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    Human Flaws In Huck Finn

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    Daniel Morton Mrs. Kottra American Literature and Composition Honors 28 January 2015 Teacher and scriptwriter Leo Rosten once proclaimed, “Satire is focused bitterness.” In Mark Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain focuses his bitterness on groups and individuals who show weaknesses, doing so by exploiting them and exaggerating their faults to extreme measures. By pointing out people’s defects, Twain hopes that people will recognize the problem and fix that particular…

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    and housing. When he was fifteen, Twain started working at the Hannibal Western Union, where he was a jack of all trades as a writer, editor, and printer. Then, in 1859, at the age of twenty-three, Twain became a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River, but with the outbreak of the Civil War, this career path was short-lived. History.com states, “Twain joined the Confederate Army, but their unit…

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    The Battle of Vicksburg is a very important battle of the civil war because it not only gave us control over the Mississippi River, but also split the Confederacy in two. Also, it is a little known fact that both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis thought that Vicksburg was the key to the Confederacy. And we were successful with taking it over. I would say that that is very important. On May 18, our army prepared for war. The next day Ulysses S. Grant sent Sherman’s corps, which included me,…

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    Out of the many required reading bookings in high school, only a handful have enough controversial content to spark a debate that has lasted decades. The satirical novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain should be retained in the FUHSD reading list due to the historical relevance and important moral lessons taught in the novel, two important traits to have in a novel taught in standard high school curriculums. The historical relevance in the controversial content…

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    Mark Twain, who was thought of by many as a celebrity of the American literature world in numerous ways and usually referred to his work as inspirational and moving, was also admired by many for all of his achievements throughout his life, and also for his literary impact on American literature and novels. When he was first thinking about literature and doing more things to get more involved in it was when he was a young man working at the local newspaper industry as an assistant printer.…

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    of Huckleberry Finn, and the grand Mississippi River emits this sense of freedom throughout the story. To outline the beginning of the adventures, the Mississippi River acts as the path to liberation from slavery for Jim, and a route for Huck to escape his abusive father. The river is virtuous and fulfilling as Huck and Jim begin their escapades, with the future promising and the passage clear of danger. However, as Huck and Jim continue along the river, they encounter many dangers and…

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    The river is the decision maker, moving the men from place to place presenting them with whatever obstacles it wants too. Huck has no control over where he goes and has to give into the power of the river often. “...the current was tearing by them so swift. In another second or two it was solid white and still again… I just give up then” (Twain 82) He rode for miles on his raft, floating down a waterway that never seemed to end. As in many books and poems this river is also a symbol…

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    The Whiskey Revolution

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    told the U.S that they will remove their forts only if the U.S payed their old debts on the Revolution accounts. On March 1796, Thomas Pinckney negotiated with Spain. This was the Pinckney Treaty, in which Spain gave U.S free use of the Mississippi River for…

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    The Confederates fort at Vicksburg, Mississippi, was essential to the South, as it served as a key vantage point to them over the North. However, if the Union could besiege this fort, the North would have control over the lower Mississippi River, which would split the Confederacy into two, cutting off their connection to Virginia. With such an extreme advantage being given to the prevailing side, and the other a great defeat, is what makes the Battle of Vicksburg the true turning point of the…

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    or also known as the Seven Year War was one of the largest battles between England and France for the control of the Ohio River Valley. Both Britain and France main goal to achieve was to benefit their mother country while trying to supply good to their homeland that they couldn’t get anywhere else. It started with France in the early 1750s trying to expand into the Ohio River Valley, which caused conflict with British colonies. With this conflict arising more it made the British declare was in…

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