...4 Literary Recall, Understanding, and Analysis [pic] There are a couple of major themes for this book they are “Appearance and Reality” and “Image and Identity.” For example Tom Canty is thought to be the prince just because he is dressed in the “Royal” clothing and Prince Edward is thought to be Tom because of his rags and how he looks exactly like Tom. So you can clearly see that in this time period looks were everything especially if you were “thought” to be the prince or king. [pic] PROTAGANISTS: Both Tom Canty and Prince Edward are protagonists in this story. Tom Canty comes from a troubled household were his father’s only reason for keeping him was for him to loot and beg for money on the street. While Prince Edward was out for a walk when he met Tom and changed his life for the better and to be a stronger prince and royal heir to the king. ANTAGONIST: The main antagonist of the story is actually Tom’s father John Canty. He takes this title because of how awful he is to both Tom and Edward. Whenever Tom would come home after a day of begging and not getting anything, John would beat him until him was black and blue. When Prince Edward was dressed as Tom he tried to tell John that he was the prince, but John did not care and beat him. Then Prince Edward ran away to the countryside to avoid the beatings without knowing that John was going to follow him and hunt him down for more beatings for “Running...
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...Mark Twain Samuel L. Clemens, commonly known as Mark Twain, is often referred to as the father of literature in America. He is the author of so many classics that are being read today in several high schools in America or most likely the world. Books like: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper and so many others, are still amusing to this day. Mark Twain is considered one of America’s greatest novelist and one of the world’s greatest writers of juvenile and comic literature. In all of his works he utilizes similar techniques, like, satiric irony, which are currently still being studied today. Mark Twain had a very weird and unique writing technique...
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...English Report Samuel Langhorne Clemens: Mark Twain (pen name) Mark Twain"—steamboat slang for twelve feet of water. I. Personal Background 1. When was the author born? Where was the place he grew up? Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri, U.S. but grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. 2. Describe the childhood and educational experiences of the author. In his youth, Twain was a mischievous boy, the prototype of his character, Tom Sawyer. Though he was plagued by poor health in his early years, by age nine he had already learned to smoke, led a small band of pranksters, and had developed an aversion to school. Twain's formal schooling ended after age 12, because his father passed away in March of that year. He became an apprentice in a printer's shop and then worked under his brother, Orion, at the Hannibal Journal, where he quickly became saturated in the newspaper trade. Rising to the role of sub-editor, Twain indulged in the frontier humor that flourished in journalism at the time: tall tales, satirical pranks, and jokes. II. Influences of the Writer The following were the persons, things, places and events that influenced Mark Twain. -his connection to the mississippi river as a boy and the fact that he became a riberboat pilot -time spent traveling the world -the nice life he led shortly after he married -tragedies in his family -financial problems -problems he saw in the south during reconstruction Hannibal inspired...
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...hard for me to not want to learn more about the two boys’ personality and coping methods. It was definitely amusing to see how ignorant the small prince was and how he knew nothing about the real world before the switch. One of my favorite lines was when Edward and Tom were talking about the people who took care of the prince. When Edward found out that Tom didn’t have a servant to care for him he asked simply, “And prithee, why not? Who helpeth them undress at night? Who attireth them when they rise?” The way Twain portrayed the different boys really brought forward the point of understanding and brought a whole new meaning to the saying “to walk a day in someone else’s shoes.” This book was fun to read and as a reader I go t very emotionally connected to the two boys. I’m sure any one else who would read this novel, will love the plot line and the author’s style, and if not for those reasons at least they would enjoy the message the book gives. It is hard to relate the story to my own life because I am and will always be so different than the two boys. I have never had an uncomfortable living condition or an over exorbitant one. If I were in Tom’s position of having to take the role of the prince, I understand how it were hard for him to deal with but I think I would have been more proactive and less naive. Same with Edward as a pauper, I’m sure it was hard for him to deal with such a different lifestyle in a negative way, but I he had been less obnoxious and more willing to...
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...leaf: stalk D. singers: chorus Choose the lettered word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters. 3. PARTICULAR: A. general B. widespread C. diffused D. common Choose the word most similar in meaning to the capitalized ones. 4. CHANGE: A. alter B. church C. complete D. decide E. agree Read the passage to answer question 5-6 In the late seventeenth century, a transformation began that would make coffee one of the most popular drinks in Europe. The coffeehouse-meeting place of bankers, dissidents, artists, merchants, poets, wits, and rogues was in some ways the cradle of modern Europe. Coffee would change, in less than a century, from the drink of a few princes and a few paupers to the chief social beverage of the rising middle class. 5. The word “transformation” is closest in meaning to: A. trend B. event C. change D. custom 6. The word “rogues” refers to a type of: A. beverage B. person C. book D....
