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    Monkey’s Paw” by W. W. Jacobs demonstrates the effects greed can have on a family that has everything they need. The family ignores warnings about being greedy. However, they fear to miss the chance to have wishes granted. They first wish for money that they clearly state they do not need. Later, they make another wish made clearly from greed. The wishes themselves are greedy but other significant details throughout the story signifies some characters making greedy descisions. W. W. Jacobs…

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    I wish this paper was over. The Monkey’s Paw is a short horror story written by W.W. Jacobs. The story follows the White family who are given a wish granting monkey paw from Mr. White’s old army buddy. What seems to be a treasure is quickly deduced to actually be a curse. The wishes all become true, but only do so with a terrible twist of fate. Ultimately this leads to the White’s misery, and the death of their son Herbert. This classic tale has been reimagined through multiple mediums including…

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    Who killed young Herbert? It all started on a dark, stormy night, while playing chess. A man, from a faraway land, knocked on the door. He told a tale about a monkeys paw. The paw would let you make three wishes. In the story, “Monkey’s Paw”, Herbert dies; I believe Herbert is to blame. Since Herbert didn’t believe it that’s why he died. Herbert suggested that Mr. White (Herbert’s father) should wish for two hundred pounds (Money). When Mr. White did wish for two hundred pounds Herbert said,…

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    When our founding fathers outlined how this nation would function in the form of the Constitution, they also guaranteed every citizen the same basic liberties. The Bill of Rights, the ten original amendments to the Constitution, each one stating its own freedoms. One of these, the second, protected the right of the people to defend themselves, and the nation. "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of people to keep and bear arms, shall not be…

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    As all Americans know William Jefferson Blythe III Clinton as Bill Clinton, they also know President Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States of America. He was in office for two terms in 1993 through 2001 after the Cold War, which ended 1991. He was the last president in the 20th century. President Clinton was elected president in 1992 and won against George H. W. Bush. I was interested on doing a research paper on President Clinton because he helped Americans who needed health…

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    in software and began programming computers at age 13 (Microsoft, 2011). As young teenagers Bill Gates and his childhood friend, Paul Allen, ran a small company called Traf-O-Data and sold a computer to the city of Seattle that could analyze local traffic patterns. In January 1975, Paul Allen read an article about the Altair 8800 microcomputer in Popular Electronics magazine. He showed the article to Bill Gates who called MITS, the makers of the Altair, and offered his and Paul Allen's…

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    Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013. She is the wife of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton, and was First Lady of the United States during his tenure from 1993 to 2001. Clinton subsequently served as a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and is a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election. A native of…

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    Buffalo Bill had a hard life as a kid and after his father abandoned the farm and went to stage driving , he had to help support the family, then after his mother and father passed, he had a family of his own that he could support, because he was a successful rifleman and a buffalo hunter. Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)was born on February 26,1846 to his parents named Isaac Leacock Cody and Mary Ann Leacock Cody. He lived with them until Bill's father abandoned the farm they were at,…

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    Unlike the geniality that aided her husband Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to win office, Clinton lacks the ability to appeal to voters. On the occasion when Clinton does attempt to relate to average citizens, she comes across clumsy and awkward, as evidenced earlier this year during an interview in South…

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    American political history. Samuel Kernell defends going public as the strategy of appealing to the public to get Congress to do what the President Wants. He uses a few examples such as Clinton and the Health Care Reform and George W. Bush with the Homeland Security Bill To support his clam, he does research to…

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