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The zone of proximal development is defined as the gap between what a child knows and his potential for the next higher step. Vygo...

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

past, particularly those which occurred in totalitarian regimes that could not tolerate scrutiny any closer than that which it alr...

for a marriage proposal will cause scholars to revise previous assessments that Twain was ineffective in representing women and un...

praises which I myself did not understand" (Joyce). In this we see him envisioning himself as something of a noble knight, a figur...

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

So, while Twains comments are funny, as seen thus far, and while he himself claimed that humor was the key, we also note that he p...

continues to rage well into the twenty-first century about whether The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn represents racism and should...

drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the se...

This essay explains how boys communicate with boys and how girls communicate with girls. It also discusses how sexism begins and t...

This essay considers Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and asserts that both protagonists were societ...

The writer assumes the personal of a 14-year-old boy in order to provide a hypothetical example of how the boy could expressed him...

parable or a dream" (Dr. DoCarmo). It more often than not possesses no sentiment or emotion that would pull the reader into believ...

seems to be a perspective that Tobias knew and felt in real life, illustrating that there is a very strong connection between sons...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

Finn" but also in many others of Twains tales. This importance is made apparent even by the chosen pen name of the author. Samue...

is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at is worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and...

a nineteenth-century technological marvel, believing this would put the ineffectual Arthur and the uppity nobles in their places w...

with little or no identity. He is a young boy who is simply involved with his mothers adventures and travels. He is not overly int...

what her life has been. This view of Granny life offers a contradiction to every misogynist preconception of womanhood that was ev...

There have actually been schools which have banned Huckleberry Finn from their libraries and their classrooms, based upon the refe...

dialogue that provides the reader with a strong sense of awareness regarding the speech and attitudes of those he was portraying. ...

he knows of an undertow there which will hold her back against the gale and save her. For just pure woodcraft, or sailorcraft, or ...

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

In seven pages the ways in which Mississippi River people and towns are presented in Twain's Life on the Mississippi are compared ...

This 5 page paper discusses the influence the character of Huckleberry Finn has on his friend Tom Sawyer in Mark Twain's classic n...

In four pages this paper examines the structure of this chronicle of a young immigrant boy's 1st year in the United States and how...

well-familiar, spoken in a regional dialect they could easily understand. According to Twain, "Humor must not professedly teach, ...

A 5 page consideration of the use of local dialect in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson. The focus is on the character Roxanne. Ba...

"because she had done it herself" (29). Then, Miss Watson took her turn, introducing him to a spelling book, with the...