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The Most Famous And Richest Men Essay
Schlosser explains about one of the most famous and richest men, J.R. Simplot, who was born in 1909 in Idaho and grew up farming, helping and
working with his family. He dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen and decided to leave home. When he left home, he soon found work in
a potato house. He then became a potato farmer who worked for Lindsay Maggart who was the landlord and was quite good at what he does. He
was buying and selling potatoes and he even became one of the leading transporters of potatoes in the West. He was selling potatoes from left to
right. Simplot even bought a machine, "an electric potato sorter." The machine was purchased by him and Maggart. When they decide to part
ways in their business, hey flipped a coin to see who would have to keep it and it was him. Luck was definitely on his side. Simplot was making a
lot of selling potatoes and during the World War II; he sold dried onions and dried potatoes to the American military during the time. Simplot who a
smart man, who even started to invest in freezing food and began selling frozen fries to the company McDonalds. Since the taste was similar to the
fresh cut fries in stores and also cheaper. McDonald's very own Ray Kroc was amazed by it. Nowadays French fries are very popular. Today there are
three potato companies Simplot, Lamb Weston, and McCain that controls about 80% of the American Frozen French fries. Even though there are much
smaller independent potato growers, they have a harder
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The American West And American History Essay
The American West is one of the most famous and important part of the American history. The American West or another name the American Frontier
started off in the late–1700 and ended in mid–1940. Although that part of history ended, but the influence and the old west culture is still around
today. So let get into the history of the American West, of what made the West what it is and how all the forces molded the West. There are many
factors that made the West, from government, politics, wars, climate and geography. So why are all these factors matter, because when the people
wanted to expand their settlements they have to deal with the consequences that they have to risk. Each part of this paper will give you history of each
individual era from the expansion of the West, Civil War and the reconstruction of the nation, Home on the Ranch, and rise of the industrial America
Many think that the American West is all about cowboys and Indians, but it's really not. The American West started when the settlers moved to the west
of the Appalachian Mountains in 1730 and began to explore the new world. One of the first people to move to the West in search new settlement is the
legendary frontiersmen which who are mainly scots–Irish. Like, Daniel Boone. These men went up and across the Appalachian Mountains to explore,
find resources, and find new settlements. Towards the 1800's many white Americans from the east began to settle in the western part of the country "the
Great Plain" after
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Living On The Frontier Narrative
In the 1840s on June 25th my 9th birthday my family is packing up to move to the Michigan frontier. On our way there we saw seagles, deers, wolves,
bats, owls, eagles, and trees. It took 26 days to get there, because we came from New York. The government said if we live here at this piece of land
for several years we could own the land for free. As soon as we found the land we built a house so we would not freeze to death during the cold snowy
winter. This will be our first Christmas away from our family living on the frontier. Me and my dad have been hunting racoons so we can give our
family each one their own coon skin hat. My sister is making us all warm winter outfits out of fox skin. Our normal day we get up when the sun rises
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The American Old West: Myth Versus Reality
Ray Miss Dae Selcer ELA III 22 December, 2011 The American Old West: Myth versus Reality Western, a genre of short stories that are set in the
American west, primarily in the late of the 19th century ("Western" 598), and still being told until today by films, televisions, radio, and other art
works. The major of moving to the west was because of the Homestead Act, 1862 ("U.S. Statues at Large" 392) which would give lands to people
who stayed there for five years. This lead to a huge wave of immigrants moved to the West, and they had to face to many hardships and conflicts such
as Indian attacks, tornadoes, blizzards, and illnesses. Yet the portrayal of westerns is always very romanticized compared to the real...show more
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The largest concentration of blacks in the state was in Sacramento County, mainly because of the gold rush (12). Blacks would ride trade ships to
the west coast and then desert, if they were slaves, or leave the ship, if they were free men, to settle there (12). Another example of a corrupt black
cowboy was Cranford Goldsby. Known as Cherokee Bill, he was the black counterpart to Billy the Kid. He was born Cranford Goldsby into a law
abiding family; his father was a Buffalo soldier in the West (Katz 155). One of the most famous cowgirls was Belle Starr, she was called the 'Bandit
Queen'–a lovely lady who ruled outlaw gangs with her guns, her will and her personal favors. She has been credited with stealing from the rich and
giving to the poor, cleaning out crooked poker games with her six–shooters, and galloping down city streets with pistols blazing (Arnott). These
evidences tell us that there were really some famous black cowboys and cowgirls in the real West but they weren't romanticized in western arts as
much as the white cowboys. Comparing to the book Shane, homesteaders and ranchers were taking the lands of Native Americans, so there definitely
was a conflict between these people. However, Schaefer never mentioned about Native, African, or Asian Americans in the book. It can be seen as a
case of discrimination. HOW WAS WESTERN ROMANTICIZED COMPARED TO THE REALITY American Tall Tales are the strongest evidences
to support
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Turner Frontier Thesis
One of the most famous arguments made in the world of environmental history was sparked by Frederick Jackson Turner in his essay, "The
Significance of the Frontier in American History". In his essay that came to be known as the Frontier/ Turner Thesis, he claimed that modern American
culture and innovations had been developed by the growth of America into the western frontier. The migration of Americans to the western frontier
originated through their desire for adventure as well as fertile and cheap land that was open for the taking. The frontier promised possibilities of
expanding new markets in an unclaimed portion of the country. There are, however, several critics of the thesis, such as George Pierson, who disagree
with Turner as to the...show more content...
