Raritan River

Found in lakes, ponds and any area that well have any rocky substance or logs. Rusty Crayfish, is an invader that has invaded lakes in the northern reagan. There robust claws that most members of the Orconectes genius don't have makes then an unique but dangerous species . It was first indentificaded as “Rusty ” in Belgrade, great pond in the late 1968. It curentaly was founded in Michigan, Massachusetts, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico and parts in New england expect wisconsin, canada…

One might assume that a book laden with antiquated sentence structure and an ornate writing style as seen in novels like A Tale of Two Cities would be a tough text to get through. While they would not be incorrect in this belief, my personal experience tells me that the vernacular of a young white runaway and an escaped black slave may be even more difficult to decipher. Though the Missourian dialect and the themes of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn initially created adversity in my abilities as…

When I was about 14 years old, I spent the summer at Camp Lake of the Woods in Decatur, Michigan. From canoeing in the beautiful waters of the three hundred and twenty-acre lake to doing ceramics at the arts and crafts studio, there was never a dull moment at that place. Some of the camp’s amenities include an equestrian center, three baseball diamonds, dance and gymnastics pavilions, and ceramics and arts and crafts studios (Camp Lake of the Woods). Meanwhile, the aquatic options and waterfront…

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is often referred to as “The Great American Novel.” But it has been getting a lot of criticism and hate because some don’t see it as a satire; instead, they see it as an excuse to make fun of Southern Americans. To truly understand Twain’s message, we must realize that Mark Twain uses caricature and structural irony to criticize upbringing determining one’s view, suggesting society’s morals are deformed. Twain uses caricature to indicate the society’s view on…

Mark Twain’s ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ novel is an interesting novel that has received mixed reactions and criticism. It was published in 1884 I did not like for Mark Twain to keep using the word ‘nigger’ frequently in the novel. This is because the phrase was and still is frequently used to negatively stereotype African-Americans during slavery and currently. Slavery had been abolished by the US Congress several years before this novel was written. The novel is believed to be full of…

In 2011, the NewSouth Publishing company revealed their intentions for a new edition of Mark Twain’s classic, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, and has caused plentiful of controversy in the public. Alan Gribben, a Mark Twain scholar, and the company joined together to create this new edition and made a rather large decision to replace the ‘n word’ with other words found more suitable. The word appears more than 200 times and is to be replaced with words such as “slave”. Their hope was to…

The dialect that he uses allows people to connect and be closer to the characters, it also allows readers to understand and believe the story more (Alexander). The reason behind that is because he also wrote was local color, or the showing the dialect, history, or customs of the area (Samuel). The terrible grammar used in Twain’s writing meant that the books were easier for poor people to read. Mark Twain had a personal sympathy for innocent and well-meaning people because of his humble…

Mark Twain, exposes the evil in his society and he mainly tells truth about society and he says,“You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter... there was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth”(Twain, p.9). The Twain is kind of muckraker who exposes society’s problems by writing a book and he speaks about racist culture. In the other hand, Huck characters saw more superior than Jim character, however…

My Slobovia native friend, Abner Scott, contacted me indicating that he was getting the opportunity to come to America for the first time. Abner has never visited America let alone anywhere outside of Slobovia. In his native home of Slobovia, he does not have a lot of things because he lives in a third-world country. I was excited when Abner contacted me with the great news of being able to visit America. After he reached out to me, I started planning things for him and me to do while he was on…

On 1st August, 2007, an eight-lane, three-span section of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suddenly collapsed. 145 people were injured, and thirteen died. This case study is based on an investigation of material evidence provided by the NASA Safety Center(NSC), National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and a full-scale load rating of the bridge superstructure. Proximate (Direct) Cause: Gusset plates…