I-35W Mississippi River bridge

The Atchafalaya River is the United States largest continuous river swamp at about one hundred and seventy miles long and is located in south central Louisiana. The Atchafalaya Basin was formed when the Mississippi River gradually began to change its course. It flows south in a channel that used to be a part of the Mississippi River and it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The Atchafalaya is very important to agriculture and…

his value, but the story’s value would have been lost. Huck may have seen Jim’s value as a human being, but the rest of the world would disregard this coming from a slave’s perspective. Furthermore, one of Huck’s inner thoughts is, “I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he’d say what he did say- so it was all right, now” (305). Huck is acknowledging the fact that Jim is a real human being. Without Huck’s perspective, no one would have heard that thought. No reader would have been forced…

slavery and other societal characteristics at the time to affect the reader in reflecting a fictional story with reality. The protagonist within the book, Huckleberry Finn, goes on a journey on a raft along the Mississippi River alongside Jim, a runaway slave. The towns along on the Mississippi River that Huck had visited made his noncompliance with society begin to grow as he began to constantly revert back to social isolation with Jim upon the raft due to the…

to lead almost 30 other men across the continent. I am Meriwether Lewis, and I am William Clark. I was born on August 1, 1770, in Caroline County, Virginia. I later became in charge of a rifle company where I began my adult life and served with a man known as Meriwether Lewis. My life began on August 18, 1774, at my family estate, Locust Hill in Albemarle County, Virginia. My life as a member of the local militia jump started my career, and later I began my secretary position for…

adventure along the Mississippi River in search of freedom. Huck yearns to make his own decisions and lives for adventure, in order to achieve these things he needs to be free of his drunken father and from the Widow Douglas. Although they are in search of the same thing, to Jim freedom is a more literal thing; being free from slavery. Through their journey along the Mississippi River Twain shows the struggles and excitement of their experience traveling down the River. The…

n old sailor, calling himself "the captain" but really called Billy Bones, comes to lodge at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the English coast during the mid 1700s, paying the innkeeper's son, Jim Hawkins, a few pennies to keep a lookout for "seafaring men." One of these shows up, frightening Billy (who drinks far too much rum) into a stroke, and Billy tells Jim that his former shipmates covet the contents of his sea chest. After a visit from another man, Billy has another stroke and dies; Jim and his…

Jefferson utilized the youthful warrior Meriwether Lewis as his live-in secretary in 1801, he anon perceived in him the man to lead a campaign into the Louisiana Territory, which Jefferson would anon buy from France, and past to the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific coast. Jefferson's aspirations were sundry: logical information of a consummately obscure district, control of affluent exchange courses, and political command. To integrate to Lewis' experience of the boondocks and…

Mark Twains real name was "Sameul Langhorne Clemes" and he was born on November 30, 1835 and died April 21, 1910 at the age 75,Mark was born and grew up in Hannibal Missouri. He worked for his older brother Orion Clemens in a newspaper company. Where he typed newspaper articles,then he moved to Neveda to be with his brother. When he moved he tried to mine that was very unsuccessful, but the he went to Virginia city and worked as a journalist for the company Territorial Enterprise. In 1865 and…

Huckleberry Finn was written during the pre civil war era right in the middle of that unsettling time period where slavery was approaching its glorious end; yet racism was still rampant and a touchy subject. Mark Twain wrote this book to be interpreted as raw and unedited so the reader could obtain a proper understanding as to what it was like to be black and to have been brought up in a community where seeing a white man causing permanent physical and emotional damage to a black person,…

Wisconsin Glaciation, there were only seven major lakes. The largest glacial lake of them all, was Lake Agassiz which is all drained now due to the Glacial River Warren. Lake Agassiz had a greater surface area of all of the Great Lakes combined. Lake Agassiz was located near modern day Fargo, North Dakota, or also northwestern Minnesota. The Glacial River warren had weathered down its path to create valleys for the Minnesota…