Houses and apartments

Buying a house or an apartment

Do I want to buy a house or an apartment? Everybody asks this question when we want to buy some property. We have to focus on three important points that will help us to decide buying a house or an apartment.
The first point that people have to take in consideration when they buy property is the price. Usually apartments are cheaper than houses because apartments have less space and privacy. In general, houses are more comfortable than apartments; that’s why houses are more expensive. The price of both depends on which neighborhood the property is.
Second, the space and comfort that a house or an apartment have is also very important. Usually houses have big rooms, garden, garage, and more storage in comparison to apartments. However, I have one in Chicago and the rooms are big, but I have to share the laundry room and the garden with my neighbors. Houses don’t have this kind of the problems.
In addition, it is very important to know about houses or apartments work before to buy the property. We have to paint outside the house, cut the grass, and we have to clean the snow in the street in winter if we buy a house. In general, buildings have an engineer who does all those activities and we don’t have to pay extra because part of the assessment covers that. Owners of a house or an apartment have to maintain inside of the property like painting and fixing something inside of the propriety.
Finally, it is very important to consider all advantages and disadvantages when buying a house or an apartment. We have to analyze what is convenient for us before making a decision. In my opinion, buying a house or an apartment is a good investment. We have to think which of the options are better for us.

Tea or coffee

One of the questions we ask ourselves each day in the morning is should I drink tea or coffee? The answer forces us to make a hard decision, especially when is a habit start the day with a cup coffee, and continue with drinking it all day long. The answer of a hard decision of whether is better for you, and what health benefits we have from them according to their ingredients.

One of the most common drinks in the morning is coffee. Somehow we ask coffee to wake us with energy to keep going at work, and during the day to finish a hard day. On the other hand tea helps us to relax, clear our thoughts and we get healthy benefits from it.

Balancing health benefits from teas and coffee can give us good results. For example it’s unbelievable how a simple bag of tea with natural leaves helps our body to prevent diseases such as Alzheimer’s, strokes, blood pressure, heart attack, leukemia hypertension and cancer. The more tea you drink, more benefits you get and it does not alter your metabolism. In contrast with coffee, the more you drink, more bad symptoms you have, like anxiety, sleeplessness, headaches and abnormal heart pressure.

The difference in the ingredients that characterize tea, and coffee are the antioxidants and caffeine. The natural ingredients and antioxidants of tea, combined with vegetables and fruits, between all the different tea flavors provide a difference in the benefits to your body. Green tea for example may help you to reduce risks of leukemia, and a tea that contains fluoride can helps your teeth and bad breath. Unlike caffeine, the ingredient of coffee gives bad breath and some times bad acne, besides not helping to our hormones. Also some coffee is artificially flavored from wine products. Coffee can be stronger like Colombian or African, depends it is origin.

Finally the happiest solution is to have one or two cups of coffee in the morning, and keep drinking tea for the rest of the day.

Emma E.

Jogging outside instead, going to gym

Spring has come to Chicago. I often come across people running on the streets. And, I want to go out on the beautiful day. Walking and running outside make us feel refreshed not only physical health. However, it is difficult to keep running outside regularly because of the weather in Chicago. Therefore, many people may prefer going to the gym. I compare each feature in order to prepare us for a short best season in Chicago.

The first difference is the cost between running on the street and going to the gym. As you know, running on the street is free and easy to go. On the other hand, we need to pay monthly membership to go to the gum. In addition, we may pay on admission depending on the gym.

Secondary, there are different opportunities between running on the street and going to the gym. Running outside is very simple, only we need to do is change clothes. However, weather affects this activity very much. In the winter in Chicago, it is dangerous to run outside because of ice and snow. Even in spring and summer, we have thunder storms in Chicago. In contrast, we do not care about weather when we go to the gym. We can enjoy running and swimming on the day of heavy snow or burning sun.

Finally, these two situations have different kind of fun. Running on the street is fun. We can feel wind, sunshine and the smell of nature. And we may find something new in our neighborhood, like new restaurants and shops. Unlike the streets, going to the gym does not tell us any changes. That is a space cut off from the outside.

