The Innocents Abroad

around us. Landscapes, paintings, books, clothing etc. What do they look like? How do they make us feel? However, there is one other thing we often have a strong opinion of. People. We consistently make observations based on who people are, what they do, and how they make us feel. Everyone has made these observations, even individuals in the past. Mark Twain was thought of in many different ways. Opinions floated, and still float, in the air about who Mark Twain was. But which one correctly defines him? Who was Mark Twain? While writing one of his first stories, Mark unintentionally stole bits and pieces of a dedication written by Oliver Wendell Holmes. A friend of his kindly pointed out that he had viewed the piece before in The Innocents Abroad. However, Mark did not know how he had unconsciously stolen the piece. After many days of thinking, he solved the mystery. “Two years before, I had been laid up a couple of weeks in the Sandwich Islands, and had read and re-read Doctor Holmes's poems till my mental reservoir was filled up with them to the brim.” This shows who Mark was as an author. As he read stories, poems, etc., he lost himself in them. He soaked up every single word, reading and rereading them. If he was able to find meaning in other stories, imagine what meaning he put into his own stories. Knowing his faults, Mark wrote to Holmes apologizing for what he had done. Doctor Holmes genuinely responded back, informing him all was well. Mark could have denied…

Imagine an outrageous gambler, betting on anything he can get his greedy hands on and never loses a single bet. Then one day someone uses his cheating tactics against himself and he finally loses. To begin with, the story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” written by Mark Twain is about how Simon Wheeler tells the narrator the amusing story of Jim Smiley and his trained frog. A notorious gambler, Jim was startled one day when a stranger fed his frog lead and made Jim lose the bet.…

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…

Mark Twain’s setting in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County” , a folktale story he wrote illustrated as “Angel’s Camp” a gold mining community in the mid-19th century. The story takes place in a mining town in the west where it is populated primarily by men, many of them looking for their own fortune. A gambler, “Jim Smiley” a man who tricks people in bets for money; however, wins every bet he makes. One day Smiley gets out-tricked for the first time when he makes a bet with a…

madness he calls a disease has rearranged the narrator's way of thinking. His senses were sharpened opening up his mind to the sounds of heaven, earth, and hell. But this disease was no burden to him, to him it was more of a gift. The narrator thought of this disease as a gift granted to himself after seeing the vulture eye. It was this vulture eye that deceived the narrator into believing his actions, his plan to murder the old man were justified. Tension builds along with his madness in the…

made out to be. I had been evacuated out of my house, and into a ghetto. I have never been closer to my community than I have now. We are in immediate vicinity of each other and we are able to socialize and operate normally for a community from a certain aspects. The guards aren’t being heinous, and they seem to take our best interest in mind. I mean sure, they may have taken away our liberties such as taking away my gold, but it’s all orders given to them. The only real part I really have to…

feeling of detachment from the enemy in the war. All the government cares about is winning the war, no matter the cost. Most men are blind to the actual events of war. They only know what the higher power wants them to know. In order to get more people to enlist in the army, the government will show propaganda of people praising soldiers or soldier receiving awards for their bravery. Once the men become fighters, they realize that they “fell into the [hands of the] State “(1). The State, or…

weaknesses. Knowing one’s weakness is indispensable for developing or overcoming it. In the novel of Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the main character, Dorian, has a weakness is that his excessive vanity result in the feeling of superiority; his appearance is much better than that of anyone else. While he does not realize his weakness, his feeling of superiority makes him blind to the truth that he is becoming uncontrollably confused with the flow of time and the reality of himself. He…

“How many hours these confined children spend on crime comic books and his dismay at seeing how children who had got into trouble while reading many crime comics were sentenced to years of incarceration” (cited in Seduction of the Innocent 1954: 47). Though religious groups, parental and public pressure were also partly to blame. (refer to Stanley Cohen 's Folk Devils and Moral Panics 1972: for an…

2. TERRITORIAL WATERS Article 2(1) of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)48 provides that, “[t]he sovereignty of a coastal State ex-tends, beyond its land territorial and internal waters and, in the case of an archipelagic State, its archipelagic waters, to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea”. This maritime zone extends up to 12 nautical miles (Article 3, UNCLOS). The only major exception to this sovereign power of the state is the right of…