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    Morris beseeched him not to use the paw because something bad happens with each wish. He realizes his mistake later, as the man from Maw and Meggins brings the news of his dead son. In W.W. Jacobs short story, “The Monkey’s Paw”…

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    “Rikki-Tikki held on with his eyes shut, for now he was quite sure he was dead; but the head did not move and the big man picked him up and said, ‘It’s the mongoose again, Alice; the little chap has saved our lives now!’” (Kipling 21). Another character trait he portrayed was curiosity. “...but he was a restless companion, because he had to get up and attend to every noise all throughout the night and find out what it made.” (Kipling 4) Rikki-Tikki shows the traits of a person whom one would…

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    The theme of “A Christmas Carol” is be careful about how you act in your lifetime because it will affect how people feel abut you later on in life. The three passages that I have chosen to help me relate to the three sprits is STAVE II, STAVE III, STAVE IV. The first of the three sprits met by scrooge is the ghost of Christmas past, and this spirit symbolizes truth. Scrooge’s family brings him home from boarding school, but suddenly send him off to apprentice as an accountant. (S.2 P.53)…

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    the parable in Jesus time is that if younger sibling asked for his part of the inheritance before his father is dead and the younger sibling could do that but it was not a loving thing to do because he wished his father was dead. The father gave the son his part of the inheritance and then the younger son used all of his inheritance he got and then he decided to go back to his father's house. But if the son came back he was considered a slave by his father for coming back to the house.When the…

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    January 12,2010 the earthquake that change Haiti,I was 4 years old sitting in the couch watching outside of my house all the sudden I see the floor is moving is like the house was about to fall on me, I run out as fast that I can and my cousin went inside to come get me he thought that I was inside the house he was shouting my nickname ‘’ Lainy’’ ‘’ Lainy’’ ‘’Yes,’’ Yes’’. I was outside. He went back outside he said he thought that I was inside, me and my dad was screaming his name…

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    We all have families that guide us to discover our identity and background, but does that mean we have to follow through the same traditions? The short story “The Moths” by Helena Viramontes tells the story of a fourteen-year-old who describes herself as unattractive, disrespectful and unlike other girls. Although she is mistreated and abused by her family she has an Abuelita who cares for her. She is then forced to care for her ailing Abuelita who is dying through her last days shaping her to…

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    stress as much was the belief in the resurrection. The complete mortuary ritual is not described in the Bible, however, some texts show that the dead were kept in a house (1…

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    months ago when the school had a day off in the middle of the week. My friend Marc and I had planned to do the hardest possible thing we thought anyone could do in one of our favorite games, Left 4 Dead 2. The game was about a zombie outbreak where in each level, there were multiple checkpoints, or “safe houses”. The premise of the game was to get past all five checkpoints then to signal a helicopter so your team can escape. But that isn’t what we were going to do. Marc and I wanted to pick up a…

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    This is a celebration of when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas and to celebrate mexican race 3. What is Dia de Los Muertos, celebrated on Nov 1st & 2nd? This is a holiday that celebrates the dead and celebrates all saints day, this is when they basically worship the mexicans dead 4. What is one holiday that Mexicans celebrate that Americans also do, too? Ano Nuevo it is also in english means new years. Both mexicans and Americans celebrate the new years 6. Slide 6: Sports Click on…

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    their simple meaning. Elderly old women named Phoenix Jackson. She has vision problems and her old age; still she needs to walk from her home to the city. For a medicine that is needed for her grandson. When the grandson was 4 years old he swallowed lye. His throat was harmed and the medicine is the only thing…

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