After considering all the characteristics, I cannot choose one of them. I want to keep both and make my choice depending on the day. Now is the best season for running in the streets, I recommend you to do it. When winter comes, let’s shift to the gym

Hot or Cold Climates

Hot or Cold Climates

Hot or cold climate, which is better? a year has four seasons spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each season has special characteristic. Spring has wonderful thing all the flowers come, and the birds prepare every thing for their nest. Summer is hot, fun and people do ouside activities. Autumn is beautiful, when you see how trees change color and lose their leaves little by little. Winter is the least fun season. It's hardest season because around the world have extreme climates for example, North and South Poles are cold and the desert is hot. A lot of people anjoy the climates for different reasons some of them like hot or cold, anothers clothing, and many people have stress.
Most peole enjoy hot climates because its day are long, and have the opportunity to go to the zoo. People can learn many things about the wild animals. They can go to the baech to swimm and get a suntan or enjoy a BBQ together. Nevertheless, winter has short days that is the reason why people don't have many opportunity to enjoy activities. People have time for work and sleep. Summer has hot days then people can go to play, ride bicycle, t0 walk. People like hot days. Winter has short days that are why people don't want to go outside, they prefer to stay at home. If they want to go ouside they can go to the museum and aquarium because they have only inside activities.
Clothinf in hot weather is easier bacause people can wear short, T-shirt, and dresses. Those kinds of clothes are easy. In seasons life is easy. People take shower and wear short and T-shirts. However, cold weather is hard because if the people go outside, they need to wear many layers like sweater, coat, and scraves. It's very aesy to wear open toe shoes than boots need socks and sometimes need two pairs of socks to keep your feet warm.
Finally, stress is often connecter to climates. Hot days mean less stress because the people have opportunity to garden, like plant flowers, water the flawers, and grill, cook outside. On cold days; however, most people sit inside and watch TV. On sunny days people walk around the street or park and do exercises. On snow days, people stay at home watching TV , eat, and shoveling the snow. these days may be more stressful.
In my opinion, the best weather is hot because we have the opportunity to do many things. All the baeches have a lot of vacationaers because there are many activities to do. Nonetheless, in many places, where there are snowcapped mountains,there aren't many people around, like on the beaches.

Reading is great hobby

Everybody has hobby. Some people like sports, some people like playing music and some people like reading. Hobby can help you to alleviate the pressure of working and studying. My hobby is reading, and it is very helpful activity. First, reading is a completely free activity that anyone can do. It is suitable for all kinds of people, such as children, old people or busy people. If you want to read, you don’t have to buy books. There are a lot of free ways for you to read. You can go to a library where you will find many books. You can borrow some books from the library and go home to read them. It’s very convenient and free. Also you can read on the Internet, there are all kinds of news, stories that you want to know. You can just stay home to read them. Second many new things can be learned from books. You can learn about different culture. There are a lot of countries, maybe some countries where you’ve never heard of. Such as I’ve ever gone to England, but across reading books, I learned British who pay attention to their demeanor extraordinarily and stressed gentlemanly manners. If you are interested in science books, you can get some books about science. The books will be your teacher and show you the magical world of science.Finally, you can enter a fantasy world. When you feel sad, you can read some humor books. The books will take you to the other world that have no worries and help you feel happy. If you are interested in science fiction, you can read some science books and it will take you to a future world. There are many things that are inconceivable will make you feel strange and unusual. Such as people life in the universe or you can fly in the universe. Maybe these things are no practical. But in the books you can think whatever you want. And you can read some books about life, what will be showing you some truth and tell you how to solve life problem. Reading is very good hobby. It can be your teacher teaches you many
interesting things, it can be your friend imagining the future with you, or it can
be your guide taking you travels around the world. It’s very helpful for us. If
you have no hobby yet, reading will be your good choice.

Online shopping VS traditional shopping

With the development of science and technology, internet has closely linked to our lives. And online shopping has become a trend. A specialist said” online shopping will replace traditional shopping one day in the future,” really? In general, both online shopping and traditional shopping have some merits and shortages.

First of all, most people are concerned with convenient. For online shopping, all you need to do is sit in front of your computer and rap the mouse gently, and then the merchandise you order will be delivered to you directly. This is especially good for the old, the sick and busy people who cannot shop in person. On the other hand, for traditional shopping, people have to push the transportation and crowd to go from one shop to another. This can waste a lot of energy and time. Moreover, the terrible weather is a big problem.