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...Inadequate Role Models On the surface Disney Princess films appear to be innocent tales about happy endings. Upon closer inspection, they are almost always stories about damsels in distress that are hardly sufficient role models for young girls. Impressionable youth delve into these movies while their parents are unaware or uninterested of the implications these movies have. In some cases, one can find violations of women’s basic rights as human beings. These rights are outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and John Locke’s Of Civil Government. For example, Disney Princesses almost never have the right to their own property, much less ownership of their own bodies. They are also portrayed as obedient wives with offensive flaws that are later corrected by their husbands. Disney delineates a helpless, subservient role for women in society that undermines the work of feminists such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and all those involved with the Seneca Falls Convention; this portrayal encourages young women to put up with violations against their basic rights as human beings. In Disney Princess movies, women hardly ever have the right to their own property and in some cases, have no right to their own bodies. According to John Locke, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, “One Woman, One Vote”, and the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, these conditions violate their basic right to their property as human beings. In the film Aladdin, all...
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...Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince and Dine like a Pauper" It's a well known phrase, and every one of us has heard it but how many of us follow it? Good morning everyone present here.Today I am going to tell about "Importance of breakfast." During a busy morning, it's easy to let breakfast fall low in our list of priorities, but taking just a few minutes to have something to eat can really make a difference to your day. Breakfast provides many benefits to our health and wellbeing It provides the body and brain with fuel after an overnight fast - that's where its name originates, breaking the fast! Breakfast is important as it restores glucose levels, needed for the brain to function. Many studies have shown eating breakfast can improve memory and concentration levels and it can also make us happier as it can improve mood and lower stress levels. Apart from providing us with energy, breakfast foods are good sources of important nutrients such as calcium, iron and B vitamins as well as protein and fiber. The body needs these essential nutrients and research shows that if these are missed at breakfast, they are less likely to be compensated for later in the day. Some good and readily available options for breakfast are oatmeal and cornflakes. Fruit and vegetables are good sources of vitamins and minerals so try to include them in your breakfast, whether that can be a banana or glass of fruit juice. Interestingly, studies show that kids who skip breakfast...
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...Influence of the Entertainment Media Entertainment media has held a foothold on American culture. Lule, J.(2012) stated, “Today, as Internet technology and satellite broadcasting change the way people watch television, the medium continues to evolve, solidifying its position as one of the most important inventions of the 20th century”(p.603). Everything from the ideology of becoming a star to product placement has had an effect on the society. Lately, the pauper to prince dream has swept the nation (nobody to “somebody”) with shows like Jersey Shore, Keeping up with the Kardashians, America got talent, So you think you can dance, American Idol, and the list goes on. These shows have “made” commoners into stars.. That goal has had people seek other applications on the internet rise up to cash in on the benefits. The Years of Fast and the Furious had people deck out cars with the dream of being king of the road. Street racing, however dangerous, had become a lasting fad since the days of “chicken" in the 50’s and 60’s. Product placement on shows and commercials has helped Coca-Cola stay in the refreshment top spot since 1886. Other companies have found their way in to the American Culture like sport teams memorabilia, sponsors, and events for advertisement. Michael Jordan has a net worth of 650 million (90 million coming from his career with the Bulls) just for his name thanks impart to Nike and the shoes that keep on selling out. Rappers have taken names of known criminals to...
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...A very well-known phrase goes like this “Breakfast like a King, Lunch like a Prince and Dinner like a Pauper.” Let’s see why a good breakfast is so important for us. Needless to say, breakfast is undoubtedly the most important meal of our entire day. Some people have this misconception that skipping breakfast will help them in losing weight. As a result, they skip the most important meal of their day and then indulge in binge eating later in the day when they feel extremely hungry. However, the truth is that not having proper and healthy breakfast can backfire in the longer run and cause adverse effects on our body and mind. SO WHY IS BREAKFAST SO IMPORTANT The first and foremost thing about breakfast is that it provides our body with the much- needed fuel and energy after an overnight of fasting. This is exactly why this meal is known as Breakfast i.e. breaking the fast. If an individual is skipping his/ her breakfast, they are clearly trying to kick start their day without any fuel. Imagine this as starting your car every morning without any petrol in it. Generally, it is said that breakfast should be consumed within two hours of waking up. Not only this, food that we consume as a part of our breakfast is also the first source of calcium, iron and Vitamin B that our body gets. Some very crucial proteins, fiber and nutrients are also supplied to our body when we consume breakfast properly and within a time frame of 2-3 hours after waking up. Studies have proven that people...
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...BREAKFAST LIKE A KING, LUNCH LIKE A PRINCE, DINE LIKE A PAUPER This ancient proverb has more than a grain of truth in it, but sadly, most people leading today's busy lives skip breakfast altogether. This is really bad news as ideally you should be getting 25 percent of your day's calories from breakfast, enough to keep you going right through till lunchtime, both physically and mentally. Starting the day without refuelling your body's engine means poor concentration, irritability, low blood sugar and a dreadful craving for the biscuit tin or chocolate bar in the middle of the morning. Five million people don't bother to eat breakfast at home but grab a snack while dashing to work. They consume one and a half million bacon sandwiches, over a million packets of crisps, and three-quarters of a million ham sandwiches and more than a million sugary soft drinks. But worse still, half the working population skip breakfast altogether and another half a million grab a bag of sweets or bar of chocolate on their way. Breakfast is exactly what it says, breaking your fast, and for most people the time they spend in bed is the longest period they go without food. When you get up in the morning it may easily be 8 – 12 hours since you last ate and your blood sugar level is at rock bottom. In order for your brain to function properly it needs a constant supply of sugar which is why starting your day with breakfast is so important...
