fire while cooking herself hot dogs. After the incident, Jeanette became obsessed with fire, always lighting matches and blowing them out. She claims that she had become so captivated by the control that...
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...Naima ENG-276G Compare and Contrast Two memoirs Where Did You Sleep Last Night? by Danzy Senna and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls share the same similarities in their life stories: a bad childhood within an alcoholic father. However, these two writers are separated from each other about their feeling toward their family: Senna has child anger to her broken family while Walls has forgiven her careless parents. This anger leads Senna to write this book that she explored her father’s past within her self-discovery. However, Walls writes about her past by telling about her memories of childhood without seeking self-exploration; instead she shows how forgiveness played an important role in her relationship with her parents. Senna’s was a daughter of bi-racial couple who has very different backgrounds. Her parents divorced when she was a young child. Her troubled past drives her to investigate both sides of her family, particularly her paternal line. She says, “I thought of what was not there, the other half of me, my father’s side, which I knew nothing about” (13). Her father’s background is multiracial and filled with oral stories with unanswered questions. Because of this, she was challenged to discover her father’s origins and to see what they were all about so she would be able to discover her own identity within his lineage. In fact, it was a self-discovery for her with convoluted past that was filled with pain and gaping holes that illuminates...
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...about 200 m. The parabolic reflector concentrated the light on a photo-conducting selenium cell, which formed a part of a circuit with a battery and a receiving earphone. Sound waves present in the vicinity of the diaphragm vibrated the diaphragm, which led to a consequent variation of the light reflected by the diaphragm. The variation of the light falling on the selenium cell changed the electrical conductivity of the cell, which in turn changed the current in the electrical circuit. This changing current reproduced the sound on the earphone. Fiber Optic Technology Fiber Optic is a technology that uses glass as thin as a human hair to transmit data from one place to another by sending pulses of light through an optical fiber. The light forms an electromagnetic carrier wave that is modulated to carry information. A fiber optic cable consists of a bundle of glass threads, each of which is capable of transmitting messages modulated onto light waves. It is widely used for communications, which permit transmits data over longer distances and at higher bandwidths than other forms of communications. Fibers are used instead of metal wires because signals travel along them with less loss, and they are also immune to electromagnetic interference. Fibers are also used for illumination and are wrapped in bundles so they can be used to carry images, thus...
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...De’Mon Simpson Dr. Robinson April 2012 SOC/320 University of Phoenix WORKSHOP#3 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS * What is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)? What does the DHS do for United States citizens? The DHS is a cabinet department of the U.S. federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibility of protecting the U.S.A and the U.S. territories from and responds to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural diasters. The DHS works in the civilian sphere to protect the U.S. within, at, and outside its borders. Its goal is to prepare for, prevent, and respond to domestic emergencies, particularly terrorism. * If you lived in a country outside the United States and wanted to come to the United States to work, to live, or to attend an institution of higher learning, what process would you follow? Describe a realistic or imagined scenario, and explain the legal process as outlined by the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. If you had a relative(parent, child, or spouse) that is a US citizen, then you can obtain a green card easier. As soon as you filed a petition and it is approved by the USCIS( U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services). Hold on to your green card for a minimual of 5 years to become an American Citizen (3 years in case of your spouse is a US citizen). Pass the language and civics test * What do you think are the biggest concerns some people have about illegal...
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...Appendix D Floor Plan Site Survey Data Sheet The following tables will help you gather the data necessary for analyzing each of the five floor plans in the Floor Plan Site Survey exercise. As you go through the exercise, complete the information in each table. The information gathered in this assignment will assist you in your final project. Conference Center |Explain the major features of this floor plan. For example, are there large open spaces, large walls, cubes, or offices?| |Within this plan there are a lot of walls. This plan also has a lot of offices. | |Identify areas of this floor plan that may present issues when designing your network. Why will these areas present | |issues? For each area identified, what can you do to overcome the issue? | |The areas what I see that may present a problem would be the back hall way because it does not have any signal strength.| |I believe this happened because of all of the walls in between the access point and the back offices. One thing that | |can be done for this is to install another access point on the other end of the building or move the access point that | |already exists. | |Based on your site survey, do you think that placing the wireless access point in the data center is an ideal location? | |Would you place it...