According to Turner, through America's conquest of the frontier, the cultural traits of Americans could be credited to the directly to the land and "that
coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness; that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful
grasp of material things... that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism"(Turner 34). While on the other side of the argument, Pierson
believed that traits of modern Americans such as democracy and individualism had already existed in other parts of the world, and the frontier itself
had not created whole new theories and ways of
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On Keeping A Notebook By Joan Didion
The author of novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays, Joan Didion (b. 1934) began her career in 1956 as a staff writer at Vogue magazine in
New York. In 1963 she published her first novel, Run River, and the following year returned to her native California. Didion's essays have
appeared in periodicals ranging from Mademoiselle to the National Review. Her essay "On Keeping a Notebook" can be found in her collection of
essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968). Didion's other nonfiction publications include The White Album (1979), Salvador (1983), Miami
(1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Fixed Ideas: America since 9.11 (2003), and Where I Was From (2003). Didion has defined a
writer as "a person whose most...show more content...
The woman in the dirty crepe–de–Chine wrapper had come down from her room for a beer, and the bartender had heard before the reason why
George Sharp and she were separated today. "Sure," he said, and went on mopping the floor. "You told me." At the other end of the bar is a girl.
She is talking, pointedly, not to the man beside her but to a cat lying in the triangle of sunlight cast through the open door. She is wearing a plaid
silk dress from Peck & Peck, and the hem is coming down. Here is what it is: The girl has been on the Eastern Shore, and now she is going back to the
city, leaving the man beside her, and all she can 21 22 Didion / On Keeping a Notebook McQ_Part–I.qxd 24/11/2005 12:19 PM Page 22 see ahead are
the viscous summer sidewalks and the 3 a.m. long–distance calls that will make her lie awake and then sleep drugged through all the steaming
mornings left in August (1960? 1961?). Because she must go directly from the train to lunch in New York, she wishes that she had a safety pin for the
hem of the plaid silk dress, and she also wishes that she could forget about the hem and the lunch and stay in the cool bar that smells of disinfectant and
malt and make friends with the woman in the crepe–de–Chine wrapper. She is afflicted by a little selfpity, and she wants to compare Estelles. That is
what that was all about. Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it
actually happened? Did
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Emerson's Metaphors
Ralph Waldo Emerson can go by many titles: scholar, philosopher, wordsmith. All hold true in one of his greatest pieces, Self
–Reliance. In which, he
uses his words to spread an idea of individuality in thought and how essential it truly is. Scattered throughout the massage are examples of metaphors,
comparing his vast and complex ideologies to comprehendible and mundane objects, he uses allusions as well, bringing to light not only Biblical
themes, but also men of old more times than often seen as great and influential and referring time and time again to the Bible. In doing these things,
Emerson conveys his ideas, swaying and bending the words to his will. A first arguably more evident example of this would be found in his metaphors.
In this writing, Emerson's meaningful metaphors proclaim the sheer importance of individuality and how much it is longed for, saying that "every
heart vibrates...show more content...
Emerson compares the individual, the original mind to the minds of Moses, Plato, and Milton in his first paragraph. He describes them as not
speaking the thoughts of men, but the thoughts of themselves. This is to show if these men can be viewed in such a light for as task such as speaking
with their own individuality, then all men can be great and do the same. Not only did Emerson bring up great men, he also talked about the Bible and
connected his ideas to God. In the first paragraph, Emerson speaks not only of Moses, but also the trumpets of the Last Judgement. In doing so, he
describes how fear holds us back from being an individual, having individual thoughts. Somewhat contradicting to himself, in the second paragraph he
says "God will not have his work manifest by cowards", meaning that men need to be original and not live in fear of judgement for their individuality,
despite God having been responsible for the trumpets of the Last
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Springfield Massachusetts: A Western Frontier
As other European countries conquered and laid claim to the New World of the Caribbean and West Indies in the late sixteenth century, they brought
along the practice of slavery. Eventually, slavery expanded to the north, to colonial America. Like Boston and Roxbury, Springfield Massachusetts
became to be known as the most Western settled frontier in the early 1600's and a city of many firsts. Such firsts include the exploration of the
Western front by the likes of William Pynchon to expand the economic resources of theMassachusetts Bay Colony plantation.
