Chairs
There is so much that is displeasing and dull about living that we should take every opportunity that comes our way to enjoy the pleasurable things in life. None of us can afford to become susceptible to the feeling of small delight, or uninvolved in small interests. A chair, for instance, can be a small and constant joy, and taking pleasure from one a sensation available to us almost all of the time is simply satisfying. It is relatively easy to say who invented the light bulb, but impossible to say who built the first chair. They took one out of King Tut's tomb when they opened it in 1922, and King Tut died 1400 years before Christ was born and that certainly wasn't the first chair, either. So they have been around a long time. If there was a first man, he probably sat on the first chair. Chairs have always been something more than a place for us to bend in the middle and put our posteriors on other legs in order to take weight off of our own. Chairs serve as a bed when it is too early to go to bed, and a place to take a nap before turning in a night's sleep. Chairs have also been a symbol of power and authority, probably because before the 17th century only the very rich owned real chairs. The other people sat o
You would have to say that of all the things we have built for ourselves to make life more tolerable, the chair has been one of the most successful. Everyone finds his or her own solution for how to fix this problem. The most common alteration in the sitting position usually comes when the legs are crossed. The crossing of legs seems to satisfy some inner dis-satisfied feeling. Today, the type of chair one uses is a direct indication of their social status. In a stereotypical office the executive sits at his desk with his large leather executive chair which swivels and leans back, fully equipped with arm rests and wheels for easy movement, while just outside the secretary sits at her typing chair in a lot of discomfort. We have reached a point where more people are working as executives in offices rather than on their feet. The sitting executives found they were not satisfied not moving at all during the day, so they invented a chair for executives. This chair does it all! It swivels, rolls forward, backward, or sideways, and tilts back when the executive, who is used to having his feet on the floor, wants to lean back and put them on his mahogany desk.
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Joe Throw, King Tut, , King Tut's, electric chair, chair size, size chair, feet floor, chair woman, kitchen chair, chair swivels, light bulb,
Approximate Word count = 1000
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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