Secondly, the price between both online shopping is usually cheaper than traditional shopping and does not have the time and region limit. For example, my brother has brought a HP notebook online and he was saved $100. Moreover, this model is already out of stock in the traditional store. In addition, traditional stores have specific hours of operation, but online you can shop whenever you need and wherever you want.

Finally, people also are concerned with the merchandise’s detail and understanding. Online, all you know about that merchandise is only from the contexts or several pictures provided on the computer. Sometimes may not be the same as what you have seen on the computer. But traditional shopping you can see and touch the goods or try them on personally. You can scrutinize it everywhere from top to bottom before you buy it. Everything in traditional shopping is tangible and authentic.

In conclusion, each kind of shopping has its advantages and disadvantages. And, it’s true that sometimes, merits could be shortages, depending upon the perspective you hold. So, whichever you choose, just enjoy your shopping and do whichever you are most comfortable with.

To shop or go shopping

I remembered a famous person said:" work hardly in order to go shopping,when you died you can't take anyone to heaven. More and more advanced and beautiful merchandise appear in the world, and we can choose two ways to shopping: online and in stores.
One difference between shopping online and in stores is method of payment. If you go shopping in a store, you can use cash or a credit card to pay. But you have to pay gas or public price because you have to drive to a mall. Sometimes you drive downtown, but you have to pay the parking price, and it's very expensive. On the other hand, shopping online you can use credit card available. However, you must pay the delivery charge, like five to ten dollars. Then, the merchandise will be mailed to your home. In addition, a lot of merchandise online is cheaperthan store.
Another difference between shopping online and in store is expensive. When you go shopping in the store, you can touch the merchandise. Also you can try some clothes. The object appear in your sight. In contrast, when you go shopping online ,you just can view the merchandise photo on your computer. Maybe this merchandise photo has chromatic aberration. Otherwise,the size has error,but you can't try. However, you view photo online is real easy also you can buy the foreign merchandise. For example, I always buy the merchandise from foreign merchandise, because there is a bigger selection.
The final difference is convience. If you go shopping in the store, but you have to drive or take bus. Therefore, you should go outside. If you take bus to the store so you have to wait for the bus like five minutes or longer. Sometimes, the weather is bad, and it's very dangerous to drive or take bus. nevertheless, if you go shopping online then you can buy merchandise every time. It's like a 24-hour service. You even can save the websit,whenever you can buy it. It's really convience.
Shopping online and store have their own merit and defect. You can choose your favorite style. If you don't have more time to shop, then you can go online to do it. If you want to hang out, then you can go shopping in the store. Maybe, we can shop on the celephone in the future because the science and technology is developing. But right now, I like shopping online and shopping in the store. It usually depends on my mood.

Shopping in Stores Vs Online

Khadija Zirati
Level 5
04/22/08
Shopping in Stores Vs Online

Shopping is everyone’s favorite thing to do. It can also be addictive. Therefore, many people accumulate a lot of debt. In addition, men can also get involved and do a lot of shopping similar to women. The three main differences between shopping in stores and online are fitting, cost and time.
Shopping at stores is the best way to shop. Consumers can get the exact size of the clothes or a close look at the item. However, shopping on line can cause many issues especially with the size. In fact, sometimes the size runs smaller than others. Moreover, it can ruin any plans you have and its too late to fix or react to the situation.
Shopping online is not a good way to shop. Shoppers end up paying extra fees and the shipping cost. Moreover, the fees can add up ore than what the item is worth. However, shopping in stores comes out to be cheaper because shoppers don’t have to worry about extra fees and shipping cost. No one likes to spend more money than they have too.
Finally, shopping in stores is the fastest strategy to shop, and it makes all the shoppers happy to buy the exact things there are looking for. However, shopping online consumers have to wait at lease two weeks for their item to arrive, and sometimes it can take as long as three weeks if the company in a different country. There is also a possibility that the package can take longer if it gets lost.
In conclusion, the difference between shopping in stores and shopping online is the opposite. Shopping in stores makes it very easy to find the right size, price, less time. However, shopping online is not as good as shopping in stores because its difficult to find the right size, costs more with the extra fees and longer to receive. Indeed. Iv`e always shopped in stores it makes me feel happy.

