The Old Apartment

My usual was different from everybody else 's usual. My mom was stuck with minimum wage paying jobs. She was offered a job at a gym, and eventually a place to live. We moved, once again, this time a peculiar place. We inhabited an old spa above the gym she worked at. At this time I said goodbye to my tight knit group of friends in Beekman, and blossomed socially in Millbrook. In spite of my mother going to jail and moving numerous places I always found my place socially. At this…

20 years old how am I going to take on a new life in America? I don’t know any English, I only know how to be a bricklayer, and I know nothing of the culture. My Dad, Vincenzo I, was a calm man he didn’t think the way I did. He was always positive and never let me give up. He was never worried about learning the language or anything, he was just happy he was with his family and he knew all other thing would come with time. My brother Antonio, was similar to my father. He’s 16 years old and he’s…

a capital to do it. You need to have a few months rent as a deposit for the landlord, but they are not going to be as much money as the one needed to buy a house. The second reason why renting is good is because it leaves you free to leave the apartment whenever you want (or with a very short notice period). This is good if your work required you to travel a lot and you need to change where you live very often, or if you are living with your girlfriend in a very small house and you want to have…

I’m always looking to keep my money in my wallet and my savings accounts. But I also like to be comfortable, particularly in my own home during a heat wave. If you’re ready to get proactive and dedicate a little time, you’ll enjoy a much more pleasant summer, minimizing sweat and save energy at home at the same time. Even better, you’ll benefit from these changes in the winter as well. What home improvements have you made to lower the cost of keeping cool in the hot summer months? Add eco…

Chapter 2 - The Private Rented Sector Private renting means housing that is owned by private individual, company or organisation. Private rented sector plays important role in providing accommodation for all sorts of different household and people. There have been increasing in the private rented sector over the past 25 to 30 years. There are now more than 9 million private renters in England. This growth has been particularly rapid since 2001 with the introduction of Buy to Let mortgage finance…

live in a rented apartment. You pay a monthly rent and you never see that money again. Yes, you do get a roof over your head, and hopefully all the utilities you need, such as electricity, heat, and water, but still, you are paying for things you will never own. Instead that money is going into someone else’s pocket. In other words, you are throwing away money. It is disappearing out of sight and you have nothing to prove that it was ever used. If you lived in an apartment for two years,…

they moved in. People want to stay here. There are four level rentals. 16% of residents are medium incomers. Site design+typologies Rittenhouse Square locates in the South Los Angeles and the surrounding neighborhood is not very developed. The apartment building…

It was made into Sengra’s apartment living room. It had couches, chairs, a window sill, tables, and a bar leading into a kitchen. It was definitely a perfect look for the performance, and everything was set perfectly. The costumes for these characters were pretty basic and simple,…

Prior to having any classroom teaching experience I always felt that a good educator would have to constantly adjust to the needs of their students in order to be effective. My fall student teaching placement only reinforced this belief, I can almost say that I underestimated this belief. My placement site was Mott Hall II, a public middle school serving grades 6-8 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I learned to like the location of my placement site really quickly, I had a great…

Villa Anbar is a house designed by Nohad Al-turki and Peter Barber Architects. Villa Anbar is a fairly small residence and is executed under a tight budget, the villa is located in a middle-class area and it occupies a total area of 510-m2 and the plot size is 300-m2. The house is rectangular in shape and has a small courtyard in the centre with a single frontage on the west side street. The openings to the courtyard are small and appear to be scattered along the façade giving the villa an…