Martha Stewart: A Study on Human Savagery

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Dominic Harge
AS English 2
Period 3
27 Oct, 2016
Ms.McCabe
Witness Statement I’m Martha Stewart I was born in Jersey City, New jersey, and I own 95 percent of a cooking company with a networth of 12 billion dollars I am deemed fit to aid in this trial due to my controversial life story, I was very fortunate growing up I modeled, then worked on Wall Street after I graduated Barnard with a degree in European and Agricultural history Later, I was the author of the bestseller Entertainment and made a total of 763 million dollars annually I was arrested on several counts securities fraud, obstruction of justice, conspiracy and making false statements to prosecutors and the FBI This was after I had sold several stocks and shares of an unapproved cancer drugs I am defending the philosophy of William Golding that humans are savage by nature Greed and money is a great factor in the influence of human nature being when
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