Front porch

bike off with the rest of the bikes, in the front yard, and ran inside to find everyone. I heard people upstairs and hurried up to find them. They were all sitting around talking and playing a board game. Now, think about how much interaction kids had in 2003 rather than 2015. They actually talked and played board games or played outside no matter what the weather was or whose house they were in. Kids back then found ways to have fun without the advanced technology that kids have today. When growing up in a small town of only 1,020 people the community is close, everybody knows everybody, which is…

Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

to the left and Baliegh went to the right where they both got into their cars. That thought kept coming back into Baliegh’s mind. She had been thinking about it a lot more recently. “What if i am adopted?” she thought, trying not to drag out the subject. “But like I am 18 about to graduate and I could have a whole nother set of family memebers that I don’t even know about”. She had to stop beating herself up about it and just accept the fact that she was different than everyone in her…

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a process that is used to compare three or more population means at the same time (Donnelly, 2013). In this scenario, Mi Casa Front Porch restaurant is looking to better understand customer satisfaction levels. A student intern assisted Mario of the Mi Casa Front Porch restaurant with some data analysis from three different locations. Mario also recognized that there are two distinct customer types that frequent the three locations. Unfortunately, the student…

Business statistics is defined as statistics that can be applied to real life business situations, which greatly assist and improve decision making abilities in areas such as marketing, finance, operations, and human resources (Donnelly, 2013). In this scenario, John and Mario are owners of the Mi Casa Front Porch restaurant, which has three different locations. Mario was interested in how many repeat customers the restaurant had, so he decided to sample 1,000 customers from the three…

How have cultural and economic factors influenced the dating world? In Beth Bailey’s book From Front Porch to Back Seat, Bailey discusses the “private” world of dating, and its public influences. Additionally, she discusses how dating trends have shifted throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as a result of these factors. These factors have reached beyond the dating shifts that Bailey discusses, and have influenced current dating trends as well. In the early 1900s, the idea of…

John Keegan, in his article The Breaking of Armies, explains that, previously, in the first battle of Ypres, the British Expeditionary Force aided the French against the Germans in establishing that area of France and of Flanders known as the Western Front. In the second battle of Ypres, the same forces managed to continue to hold the line in spite of intense fighting, and regardless of elevated German resistance that included chemical warfare and the first gas attack of the…

Survival Projects Gabby’s paragraph: Within Missouri, there are many ways in which a society could live and thrive. Home to over two hundred fish species, four hundred diverse bird breeds, and seventy mammal types that roam the land, swim through the bodies of water, or soar throughout the clear skies. Along with consuming the meat for nourishment, the leftovers, or scraps, of animals such as fish, could be used as bait for traps to capture other creatures which could be used for labor, as a…

In the Roman Empire, England, France, and the Middle East, ever since people have been around, there has always been conflict and war, a common theme being inhumanity. For example, in World War I, mustard gas produced terrible blisters on soldiers who were exposed to it and those causing this pain felt no sympathy. While war is still ongoing in the world, Europe is much more peaceful today than it was a hundred years ago and people in general are being taught to resolve conflict in a more humane…

Introduction Human resources (HR) are critical for effective organizational functioning (Griffin, 2006). The selection process, while essential to all human resource departments, differs when it comes to hiring refugees of the African Community Center of the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC/ACC). This refugee resettlement agency provides a course, the Commercial Food Safety and Service (CFaSST) program, that helps refugees get training in the hospitality industry and ultimately find…