Fourth Estate

A roofing replacement is sometimes the only option available to a home or building owner. There re times when a roof is so damaged or aged that repairing it simply isn’t sufficient. A new roof is an expensive and large project, so it’s easy to see why the process makes some building owners a tad nervous. You’ll feel more at ease, however, if you break the job down into a few simple steps. Step 1: Know Your Choices When choosing a roofing material, there are five basics to choose from. Each…

Rent Control Rent control happens mostly everywhere, but how does it work? When rents of the rental properties are held down below the market rate is called rent control. The government tried to protect poor in high rates of housing from landowners by setting up the rent control (Brownfield, 1975). Thus, the government sets up a maximum rate for the rental properties that landowners can charge to their customers to help people in poverty. When city government “imposes rent control, it means the…

Driving through Afton, feels like the typical small town USA. I went through on a Sunday morning, during the time that churches are in service. The church parking lots that I passed are packed, but main street only has a few cars. Due to it being a Sunday, many of the shops and restaurants are closed. The only opened shop on main street is the pizzeria. The sidewalks are all cleared of snow, and the roads are also plowed and salted. Many of the houses are larger and white, but all seem to be in…

French Revolution HW Define Estates (n.): Social classes of people of composed either the clergy, nobility, or commoners. Old Regime (n.): Social structure made up of the three estates originating in the middle ages. Republic (n.): Form of government that allows the people to elect officials to represent them in government. 1. Payer states that life in France during the 18th century was relatively easy and thriving at the time. Foreigners marveled at French infrastructure, the economy was…

What is ownership? Ownership is the act of possessing something, but somehow it has now turned into a controversial topic that has sparked several different perspectives. While some people view ownership as something bad, others tend to believe that it is good to own. Before establishing and opinion on whether ownership is good or bad, people need to understand how ownership and sense of self relate. With that being said, ownership and sense of self are undeniably intertwined. They are so…

There are three different social classes here in France. There is the First, Second, and Third estate. The Third Estate is tired of the First and Second not having to pay taxes. The First Estate is made up of the members of the members of the Catholic Church. There is the higher clergy, which is bishops and archbishops; and there is the lower clergy, which are the monks, Fiars, Rural and Parish priests. The Church was an integral element of both the social and political framework. The Church…

Converse, Texas is the city that I put down when the “where do you live?” question pops up on the websites I purchase my miscellaneous items from. It’s a place I only refer to as home when my address is needed for important matters such as: school, mail, purchases, but if not, San Antonio is my home forever and always. However, if we need to get technical, I live on the outskirts of San Antonio in a small city named Converse. I moved to Converse when I was 14, but because our house was on the…

The Federal government funding faces obstacles in bridging the public housing deficit gap. Iconic, urban housing failures such as 1950’s, Pruitt-Igoe projects, exemplifies U.S Federal government’s inability to adequately provide properly funded public housing. Biased public sectors contend public housing does not deteriorate due to insufficient budgeting, but it is caused by the behavior of the poor. Hence, “throwing” money will not resolve the issue. Contrarily, others argue housing conditions…

Did you hear about the old abandoned house in Berwick Pennsylvania? Well I have, I heard it from my best friend's, friend's dead uncle, John. He said it started a long time ago in a library. The library was brand new, just built. John was 16 years old and was heading towards the library to find a nonfiction book about Pennsylvania's history for a research project. When he entered the library he felt something strange, but he didn't know what was making him feel this way. He went to the…

country compared to all the other countries in Europe. With the new king, Louis XVI, France was falling in power because Louis XVI was not a smart King, and did was not able to make decisions on his own. In France, there was an uprising from the Estates, or groups of people, that want to fix the problem of low amounts of money. There are three main groups of people and one person by himself, that make up the groups of people. The lower class is everyone in society from the wealthy to the poor.…