are two key terms of the statement, “Family-owned hotels and globalization”. For my perspective, family-owned hotels are a business that family members establish and operate together and pass on to the next generation so on and so forth. Moreover, bed and breakfast (B&B), service apartment and Airbnb, in my opinion, they are kind of private small family owned that offers an overnight room with limited facilities, service, and breakfast as well. In another key word, from my point of view,…
Billy Weaver, seventeen-year-old, who has a business person mindset and the kind, generous, but dotty landlady. Dahl expertly sets up the scene for his audience, where Billy Weaver is searching for a place to stay the night. Billy Weaver notices this BED AND BREAKFAST sign, which causes him to take a peek through a house’s window to view a room with a fire burning in the hearth that appears comfortable with an equipped piano, plump armchairs, and…
Roald Dahl was a short story writer, a poet, screenwriter, and fighter pilot. One of his books was called “The Landlady”. In his story, it talks about a lady around forty-five to fifty years old, living in a house by herself until someone came around. She seems too nice at first but later on in the story when the main character, Billy, comes around and stays with her, you will find out why the landlady usually never gets guests to stay at her house. In this story, “The Landlady,” Billy Weaver…
When the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously in December of 2010 to approve new mandatory crib standards to ensure safe sleeping for infants, the Indiana Association for Child Care Resource and Referral (IACCRR) knew that replacing the current cribs would be a challenge for Indiana child care providers. Hundreds of cribs in child care centers and child care homes in Indiana needed to be replaced to meet the new standards. At an average cost of $255 per crib,…
Introduction Where should a baby sleep? Is it safe for them to co-sleep in the same bed as the parents or is it safe for them to sleep in a crib? There has been such a big controversy about what the best option of where and how an infant should sleep. Co-sleeping is said to be a practice that can increase the risk of SIDS or fatal accidents. However, despite the opposition from many medical professionals, many parents are increasingly adopting to night-time infant patterns that include…
In the story The Landlady a 17 year-old boy decides to stay at a bed and breakfast. Throughout the story we realize that the lady who is taking care of him starts to act a little bit weird. We know this because she is only interested in catering to young males. What gives us another reason for us to believe she is weird is that no one else staying at the bed and breakfast. Us readers care about Billy and don't want him to die or get hurt by the landlady. Not caring about the character(s) is one…
with toilet, sink, and shower. There should be a choice of which type of single room a guest would want by changing up the beds. Offer some with two twins, or single twin and hide-a-bed sofa and of course the queen. Next room style would be more like a mini apartment suite. This would have a sitting area separate from the bedroom and bathroom. Also offer the choices of bed set-ups in the larger suites such as double twins, queen, and king. The bathroom would be the same as with the single…
wanted to be tackled by the castle guard and tossed into the dungeons for indecency, he needed to dress. He raced around the room frantically, collecting his things all while shouting at Elora. The woman sat in bed, pouting, her arms crossed over her naked bosom. “Get the fuck out of my bed, will you?” bellowed Perceval, nearly apoplectic with rage, as he yanked up his trousers and slipped his feet into his boots. Right then, Gawain stepped into the room, his eyes skimming the scene. “Could…
identity and losing herself. Maybe the author did not tell us her name because she cannot distinguish who she really is and her purpose. Charlotte Perkins Stetson the author of The Yellow Wallpaper wrote this short story in the late 1800’s when the “bed rest cure,” was the best remedy for curing any type of sickness and being isolated much like the wife in the story. According to Saylor.org women are “innately weaker,” and “less capable of taking care of themselves.” Women of the late 1800’s did…
entire week of excruciating labor, I was very excited to kick back and relax. Eagerly I dropped my crimson backpack to the floor, letting it fall with a loud thud that must have echoed through the entire house. Still in my school uniform, I plop onto my bed and pull out my phone. Maybe I’ll watch another episode of Lost, I think to myself, unaware that my life would change forever in the coming hours. You see, it was on this day, Friday, October 17th 2014, that one of my cats, Brenna, died. I…