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7 Reasons to Enroll a Child in an Online Elementary School

7 Reasons to Enroll a Child in an Online Elementary School Consistently, several guardians haul their children out of customary schools and select them in virtual projects. How do online grade schools advantage youngsters and their families? Why are guardians so anxious to expel their children from the framework that has worked for a considerable length of time? Here are probably the most widely recognized reasons: 1. An online school gives kids the opportunity to take a shot at building up their interests. Two decades prior, elementary younger students were given little no schoolwork. Presently, understudies frequently come back from school with long periods of worksheets, drills, and assignments to finish. Numerous guardians gripe that understudies aren’t allowed the chance to concentrate on their own abilities: learning an instrument, trying different things with science, or acing a game. Guardians of online understudies frequently find that understudies can finish their assignments quicker when they don’t have the interruption of friends to keep them down. Numerous online understudies can complete their coursework in the early evening, leaving numerous hours for children to build up their own passions.​ 2. Online schools permit children to escape from awful circumstances. Troublesome circumstances with harassing, awful instructing, or a sketchy educational plan may make school a battle. Guardians unquestionably don’t need to show their children to flee from a terrible circumstance. Nonetheless, a few guardians find that enlisting their kid in an online school can be useful for both their learning and their passionate wellbeing. 3. Families can get to know each other in the wake of selecting their children in online school. Long periods of class, after-school mentoring, and extracurricular exercises are leaving numerous families with no opportunity to spend together (beside schoolwork fits). Web based tutoring lets kids total their examinations and still invest quality energy with their friends and family. 4. Numerous online schools assist kids with working at their own pace. One of the disadvantages of customary homerooms is that educators must plan their guidance to address the issues of the understudies in the middle. On the off chance that your kid is attempting to comprehend an idea, he might be deserted. In like manner, if your youngster is unchallenged, he may need to sit exhausted and deadened for quite a long time while the remainder of the class makes up for lost time. Not every online school let understudies work at their own pace, however a developing number furnish understudies with the adaptability to get additional assistance when they need it or push forward when they don’t. 5. Online schools help understudies to create freedom. By their tendency, online schools expect understudies to build up the freedom to chip away at their own and the obligation to finish assignments by the cutoff time. Not all understudies are up for the test, however kids that build up these aptitudes will be more ready for finishing further instruction and joining the workforce. 6. Online schools assist understudies with creating innovation abilities. Innovation aptitudes are fundamental in pretty much every field and there’s no chance to get for understudies to learn online without creating probably a portion of these basic capacities. Online students will in general become capable with web correspondence, learning the executives programs, word processors, and web based conferencing. 7. Families have a more noteworthy instructive decision when they can think about online schools. Numerous families feel like they are left with hardly any instructive alternatives. There might be just a bunch of open and tuition based schools inside driving separation (or, for provincial families, there may just be a solitary school). Online schools open up a totally new arrangement of decisions for concerned guardians. Families can browse state-run online schools, increasingly free virtual contract schools, and online tuition based schools. There are schools intended for youthful entertainers, skilled students, battling understudies, and the sky is the limit from there. Not all schools will burn up all available resources, either. Freely subsidized online schools permit understudies to learn without charge. They may even give assets like PCs, supplies, and web get to.

