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- 281: Tom Sawyer
- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", By Mark Twain is a story told from the eyes of the young Tom Sawyer. The story takes place in the small rustic town of St. Petersburg Missouri. Tom Sawyer is the main character of the book. Tom ...
- 282: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... now regarded, not as a failed sea romance or mixed up adventure story, but as a triumph of creative imagination, an example of how vast and all-embracing a book can be. Along with Mark Twain's Huckleberry Fin and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Moby Dick is considered a candidate for the greatest American novel. However, as aforementioned, his greatness was not recognized at this time. Melville's later ...
- 283: Huck Finn
- By: Joshua Humphrey In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is an excellent book. I enjoyed this book a lot more than I had anticipated. It was a great book on life of Huck Finn. The details and settings were outstanding. This was indeed a ...
- 284: Malthus' Principle of Population: Today and the Future
- ... to a poverty level of 7 pounds per person per week by 2040. A miraculous food supply increase of 50 percent would delay reaching the poverty level only one generation. Global Warming Trends When Mark Twain said Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it he was wrong. We are collectively changing climatic conditions. In the past four decades, the world has more than tripled the consumption of ...
- 285: The Case For The Existence of God
- ... trillionth of a watt. How is the eye supposed to have "evolved"? What "intermediate state" between no eye and a perfect eye could nature have "selected" to be passed on to successive generations? As Mark Twain once c ommented, "It's amazing what men will believe, so long as it's not in the Bible!" There are so many systems in the human body that could be discussed, but since space ...
- 286: Western Films
- ... as a popular film starring Daniel Day Lewis as a white scout named Hawkeye raised as a Mohican in The Last of the Mohicans (1992)), Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail (1849), Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain) Roughing It (1872), Bret Harte's short stories, and other mythologies (tales of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Jim Bowie, Gen. George A Custer, Calamity Jane, and outlaws such as the James Brothers, the original Butch ...
- 287: The Greek-Trojan War in The Iliad
- ... action by quoting what Athena says to Achilles : I came from heaven to stay thine anger, if perchance though wilt hearken to me, being sent forth of the white-armed goddess Hera, that loveth you twain alike and careth for you. Go to now, cense from strife, and let not thine hand draw the sword.(65) Achilles listens to Athena's request, and therefore he returns his sword to its sheath ...
- 288: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... away from us. CDA will also take away some sites such as: The Library of Congress Card Catalog, which some say contains "indecent" language. We will not be able to view such literature as Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, because the CDA says those "classics" contain offensive material. The act also prevents any sites in existence which tell teens about safe ...
- 289: Introduction to Public Choice Theory
- ... first hit the universities, it was often covered by several departments; Business, Engineering, Mathematics, etc. It took awhile before the courses were (mostly) consolidated under one department. 2. See books and/or articles by Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, and Will Rogers, for example. References: 1. Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D. : "Rent-Seeking, Public Choice, and The Prisoner's Dilemma", on the net at http://www.friesian.com/rent.htm 2 ...
- 290: The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt
- ... same time as these men, eleven years their junior. The period of the United States directly before Roosevelt's was known as the Gilded Age, due to a book of the same name by Mark Twain that made use of references to "gilding refined gold," and "guilt" from Shakespeare combined with the "guilty, gilden guilds" that had sprung up in the forms of interest groups, labor unions, and monopolies (Cashman 3 ...
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