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              Questions and Answers of 'The Case Against Air Conditioning ' Comprehension 1.      What does Cox think is wrong with air conditioning? Ans: Cox says that air conditioning uses a lot of energy; running air conditioners burns fossil fuels, which emits greenhouse gases that raise global temperatures, which in turn increases the need for air conditioning. He believes that air conditioning should be used more sparingly. 2.     According to Cox, what would be the results of a largely “A.C.-free Washington” (3)? Does the scenario he outlines apply only to Washington, DC? Only to urban areas? Does it apply to other parts of the countries as well? Ans: cox says that reduced air conditioning use in Washington would result in more flexible work schedules (business, including governmental ones, closing and adjusting for heat), renovation for buildings to better accommodate heat, decreased use of heat-gen...

  The Case Against Air Conditioning The author’s message is that A.C. keeps us inside and away from interacting with one another. We shouldn’t be trapped inside everyday but we should be out and about to enjoy the world around us. This essay is about why Washington/America should stop using air conditioners in everyday life with the expectation of hospitals, archives, and cooling centers. The author supports his argument by providing examples of wat Washington would look like without air conditioners at work, at home, and around town. Cox’s starts out with using modern day examples of people using air conditioning to beat the Heat and why it is bad. Cox’s wants readers to turn down, turn off, or just complete eliminate air conditioning use. He believes that it will benefit us by making neighborhoods more friendly, laws more lax, and climate change less of an issue. People in Washington didn’t have to experience extreme heat because their houses were equipped with air condi...

  Questions and Answers of ‘My Mother Never Worked’ Comprehension 1.      What kind of work did Martha Smith do while her children were growing up? List     some of the chores she performed.        Martha Smith worked very hard at raising her children, doing farm chores, and               maintaining a household, but she did not work outside the home for pay-the only              kind of work recognized by the government.   2.      Why aren’t Martha Smith’s survivors entitled to a death benefit when their mother dies?     According to the government, Martha Smith is not eligible for a death benefit because she was never employed.   3.      How does the government define work?       The government defines work as an activity performed for compensation.   ...

About the Author Sandra Cisneros the writer of the essay ‘Only Daughter’ was born into a working-class family in 1954. She was the daughter of a Mexican-American mother and a Mexican father. She spent much of her childhood shuttling between Chicago and Mexico City. She was a lonely, bookish child who began writing surreptitiously at a young age but only began to find her voice when she was a creative-writing student at Loyola University and later at the University of lowa Writers’ Workshop. Her best-known works are the novel The House on Mango Street (1983) and the short-story collection Woman Hollering Creek (1991); she has also published several collections of poetry. Cisneros’s latest novel, Caramelo, appeared in 2002. Background on gender preference In the following essay, which originally appeared in Glamour magazine in 1990, Cisneros describes the difficulties of growing up as the only daughter in a Mexican-American family of six sons. Historically, sons...

A memo to all the staff of a large company, suggesting ways of economizing on the use of paper, electricity, etc. HINDUSTAN UNILEVER LIMITED    Memo From: Managing Director     To: Staff Member       Date: 29 th  March                                                                                                                   While the market is suffering from recession, we are not also suffering from these diseases. Use of available resources in a proper manner is very essential for us, while we have agreed in principle to try and cut down on staff, there are two serious problems in the Buying Department. Firstly, the clerk in charge of ord...