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    Huck’s relationship with Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, was designed to show Twain’s time period that slavery isn’t okay and that black people are equal to everyone else. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about a boy, Huck, who runs away from home and brings with him a runaway slave named Jim. They experience adventure on the Mississippi river, and the trials of survival in the shore towns. When all Huck and Jim have is each other, their relationship…

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    According to Roto World Dirk Koetter is currently a 3rd tier coach. If you take a closer look at the rankings he is actually next to last among coaches that were retained from the 2017 season; only beating Hue Jackson from the Browns (and 7 other newly hired head coaches who are unranked). Names like Todd Bowels, Vance Joseph, and Jay Gruden are supposedly better coaches than Koetter. While Koetter’s second year out of the gate left much to be desired, designating him to effectively only out…

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts off in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, a fictional town on the Mississippi River. It takes place in the early 1800’s, a time before the civil war when societal norms were much different than today’s. The story takes place and is “written” from the point of view of Huckleberry Finn, a 13 year old boy who struggles with fitting into the societal norms that are expected of him. When we are first introduced into the story, Huck is living…

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    Vision getting blurrier and blurrier, the world is spinning, speech is slurring, light getting dimer, dimer, and then black. The blackout is a common side effect of getting too drunk, and constant drunken blackouts is a sign of alcohol dependence or abuse. Alcohol/Alcoholism is a major theme in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and plays a huge role in the first six chapters of the book. The theme of alcohol/alcoholism comes in chapters five and six when Huck's dad Pap comes back to town and…

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    Religion in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, religion is a major topic that impacts the book. However, it is generally the characters with religious backgrounds that are not very well represented throughout the story. Aunt Sally and Widow Douglas, for example, are both slave owners but are still firm believers in Christianity. Huck, on the other hand, is the protagonist of the story and does not really believe religion is…

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    Have you ever wondered if your life would be different without something specific that changed you? In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses a very important symbol that the whole story revolves around. That is the Mississippi River. All the adventures and Huck Finn’s growing up happened because of the Mississippi River. Without the Mississippi River, Huck would not be the person that he developed into at the end of this story. If the river was never there Huck would…

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    State the text title and author. (2 pts.) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Explain the significance of title. (3 pts.) The title signifies that the book can be connected to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. How? -2 Explain the genre. (3 pts.) The genre would be picaresque fiction, since in the book Huck acts as “rogue hero”. Explain the structure or organization. (2 pts.) The structure is like any other book organized by chapters. Describe the setting. (3 pts.) The setting was…

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    truth and where he hid the money because he saw her crying and felt bad for her. Deciding to tell her the truth and help her was very mature of him to do when he could have just left with Jim. When Huck and Tom were trying to rescue Jim, Huck was being serious about trying to free Jim. But Tom thought of this as just as an adventure, even though he knew Jim was free this whole time. The differences between them show how…

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    absurd when Tom adds layer upon layer of difficulty to it, due to viewing it “as mild as goosemilk” (208). This sheds more light onto Tom’s character, as it shows how Tom adores adventure, even when it makes things overly complicated. Tom’s reading material led him to believe that for anything to be truly exciting, there had to be difficulties to it. Because of this, Tom wants to do things like dig a hole under the shed when he could, easily, take the key. Another example of this is when Tom…

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    A common debate topic in football, Tom Brady and his place in football history. Today’s generation of football fans seem to forget about all the “soon to be” retired legends that will end up in the hall of fame. One of those living legends happens to be Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarterback. Unfortunately he is one of the most hated quarterbacks and people will always be negative towards him, but when you’re one of the best in the NFL, if not the best, it’s only natural. Brady’s super…

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