DIY - Home Health Checklist Building Component Condition Roof Excellent Good Satisfactory Poor Exterior: Roof Sag - Look for signs of sagging or distortion Roof Gutters - Any obvious holes or evidence of water leaks from surrounding gutters Antenna - Any external TV antenna Interior: Sarking - Is a silver foil visible (might be blue or brown) across the top of the roof? The foil (sharking) is an insulation component and it also acts as a barrier during heavy…
in Michelangelo: Art for Faith’s Sake). In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, in which he focused on illustrating various scenes from the book of Genesis using buon frescoes. The Creation of Eve is one of the frescoes he painted on the ceiling, and it’s a depiction of the story of when God created a female. In this fresco, a male is seen lying on rocks, against a tree, and appears to be asleep…
The US healthcare system is sick and and Dr. Affordable Care Act is in to help make it better. The ACA is not perfect and not everyone will benefit from it, and as consumers it is important to research this law and understand how it works. Most people before the ACA did not have insurance because it was too expensive. The ACA’s objective is to make healthcare affordable by implementing programs that are meant to evaluate the way healthcare in the US is currently handled and provide an efficient…
the $38 billion cuts being merely illusions designed to change little in the real world. The Republicans carried this resentment leading into the second showdown in the summer of 2011, where the Republicans threatened to not raise the national debt ceiling until the Democrats agreed to spending cuts. This decision brought the world to the brink of another economic crisis, and Boehner began to lose discipline within his caucus. In this case, it can be how in some aspects greater party…
Throughout my pre-undergraduate career, I attended a single sex private school from pre-kindergardin to the twelfth grade. Since the age of five years old, the mindset that my gender would not hinder me from anything that I try to accomplish in life was drilled into my mind on a daily basis. Not until I arrived to college did I realize that so many other women and men had a completely different mindset than me. Some of these people thought that women should be in traditional stereotypical gender…
I will be doing my research paper on women’s inequality in Corporate America. My goal in doing this research is to better prepare myself for my future positions with hopes of getting into Management. I want to have a better understanding of what the inequalities are and how they would affect me and other women in today’s work force. Women’s inequality issues are extremely important because, according to The United States Department of Labors website in 2010, 47% of the workforce are women.…
found in their home. The room the peasants are seen in is extremely dark, the only light source coming from a small lamp dangling from the ceiling. The lamp shines over the food that lays on the table, centering the viewer’s concern to the food, perhaps even bearing a symbolic meaning, that this meal could be the only bright moment in these peoples’ lives. The ceiling is low and close to the peasants, whom are clustered to the middle, giving the room a small and shabby feel. The house itself can…
empower the youth. Gender equality has created segregation in the workplace due to positions being delegated unfairly, wages being formed without work ethic involved, and stereotypes within the home. There is an unofficially barrier, called the ‘Glass-Ceiling’, that females have to break through in order to advance in the workplace. In many jobs, where the male is the dominate performer, females will get out shined and be forced to try extra hard even if their contribution will be of a greater…
a dark dungeon. The narrator believes he is going to die in this dungeon which is unusual because executions are usually public. In this dungeon is a small pit in the center and a pendulum swinging from the ceiling slowly descending to kill the narrator. The pendulum retracted into the ceiling and the narrator thought he was going to live, but the walls of the dungeon started to heat up and close in on the narrator pushing him into the pit. In “The Pit and the Pendulum,” Edgar Allan Poe develops…
Losing your mind is easy. Watching someone lose theirs, however, is heart wrenching. She lay there, staring at the ceiling like she was in the Sistine Chapel rather than a hospital ward. Four white walls, plain white ceiling, white curtains pulled closed. I had grown used to sitting in the uncomfortable plastic chair and studying either her pale, almost skeletal face or watching cars race by to unknown locations, people living unknown and unrelated lives. An uneven piercing beep which came from…