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...its logical free plan, glass and marble walls, steel supports and lack of ornamentation, it embodied the principles of architectural modernism. An object of simple serenity for those living in the perils of a chaotic post-war nation, the structure provided an opportunity for reflection to those seeking a new national direction. The pavilion’s modernism was perhaps best exemplified through its technique. It “consisted of a rectangular slab roof supported by steel columns, beneath which free-standing planes of Roman travertine, marble, onyx and glass of various hues were placed to create the feeling of space beyond.” Noted for its austerity, the lack of ornamentation signaled the rejection of a corrupt imperial regime and the classical structures associated with it. Mies instead intended to develop a new form of modern architecture appropriate for an impending industrial democracy. For it was his aesthetic belief that “architectural beauty resides in the simple, spare, almost chaste execution of a logical system.” “The boldest contribution of orthodox modern architecture was the development of what has been called ‘flowing space’…This kind of space produced an architecture of related planes, horizontal and vertical.” One of the key modernist features employed in the German Pavilion was this logically rational floor plan. It “engaged its site through the careful contrast between the long travertine walls, the roof slab, and the unbroken palace wall,” subdividing the space...
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...project took 3 years to build and was completed in 1939. Originally a weekend home, but now it is a national landmark and is remembered for being Wright's greatest achievement. The house is built on a waterfall in Bear Run, Pennsylvania. It has a daring and dramatic shape which looks over a waterfall. The house was built using only re-enforced concrete, sand stone, glass, and steel and used masonry bricks for the outer walls. Wright used clever techniques to conceal the structural elements. One example is the use of structural steel in window mullions to support the upper terrace, and the use of reinforced concrete by concealing beams within the concrete slabs of the terrace. The cantilevers used to support its upper level terrace and 4 corbels piers hidden beneath the concrete give off the illusion that it is freely standing over a 30 foot waterfall....
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...Gothic Architecture can be viewed as the skyscrapers of the medieval era with the sheer height of the buildings and the slender windows and columns adding to the verticality of the buildings. In his book 'Gothic' Prof. Dr Bruno Klein enlightens the readers that Gothic Architecture was not entirely initiated with the construction of St. Denis by Abbot Sugar but rather played as major catalyst for the movement which had slowly started to appear in the late Romanesque movement. By instigating a search through Klein's work a better understanding of the Gothic movement can be achieved. This paper will discuss in detail factors that contributed towards the Gothic movement and how the movement was not initiated by the construction of St. Denise by Abbot Sugar but rather a few years before hand. By exploring factors such as political, social and cultural beliefs and values that influence the dramatic change that helped emerge the gothic movement and differ it from its predecessor. Aim of this paper is showcase and illuminate the differences between Gothic and Romanesque Architecture but also how past Architectural styles transcends over time rather than stop with the Architectural movement ends and moves to another. The fact that the founding stone of Gothic Architecture was laid on the july 14 1140 can be disputed (Toman and Bednorz 2007, pg 28). According to Prof. Dr. Bruno Klein the rebuilding of the choir of the Benedictine church of St. Denis was begun at the influence of Abbot...
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...“The Glass Ceiling” The glass ceiling is an invisible, but real barrier that prevents people, often women and minorities from achieving further success. I think that the glass ceiling may be more of a form of sexism. The expression is often used to describe the sexist attitudes that many women run into in the work environment. The term “glass ceiling” originated from the Wall Street Journal in 1986 and was then used in the title of an article by A.M. Morrison and others that was published in 1987 (“The Glass Ceiling”, 2009). The glass ceiling has yet to be broken, but as of now, it is scratched at the most. There are some women who succeed in breaking the glass ceiling of professional advancement, but unfortunately, they can face an increased risk of sexual harassment from coworkers and subordinates. Sexual harassment in the workplace in relation to the glass ceiling boils down to power. Some men may find the general growth of women in higher occupations not only disconcerting, but also threatening. Sexual harassment can be a way for these men to reassert their dominance and feel falsely secure. Even when breaking the glass ceiling, women have to earn legitimacy in organizations that favor and reward stereotypical masculine values and practices. In other words, they have to work harder than men to prove their worth. One case that may have cracked the glass ceiling was Petruska v. Gannon University. Petruska sues the university administration claiming that she was demoted...
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