Closing

in place, and a well-planned schedule for closing both homes simultaneously. First things first, meet with your realtor and talk about listing your current home, while you’re looking for a new home. Your realtor can confirm what’s on the market that you’d like to purchase and what the prospect buyers are looking for when it comes to selling your existing home. The information gives you a clear idea of timing for selling a house and your realtor can research the market conditions on your prospective new home. This first strategy is going to save you a great deal of stress for listing and selling your home and lessen the disappointment of finding the perfect new home but not ready to make an offer to purchase it. Next is determining the market value on your current home, so you know how much you…

Today, I am interviewing my very close friend Nathan Hayes (male, 14). He is struggling with a slow disease called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). We both do competitive fighting and he travels with me and the competition team at Focus Martial Arts & Fitness. He first found out he was going blind when he was 10 years old. He just said “Oh, just another obstacle.” and continued living a normal life. He Made a ‘Bucket List’ where he wrote a list of things he wanted to do and see before he goes blind,…

The closing of schools has had a huge effect on the students, teachers, and parents due to the fact that closing of schools has transferred children into other neighborhoods. In the article “Philadelphia School District Plans to Close Dozens of Schools”, Jon Hurdle talks about how the schools are closing due to being underused, under financed, and under performing problems that put the school in bad educational The first reason Jon Hurdle says the schools are closing is because they are…

The Effects of Closing the Wage Gap Women have always been working even if their jobs and work went unnoticed. Since women joined the workforce their work has always been undervalued. When working for wages in the revolutionary era, the jobs they did were considered unskilled labor that required no particular education or training. It was also believed that women were not working to support a family since that was what the man was for, they were just working for extra spending money so their…

Reports have surfaced the internet today that Walmart's Oakland branch is closing. The reason behind the closure is said to be because Oakland's local minimum wage is higher compared to the city's. Tim Worstall, a contributor to Forbes, explains that it's not to examine whether the claim to blame the high cost of minimum wage is true, rather it's to examine if Walmart has done the reasonable thing in an economic and business standpoint. It has been reported previously that Walmart stores are…

War is something that has followed humanity since the beginning. From the very beginning of time humans have been fighting each other, stealing each other’s resources, and trying to assert dominance over others. Because of its omnipresence, war has been explored in literature countless times. One of the most unique experiences of war and literature is the novel Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Catch-22 is war satire, set in World War II and follows the actions of a bombardier, Captain John…

In texts “ Miniver Cheevy” and “ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” there are specific descriptions to illustrate the main character’s daydreams and personalities. In the story “ The secret Life of Walter Mitty,” The protagonist Walter is an adventurous person who dreams of five incredible episodes. In his dreams, he becomes different characters, such as the commander of a navy plane, a well-known surgeon, a crack shot, and a British pilot. On the other hand, Miniver Cheevy is a cynical and…

This quote is demonstrating how Catch-22 has defeated its own purpose. The government wants to cut out any questionable text from the letters. If an officer signs his name, then the officer is allowing the censorship to be traced back to him, which essentially sets up the censored text to be revealed. This quote is highlighting one of the novel’s themes, hypocrisy. This theme is important to the story because on numerous occasions Catch-22 will make a statement, flips that statement, and always…

Along with all the death that war has brought, the dilemma of how carelessly lives are thrown away is also raised. In Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, he satirizes the struggles of wartime for a combat pilot Yossarian that finds himself unable to escape the “Catch 22” system. Forced to fly seemingly endless missions alongside high death probabilities, Yossarian finds that the enemies are all around him from his own living cells to his commanding officer. The novel follows him and his companion’s…

The most important motif found in Catch-22, is Catch-22 itself. The author uses Catch-22 throughout the story, not only to describe the circular reasoning the military uses on its pilots, but in behavior and dialog as well. It begins on the first page of the book, when Yossarian explains the doctors’ dilemma regarding Yossarian’s liver, and continues to the end of the book, when the old woman from the brothel summarized the idea of Catch-22 by telling Yossarian, “they have a right to do…