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...------------------------------------------------- Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885),[2] the latter often called "the Great American Novel." Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which provided the setting for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. After an apprenticeship with a printer, he worked as a typesetter and contributed articles to his older brother Orion's newspaper. He later became a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River before heading west to join Orion in Nevada. He referred humorously to his singular lack of success at mining, turning to journalism for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise.[3] In 1865, his humorous story, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, based on a story he heard at Angels Hotel in Angels Camp California where he had spent some time as a miner. The short story brought international attention, even being translated to classic Greek.[4] His wit and satire, in prose and in speech, earned praise from critics and peers, and he was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty. Though Twain earned a great deal of money from his writings and lectures, he invested in ventures that lost a great deal of money, notably the Paige Compositor, which failed because of its complexity and...
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...In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald presents his view that the American Dream is nothing more than an unachievable illusion, forever just barely out of our grasp. This is represented in the book by a variety of elements and plot points, most notoriously the green light. However, the symbol of the American Dream most central to the plot of The Great Gatsby is actually Daisy, with many of the other symbols flowing from their association with her. The vast riches and lands that Gatsby accrues, which in many other stories would represent that he, the son of dirt poor farmers who has managed to claw his way up to the top through whatever it took, has achieved the American Dream as it is commonly depicted, going from a pauper to a prince, are not his end goal but instead a means to the end, that of a happy life with Daisy as his wife, a life which he has thus far only been able to imagine whilst gazing at the light at the end of her dock which is as green as his envy that Tom is living the life Gatsby...
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...Dandy Frightening the Squatter”. (“Mark Twain Biography”). Mark Twain had many major works in his lifetime here are some examples of someone of mark twain's greatest accomplishments was a famous novel that is very well known, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, This novel is about the childhood and adventures of two boys that are friends, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The Novel used a lot of television and stage film adaptations. Mark Twain's novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is commonly named among the Great American Novels. The book which explores notions of race and identity is both controversial and extremely popular. Mark Twain's first try at historical fiction, The Prince, and The Pauper, is another one of his most famous pieces. Made for the mid-16th century England, It tells the story of two young men who are close in appearance, but born in two totally different social classes. The story has inspired many theatrical production and films.( “Who Is Mark Twain”). Mark Twain had a unique personal life and wonderful legacy.While occupying as a steamboatman, Mark Twain met Charles Langdon who showed him a picture of his sister, Olivia. Twain then started talking to Olivia and asked her to marry him. Her dad didn't really approve of it but Mark Twain managed to overcome he father’s initial reluctance. The couple married in 1870 and had four children, one of whom didn’t survive childhood. He loved his wife very much...
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...persevering spirit attracted a woman named Olivia Langdon, and that same year they got married. Olivia Langdon was a daughter of a wealthy New York coal vendor. She was very opened minded and he was very thrilled to be married to her. The soon settled in Buffalo New York and had four children together. His first child Langdon, died of diphtheria only a couple of years after he was born. In June 1904, twain grieved the love of his life Olivia by death of illness. Mark train wrote over 28 books and many short stories, along with news paper articles. Some of these books included; “The Innocents Abroad”, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today”, and not last but least “The prince and the pauper”. When Mark twin was writing he was very consistent with being able to maintain the same style most of the time. He was very sarcastic, humorous, realistic, somewhat fictional, dialectic, and related characters to real life people and events. In his famous book “the adventures of huckleberry finn” he used most of his personnel life struggles to write this book. ...
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...Plato, being a dualist, argued that life beyond death must exist. He said that the body was composite, and therefore capable of perishing, whereas the mind was simple and imperishable and the only immortal part of the body. He believed that the soul belonged to a higher state of existence, and the body was holding out soul’s captive; our body is seen in a negative light as it distracts us and our souls from seeking the forms through its trivial worldly desires such as sex and love of money. The best way Plato puts his point across is through the analogy of the charioteer, the charioteer is displayed as our reason in which controls and maintains the carriage, the two horses are spiritive and appetite. Appetite is often depicted as black as this is the one leading us away from our ultimate goal and leads the soul stray whereas the white horse, our spirit, is the one who keeps us on the right track. The horses are our mind and body in which are often seen as out of control and out chariot must reign them in and control them for us to have a chance of reaching Eudaimonia. At our death the soul will be set free from the body and will reach the ultimate destination known as the World of Forms. Plato therefore concluded that it is seemingly natural for the soul to carry on after the physical body has perished. In complete contrast to Plato stands the notorious zoologist Richard Dawkins, his belief holds the theory of biological materialism in which there is no existence of a soul...
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