Riot Roundup The Best Books We Read in August 2018

Riot Roundup The Best Books We Read in August 2018 We asked our contributors to share the best book they read last month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, and much, much moreâ€"there are book recommendations for everyone here! Some are old, some are new, and some aren’t even out yet. Enjoy and tell us about the highlight of your reading month in the comments. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Roy and Celestial are a young couple, just a year-and-a-half into their married life together when police break into their hotel room, wrestle Roy to the ground, and arrest him for a crime he did not commit. Now the story we might expect to hear or want to hear is how Roy and Celestial stick together like glue through thick and thin, but Roy and Celestials marriage is still new. They were still figuring out how to be married. Figuring out how to be married while separated by metal bars is a hurdle neither Roy nor Celestial is sure how to get over. In real life when a person is released from prison after evidence finally proves them innocent (or at least not sufficiently guilty) the tendency is to celebrate the win. With writing that is as beautiful as it is devastating, Tayari Jones’s shows that the story isn’t quite as simple as that. There are no winners, just lots of hurt people. This book made me think about how relationships can possibly survive a tragedy that forever change s a person’s lifeâ€"the type of life altering tragedy for which one can never be fully compensated. â€"Tiffani Willis American Wolf by Nate Blakesee Blakesee tells the story of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone Park. It’s the story of one particularly compelling wolf, O-Six, and her wolfpack. The author tries to untangle the competing interests of wolf enthusiasts, hunters, government officials, cattle ranchers and more. Not many books bring tears to my eyes, which is simply a testament to the power of its writing. â€"Elisa Shoenberger Bella Figura: How to Live, Love, and Eat the Italian Way by Kamin Mohammadi This gorgeously written memoir follows an Iranian writer who escapes her mundane, corporate life in London to live in Italy for a year. Written in an honest and atmospheric way, Mohammadi documents her journey as she learns to see the beauty in everyday things such as food, friendships, exercise, and relationships. Nonfiction novels centered around travelling never fail to inspire me to go out and explore the world around me. And Mohammadi’s journey, in the heart of Florence, helped me see the world in a positive light while also trying to improve my health and attitude for the better so I too could follow the bella figura lifestyle of grace, relaxation, and pleasure. â€"Olivia Páez Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke Attica Locke has become one of my reliable favorites among mystery writers. This book, which introduces Darren Matthews, a black Texas ranger, may be my favorite of hers so far. When the book begins, Darren is on suspension for getting too personally involved with the shooting of a white supremacist who was harassing the daughter of a family fried. Estranged from his wife, he has little to do but drink, until a friend at the FBI tells him of a pair of deaths in a nearby small town. The first death, of a young black lawyer, didn’t garner much attention, but now that a white woman has also turned up dead, people are getting worried. Everyone assumes there’s a racial angle to these crimes, but the personal relationships within the town complicate the picture. And Darren himself gets personally involved, despite his suspension, and the picture gets murkier. It’s a good story, with plenty of surprises, that also gets at some important ideas about race, relationships, and law enforce ment in America. â€"Teresa Preston Body of Work: Meditations on Mortality From the Human Anatomy Lab by Christine Montross I am a sucker for all books about the role human cadavers have played in the progression of science. From the resurrectionists prowling through cemeteries to today’s laws regulating the use of human remains, science owes an enormous debt of gratitude to the cadaver. Montross’ recollection of her anatomy studies through the incredible gift of “Eve” is equally clinical and sentimental. She understands the importance of the sometimes unseemly work she had to do in that lab, while also fully appreciating the immensity of Eve’s sacrifice. The humanity with which she viewed these cadavers was soul-replenishing. â€"Elizabeth Allen Damaged Goods by Talia Hibbert I have never read a bad Talia Hibbert book, and this is one of my favorites. Set between the Ravenswood books between the two Kabbah sisters, this one tells the story of a character from the first one, A Girl Like Her. In that book, Laura is a villain; she’s also a victim, but that’s a later discovery. In this book, Laura has left her abusive husband and gone to the seaside to have her baby. The seaside, where she spent the summer as a kid, and