<em>“Poverty is an acid that drips on pride until all pride is worn away. Poverty is a chisel that chips on honor until honor is worn away. Some of you say that you would do something in my situation, and maybe you would, for the first week or the first month, but for year after year after year?"</em>
<em> —</em>Jo Goodwin Parker (1971)
The conflicts in "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" are between Jim Smiley and the stranger and between Simon Wheeler and narrator.
Answer:
The United States should not have a national bank.
1. Natasha was especially interested in <span>dinosaurs; </span>however, Jorge wanted to check out the huge collection of precious gems.
You need to use a semicolon before however because you are connecting two independent clauses into one compound.
2. Natasha <span>gazed
into a replica of a cooking fire and began to imagine sounds: a crying
baby, the persistent click of stone on stone involved in making scraping
tools, and the thunderous cry of a mastodon.
You need to use a colon to indicate that a list will ensue.
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