Sofa College Essays Samples For Students

Egyptian Revival and Bauhaus

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Ancient Egypt is one of the four ancient civilizations of the world and is also recognized as the oldest kingdom on the Earth. There are a number of alluring attractions in Egypt including the Pyramids on the Valley of the Kings and the well-known Great Sphinx. Those internationally renowned historical sites were constructed during the era of ancient Egyptian civilization extended from the first waterfall of Nile River to the Delta area. This civilization continued from the Tasa Culture (5000 BC) till the Arab conquest of Egypt (614 AD). The culture of ancient ...

The observation began at around 3:30 PM on March 28th 2016. The subject of the observation is an infant, here named GD, and is 11 months old. At the beginning of the observation, he just woke up from his afternoon nap and is alone at home with his mother.
GD woke up with a cry. His face was red, and he was flailing his arms and legs while lying on his back. Upon hearing a child cry, his mother walked to him, picked him up to soothe him. Mother checked if the child was clean to find out the ...

Introduction

Human beings tend to negotiate at one point or another in their life, on one matter or another. Some however do it more effectively those others. Human beings have been able to not only survive but also thrive as a species mainly because of this ability (Alfini, 2010) of all methods of conflict management; the negotiation process is the most efficient, flexible, eminently sensible, and economical in the human repertoire to manage differences and controversy. In early human history, disputes occurred mostly within families, tribes, communities, and individuals. Yet, despite past successes and the dire necessity of negotiations for human ...

Definition of learning

We use the term 'learning' the whole time in our day-to-day life. But do we actually know the actual meaning of this word and its real significance? Almost everything that people do, any action they take is the consequence and result of preceding learning and experience yet. On the other hand, for some people learning is still associated exceptionally with the educational process. Such idea of the concept of learning is not quite correct. Throughout our lives learn a disorderly variety of skills. For instance, as infants we learn to eat, to draw attention to ourselves, to crawl, to make ...

The first year of a child's life is the most important time for his mental and physical development. Moreover, at this age it is primarily physical development, which determines the development of the nervous system.
Lefrançois argues that children’s development originates in stages which dependent upon definite age. The author notes that children's thinking does not develop entirely smoothly: instead, there are certain points at which it begins and moves into completely new areas and abilities (2012).
Max Robson was born on 25 May 2015. He has gone through different developmental milestones during his first year of ...

The sky was covered with black clouds, and it was raining heavily, as if the skies knew what awaited me that day. I was hardly seven years old, playing with a new set of toy airplanes that my father had bought for me. I had spread all my toys on the carpet in front of the fireplace. My father was sitting on a sofa near me with a cigarette in one hand and the television remote in the other. The clock chimed. It was mid-day. My father immediately remembered that it was time for him to take his medicine. He left his ...

Ava trembled as she stared down at the man’s body, lying twisted on the road. She swallowed, trying not to be repulsed by the blood seeping from underneath his head. She looked up at Max. He was holding his hair with his hands and shaking his head in disbelief.

“I think he’s dead, Ava.”

Ava nodded and returned her gaze to the man. She felt sick. His eyes were open; they still held the same look of shock that they’d had the second before their car had hit him. His brown corduroy trousers and tatty green ...

JIT Model

Just In Time business models are founded on the principle on having supplies ready whenever they are needed (Hugos, 2011, p. 43). This model helps reduce the amount of money invested in inventories and also the associated risk of storage. When effectively applied the model helps improve the operations department of an organization such that it can produce customized products.

The JIT principle has been applied in a furniture store in our area. The store sells different house and office furniture such as desks, tables, sofa sets and beds. I learnt of the application of this model one day when ...

The two conversations I have chosen to discuss took place recently and involved two people I know: one who I know very well and another who I am friends with but not to any great extent. The first conversation took place with my Mother who I have had a strong relationship with from birth – she has always played an active role in my life and as such, we are extremely close. The conversation took place over lunch in a local restaurant. The second conversation was with a friend who I have known for a couple of years but who I have not spent a lot ...