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    Huck no longer feels ashamed to help Jim escape to freedom and Tom is going to help Huck do it. Tom agrees with Huck saying, “I wouldn’t give shucks for any other way. Now you work your mind, and study out a plan to steal Jim, and I will study out one, too; and we’ll take the one we like the best” (Twain 234). Huck goes to Tom and says that Jim is chained up and never thought Tom would say he would help if he was asked a million…

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    Supon Das October 5, 2015 Period 5 Georgia’s Flag Evolution Chronological Order Introduction There are seven Georgia’s flag including an unofficial flag. Georgia is in continent of North America and is in the southeast. The colonization began in 1732, founded by James Oglethorpe with the help of King George the Second. Oglethorpe wanted to help the poor and debt people in London. Since they needed to protect their colony from Spain, so they needed weapons, uniforms, and a flag to…

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    Dear editor, I think that the United States ,Thomas Jefferson, and Congress should buy the Louisiana territory because not only would we get New Orleans and we would get the Louisiana territory which has the Mississippi River. First of all if we buy the Louisiana Territory we would have way more land. It says that there is over half of the U.S. in this purchase. Why would Thomas Jefferson not buy it, who cares if it's not constitutional! I Shirley wouldn't. We would over double the size of…

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    His point fo viewof people is "there are lies,lies and statistices that is one of his quote.Mark Twian thinks that every human has good and bad people in the world.Mark knows people he see them doind bad and good stuff.Most of the time its good...but in some places bad things happends. Mark Twain see that every one has good in them no matter what.Kindness,greattfully,pace people are given that gift of being specail people in the world.Mark Twain wrote this quote " to belive yourself brave it…

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    Huckleberry Finn and I have very similar characteristics and I will tell you about some of them. One of the first ones is that we both hate school with a passion. Huck is forced to go to school when he doesn’t want to go and that’s similar to my situation. One of the differences about me and Huck is that we have different types of fathers. My dad is a very hard working and loving dad but of the other hand Huck’s father is a drunk bum who drinks every day and doesn’t work. Another difference…

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    Let's start at the beginning. Explorers from Spain had been at the mouth of the Mississippi, but never claimed the land. 150 years later in 1682, some French explorers led by Rene’ Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la salle placed a cross at the river's mouth to claim the land. They named it Louisiana.The Louisiana territory was named after the French King Louis XIV. Louis XIV considered Louisiana “useless”, he only wanted the land so that one of his powerful enemies, Britain, could not settle…

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    Compare and contrast essay When you compare and contrast two things you look at how they are alike, how they are different and how they are the same. Here I am going to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between myself and Huckleberry Finn. First things first Huck is rather smaller and younger with way more energy than me he is an independent soul who doesn’t mind doing something different than what everybody else is doing. Huck has almost no limits when it comes to…

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    fifty pounds, making them some of the largest fish n most rivers. They eat tiny food particles, like algae and plant and animal plankton, and can jump high out of the water. These fish were imported to “. . . improve water quality by removing algae from aquaculture ponds in the southern U.S.”. This would have been successful, had there not been large floods near the aquaculture ponds, allowing the carp to move into the Mississippi river. Asian carp can spawn multiple times in a year and the…

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    Would it be hard to believe that almost a one quarter of modern day United States was purchased in one large transaction? Specifically 828,000 square miles of land. The Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of the United States in 1803. After signing a secret treaty to return the Louisiana territory to France, France wanted to sell the Louisiana territory because they did not believe it was worth the money or the trouble since they were having a hard time holding on to Saint Dominique in…

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    asked for a fishing rod, which he did receive, but without hooks. He concluded that prayer is ineffective until Chapter VIII, when he obtained bread in the river that was intended to find hiscorpse. He said, “...I reckon... somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it has gone and done it....but [praying]don’t work for me, and I reckon it don’t work for only just the right kind”(45).Huck’s assumption is nearly true, sinceGod…

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