Tom Bombadil

Huckleberry Finn is about a young white Missouri boy by the name of Huck, who goes on an adventurous journey to freedom with a black slave named Jim. Huck was forced to make many decisions that were viewed and regarded as completely erroneous by society, yet, he followed his heart and conscious challenging them all. Life offers two choices, follow society's customs or stick true to your own values. I once chose to do defy society just as Huck did, and it turned out for the better. During my…

The Cleveland Browns have been searching for a quarterback for what seems like forever. The Browns have won double-digit games just once since returning to the NFL in 1999, as Derek Anderson went 10-5 as Cleveland’s starter in 2007. To fix their issues behind center, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the Browns will try to trade for New England Patriots quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, depending on how their draft evaluations go over the next several weeks. But before we get into whether the…

During the past decade, the acceptance of certain individuals and lifestyles has become more common, but the acceptance of criticism and prejudice has been a disaster. The country of America has come to a stage where they are afraid of offending any individual. With the making of “space spaces” on a college campus and the removal of certain “offensive” works in American literature, where does the country draw the line on whether the shielding of the young minds is a good thing or a bad one? The…

June 19, 1929- Gang of rum runners kidnap photojournalist, Horace Wild, for Border Cities Star. The following details come from an interview between Marty Gervais and Leon Wild, grandson of Horace Wild, and is found in Chapter 12 of Gervais’ book: The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook (2009). Gervais explains that Horace, his 16 year old son Noel, and two Star reporters went to a river in Amherstburg to take some photographs of bootleggers passing through. Approaching a dock by boat, the group…

Challenges are presented to everyone within their daily lives, each struggles does not compromise who a person fundamentally is. Rather, the actions taken whilst one undergoes adversity forms a person’s character. Through the use of the characters in, Forrest Gump, Robert Zemeckis shows the audience different forms of adversity, and different reactions to such. For example, Jenny Curran --the love interest of the main character-- has a life riddled with strife, and the ways she responds to…

Huckleberry Finn is a thirteen year old boy in living in St. Petersburg, Missouri with his adopted sister mothers Widow Douglas and Miss Watson. Unfortunately for Huck, he quickly discovers that his abusive father has returned to collect Huck’s treasure. Huck’s pap kidnaps Huck and quickly retrogressed to his abusive state with the help of his alcoholism. Huck fakes his own death and escapes to Jackson’s Island. Huck hides out for a few days before he discovers that one of Miss Watson’s…

because of the neglect and abuse that Pap Finn brings to him. Pap Finn has been absent for more than a year, Huck’s friends question whether Huck has any family. “ ‘... Huck Finn, he hain’t got no family’ . . . ‘ Well, hain’t he got a father?’ says Tom Sawyer. ‘Yes, he’s got a father, but you can’t never find him these days. He used…

The book the adventures by Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain focus on the character Huck Finn and his journey to morality. Thesis: The three biggest impacts on Huck’s morality are emerging into the novel by living with a drunken and abusive father, being assisted with Jim to gain his own sense of morality, and him learning right and wrong throughout the book. By that I mean he learns how to make good decisions and bad decisions depending on the situation. One impact on Huck’s morality is trying to…

When Huck's father is first brought in into the story, a sharp contrast is introduced between him and the Widow Douglas. The widow represents a civilized life filled with academics, religion, and etiquette. On the other hand, Huck’s father represents an uncivilized life filled with alcohol and abuse. Instead of choosing between these two lifestyles, Huck decides to fake his own death so that he will not be forced to comply with the widow or his father. In doing this, Huck decides to follow his…

Robert W. Straub was born in San Francisco, California on May 6, 1920. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in Business Administration at Dartmouth College. During World War II, Straub served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. In 1994, he married his wife Pat, who was influential during his governor years, and had five children. Him and his wife moved to Oregon in 1946 and Straub became a builder and developer in Eugene. Straub is not only known as a…