With These Holiday Hosting Tips Impress the Guests guests’ favorite foods and drinks. If you don’t know what they are, ask ahead of their visit! Your guests will appreciate your conscientious gesture and have a much more enjoyable time if they can eat their favorites while visiting. Prepare a guest room. If your guests are staying with you, you need to prepare somewhere for them to sleep. Make sure you make up the bed, have plenty of pillows and blankets on hand, and provide adequate closet space for their clothes. Even if they aren’t staying in a traditional bedroom, their sleeping area should still be ready when they arrive. Clear off a table for them to use as a nightstand and put sheets on the couch or mattress where they’ll sleep.
The holidays are rapidly approaching, and soon, we’ll share laughs while enjoying the festivities with our loved ones. Before the celebrations begin, you must prepare your home for visitors, especially if they stay overnight. It can be stressful whether it’s your in-laws, best friends, or distant cousins coming to stay with you. You want to leave a good impression, but how do you ensure everyone’s needs are met, including yours? Here are three tips for setting yourself up for a successful holiday, regardless of who stays with you. Stock up on your guests’ favorites. Have you ever stayed with someone who didn’t have extra food for their guests? Don’t put your guests in this situation. Load up your pantry, refrigerator, and cupboards with your
Use real dishes. When we have company over for a meal, especially a large gathering, it’s usually easier to use plastic or paper options — saves on cleanup, too! The holidays are not necessarily the time for this shortcut. Break out the fine china if you have it, or use regular dishes for your guests. It’s okay for the kids to have paper plates, but if you want to make a good impression on visiting adults, nicer dishes will dress up the table setting and meal. EQUAL PROTECTION Understanding Our Civil Rights and Liberties
As in the cases of the two Jane Does discussed in the cover article, part of our work at Evans Moore involves fighting back against civil rights violations. Our civil rights are the fundamental personal rights guaranteed to us by the United States Constitution and federal laws enacted by Congress (including the Civil Rights Act of 1964), but many people don’t understand exactly what they are. Let’s break it down. Civil rights represent our right to equal opportunity and equal protection under the law regardless of gender, race, age, or disability status. Examples include the right to vote, the right to a fair trial, the right to public education, and the right to use governmental/public facilities. One very important civil right is the Fourteenth Amendment right to bodily integrity. This right guarantees our citizens the right to be free from physical or sexual assault by governmental actors. A violation of this right can occur if a camp counselor at a state-run camp sexually assaults a minor camper, if a school employee forms an inappropriate romantic or physical relationship with a minor student, or when a law enforcement officer knowingly exposes a detainee to a known risk of physical
harm (such as the alleged practice of subjecting detainees to “rough rides” as asserted in connection with the death of Freddie Grey in Baltimore). While these examples may sound extreme, the Fourteenth Amendment right to bodily integrity is violated all too often within the borders of our state. This Fourteenth Amendment right to bodily integrity is the very right that the jury found to have been violated in the two Jane Doe trials discussed earlier. All Americans should strive to be aware of their civil rights because we are our own best protection. No one should ever violate these freedoms, but if they do, we must be prepared to demand justice.
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