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The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain has definitely been one of my favorite short stories that I’ve read. The story was well put-together, let alone the humor that was added provided a great role in the plot. The play on the other hand really sealed the deal for me. I loved how the actors developed the story to an attention-keeping performance that had me giggling inside. Although the play and the story were very similar, there are some very distinct differences. When I think of…

As people age, changes occur in the body. Some of these changes affect our mental status. When changes start to occur that can cause impaired cognition, this can result in a disease characterized as dementia. Some of the mental changes that can occur with Alzheimer’s dementia are decreased short and long term memory, confusion, impaired judgment, problems with arithmetic, and problem solving. These characteristics can affect how people communicate, make decisions, and care for themselves…

In recent years, Psychology Today released an article in regards to the effectiveness of multitasking. Though the source of this particular article is not a scholarly one, the points addressed by the author are ones that are worth reading over and perhaps will inspire readers to delve deeper into the mechanics of the act of multitasking. The main theme of this article is that although multitasking seems like the best way to be productive in today’s fast paced society, it is actually nearly…

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, written by Mark Twain, a humorous genre in which the narrator of the story gets told a short story. The writer uses a certain dialogue throughout the passage. Especially when the character,Simon Wheeler, starts telling the narrator about a “...cherished companion of his boyhood...” from his past. In the first few paragraphs, the writer begins by describing what the narrator is about to do and why. Mark Twain uses his writing to create an…

COMPLICATED, yet eloquent. Breath-taking, yet unique. This is how I describe Super- Frog Saves Tokyo, a peculiar story which was written by Murakami Haruki and was translated by Jay Rubin. In connection with this, this story of Murakami proves his different and astonishing style of writing fiction stories. Moreover, this fiction story of him proves his expertise in depicting imaginary people in imaginary situation. On the other hand, there are hardworking people who are not acknowledged. There…

Therefore, in Huckleberry Finn and “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” contain the use of figurative language, realistic syntax, and ridged diction significantly help Mark Twain be the successful writer that he was. First, is the use of figurative language in his writing. Mark Twain uses similes to bring in other ideas by connecting previous ideas with the new one. Like in chapter 12 of Huckleberry Finn, “A tow-head is a sand-bar that has cottonwood on it as thick as…

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County has many similarities between the play and the story, but there is also quite a few differences. I would like to start off by naming the similarities and differences in the plot. One major difference that I noticed right away was that there was no story within a story during the play. In the story Mark Twain approaches Simon Wheeler about Leonidas W. Smiley, but instead he is told a story about Jim…

Literary Analysis Mark Twain is widely recognized as one of the most important writers in American literature . The effect of his discipline approach to the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” incorporated figurative language like simile as well as hyperboles to further expand the the characteristics of the frog as well as other characters . He also incorporated hyperboles to exaggerate the certain situation and features the characters have . Furthermore in the short…

8. Overview of the Arduino Sketch 8.1 General Codes MediaTek labs states that an Arduino sketch “is a source code file representing the core controlling logic for the LinkIt ONE development board. It consists of two main structures: setup and loop” (MediaTek Labs, n.d.). In this section I will discuss what the above code do. First, LinkIt ONE initializes the Ubidots account, then the sensors, Wi-Fi or GPRS, the location and finally the serial port. To minimize battery consumption, I did not use…

irony. Irony occurs when what a reader expects to happen is the complete opposite of the actual outcome. Irony helps illustrate humor especially in the works “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor. “Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is a framed narrative that tells the tale of Jim Smiley who is really good at winning bets; More rather, he is good at manipulating the game to win bets. In the end of this short story, the…