managed to fall in love with Samir as a teenager. The reunion of these two is both endearing and heartbreaking, and both of them have personal things they need to help themselves with before being able to successfully be in a true, loving relationship. It’s angsty without being frustrating, and darling without being over the top. Both of these people deserve happiness, and it’s a joy to watch them get it. â€"Jessica Pryde The Delicacy Strength of Lace by James Wright Leslie Marmon Silko Just straight off the bat, let me tell you that James Wright was my great-uncle. He was a poet and I never met himâ€"he died when I was a year old of a sudden and aggressive cancer. This book contains the correspondence he shared with fellow poet Leslie Silko after he sent her a note saying how much he’d enjoyed her book. To read the book is to feel that you are becoming friends right along with them; the letters start out formal, though warm, and grow to intimateâ€"not in a sexual way, but in a deep friendship. It begins with admiration, progresses to stories about a naughty rooster, and goes on from there. It is funny and warm and delightful. The letters end with my great-aunt’s telegram to Leslie when James died, mere days after meeting Leslie in person for only the second time ever. I tell you this to prepare you, because you will cry. I am crying now just writing about it. When I told my aunt that I’d read the book, she told me Leslie has never read it, though she approved the use of her letters. It was simply too hard to revisit. â€"Annika Barranti Klein The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee YA! Romance! Chinese mythology! This book was an absolute, 100% joy. Yee does a fantastic job melding tradition and innovation, giving readers a Chinese-American heroine I found myself literally cheering for and a hero who doesn’t have a problem with letting Genie step front and center when her moment comes. Even if the duo’s journey to that moment is sometimes… fraught. I’ve recommended this one to adult friends, teachers, and the target YA demographic alike. Something for everyone and impossible not to adore. Eagerly awaiting book two. â€"S.W. Sondheimer The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut #2) by Mary Robinette Kowal This is the second book in a duology that unpacks the struggle of pilot and calculator Elma York as she tries to get women into space. Kowal’s masterpiece takes place in an alt history where the space race comes after a meteor crashes into the earth, creating a climate where eventual extinction of humanity is inevitable. The space, the science, the drama, is all incredible, but Kowal’s real strength comes from the authenticity of her worldâ€"the climate change deniers, the continuation of racial violence and prejudice in this post-crisis US, the discrimination against women and particularly women of color within the space program, stigma against mental illness, and more. This duology is fantastic, and everyone should be talking about it. â€"Leah Rachel von Essen From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty I’ve always hated the idea of being buried or cremated when I die. Instead, I want to be left in the forest to serve as a feast for wild scavengers. I’ve always kept this to myself because I assumed people would think I’m crazy or, at the very least, too eccentric for polite company. As it turns out, I’m not crazy, at least not according to Caitlin Doughty, whose final wish also entails being offered up as a free happy meal to local wildlifeâ€"vultures, to be exact. In this delightfully macabre book, Doughty challenges just about every convention Westerners have about the “proper” care and disposal of corpses. In the process, she takes readers on a magical death tour, observing the funeral rites of cultures around the world, from the polished high-tech crematories of Japan to the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence (not to be confused with Cone of Silence) where bodies are left as carrion for the “sky-dancers.” If you’ve ever questioned the way our culture sweeps death an d bodily decay under the rug, you’ll love this eye-opening (and hilarious) book. â€"Kate Scott The Incendiaries by R.O. Kwon This slim little debut somehow manages to be both a slow, delicious burn and a compulsive page-turner. Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet at Edwards University, a schwanky New England college where they are both students. Phoebe is flailing under a secret guilt she carries over the death of her mother and Will is a transfer student who has just recently abandoned the religious faith that defined his young adulthood. The two are wrapped up in one another when Phoebe’s grief leads her to a religious cult led by a former Edwards student shrouded in mystery. As she embraces the very facets of faith that Will so vehemently now rejects, the two arrive at the dangerous intersection of love, loss, and fanaticism, that dark and twisty place where desire bleeds into violence and where faith ruthlessly destroys that which it should heal. So, so good! â€"Vanessa Diaz The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang This was such a fantastic read. Stella is a 30-year-old with Asperger’s who thinks she needs to learn how to be good at sex in order to find a mate and fulfil the expectations of society (and her mother). Like with everything you want to learn in life, one great method is to hire a professional to teach you. So she hires an escort. Enter Michael. What follows is the story of Stella and Michael getting to know each other, navigating family dynamics, and falling for each other. I am smitten with Stella and Michael and loved their story. This is a delightful, page-turning love story with original and charming characters and I can’t wait to read what Hoang writes next. â€"Jen Sherman The Library of Fates by Aditi Khorana This book is not a happy story, but it doesn’t have to be. It is hopeful instead, asking what events could turn a man into a monster, or a hero. Princess Amrita prepares to marry her father’s friend and the Emperor Sikander, to prevent war from hitting her country. She doesn’t know what her father saw in Sikander, and why her father wants to call off the marriage. Then tragedy strikes, and all Amrita can do is flee for her life, away from her childhood love and comfort. â€"Priya Sridhar The Matchmaker’s List by Sonya Lalli (Berkley, January 22, 2019) Raina Anand’s grandmother has always supported her. She took her in when her mother wasn’t up to the task of parenting and taught her to pursue her dreams. However, in the aftermath of an ugly breakup that leaves Raina uninterested in dating for several years, her Nani decides she has endured enough. No longer content to wait for her granddaughter to make her own decisions, Nani draws up a list of eligible men and convinces Raina to give each one a try. In this hilarious and heartfelt romantic comedy, Raina buys into the idea that “(grand)mother knows best.” The results are cringey, funny, and sexy. I was so happy to get an advance copy of Lalli’s bookâ€"I can’t believe the world has to wait until January to read it! If you like stories about tight-knit communities, wedding hijinks, intense chemistry, and stubborn women, preorder The Matchmaker’s List as soon as possible! â€"Lacey deShazo Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement by Nadya Okamoto (Simon Schuster, October 16) I did not know that there was such a thing as a menstrual movement, but now I do, and I am HERE for it. Nadya Okamoto is changing the way the world views periods and menstruators, and she’s proved it with this book, chock full o’ research on everything from the cultural history of menstruation to the ways in which menstruators are treated around the world. And that right there is something she teaches right off the bat in this wonderful, accessible book: Women aren’t the only people who menstruate, and it’s best to say “menstruators” or “people who menstruate” when talking about them. Same goes for “feminine hygiene items”â€"just say “menstrual product,” y’all. Period Power is the perfect handbook to give to young menstruators when puberty hits. It’s educational in every aspect of menstruation, not just the part about the blood. Okamoto talks about homeless menstruators, menstruators in prison, young menstruators who don’t have equal access to educationâ €¦ Everything. And in every section is the same refrain: Menstruation is a part of life, literally the way to create life, and should never, ever be viewed with shame or disgust. I wish I had this book when I was 11. â€"Ashley Holstrom The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory (Berkley, October 30) You may have noticed that most of us here at Book Riot are huge fans of The Wedding Date, Jasmine Guillory’s debut novel that came out earlier this year. I didn’t think it was possible, but I loved The Proposal even more! When Nik’s boyfriend of five months proposes to her via the jumbotron at a Dodgers game (with her name misspelled!) she turns him down. Carlos and his sister see the drama unfold from a few rows behind her and step in as fake friends to help her escape the curious crowd, and the two of them have an instant connection. It’s the meet-cutest of meet-cutes. I LOVE Nik and Carlos, and I wish I could join their friend groups. The Proposal was exactly the bubbly, fun, feel-good novel I needed this month. â€"Susie Dumond The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson If you’re a fan of true crime memoir this is a must-read. MUST. It is exceptional! Maggie Nelson is an author with a collection of published work including poetry, essays, and autobiography. She also grew up the niece of Jane Mixer, whose 1969 murder had remained unsolved until 2004. This book is about Nelson’s life, her family’s, and the trial of Jane Mixer’s murderer. It is also a meditation on humanity and societyâ€"and so many thingsâ€"that I found myself inhaling the audiobook but also needing to sit with sentences and thoughts. â€"Jamie Canaves A River of Stars by Vanessa Hua Vanessa Hua is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and