The city of Springfield and its establishment was indeed a city on the hill, where three rivers met causing the perfect location for a new established
plantation. After the brutal war between
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American Frontier Spirit
American Frontier Spirit The frontier is concept in the American mind which basically describe the discoveries of new place and opportunities
(Richoux, 2012: 1). Frontier itself mean a line that separating two different place. Ray Allen Billington (1889, in Richoux, 2012: 2), defined border
as part of a state or country that forms the border of the settled and the inhabited areas. While Kjellberg (2013: 11) defined that frontier spirit comes
from subjugation on the Native Americans who originally reside in America and the take over the region there previously by the settlers. The main
concept of this spirit is the idea to moving or civilize and subjugate a new place for the prosperity of the nation. However, Turner (1893: 2) explain that
the
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Mark Twain And Thurber Comparison Essay
Anisha Reynolds
Ms. Newell
ELA 10 14 November 2017
Comparison of Twain and Thurber Mark Twain and James Thurber portray conflict in their humorous writing using literary devices. This enhances their
stories and makes them enjoyable to read. Mark Twain in "A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England" and James Thurber in "The
Dog that Bit People" use hyperbole, understatement, and precise diction to portray the conflict that develops their humorous writing. Thurber and
Twain use hyperboles to convey conflict. For example, when Uncle Horatio visits, he says, "He said he wasn't afraid of any dog that ever lived and
that he would put the dog's plate on the floor if we would give it to him," (261). This shows how he is exaggerating, because it is impossible to not
be afraid of every dog that comes your way. This also shows that the dog is frightening to everyone but the owner. An example from Twain's writing
says,
"... Probable nor'–east to sou'–west winds, varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low...show more content...
In Thurber's work, when Muggs dies, it says, "On the board I wrote with an indelible pencil 'Cave Canem'," (262). This shows Thurber's use of
precise diction to show satire. Thurber uses latin to show humorous writing because "Cave Canem" means Beware of the Dog. For example, in "A
Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England," Mark Twain states, "I like to hear rain on a tin roof, so I covered part of my roof
with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, sir, do you think it ever rains on the tin? No, sir; skips it every time," (255). This shows Twain's use of
precise diction when he uses the words "skips it every time," because the rain can't skip something every time. This also shows how his use of precise
diction helps him create fantastic hyperboles that stir one's imagination. Twain and Thurber's use of precise diction helps depict
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Personal experience in Writing There are many sources for a writer to use, when it comes to using other evidence to back up a statement. Often, as a
student, I would use evidence from literatures as a source, and this is the most formal and effective way to express one's opinion. Because by using
someone else's work, I could build a connection with the reader, and let the reader believe there are other people who have the same belief as I do.
There are different kind of sources that writers can choose from to support their opinions, such as literatures, websites, and studies. But there a
special kind of resources: personal experience that is greatly used in writing. Although they are people who believe personal experiences may have
some expectations and should not be considered as the public opinion, I still believe personal experience can be greatly used in writing, and
supporting one's statement. And the reasons will be stated in below. First of all, a personal experience could make the readers feel more connected to
the topic that the author is writing about. If the author has experienced of something like this, it is likely for the readers to feel the same way. By
opening up the author's own experience, the readers will not only feel more connected to the story, but also understand the author a little more. For
example in the article "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation" by Jean Twenge. The author gives a numbers of reference of statistics that he found
on websites, but they are just numbers, the reader still feel they are irrelevant to the story. It is the moment as the author starts to talk
about his interactions with his friends and relatives, me as a reader feel a sense of connection to the story for the first time. Instead of just numbers
and statics on the paper, I could see real life examples, and apply these examples into my own life. second, by using personal experience as a style of
writing, the author could let the readers have a more realistic experience. The readers will not only read what is going on at that time, but also feel
what the character is feeling at certain moment, and actually be a part of that story. For example, in the Canterbury tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, the
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Facebook is one of the most famous social networking services and websites. It launched in February 2004, and it is operated and privately owned
by Facebook. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. People spend a great deal of time sharing private videos and
pointless status updates on their profile. We cannot deny the fact that facebook has helped many people learn and stay connected with each other, and
has helped to make the world more progressive towards becoming one nation. However, it has countless disadvantages which have touched almost
everyone in the world. Many people advise that Facebook and social media should be monitored for several reasons. Facebook contributes to cyber–
bullying and other crimes...show more content...
