Death and illness can also be a major factor in not paying the payments. ... You can sometimes do something to earn a little extra income, but it is more important to control your spending. ... " This is how impacting and emotionally distressing the economy can be on regular people. ... I think it is amazing that can even happen within a large corporation such as B.O.A. Just from the laziness of that one employee, thousands of people can be negatively affected. ...

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Planet earth, which man calls home, is approximately 5 billion years old. ... The "American Dream" of owning a home and land is something almost all Americans aspire to. ... Single family homes or detached dwellings, cost much more to heat than apartments. The paved area around all homes reduces rainfall percolation back to ground water tables. ... Individuals can effect change by identifying problems in their own communities and making their voices heard. ...

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Architectural design process as well as structural design process must be thoroughly understood before a design can begin. ... The home stood 62 feet high, 122 feet wide, and 119 feet deep. ... That family lived at the home until they abandoned it in the 1920s. ... Almost every home built in the South during the 1800s features large columns. ... The home owner had no part in the design process; he simply wanted his home to be the largest one in the region. ...

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People might think that they can help others, or one might be too embarrassed to search for help. ... Consequently, most foster homes do have strong parental guidance, control over sex education, and negative mass media because there are so many restrictions as to what foster homes can and cannot perform by law.  ... Almost every home in America has at least one TV, the internet, and a cell phone. ... Checking out at the grocery store can be tricky if trying to avoid magazines. ... The media portrays single parent homes, teen pregnancy, and the social issue that America faces in a positive l...

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This is often what happens in poor homes since the parents have to work for so long. ... Whether its family conflict as previously discussed or whether the youth lives in a broken home. A broken home is when one of the parents is missing in the household. A broken home may cause law violating behavior, anti-social behavior, and greater susceptibility to peer pressure. A broken home can make a person more aggressive and hostel towards others. ...

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Typically men and boys were responsible for doing the heavy farm work and working with the large stock animals, while women and girls worked in the gardens and homes. ... This meant that families could live off one income fairly easily and women were left available to take care of things on the home front. Finally, women were encouraged to stay home since the government encouraged home ownership through home mortgages with low interest and small down payments. All of these factors urged men to work and women to stay home and care for the children, family, and household obligations. ... An ...

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This literature put the home at the center of a woman's life with child rearing the most important aspect of home. Women then became willing to follow the leanings of society and remain at home. ... This dissatisfaction at work, unhappiness at home, and separation between husband and wife led to men joining clubs and lodges and also led to the proliferation of prostitution as men looked elsewhere for the companionship they were not finding at home (Demos 71). ... The majority of women of course did not result to this procedure but the fact that many did is an astounding implication on...

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Relabeling aptitude and intelligent test can reduce concerns about racial bias, but it cannot settle the issue entirely. ... Standardized tests as well as other tests can lead to prediction bias. Prediction bias can arise whenever a school uses a test to predict student's academic performance or an employer uses a rise whenever a school uses a test to predict job performance. ... The Effects urban communities and Families have on children Moreover, urban communities and families can have a good or bad effect on children. ...

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Given this groundwork, it is apparent that memory can have a paramount and considerable effect on how events, stories, information and more importantly, history is written and passed on from generation to generation. ... You could take only the possessions you could carry and no one would tell you when you would be permitted to return home. ... They were left no choice but to sell their homes, businesses and any valuable assets they had due to the uncertainty of things to come. ... Survivor Aya Nakamura stated, "It felt so good to get out of the gates, and just know that you were going home fi...

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When Bobby has been staying out all night she plays "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" when he comes home. ... Elton is perfectly happy with time at home with the wife and kids, watching television. ... This contrast is demonstrated in a great scene were Elton and Bobby are stuck in a freeway traffic jam after being sent home for drunkenness. ... As the truck takes off, Bobby is totally absorbed in his playing, oblivious to the fact that the truck is taking a wrong exit, taking him further away from home. ... Bobby then realizes that a past or secret life can come back to haunt someone. ...

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For doing this the government officials guaranteed to the Indians the body of the treaty, safe conveyance to our new homes. ... The chief said If I had known Jackson would drive is from out homes I would have killed him that day. ... Everyone believed that the trail of tears, the Indian removal or whatever other name that you can give to it was something good for America. A land based on freedom and equality but something like this can happen. ... For doing this the government officials guaranteed to the Indians the body of the treaty, safe conveyance to our new homes. ...

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Can America afford the social, medical, and political issues the aging baby boomers demand? ... The biggest network that is boosting high following from baby boomers is the Home and Garden TV (HGTV), which profiles people who have undertaken midlife career or lifestyle changes; and vacation living, a program targeting the more affluent and older baby boomer segment considering extended vacations (Walther C. 1998). ... Prepared take-out food, more organic fruits and vegetables, specially prepared and raised meat products are some of the varieties that we can expect to be a main staple on future...

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We argue for an alternative base for action, one that can be followed. ... Parents normally have it done illegally in the home by poorly trained persons. ... A girl Amanda Bates, 13, died in her home of complications of untreated diabetes, infection was obvious in her toes. ... Although you still find this in old fashioned - religion following homes. ... Sometimes what can be even worse, normally in third world countries, once the parent finds out that the child was in trouble at school - they go thru the same kind of punishment at home. ...