the rich details in this novel show how well she knows San Francisco’s Chinatown. Scarlett Chen is a double immigrant: from her rural hometown in China to a city where she climbs up the factory ranks; and from that city to a maternity hotel in the US, where she and other pregnant women plan to give birth so that their children will have American citizenship. Things don’t go according to plan, though. The plot points aren’t always plausible, but the emotional beats ring true, as Scarlett forges an unconventional family, and as we come to understand the difficult circumstances of an abortionist, the proprietor of the maternity hotel, and many other vivid characters. â€"Christine Ro Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells I can’t even explain how much I love these books. Murderbot is just a sarcastic, anti-social,  binge-watching treasure! Rogue Protocol is the third installment in the Murderbot Diaries novella series from Martha Wells and it’s definitely my favorite so far. In this adventure, Murderbot meets up with another bot, Miki, that is the robot equivalent of a cinnamon roll that is too pure for this world, and together they try to save his crew. As usual, Murderbot is only low-key into saving the day, taking a few minutes out in the middle of the chaos to re-watch some of its favorite show, Sanctuary Moon. A bot after my own heart! There’s one more novella in the series coming out in October and a novel length adventure expected in early 2020. â€"Dana Lee Severance by Ling Ma Holy cats, I loved this book so much! It is a razor-sharp satire, a deadpan send-up of dystopias, of millenials, of cults, of SO MANY THINGS. Here’s what you need to know: A plague has turned most of the country into zombies (minus the brain eating), who sort of skip like a record in place in their pre-plague routines until they die. Candace is the orphaned daughter of Chinese immigrants who works in the bible department of a publisher. She is not interested in, well, anything, really. Her apathy is such that she doesn’t even notice this plague is going on until most of NYC is infected. Candace is somehow immune, and manages to team up with a group of survivors led by a cheesy holy roller. The group is collecting supplies to start society over again in a place called The Facility, but Candace has a secret that might change everything. This novel is smart, biting, and wholly original. It gave me You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine vibes. Did I mention I loved it? â€"Liberty Hardy Spectacle, Vol 1 by Megan Rose Gedris I’ve been following Gedris’s comics since her Yu+Me: Dream webcomic days a decade ago. Since then, her comics have only gotten better, while keeping the weirdness and queerness that appealed to me in high school. Spectacle is about Anna, who works in the circus with her twin, Kat. Anna is a psychic in the circus, but she doesn’t believe in anything supernatural. Until Kat is murdered, and her ghost sticks around to help her solve the mystery. Meanwhile, why does the bearded lady get so blush-y when she sees Anna/Kat, and why does Kat not want to talk about it? I mean, how could you go wrong with a comic about a travelling circus and a murder mystery? Add to that Gedris’s distinctive style, and I was sold. â€"Danika Ellis Stamped: An Anti-Travel Novel  by Kawika Guillermo Full disclosure: I received this book so I could review it (for another publication) along with a non-fiction travel book, which I did. As a Mvskoke (Creek) reader who is a fan of travel literature, I am wary of the problems that can befall this genre I love, like sentimentality, cultural appropriation, and oversimplification of entire nations. I was attracted to this book because its subtitle suggests it attempts to escape those problems, and it does. Stamped is a multi-voiced novel following the non-sentimental, non-madcap adventures of a group of ethnically diverse ex-pats traveling around Asia. The main voice is that of Skylar/Kawika, a genderfluid Filipino-American travel blogger. For the sake of this intriguing (if sometimes frustrating) character, I started wishing the novel could turn into one of those tidy, predictable ones in which the group of friends pulls together over a shared foreign experience or learns that people are really mostly alike. But this is an anti-travel n ovel, so it’s not that easy. But I wasn’t left depressed or bitter at the end either. Mainly, I was excited to read compelling, thoughtful, subversive travel literature by a person of color about characters of color, a perspective that isn’t represented nearly enough in the genre. â€"Stacy Pratt Stripped by Zoey Castile Zoey Castile has a thing with words that make you fall in love since the very start. Stripped is the story of a schoolteacher, Robyn, finding a sequined thong (not hers) in her laundry bag. In fact, that thong belongs to one drop-dead-gorgeous stripper, Fallon, who lives on her same building with his husky puppy. It’s the start of a fantastic love tale. This Magic Mike fanfic, as it was