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Roughly one-third of all home invasions involve access through an unlocked window or door, according to FBI crime stats. If you want to improve home security, it makes sense to take a closer look at your windows to make sure they are working for your advantage against would-be criminals looking to victimize your family. Because we all want to feel safe in our New Jersey & New York Metropolitan homes, we put together the following nine tips that focus on ways windows can help you improve home…

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. Those were the first words I wrote after it happened. The computer dating on the Microsoft Word file ("Notes on change.doc") reads "May 20, 2004, 11:11 p.m.," but that would have been a case of my opening the file and reflexively pressing save when I closed it. I had made no changes to that file in May. I had made no changes to that file since I wrote the words, in…

“Coal” by Audrey Lorde expounds on the power held by the spoken word and the labels put upon people. The narrator begins by referring to herself as the “total black”, the label that has been put upon herself, and elaborates on how those words and the others used to describe her leave a lasting effect. The narrator goes on to explain that while these words are used to put her down, the words only add to her power. Using vivid imagery and powerful metaphor the narrator states how her blackness is…

The media has years of experience in shaping their reader’s mentality without any one of them realizing what is being done. Not just media but just about every author falls guilty when it comes to the spreading of information. Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk worked together in writing a book called Understanding and Using English. In it, the topic of charged and slanted language is defined and discussed in great detail alongside examples. It is important to be aware of slanted and charged…

even write great ones. But most writers aren't living up to their potential. Here is a list of ways that you can improve your writing. Most of these are fixes to very common mistakes. Use the word processor that came with your computer. Mine is Microsoft Works Word Processor. The word processor has a spell- check and you can set it to check your grammar as well. I'm always finding errors in my writing thanks to these checks. I was given the advice to do this and my writing is so much better for…

The first Macintosh computer was released by Apple, Inc. in 1984 (“Apple”), following the first personal computer, or PC, released by IBM in 1981 (Sahoo). Since then, computers and laptops have evolved a lot, and have come a long way from what they once were. Now, in this modern era, there is an ongoing debate between the Mac and the PC. The question is: which is better? The obvious answer is the Mac because they are not susceptible to viruses like PCs, are rated highest in customer satisfaction…

The Giver uses very formal words that might be strange in our life. The words are words that is not what maybe an American or someone else would use a whole lot of times. We put a lot of slang into our words. They have a lot of different words, but they are all still words. So let’s start off with some of the strange words that they might use in the community. One of the first words in The Giver birthmother. Most people use the word birth mother still to this day, but most of us people use…

The constant theme throughout my journey in this program was struggle: a hard, unforgiving, sleepless nights type of struggle. This painful sensation made me believe that, from my initial core classes of undergraduate work to the beginning of this program, I had been greatly sheltered. Friends, family, co-workers and acquaintances would ask me, with such a gleeful expression, how my classes were going and I found it hard hiding my true feelings. Overtime, I could feel the pressure lighten and…

The pencil grip is a low- tech assistive technology for children and adults who struggle with writing and correct pencil grip. The device can fit on pencils, pens, crayons and all writing tools and has been said to be “easy to use and comfortable”. The Pencil Grip increases comfort, teaches proper hand positioning, and improves control. Its ergonomic design also provides relief of hand fatigue and pain. Both right handed and left handed individuals can use it. Students place their fingers on…

Throughout the year, as a class we have been given many different challenges in either the form of an essay, speech, or group presentation. The final assignment given to us was a group project presentation. From growing up in an age filled with technology, I have come to love projects that revolve around making some form of a PowerPoint presentation. This PowerPoint though, was both difficult and interesting for the reasons of being assigned group members not of my own choosing, learning to…