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Turmoil and economic instability drove my Chinese to leave home, while the promise of a better life pushed them to America. ... Among those holidays was the Chinese New Year, every year the streets of China town turned red and bachelors came together to remember their home. ... The new calendar was named in his honor Wan-nien-li, which can be translated into a 'perpetual calendar'. ... They clean every wall, floor and surface in their home. ... Apart from their home everyone bathes and gets dressed in new clothes to welcome the New Year (Roy, 2005). ...

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Many of these families rent their homes because they bring in a low amount of income per year. ... However, relaxing in the home is more popular. ... When financing homes in the UK, the process is done much like financing a home in the United States. ... They believe that they can worship on their own their own time in their own home (Culture Grams 2002). ... When they reach the age sixteen they can choose to take a test called the General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) to get out of school or they can choose to go on for another two years. ...

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They became isolated in their new "home" and were deprived of support from their shared customs and culture (Do 41). ... The center is considered a home for many Vietnamese Americans. ... I can feel the atmosphere of Vietnam there (Le). ... Those deliver news about their home country as well as news about their new community, Little Saigon. ... Conveniently, people can drop in to grab prepackaged rice noddle dishes, or have a full-service food such as pho (Vietnamese beef noodle soup), or enjoy the fresh-squeezed sugarcane juice. ...

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Is it a "Mother- and "Father-, the father being the breadwinner and the mother staying home doing the cooking, cleaning and raising the children. ... At the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States had the highest divorce rate in the western world, and one child in ten lived in a single-parent home. ... Only careful historical analysis can correct such myths. ... Men should help with the childcare and the domestic duties of the house, after all the children are theirs also, so is the home. ... Family values can come in all different ways, they can affect t...

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The author notes that these acts make people feel angry, helpless and fearful as it seems the world can do little to stop their occurrence. ... These scholars often find acceptance in foreign nations and such nations, including the US, provide them safe haven with the hope that these converts will support social change hence support democratization in their home countries. ...

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On the contrary, most are from middle-class and higher-income homes where the power of their wealth lies in the hands of their husbands. ... Some of the more popular myths are that the battered woman syndrome affects only a small percentage of the population, drinking causes battering behavior, police can protect the battered women, battered women can always leave home, and long-standing battering relationships can change for the better, and most importantly, once a batterer, always a batterer. ... Data on wife beating are difficult to obtain because the incidents usually occur at night, in ...

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All bilingual program models use the students' home language, in addition to English, for instruction. ... Students in bilingual programs are grouped according to their first language, and teachers must be proficient in both English and the students' home language. ... ESL programs can accommodate students from different language backgrounds in the same class, and teachers do not need to be proficient in the home language of their students. ... They noted that some experts believe that English can be academically comprehensible for children in as little as two years, while others bel...

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The Monticello plantation of 5,000 acres, with its four farms, was a center of agriculture and industry, and was home not only to the Jefferson family, but also to workers, black and white, enslaved and free. On the quarter farms of Shadwell, Tufton, and Lego -- as well as the home farm on Monticello Mountain -- 130 enslaved African Americans raised crops and tended livestock, made nails and barrels, cloth and carriages. ... Thomas Jefferson wrote "the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture." ...

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As viewers follow the main character, Memo, through his journey from his home in rural Mexico to Tijuana "City of the Future" it will become apparent that the slow rural reality he once maintained at home will almost be lost as he becomes engulfed in the working life of the "Sleep Dealer" factories. ... The advancement in technology allows for greater control of resources, which can be seen through the privatization of the water in Memo's hometown. ... Last, Rudy cannot return home since he was in great controversy with the other drones, and Memo has lost connection wi...

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In organizations and on the home front, the challenge of work/life balance is rising to the top of many employers' and employees' consciousness. ... On the other hand, the work/life balance from an employer's viewpoint concerns the challenge of creating a supportive company culture where employees can focus on their jobs while at work (HR Practices). ... Scientists agree that in moderate amounts stress can be benign, even beneficial, and most people are equipped to deal with it. However, increasing levels of stress can rapidly lead to low employee morale, poor productivit...

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A young Canadian citizen was on his way home after a vacation in the Middle East. ... Not only does one have to go through many bureaucratic hurdles to make sure they can actually board a plane. ... At a minimum, they are detained for fourteen days in a U.S. military run prison likely very far from their home. ... They are never tortured, but being stuck in a prison for two weeks can be traumatizing in of itself. ... In the six hours I spent talking to him I learned those seemingly innocuous facts about his life; the wife, the son, and the food he likes from back home to build rapport and play...

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These immoral acts of forced labor can include domestic enslavement, agricultural labor, sweatshop factory labor and other service industry labor. ... Child exploitation is one of the most vicious immoral acts that a person can do. ... Because we come from a prosperous, functioning society with a moral code it is hard for us to wrap our minds around the fact that there are people out there living in poverty-stricken, disease-filled villages in developing countries that are without food, clean water, an education, a just government, and a home where they don't fall asleep fearing an attac...

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