initially pitched as, is all around wonderful, with relatable characters and fun-as-hell chapter headings. It’s a genius romance story that will live through the ages. â€"Silvana Reyes Lopez Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman There’s no lack of YA books about grief and loss, but I’ve rarely seen it done so well. In Summer Bird Blue seventeen-year-old Rumi loses her sister in a car crash and is sent to live with her aunt in Hawaii when her mother is unable to cope with the loss. Feeling isolated and disconnected from the music she and her sister loved, Rumi pushes everyone away. But her aunt refuses to leave. And her two new neighborsâ€"la blunt surfer and a grumpy old recluseâ€"seem surprisingly immune to her temper, too. Bowman beautiful captures the complexity of sisterhood and grief, depicting characters and relationships that aren’t simple or perfect, but flawed and authentic. Her writing is lovely, her storytelling honest, and her characters frighteningly relatable. Summer Bird Blue is without a doubt one of the best books I’ve read this year. It grabs your heart and won’t let go. â€"Rachel Brittain The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal In The Summer Book, celebrated artist and author Tove Jansson “distills the essence of the summerâ€"its sunlight and stormsâ€"into twenty-two crystalline vignettes.” The vignettes follow six-year-old Sophia and her grandmother and their adventures on a remote island in the gulf of Finland. This is my first time reading what many consider a modern classic and I couldn’t agree moreâ€"The Summer Book is utterly perfect. It’s quiet and subtle, warm and wise, but with one single striking and devastating sentence Jansson changes your reading and understanding of the whole book.   â€"Pierce Alquist The Tiger at Midnight by Swati Teerdhala (Katherine Tegen Books, April 23, 2019) I couldn’t put this debut YA fantasy down, except to frantically text all my friends and tell them they needed to get a copy as soon as it publishes. Set in a world inspired by ancient Indian history and Hindu mythology, Tiger at Midnight follows the star-crossed paths of Esha, a rebel assassin, and Kunal, a loyal soldier to his uncle the general. Who just happens to be Esha’s next target. Beautiful, funny, and action-packed, this book delivers all the best tropes while serving them up in a package that’s wholy new. My only regret is that since it doesn’t publish until April, I have a ludicrously long time to wait for the sequel. â€"Jess Plummer A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (HarperCollins, October 16) I read this book in its entirely while waiting to take my dad home from a doctor’s appointment. And I was ugly cryingâ€"I’m talking snot, shortness of breath, and obnoxiously loud sobbing. When the nurse came to take me back to recovery, she was so concerned because I looked like I’d been through the wringer. An emotional wringer. And I had. By the one and only Tahereh Mafi. This book is set shortly after the events of 9/11 and centers on Shirin, a Muslim teen, and the discrimination she faces from her town and her peers. When she meets Ocean, Shirin does everything she can to protect her heart aka pushing him away. Until she can’t anymore. This book is so incredibly beautiful and timely and well-written, it’s my first Tahereh Mafi and now I’m going back to read her catalog. Your poor heart gets a complete workout, but it’s worth it. â€"Kate Krug White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo Written by a white author and aimed at a white audience, this book is an attempt to grapple with the pervasive defensiveness among white people whenever the subject of race comes up. Think you’re a progressive type who is sensitive about racial issues already and doesn’t need this book? If you’re a white progressive, this book is aimed squarely at you. It’s aimed squarely at me, a self-proclaimed progressive who is white, and I learned a ton from it. DiAngelo spells it all out: where this fragility comes from, why it’s so pervasive, what effect it has on people of color, and how to begin learning how to avoid it. I found this book challenging, disturbing, and life-changing. If every white person in America could read this book with an open mind, this would be a different country. â€"Rebecca Hussey

Frank Lloyd Wrights Plan for a Fireproof House

