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    "The Chrysanthemums" is a story by John Steinbeck, written in first person about a woman living on a ranch. The story takes place in the Southwest during the winter, December month of the year. The main characters within the story is the woman gardener, Elisa Allen, Elisa’s husband, Henry, and the man in the wagon. The story came about while Elisa tends to work in her garden, giving care to her Chrysanthemums. Meanwhile, Henry is talking with men about the business they have together. Returning from

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    My Dream Vacation

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    full of life with crowded lanes and lights, and be absolutely serene at the same time with the forests and the smooth breeze kicking in, you've probably never visited Dharamshala. A scenic hill station at a very convenient distance from the Kangra valley, Dharamshala is divided into two parts: Upper Dharamshala and Lower Dharamshala. While Lower Dharamshala remains a commercial center with the city feels, Upper Dharamshala is the abode of tranquility and religious heritage of the spiritual Tibetan

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    unnerving experience of double is usually associated with good and bad. So, when looking at Die Familie, we subconsciously try to compare and evaluate which is which. A common comparison of the uncanny is the fee (Fig. 1) A graph of the Uncanny Valley, according to Masahiro Mori Bladerunner is a film about automatons and being too close to human for comfort, artificial intelligence and such ‘waxwork figures, artificial dolls and automatons provokes primordial confusion about the (in)animate and

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    I would love to travel to France, not just anywhere in France, but to the beautiful Château De Chenonceau in the Loire valley. I would love to see and study the buildings’ amazing history and Architecture. Its' location is beautiful as it was built in the chateau of the Loire valley (a lake in France), and is known for its’ amazing history. The first of many tasks in order to achieve this goal is to figure out the cost of travel, the second task would be to dive into the history of the Chateau, then

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    Little Falls History

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    The first people who discovered the land that would become the Town of Little Falls are known as the Mohawk Indians. The Mohawk Indians called the land Little Falls so the could differentiate this land from another land called Big Falls at Cohoes. When white traders discovered this land in the early 1600s they explored it and eventually bought it from the Mohawk Indians in 1722 and from then on people started settling in Little Falls (Little Falls). Around a hundred years after the purchase of Little

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    Silicon Valley is a space in Northern California, which is a main center for numerous web-based corporations, high-tech manufacturing, and innovators. It is a high expense area to live in therefore is one of the most expensive areas in the United States. The ethnographic subject is a woman who is a computer engineer uses the space to commute and works in the technology industry. In a positive outlook she is creating new space for women by encouraging other women to join this particular site just

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    Decision for Valley Forge In Winter at Valley Forge, 1777- 1778, I made a choice that I wouldn’t be able to change afterwards. I thought that Paris is more excited for the revolution than all of the United States together. That is not a good thing. Valley Forge was only 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia. This is where we will watch the British. I have decided to re-enlist for three reasons which are because the army needs more soldiers, the conditions at camp, and what would be life back at home

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    The Amargosa Project

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    The project is located at an elevation of ~730 m above mean sea level and within the Basin and Range physiographic province (BR). The BR is composed of high relief mountains or foothills separated by low-lying valleys and salt flats. The salt flats of the Amargosa do not support plant life, but Phreatophytes (deeply rooted plants) occur on their edges and near the adjacent gravel-dominated alluvial fans. Iodine bush (Allenrolfea occidentalis) grows closet to the salt flats, while saltgrass (Distichlis

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    In his speech Steve Jobs explains that you should always trust in yourself to get you somewhere. He states in the beginning of his speech that “You have to trust in something— your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”(Dlugan, 2005). In that part he basically tells you to just believe in yourself because you never know where you're going to end up even if you wanted to be a teacher and you end up being a doctor. Your

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    advantages a man has so she tries to hide her femininity. Steinbeck also uses description of her suroundings to furter show the restriction that Elisa feels. Steineck describes her surounding as a "High grey-flannel fog of winter (closing) off the Salinas Valley.. from the rest of the world" this desciption represents how her word of opertunities is closed off due to her gender. Steinbeck is explaining the lack of ability she has to move beyond her borders.

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