have a low emittance (0.1 or less) and high reflectance (0.9 or more). Using strips and excluders to draught proof gaps around door and window frames can save you around £30 a year on heating bills. With gaps filled‚ less cold air can enter your home. Several types of materials are used for draught proofing‚ including brushes‚ foams‚ sealants‚ strips and shaped rubber or plastic. Draught proofing is an easy and cost-effective way for owners and tenants to reduce heat loss‚ with most materials
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Libby Hathorn’s book Way Home focuses on Shane‚ a street kid who stumbles upon a cat that he adopts and cares for like a real person. The little amount of words in the book gives you the main storyline‚ but it is Gregory Roger’s pictures that steal the show. The pictures show exactly what the author is trying to portray‚ allowing for many themes and motifs to be introduced through the pictures‚ giving the story a second dimension. The first page of the story is a particularly good example of pictures
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Francesca Prof. Richard Doughty Geography 101 March 27‚ 2014 “A House Is Not a Home” I once heard a saying that stated‚ “When it rains it pours.” In some cases it is not always like that. I say that because‚ on the old country side where I live‚ rain comes in a quick shower and that’s about it. I cannot justify that for others because while reading this passage‚ I learned that some families are not as fortunate as my family and I. With that thought there two families I read about in the passage
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passed on from generation to generation to understand what happened before them. Sometimes these stories can be true‚ other times they are false. This is what happened to the people of many Indian tribes. As stated in Paul Chaat Smith’s article‚ Home of the Brave‚ several false books were written about the Indian people’s history. These false writings are just one of many issues and struggles Indians have had to live with their entire lives. Paul Chaat Smith focuses on several different aspects
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As I lay on my bed I started to reminisce about how the farm used to look. The farm was distant from all the noise almost as if deserted from society. It was not a fancy house but everything that surrounded it contributes to that special feeling of home. Every summer when I would visit I remembered that it had a tall burgundy fence around it and a very long path to get to the main house. When I would arrive at the farm‚ I knew that it was special the smell was something unexplainable and unordinary
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Micheal Pollan’s "Playing God in the Garden" addresses the many unseen aspects of farming and the technologies that are being designed to make planting effortless and safe. Pollan discusses how New Leaf (the plant company which has created the new biotechnological seeds) advertises a safer and less expensive way of farming‚ while concealing the harmful aspects of its product. The idea of genetically altering organisms has always made me uncomfortable. When I began to read this article‚ I assumed
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ALEJANDRO CASTELLANOS PAVÓN LIVING AT HOME VS LIVING AWAY FROM HOME Have you ever think on living away home? Or you prefer to live at home with your family? A lot of people‚ mainly students‚ have this question in mind. But to answer it is better to made a balance between what you will find living away and what you have living at home; but it is a difficult task because you will find a lot of differences and similarities in both situations. One obvious difference is food. Food is a minimal
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Playing The Enemy John Carlin is an author and a columnist‚ overseeing both legislative issues and games. He puts in the initial three years of his life in North London‚ before moving to Buenos Aires‚ Argentina. Having returned to England‚ he was told at St George’s College‚ Weighbridge‚ and preceded to get a MA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Besides‚ he is a senior global creator for El Pas‚ the world’s driving Spanish-vernacular every day paper‚ and was in the past
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smart home is an application of computing to the home environment and it is monitored by ambient intelligence to provide services and facilitate remote home control. This paper presents an overview of previous research on smart home as well as the related technologies. A brief discussion about smart homes and their interrelationships is presented here. It describes combined information about sensors‚ communication protocols‚ multimedia devices‚ and systems‚ which are widely used in smart home implementation
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In Home of the Free‚ Wendell Berry‚ the author takes issue with the way people go through life wanting work and lifestyles to be easier without thinking of the consequence of what it takes to live life “free”. They have the modern day conveniences to help them from getting their hands dirty or having to do anything that someone else can do for them. Berry implies the only way to avoid doing work that might get their hands dirty or feel unsafe doing or‚ is that they would have to be put into a protective
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