Perhaps it was the 1906 earthquake and great fire in San Francisco that eventually inspired Frank Lloyd Wrights April 1907 Ladies Home Journal (LHJ) article, A Fireproof House for $5000. Dutch-born Edward Bok, LHJ editor-in-chief from 1889 to 1919, saw great promise in Wrights early designs. In 1901 Bok published Wrights plans for A Home in a Prairie Town and A Small House with Lots of Room in It. The articles, including the fireproof house, included sketches and floor plans designed exclusively for the LHJ. Its no wonder that the journal was the first magazine in the world to have one million subscribers. The design for the fireproof house is very Wright—simple and modern, somewhere between Prairie style and Usonian. By 1910 Wright was comparing what he called the concrete house of The Ladies Home Journal with his other flat-roofed, concrete projects, including Unity Temple. Characteristics of Wrights 1907 Fireproof House Simple Design: The floor plan shows a typical American Foursquare, popular at the time. With four sides of equal dimensions, concrete forms could be made once and used four times. To give the house visual width or depth, a simple trellis has been added, extending from the entrance. Center stairs near the entrance provide easy access to all parts of the house. This house is designed with no attic, but includes a dry, well-lighted basement storeroom. Concrete Construction: Wright was a great promoter of reinforced concrete construction—especially as it became more affordable for homeowners. Changing industrial conditions have brought reenforced concrete construction within the reach of the average home-maker, Wright claims in the article. The steel and masonry material provides not only fire protection, but also protection from dampness, heat, and cold. A structure of this type is more enduring than if carved intact from solid stone, for it is not only a masonry monolith but interlaced with steel fibres as well. For those unfamiliar with the process of working with this building material, Wright described that you make the forms using narrow flooring smoothed on the side toward the concrete and oiled. This would make the surface smooth. Wright wrote: In the composition of the concrete for the outside walls only finely-screened birds-eye gravel is used with cement enough added to fill the voids. This mixture is put into the boxes quite dry and tamped. When the forms are removed the outside is washed with a solution of hydrochloric acid, which cuts the cement from the outer face of the pebbles, and the whole surface glistens like a piece of grey granite. Flat, Concrete Slab Roof: The walls, floors and roof of this house, writes Wright, are monolithic casting, formed in the usual manner by means of wooden, false work, the chimney at the centre carrying, like a huge post, the central load of floor and roof construction. Five-inch thick reinforced gravel concrete creates fireproof floors and a roof slab that overhangs to protect the walls. The roof is treated with tar and gravel and  angled to drain not over the cold edges of the house, but into a downspout near the winter-warm center chimney. Closable Eaves: Wright explains that To afford further protection to the second-story rooms from the heat of the sun a false ceiling is provided of plastered metal lath hanging eight inches below the bottom of the roof slab, leaving a circulating air space above, exhausted to the large open space in the centre of the chimney. Controlling the air circulation in this space (by a simple device reached from the second-story windows) is a familiar system used today in fire-prone areas—left open in summer and closed in winter and for protection from blowing embers. Plaster Interior Walls: All the interior partitions are of metal lath plastered both sides, writes Wright, or of three-inch tile set upon the floor slabs after the reinforced concrete construction is complete. After coating the inside surfaces of the outside concrete walls with a non-conducting paint, or lining them with a plaster-board, the whole is plastered two coats with a rough sand finish. The interior is trimmed with light wood strips nailed to small, porous terra-cotta blocks, which are set into the forms at the proper points before the forms are filled with the concrete. Metal Windows: Wrights design for a fireproof house includes casement windows, swinging outward....The outer sash might at no very great additional expense be made of metal. Minimal Landscaping: Frank Lloyd Wright fully believed that his design could stand on its own. As an added grace in summer foliage and flowers are arranged for as a decorative feature of the design, the only ornamentation. In winter the building is well proportioned and complete without them. Known Examples of Frank Lloyd Wright Fireproof Houses 1908: Stockman Museum, Mason City, Iowa1915: Edmund F. Brigham House, Glencoe, Illinois1915: Emil Bach House, Chicago, Illinois Resources and Further Reading Edward Bok, Bok Tower Gardens National Historic Landmark website Frank Lloyd Wright On Architecture: Selected Writings (1894-1940), Frederick Gutheim, ed., Grossets Universal Library, 1941, p. 75 A Fireproof House for $5000, by Frank Lloyd Wright, Ladies Home Journal, April 1907, p. 24. A copy of the article was on the website of the Stockman House Museum, River City Society for Historic Preservation, Mason City, IA at www.stockmanhouse.org/lhj.html [accessed August 20, 2012]Visit the Emil Bach House at gowright.org/visit/bachhouse.html, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation TrustGlencoes Notable Architecture, The Village of Glencoe; Antique Home Style has reproduced A Fireproof House for $5000 [accessed October 5, 2013]

Why Teens Run Away When There Is The Risk Of Becoming...

