Cobblestone

Youngest Brother Shoulders back, head up. Look him in the eyes. The slow, drawn-out breaths from the air-tank are the only sounds filling the room. No, someone sniffles, a tear runs down a cheek; it’s my mother, it’s my sister. Stay strong. His bloated stomach moves with the sounds, in and out, out of his control. His flat chest quivers, I can see his heart-beating, I can feel mine. His legs lay motionless for the first time in many years. He was always moving. Moving ships off the coast of…

We decided to leave in August. A late June departure would have been warmer, drier, and offered more hours of daylight but work schedules prevented that choice. A perk was that it was a slower time of year for tourism and we could expect lower prices and lighter crowds. As many as five others talked about joining us, but life, jobs, and family demands dwindled the numbers to Mike and I. With only two months to go, we were caribou in the headlights. Two tiny dots against the entire landmass of…

Like for example in the case of The Historic Town of Vigan City, they are protecting/preserving its cobblestone streets and its unique European architecture. That’s why other vehicles are permitted to enter these streets. Only kalesas are allowed. And in the case of Paoay Church, they are protecting its physical appearance since it was partially destroyed…

America has been the land that has always grown and expanded. Expanded with the idea that you can do anything you want, build what you want, and create anything you please. Business boomed in the 1800’s with many men and many ideas that created with each other. Andrew Carnegie invested in the Woodruff Corporation and created the very first railroad sleeping car. In 1860 he ended up making five thousand dollars a year and ended with an annual income of almost fifty thousand dollars a year.…

Satisfied guests come back and do word-of-mouth advertising. This leads to a higher average infrastructure utilisation and at the same time leads to reduced advertising costs. Wehrli et al. (2011) stated that Lucerne gets over a million overnight tourists every year not counting the number of tourists who just stop by the city during the day. This staggering number can only take place if the visitors kept coming back to the city as the numbers do not at all imply that these million visitors…

2. INTRODUCTION India's luxury market is expanding and is is expected to cross the $10 billion-mark by 2014 boosted by a new class of wealthy termed as the 'closet customers' who have joined the traditionally rich contributing to higher luxury sales, as per ET report. According to the CII-IMRB report, as a result of the economic slowdown in 2013 has impacted the luxury market to a certain extent but by mid-2014 the market is expected to revive and continue its growth trajectory and grow at…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…