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    and ran away to Arizona after she passed. McCarty took his mother's death hard and frequently associated with the town troublemakers. Caught stealing food and later robbing a laundry service, McCarty seemed to search for trouble. Consequently, the sheriff apprehended and jailed him until the time of his hearing. Two days before the hearing, McCarty escaped out the jail's chimney and fled to Arizona, where he stayed with his father and worked as a ranch hand for a well-known rancher named Henry Hooker

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    Nature Fools Crow, Written in 1986, Fools Crow by James Welch Written in 1986,is taken place in Montana during an era where the whites were starting to take over land in the western part of America. The main character, Fools Crow, is a man who starts out as scared and not much of a leader. He now becomes a leader of the Lone Eaters who is courageous and brave who would do anything for his tribe. For the Lone Eaters, nature is important to their way of living. Nature in the Lone Eater community is used

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    group of conspirators known as the “Majestic Clan”. The clan carried out John Murrell’s plans, meeting in the woods of Mississippi. “ In its great hollow, that John A. Murrell and his Clansmen met in grand council, and formed their dark plots, and concocted their hellish plans.”(Walker 97). He was convicted of slave stealing and sentenced to serve ten years in prison. The importance of this quote demonstrates the concept of stealing which is connected to my research paper about the Shergar conspiracy

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    Rand Kelly Bushranger

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    Ned kelly was a bushranger who created his own metal armor. He went around stealing people’s money and other possessions. He would threaten people with a gun and say “I am Ned Kelly”, he was a wanted man. None of the police officers could catch him. He did this all for revenge. When he was a boy, living with his family, his father was working hard to create a living but could not earn enough money to buy food for his big family. One day he decided to try and steal food for his family but the police

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    coveting it. A name was engraved on the handle, genommen*. Though the prince was warned against stealing it, his hand inched towards the cage then darted to grab the handle. As soon as he touched it, trumpets blared

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    The Crime Of Max Butler

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    Max Butler has been in and out of trouble since his freshman year of college. His first computer related trouble that he got into, for pirating software, was settled out of court, and ended up with Max becoming an informant, or white hat, with the FBI. His arrest in 2007 was a result of years of committing cybercrimes which finally caught up to him as he was running the carder’s website called Carder’s Market. Just some of the crimes that Max was involved in were things such as unauthorized access

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    prince was warned against stealing it, his hand inched towards the cage, then darted to grab the handle. As soon as he touched it, trumpets blared and alarms roared

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    Ned Kelly Research Paper

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    Power with robberies during this time (ADB). This type of dangerous and disruptive behavior continued to escalate over the next several years. During this time, Ned developed and perfected his abilities, and he became known as highly skilled in both stealing livestock and with murdering people. He was able to get away with many of the crimes he committed due to his practice of shooting any individual who dared to try and stop

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    four people are exiled to improve a frontier community. One is a gambler, another accused of stealing gold, the third is a prostitute, and the fourth a woman condemned as a witch. A chance encounter adds on an innocent couple, now caught in a situation they soon find they cannot escape. Naturalism is constant throughout this story, with the gold thief stealing the horses and supplies, the gambler running out of luck and committing suicide, and the mountain snows claiming the lives of the women. The

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    manipulated by his actions and choices toward others in the story. During the beginning of Bret Harte’s story, the protagonist, Oakhurst, is being told off by many members within the town. The citizens argue he’s been stealing money, and to “let this yer young man out of the Roaring camp” and stealing

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