Women in Different Times

Nowadays, we can find women in any area of professional career. However, women were just set free about 50 years ago, and at that time, their job choices were much more limited. So it’s common to think that women in the old time were easy to control; in contrast, today’s women are more independent and harder to compromise. This was also the way in which I saw old women and new women. But after watching the Devil Wears Prada and Mona Lisa Smile, I changed my mind. These two movies are about two women, who live in different times, do different jobs and have different endings.

The first difference between “Devil” and “Mona Lisa” is the background. “Devil” takes place in New York, which is a big fashion city in America. In addition, it is in the time of an intense competition. On the other hand, “Mona Lisa” takes place in the 1950s, which is such a traditional time, especially for women’s roles. At that time, the women, who just took care of children and husband at home, were considered as models. People think it’s the role which women were born to fill.

Another difference between “Devil” and “Mona Lisa” is the experience of the two women. Andrea is the main character in “Devil”, and she works as a second assistant of a fashion magazine. She decides to do the job. Because if she does well, she would get any job she wants in New York. For this purpose, she tries her best to finish everything her boss requires, even if it might hurt her family and friends. In contrast, Katherine in “Mona Lisa” is an art teacher in Wellesley College, which is the most traditional in the nation. She always has her own opinions about art and teaching ways, which scars the leading group of the school. Consequently, they force her to obey them, or they will fire her. Nevertheless, Katherine is a woman with strong willpower, so she still insists on her own way of dong things.

The final difference between “Devil” and “Mona Lisa” is the ending. Andrea drops her job, when she realizes that she is taken advantage of by her boss. She goes back to her former life, and she gets her dream job. Moreover she realizes that the family and friends is the most important thing to her. Unfortunately, Katherine lost her job unwillingly. Because she loves the job and she wants to stay. In addition, after working in Wellesley for one year, she has taught her students to see the world with new eyes. Finally, she leaves the school and sails to Europe to make another difference.

These two movies are both about women’s experiences of their jobs, but with different perspectives in different ways. After comparing the two women, I have learned that no matter what job you had, you should insist on your own belief, and remembered what the most important thing in your life was. So get courage, and go to purse your dream job.

c/c essay Fast food vs home-cooked food

Everyday before cooking my dinner I always think about whether I should cook or not and what kind food I will eat. I always have to take a long time, it’s always the same food and doesn’t taste good. However, if I eat out, it is more convenience and there are more choices. This case is not only for me, many people have a similar problem as me. Food is plentiful and anywhere we can see the restaurant to eat to get food, therefore, many people like to have fast food. Nevertheless, fast food is not always good. In comparison fast food with home-cooked food there are differences.
Biggest advantage of fast food is price. Fast food return commercials always emphasize about their prices. When fast food compared with home-cooked food it is cheaper. For example, you want to make burger at home, you need to buy bread, patties, and lettuce. If you buy all these things, you will pay more money than fast food restaurant.
Another point is the quality of the food. When you cook at home, you can control which ingredients you use, how to cook and cooking material. So you can use more fresh and healthy ingredients than fast food. Fast food restaurant food contain high cholesterols, trans fat, moreover, it also contain high calorie these lead lacking of nutrition. Therefore, home-cooked food has high quality also you can feel secure about your foods.
The last difference between fast food and cooking at home is time. The reason why many people go to fast food restaurants are time saving. After you order just five or ten minutes later you can get your food. In addition, fast food restaurants have drive-thru so you don’t need to get out of your car.
Fast food and home-cook food have many different points. On price and time fast food has more advantages, but home-cooked food offer more benefits on the quality. From my perspective, fast food has more benefits than cooking at home, however, even it has more profit I prefer to eat home-cooked food. Because it is healthier and nutritious.

Love and Like

“Does she love me, or she just like me?” People are always confused with the definitions of love and like. These two kinds of relation should be parts of the most important things in a person’s life. I think nobody wants to say that he doesn’t need love from his family and friends. Even though sometimes there are some people who love to live alone. However, they may desire love and friendship. At least, they love themselves. I find that there are three differences between love and like.

First of all, the feelings of these two things are totally different. If you love somebody, you may miss her every second. When you think of her, you might think “what is she doing? Does she miss me as I miss her?” Especially at night, people usually think of many things before sleep. For this reason, people may be in a difficult condition of falling asleep. It is said that the feeling of love is so strong that it affects a person’s daily life. On the other hand, people should feel much weaker if he just likes someone. For example, you won’t miss your friend in a whole day if there is nothing special happening to him even though he is your best friend. When something reminds you of him, you should be pleased and think about the old days between you and him.

