1.1 Introduction to Durable goods Durable goods are those which don’t wear out quickly‚ yielding utility over time rather than at once. Examples of consumer durable goods include electronic equipment‚ home furnishings and fixtures‚ photographic equipment‚ leisure equipment and kitchen appliances. They can be further classified as either white goods‚ such as refrigerators‚ washing machines and air conditioners or brown goods such as blenders‚ cooking ranges and microwaves or consumer electronics
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Southern Hospitality “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor is set in rural Georgia. The setting can affect what exists and doesn’t exist in a story. Also the setting controls the environment in which a story or event takes place and it can include specific information about time and place. Location can change the story in significant ways and help the reader understand the characters and the development of the story. Stories take their flavor from the time period it occurs in and in this
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In “Good Country People” there is secular grotesqueness along with physical grotesqueness. Not every character is evil and the majority of the evil is dealt with as internal conflict rather than external. All characters in the story “Good Country People” are well educated. Mrs. Hopewell owns a farm that the Freeman family rents out and helps run. Mrs. Hopewell in O’Conner’s “Good Country People” rejects God by showing a lack of interest in purchasing
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Good governance is a precondition for economic development. The quality of governance plays a vital role in the economic development of countries. The need for good governance is widely recognised in today’s discourses on development. The exhortation for good governance to achieve economic development is widespread. Last week we quoted President Obama who said that what Africa required was not strong men but strong institutions and good governance. President Obama who underscored the importance of
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do a good deed.” “Ok I will let him know‚” she said. After that the conversation ended. My mom hung up the phone and walked out of the kitchen. The next day my mom told me that I was going to be helping out my cousin. Since I wasn’t very sure what my cousin did‚ I was completely unsure what to expect. I was actually looking forward to it. All I really knew was that she worked with more than one person. After school that day my mom picked me up. Then we went to my cousin’s client’s house. The main
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Good Action/Good Person I consider a good action to be something that helps others and is unselfish. Within the last year I have helped my Grandma through her cancer treatments. I believe that this is a good action because it was helping my Grandma in a time of need when she needed an extra hand. I took time out of my school schedule in order to help her get to and from the treatments‚ helped her around the house and visited with her giving moral support. I would get up early and drive her to the
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Change is Good “Rip Van Winkle” is Washington Irving’s most famous short story. Irving became “a classic during his own lifetime” because his works of literature were so well written and liked by all (Washington). Rip starts the story as unhappy and changes after a mysterious night in the woods making him miss twenty years. While he was asleep the Revolutionary War happened‚ and America had separated from Great Britain. In “Rip Van Winkle‚” Washington Irving takes the main character
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Flannery O’Connor in Good Country People writes about a girl named Joy. She lives with her mother‚ Mrs. Hopewell in a big house with the maid‚ Mrs. Freeman and her two daughters‚ Glynese and Carramae that nicknamed Glycerin and Caramel by Joy. Although‚ Joy lost her leg when she was ten due to hunting accident and wears prosthetic leg‚ she managed to finish her school and earns her PhD. That proves her as a smart thirty-two years old mature woman‚ yet Mrs. Hopewell still treats her as a child. The
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A Good Parent How to be a good parent? During this period‚ raising children is the most difficult job in the world. But to be a good parent will teach them to become a nice person. So the most important quality of a good parent is being responsible for their children. There are several qualities of a good parent. The three most important qualities of a good parent are express love‚ helping your children feel safe‚ and spending a time with your children. The first quality of good parents is express
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Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? addresses the historical impact of strategic barriers‚ defined here as "continuous or mutually supporting works denying the enemy avenues of attack across a front." In his introduction‚ Brent Sterling argues for the relevance of such an appraisal given the renewal of interest in strategic defense around the world (old fashioned walls‚ as well as more novel missile defenses) and the shallow debate surrounding it‚ the "dynamic" of which "is for critics and proponents
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