One in seven adolescents between the ages of ten and eighteen will run away at some point (â€Å"Running Away†). People need to pay more attention to the reasons why teens run away when there is the risk of becoming homeless. According to the National Runaway Safeline (NRS) there are between 1.7 and 2.8 million runaway and homeless youth that live on the street each year. It is important for people to know this because it estimates the number of children and teens that runaway and possibly become homeless each year. Forty six percent of runaway and homeless youth reported being physically abused, thirty eight percent reported being emotionally abused , and seventeen percent reported being forced into unwanted sexual activity by a family or household member (Homeless and Runaway Youth). Physical, emotional and sexual abuse are common reasons why teens run away. 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Topic: Heathcliffs whole aim in the novel is to gain revenge. Does he succeed? Discuss Why does he want revenge? Heathcliff through the book Heathcliff’s Revenge Introduction Define revenge Conclusion Body Con’sPro’s The people he takes revenge Did he succeed? Kills Hindley Catherine Hareton raised by Nelly Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights he gambles Topic: Heathcliffs whole aim in the novel is to gain revenge. Does he succeed? Discuss Revenge is to inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself. We will write a custom essay sample on Wuthering Heights Essay or any similar topic only for you Order Now Heathcliff seeks revenge for everything he has been through, the hurt, abuse he suffered at the hands of Hindley. Two main subjects push Heathcliff to boiling point: his desire for Catherine’s love and his need for revenge. His love for Catherine endures, as his need to get revenge on Hindley which occurs after Mr. Earnshaw’s death. It is only after Catherine’s death that Heathcliff’s revenge towards Hindley, Edgar begins getting worse as Heathcliff assumes control of Hindley’s house and son, as well as verything that is Edgars like Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff wants to own ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Thrushcross Grange’! Heathcliff is a heavy drinker and a gambler which is why he gambles in the hope to win Thrushcross Grange. When Heathcliff visits Catherine Linton he realises that Isabella Linton is infatuated with him. Heathcliff treats Edgar with absolute contempt,† Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull. †Edgar realises that he needs to fight Heathcliff to break down in fear. Though Edgar is humiliated, Heathcliff departs saying,† I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy! † Heathcliff’s plan for revenge on Edgar and Catherine is to marry Isabella, who is ignorant of love and men because she has never experienced either. Heathcliff wants to hurt Edgar because of his marriage to Catherine, and wants to get revenge on Catherine by making her jealous, which will show her that there is no love left for them to be together. This will hurt Catherine tremendously as she has always loved Heathcliff but it degrades her to marry him. Heathcliff is haunted by the ghost of Catherine because he is till motivated by the need for revenge and tries to get young Cathy away from Edgar by having her marry his son, Linton. Heathcliff never finds peace even after he dies. He meets Catherine in death and that is when he truly becomes happy. Heathcliff succeeds to take things from those who he thought had wronged him, specifically Hindley. Word count: 360 How to cite Wuthering Heights Essay, Essays

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Topic: Heathcliffs whole aim in the novel is to gain revenge. Does he succeed? Discuss Why does he want revenge? Heathcliff through the book Heathcliff’s Revenge Introduction Define revenge Conclusion Body Con’sPro’s The people he takes revenge Did he succeed? Kills Hindley Catherine Hareton raised by Nelly Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights he gambles Topic: Heathcliffs whole aim in the novel is to gain revenge. Does he succeed? Discuss Revenge is to inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to oneself. We will write a custom essay sample on Wuthering Heights Essay or any similar topic only for you Order Now Heathcliff seeks revenge for everything he has been through, the hurt, abuse he suffered at the hands of Hindley. Two main subjects push Heathcliff to boiling point: his desire for Catherine’s love and his need for revenge. His love for Catherine endures, as his need to get revenge on Hindley which occurs after Mr. Earnshaw’s death. It is only after Catherine’s death that Heathcliff’s revenge towards Hindley, Edgar begins getting worse as Heathcliff assumes control of Hindley’s house and son, as well as verything that is Edgars like Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff wants to own ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Thrushcross Grange’! Heathcliff is a heavy drinker and a gambler which is why he gambles in the hope to win Thrushcross Grange. When Heathcliff visits Catherine Linton he realises that Isabella Linton is infatuated with him. Heathcliff treats Edgar with absolute contempt,† Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull. †Edgar realises that he needs to fight Heathcliff to break down in fear. Though Edgar is humiliated, Heathcliff departs saying,† I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy! † Heathcliff’s plan for revenge on Edgar and Catherine is to marry Isabella, who is ignorant of love and men because she has never experienced either. Heathcliff wants to hurt Edgar because of his marriage to Catherine, and wants to get revenge on Catherine by making her jealous, which will show her that there is no love left for them to be together. This will hurt Catherine tremendously as she has always loved Heathcliff but it degrades her to marry him. Heathcliff is haunted by the ghost of Catherine because he is till motivated by the need for revenge and tries to get young Cathy away from Edgar by having her marry his son, Linton. Heathcliff never finds peace even after he dies. He meets Catherine in death and that is when he truly becomes happy. Heathcliff succeeds to take things from those who he thought had wronged him, specifically Hindley. Word count: 360 How to cite Wuthering Heights Essay, Essays