In addition, the time you spend on your lover should be different from what you spend on your friends. “I want to stay with you forever,” this is the most famous quote when someone has fallen in love with another. People always hope to stay with the one they love. It is worth spending a whole life on her. However, I don’t think you will stay together with your friends every day. Although people always say: “love is temporary, friendship is forever,” they really want to accept that love is forever.

Finally, the behavior in these two situations is different. You may become crazy when you are in front of the person you love. Even if you are so shy, you may want to show her your admiration. Flowers and special gifts are very common, but you won’t be bored when you do the same thing every day. You might remember all the special days of her and become gentle when you spend time with her and her friends. Nevertheless, liking someone will make you be excited. You just keep your style and do what you did before. Moreover, you won’t mind showing your disadvantages to your friends.

If you want to know much deeper about love and like, just imagine that love is wine and like is water. Wine may put you into a different condition. In contrast, you just need water and won’t be excited when you have it. Besides, love is more desirable than like for a person. And then people will look forward to meeting their lover but not their liker. It is impossible to decide which one is better, but we do want to get what we need and what we are lacking.

DIFFERENCES OF LIFESTYLE IN A SMALL AND A BIG CITY

If you moved from a small town to a big city you are definitely going to become aware what the differences between these too life styles are. And regardless the situation, I think everybody can have a happy life no matter the place. Within these too comparisons are for example, the transportation, the pollution, and, the diversity of people.

One difference between the small and the big city is the transportation. For those that live in a small city and did not have a vehicle, it could be hard because they don’t usually use public transportation and the distances are shorter. Despite that people in a big city use cars; then is here where it will always be traffic no matter the time.

Another difference between these two lifestyles of live is the pollution. In a small city, it is more likely to breathe fresh air in which will be less possibilities to get any illness. Moreover, when you woke up in the big city early in the morning, all you are breathing is dirty air that is only polluting your longs.

Finally, the most important difference in this comparison is the exceptional diversity that both cities definitely have even though in a small or in a large portion. It is not very common to see out in the streets of a small city that much diversity because the size of the city and not even the people are not used to have residents from outside. Therefore, the diversity in a big city has lot of advantages since it gives you the opportunity to learn more about people and many dialects that can led us many perspectives about life.

Now we conclude this contrast between the small and the big city. But as it’s mentioned, in order to live comfortable besides the transportation, pollution or the diversity in a place, the most important role to contrast all these roles is been aware how to live happiest forever either at one or the other one.

MARCELA ALVIDREZ

Eat in and eat out

Ying Szeto Carol
Level-5
Revision of compare /contrast essay
Eat in or eat out
Eating is our basic necessity in our daily lives. Some people like to eat in, but some prefer to eat out. People’s decisions are usually based on their economic reasons, dietary restrictions and preferences. These are the three reasons for us to choose to eat at home or dine out.
For the economic reasons, eating at home could save money since we don’t have to pay tip. Every thing we could make or prepare by ourselves. However, we need to go shopping, cook and do the dishes. That can waste us a lot of time. In contrast, if we eat out we have to pay tip and the cost is high. Then, we have to spend more money. Nevertheless, we could save the time that is equal to saving our money. Furthermore, it is convenient to have service in a restaurant.
From the healthy aspect, eating at home, we could have less trans fat, no MSG and control the salt, sugar and oil. On the other hand, going out to eat, we might get more trans fat food, have MSG and some people may be allergic to MSG. Moreover, a lot of fast food provided by fast food restaurants like MacDonnell, Kentucky or Wendy is junk food.
The final difference is the choice. There is less variety eating at home, but it could be tastier. If we always stay at one place for dining, it seems so boring. Conversely, eating outside, we could eat different ethnic dishes or cuisines in various neighborhoods around the city. For example, this week we pick bulgogi in a Korean restaurant, next week we eat sushi in a Japanese restaurant. Tasting different food is interesting and educational.
On the whole, both of these choices have their own special advantages and disadvantages. For instance, after we get a pay-check, we could go out dinning at upscale restaurant to enjoy our lunch or dinner. If we are broke, we may eat fast food for a meal. However, eating at home, we can also enjoy our special recipes and cooking with our family members .It is so nice to eating at home.