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La Salle La Salle
529 wordsLa Salle La Salle, Ren'e-Robert Cavalier, Si eur de (1643-1687), French explorer in North America, who navigated the length of the Mississippi River and claimed the Louisiana region for France. La Salle was born on November 22, 1643, in Rouen, France, and educated by the Jesuits. In 1666 he immigrated to Canada, was granted land on the St. Lawrence River, and became a trader. From 1669 to 1670 he explored the region south of Lakes Ontario and Erie, and he later claimed to have discovered the Ohi...
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Mississippi River
711 wordsHuckleberry Finn In his latest story, Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade), by Mark Twain, Mr. Clemens has made a very distinct literary advance over Tom Sawyer, as an interpreter of human nature and a contributor to our stock of original pictures of American life. Still adhering to his plan of narrating the adventures of boys, with a primeval and Robin Hood freshness, he has broadened his canvas and given us a picture of a people, of a geographical region, of a life that is new in the world....
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Publication Of Mark Twain's First Book
687 wordsSamuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. Shortly after the death of his father in 1847, Samuel ended his brief period of schooling to become a printer's apprentice. Between 1853 and 1857 Clemens worked as a journeyman printer in St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Muscatine and Keokuk, Iowa, and in Cincinnati. A series of sketches, "The Snodgrass Letters", signed with the pseudonym Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, were published in the Keokuk Post in 1856 and 1857. He took a downstream ...
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Control Of Vicksburg And The Mississippi River
651 wordsHistory 10-8-03 Battle of Vicksburg The Battle of Vicksburg, The Civil war that in my opinion cut our nation in two, Americans fighting Americans. This was a very important battle that was fought westward it was the turning point in the war. The Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant on July 4, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant with the largest force, about 67,000 men. Vicksburg is the last spot on the Mississippi River. May through July in 1862, several attempts to seize Vicksburg were made b...
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Biography Of Mark Twain Clemens
501 wordsBiography of Mark Twain Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and grew up in nearby Hannibal, on the Mississippi River. His father died in 1847, leaving the family with little financial support, and Clemens became a printer's apprentice eventually working for his brother Orion. Through all his years in the print shop, Clemens tried his hand at composing humorous pieces, using the heavy-handed techniques of local colorists who were popular at the time. By 1856, he was accomplished enoug...
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Life On The Mississippi By Mark Twain
545 wordsLife on the Mississippi by Mark Twain is his journal about vital river life during the steamboat era and a melancholy remembrance of it after the Civil War. Mark Twain tells of his life on the river, humorous folktales, and a glimpse of Twain's life during his childhood years. The Mississippi River was a major part of Mark Twain's life. The river In the three introductory ones which precede these, the physical character of the river is sketched, and brief reference is made to the early travelers...
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Significance Of The Mississippi River
558 wordsThroughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the Mississippi River plays a highly significant role. The American landmark represents freedom, in many cases, to the runaway slave Jim. A cornerstone of Huck's maturity during the novel was the Mississippi River. This body of water reveals all that is wrong and ignorant in American society. The ignorance ranges anywhere from slavery to something as petty as a couple of small town swindlers. The Mississippi River was as routine as slaver...
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Mark Twain Essays
414 wordsJust as Huckleberry Finn found peril along the waters of the great Mississippi River, contemporary students often find themselves treading their own 'deep waters' trying to understand and interpret the works of author Samuel Clemens, a. k. a. Mark Twain. But what Huck Finn never had, today's literature students do: the answer to any dilemma of interpretation... a website entitled Mark-Twain-Essays. Com. Tired of crawling through web pages with scant information and little to go on? THIS site con...
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Water Quality
411 wordsSince the beginning of the Americas the rivers have been a very important source of transportation. If not for the river the shipment of goods would have taken a very long time and would have been almost impossible through the dense forests of the New World. The Mississippi in time has been used for transportation. The Native Americans used the river as a source of food and also to get to prime hunting spots. When the Europeans came, the Mississippi was used to travel from fort to fort and also ...
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Mississippi River On June 17
372 wordsJacques Marquette February 25, 1997 Jacques Marquette was a great French Jesuit Missionary and explorer. He was also known as Pere Marquette. He was born at Laon in Northern France on June 1, 1637. He was one of the first white men to explore the upper Mississippi River region. He entered the Jesuit College at Nancy about 1654. He later studied and taught in Reims as well as other French Towns. In 1666 he was sent to New France (Canada), as a missionary priest, arriving at Quebec in September of...
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Twain's Best Work
454 wordsPseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression. Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he was four years old. In 1851 he began setting type for and contributing sketches ...
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Map The Rivers
466 wordsHi my name is Thomas Jefferson. My nicknames are "man of the People" and Sage of Monticello". I was born April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. My father's name was Peter Jefferson and my Mother's name was Jane Randolph Jefferson. I married Martha Wales Skelton. I have 6 children Martha, Jane, a son (he died Before we could give him a name), Mary, Lucy and Lucy. I studied college at William and Mary University. I was also a lawyer and a planter. My other government positions were: member of Virg...
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