desolate plain‚ a gray valley where New York’s ashes are dumped. The men who live here work at shoveling up the ashes. Overhead‚ two huge‚ blue‚ spectacle-rimmed eyes—the last vestige of an advertising gimmick by a long-vanished eye doctor—stare down from an enormous sign. These unblinking eyes‚ the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg‚ watch over everything that happens in the valley of ashes. The commuter train that runs between West Egg and New York passes through the valley‚ making several stops
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Mesopotamia vs. Indus River Valley 9/26/12 Ancient Mesopotamia and the Indus River Valley civilization were two incredibly productive and successful empires. While Mesopotamian politics were slightly less focused on religion and more on other aspects‚ the two societies shared many social characteristics. They both had defined social hierarchies‚ as well as similar views on gender roles. These traits are helpful in explaining the similarities and differences between
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River Valley Civilization. Both of these River valley civilizations had the similarities of being invaded‚ and also both being river valley civilizations. Even though they seem so similar‚ India and Egypt have their differences too. These differences include different writing styles‚ and different geography and climate. The knowledge of both civilizations has changed the future of the world today. Egypt and India had many similarities in their civilizations. Firstly‚ both River Valleys were invaded
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Pirates are described as filthy‚ dangerous‚ yet brave thieves who sail the seas in search of uncharted treasure. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” is essentially about Jack Sparrow’s crew of pirates and Davy Jones crew of pirates racing to find the ultimate treasure‚ Davy Jones’ heart. Jack Sparrow does everything in his power to acquire Jones’ heart and does this by completely going against pirates’ code of honor. Jack Sparrow then proves throughout the movie he is the epitome of rebellion
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Background Valley Educational Associates Valley Educational Associates‚ Inc. was established in 1982 as a non-profit agency to provide vocational training and employment services to adults with disabilities. The agency started with an eight-person workshop and now it serves over 90 individuals in three separate sheltered workshops and various community-based jobs throughout Western Massachusetts. VEA’s mission is to provide dignified‚ meaningful employment for developmentally disabled adults‚
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Service Learning Reflection -a- We worked with clients with MS at MS forward. He had a chance to work with a female client on the second and third week of the service. The first thing we did with our client is to ask her questions on the kind of MS she had‚ what her functional deficit was‚ and the things she wanted to work on to improve her function. We created an exercise program of 8 exercises for her to perform in the gym. The goals of these exercises were to help improve her dynamic standing
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The scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest has many cinematographic meanings. Like most movies made nowadays‚ the way it is shot‚ the camera angle‚ the frame of the shot‚ all those elements were made with a purpose behind. In this clip‚ the frame shows the actions and expresses meaning more is being portrayed in the frame. The clip starts off with a medium close-up of Jack‚ screaming. This close-up can show how frustrated he is at this point‚ which makes the women stop throwing fruits
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20/03/2012 East African Rift The Great Rift Valley is a name given in the late 19th century by British explorer John Walter Gregory to the continuous geographic trench‚ approximately 6‚000 kilometres (3‚700 mi) in length‚ that runs from northern Syria in Southwest Asia to central Mozambique in South East Africa. The name continues in some usages‚ although it is today considered geologically imprecise as it combines features that are today regarded as separate‚ although related‚ rift and fault systems
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he San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of California. It covers 7 counties which are Kings‚ Kern‚ Stanislaus‚ Merced and Fresno. The San Joaquin Valley is known as the #1 producing region in California for its variety of fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. The Valley is 250 miles long and bordered on the west by the coastal mountain ranges. Even though a lot of the valley is rural there are a lot of urban cities here in the valley. I want to tell you about the five
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4223-011 Reflection and Witness Today I was asked to support and care for a patient Mrs Y as we had noticed over the past weeks she was losing weight and following dieticians referral we were asked to give a certain diet and supplements for that patient and monitor her intake and output by doing a food chart‚ fluid chart and stool chart at food times and when needed to help her gain weight. As we were monitoring her closely it was important that we handled the information carefully and sensitively
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