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    Becoming A Mother

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    A lot can happen within sixty seconds which allows the possibility of life changing events that can impact our routines, values, beliefs and maybe the outlook on life itself. Some of which can have one feeling the need of self-reevaluation or soul searching. I sat at my desk while at work. Then, I received a short and rushed phone call from my sister. She had gone to a doctor’s appointment that morning for a routine pregnancy checkup. Unfortunately, her blood pressure was higher than normal, and…

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    power in the world but they only had three wishes. Mr. White’s first wish was for two hundred pounds. Herber is the one that suggest this amount because they can pay off their home with this money. Ten days after Herbert’s work accident, Mrs. White has to push Mr. White to use one of the wishes to bring their son back to life. At first, it seemed like he wanted to keep all the wishes to himself, but he is reluctant to use the wish to do this because he thinks Herbert will not be the same if…

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    This story involves a enchanted, mummified monkey paw that is said to have the power to grant three wishes to three different people. As the Whites make their wishes, they realizes that they would have been better off without this talisman. How can a wish be twisted to bring such an unintended result? At the beginning, the Whites are waiting for a friend who is in the military that is coming over. They are especially excited because they rarely have visitors to their house. When the friend…

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    John Collier The Chaser

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    his girlfriend love him. Before Alan buys the potion, the seller shows him another of his products, the “Glove Cleaner,” which is an untraceable poison which Alan has no interest in buying at this point in his life. In the poem “Be Careful What You Wish for” by Dave Holmstrom, the writer explains the danger in hoping for certain things to happen. The poem similarly to the short story explains the danger of fulfilled dreams. As the story begins Alan is entering a creepy shop in search of a love…

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    James Hoover Short Story

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    James Hoover laughed. “ Finally, in 1932, I have created the first nuclear reactor!” James is like a monkey, he can never stay still. “Henry, you choose the perfect place for our lab. No one will find us in Madagascar! This place loves us!Because of this, you get to push The Button!” Henry had mixed feelings about this. He didn’t want to damage the uninvolved animals. Still, duty calls. Henry hesitantly hammered The Button . Consequently, the machine hummed and the two animals shifted…

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    none of them contained a single baked good. DALE She thought she was the last wish-maker in the family and then you happened. You lit someone’s hair on fire just by saying wish granted. ANDY I got expelled from that school and then sent to another boarding school. No one would let me come home. DALE She kept you at bay because she didn’t want to like you. You can’t help those you love. Which is actually rule number one of wish-making. You can’t grant wishes for those you care for. It’s kind of a…

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    One aspect of human nature is to wish for things we don't already have. Gambling is a good example of this. People spend money on lottery tickets in hopes of winning a much larger sum of money. After all, don't we all wish we were wealthy or had a bigger house or better car? W.W. Jacobs, in The Monkey's Paw tells a story of a family who tempted fate and had a devasting outcome, pointing out that greed always comes with a price. A visitor at the White’s home, Sargeant Major Morris,…

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    outside like her professor told her, and have some fun outside of the library. She also desired that she had been a more humane teacher. These were little wishes we had wanted but didn’t have. Ms. Vivian actually had two types of wishes which are: her wish about her social life and herself as a teacher and the other was what she wanted to do if her heart stopped beating. While Ms. Vivian and her primary nurse, Susie, were eating popsicles Susie told Professor Bearing that she had to think about…

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    happen. The overarching theme of this story is to be more thoughtful of what you wish for.A cinematic version of this story was created in 2011.The film and the text have several similarities and differences, such as Herbert dying because of of wish and how the movie and book were ended. One similarity between the text and the film is Herbert (the son ) dying in a machine accident because of his greedy father's wish. This is an important part of the story, and was necessary in both…

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    wishes remaining. Mrs White realizes that the family still have two wishes and requests that Mr White should wish back her son to life. Mr White doesn't want to however as he realizes what the consequence can be but Mrs White nags him into it, they wake up to a knock on their door and Mrs White runs to answer the knocking, Mr White fears this wish as he realizes the consequences this wish could hold. “The Monkey’s Paw” tells how when given something so powerful, people's arrogance can take over…

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