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    the truth. This was hard because there were many people and the person that was to tell the truth had to be unbiased. Mark Twain took the job of telling America the truth‚ even if it wasn’t what everyone thought. Mark Twain had made a positive on America because he candid and impartial.Twain was at first hated but later was honored. The truth may hurt‚ but it’s the truth. Twain told the truth about America and its people. “ I dare say that for centuries there‚ has been no more quiet‚ undisturbing

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    James and Twain s writings both attempt to define the nature of &”the American character”; Do they both see Americans the same way? Explain. Urbanization and industrialization have brought new problems: dilapidated and overcrowded housing‚ unsanitary conditions‚ low pay ("wage slavery")‚ difficult working conditions and the lack of regulation in the field of entrepreneurship. Workers began to unionize and strike with the help of the country paid attention to his plight. Farmers also joined the fight

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    ” –Evette Carter Mark Twain‚ in questioning his own society and morality‚ writes‚ “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” A story about a young boy realizing how menacing his home life is‚ but still questioning whether society is any better‚ leaving Huck curious. With this curiosity Huck Finn takes off on the big Mississippi to unearth his genuine morality. The Huck Finn we first meet is quite the miscreant‚ but by the end we learn how his journey on the Mississippi creates a new sense of morality

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    cowardice and average mentality. mob ”You didn’t want to come… swearing what big things you’re going to do.” (158) He tells the crowd that no one will lynch him at daytime and the mob is humiliated and eventually leaves. 2. Two aspects of human nature Twain is commenting on is selfishness

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    affiliative and self-enhancing humor styles are included in the “harmonious” category‚ whereas aggressive and self-defeating humor styles are included the “inharmonious” category. Both the self-enhancing and affiliative humor styles generally tap the positive or adaptive aspects of sense of humor‚ whereas the self-defeating and aggressive humor styles generally tap the negative or maladaptive aspects of sense of humor. It is possible to employ any of these humor styles in combination and to varying

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    the River” by Mark Twain fkdjsaljdaskljfdksajfkdjsakfjkdljajfdksajfdjsajflkdsja. I believe the message of this memoir is that everything changes as life goes on. In this memoir Twain looks back in his life to his younger years. He reflects on how he saw the river when he first started working on it‚ and then later he states “all the value any feature of it had for me now was the amount of usefulness it could furnish toward compassing the safe piloting of a steamboat.” (Twain) Twain is stating that he

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    Humor can be trivial at times‚ however humor can change the world. The center of humor is a person or something that creates comments that produces entertainment to an audience. Alain de Botton‚ the author believes that the role a humorist plays in society is to subdue thoughts that everyone can relate to. Humor is expressed openly to relate to thoughts without the rampage of society. Humor gives people the reality of wrongs in the society making them easier to understand. De Botton believes the

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    How does Shakespeare use humor in the play? Though Othello is categorize as a tragedy‚ but in fact it can be display as a black comedy as well. Shakespeare uses humor through various kind of irony‚ such as verbal‚ situational and dramatic. He also creates comical characters in the play which adds humor to the plot. Verbal irony is mostly use that portrays how other characters see Iago and who Iago really is. Iago describes Othello as “an old black ram” or call him the “Moor” when talking

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    Humor: Our capability to maintain social notoriety Humor‚ as it is used today‚ is a generally positive connotation for anything that people do or say that evokes mirth and laughter out of others. This general concept of humor has developed only recently in modern day society. Interestingly enough this word has developed over centuries and has completely changed in meaning with new connotations for invoking laughter. Humor initially began as a Latin word (humorem) meaning fluid or liquid. As of

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    "What’s wrong with that boy I wonder?"-1 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ by Mark Twain is about a young boy‚ Tom who learns from his mistakes‚ and becomes a young man. Throughout the story Tom causes mischief. The climax in the story is when Tom‚ Huck‚ and Becky get lost in MacDougal’s cave and the townhouse a funeral thinking they are dead. Tom Sawyer is a mischief young boy growing up and learning from his mistakes. Oh that troublemaker. Tom is nothing like his brother‚ Tom is always ditching

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