Children who have been cyberbullied are more likely to express depression, anxiety, and low self–esteem, according to Bullying About.Com Website. If
social networking and facebook were under surveillance, the number of cybercrimes would be reduced accordingly. To stop these problems from
getting worse, the government should take action by making new laws to protect children and teenagers from cyberbullying. When it comes to
the workplace, facebook and social media have played a negative role in terms of productivity, according Forbes Website. Facebook and social
media are used by many employees who are paid to work, not to express opinions and exchange stories. Instead of working, some play facebook
games like Farmville. For example, as an employee, I have encountered problems related to facebook and social media. All the employees in our
company were free to use social media and networking when they wanted, and due to this freedom work performance was negatively affected. For
this reason, our company conducted a survey and investigation regarding work performance, discovering that facebook and other social media were
major drains on workers' output. Because of these results, our company decided to monitor and restrict the use of facebook and social media.
Therefore, the work performance returned to its previous level respectively. Since that time, the use of facebook and social
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Most famous work
Edward Witten is most known for proving the string theory using a mathematical equation. Werner Heisenberg's research in 1943 became the base from
which the string theory grew from. Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, and Leonard Susskind first had the idea of string theory in 1970, but the
scientific community lost interest quickly. Due to the discovery of quantum chromodynamics, John. H Schwarz and Joel Scherk where able to study
boson (elementary particle) patterns and found that they acted as strings and that their properties matched graviton (elementary particle). This
discovery led to the bosonic string theory, which was the first string theory that is still taught to students as they are starting to understand the...show
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Witten is also known for his mathematical achievements. Witten was the first physicist ever to win the Fields medal; one of his more known
contributions to the mathematics field was his ability to understand the Jones polynomial. These are only a few of the countless contributions Witten
has made to science and mathematics.
Awards:
MacArthur fellowship (1982)
Dirac Medal (1985)
Albert Einstein Award (1985)
Fields Medal (1990)
Henri Poincare Prize ( 2006)
Alan T. Waterman Award (1995)
Dannie Heineman Prize (1998)
Nemmers Prize (2000)
Harvey Prize (2005)
Crafoord Prize (2008)
Lorentz Medal (2010)
Isaac Newton Medal (2010)
Fundamental Physics Prize (2012)
Biography:
Witten was born in Baltimore Maryland on August 26th 1951. His father Lorraine Witten was also a theoretical physicist who specialized in
gravitation. Witten then went on to attend park school of Baltimore and received his Bachelor of Arts, after this he went on to get a major in history
and a minor in linguistics from Brandeis University. He then attended Princeton University where he got his PHD in physics. Witten married Chiara
Nappi who is a professor at Princeton University and also has her PHD in physics. Witten has three children and one grandchild.
Interesting Information:
Steven Hawking stated that Edward Witten's M–theory might be the ultimate theory of the universe. The most interesting fact about my dead physicist
is that he is
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by the name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Twain
was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, and served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of
his older brother Orion Clemens. He became nothing less than a national treasure. He captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and
with commentary on man's faults that is humorous even while it probes the roots of human behavior. One of his most famous essays (satire) that I will
analyze is, "A Presidential Candidate", which was written on June 9th, 1879, in which he evokes a sarcastic tone to mock presidential candidates by
using syntax, diction, irony, and examples from his own past.
In his work, he embodies the characteristic of honesty, which is uncommon among candidates. His main purpose was to categorize politicians as
inhumane people. He believes they are untruthful, cowardly individuals because they disguise themselves and attempt to hide their guilt. He begins
the essay by saying he has made up his mind about running for President. But unlike the others, he is going to, "...own up in advance to all the
wickedness I have done, and if any Congressional committee is disposed to prowl around my biography in the hope of discovering any dark and
deadly deed that I have secreted, why–let it prowl" (para.1). He sought to dive into the election as an open book,
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My reflective thoughts on Donald Murray's "All writing is Autobiography"п»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»ї, are easily aligned with this work as it
continuously offered textual examples to the reader from fiction and non–fictional viewpoints, as to the fundamental notion that all writing is
autobiography. Murray without a doubt creates an argument about the affect a person's experience shape the outcome of any work awriter may produce,
in which I agree. п»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їFor example, Donald Murray's poem "Black Ice" is written with an autobiographical voice, although most
details did not take place–– he admits, but the poem continued to bring forth an organic rhythm of story telling without any hints of small truths while
Murray injects the extra influencing details. Murray...show more content...
For example, in fiction writing, as long as the details are organically placed–– the story will not seem to have a large of amount of non–truths–– at the
same time, the smaller truths will continue to tell a bigger story. According to Murray, fiction is called a "liar's profession". The readers are not
always equipped with the knowledge of how a writer must construct their work, in that adding influencing details in order to draw a vivid image of
certain environments, surroundings, or to capture the emotional state of the writer, character and so on. Murray illuminates this objective to his
audience and highlight the writers ability to tell a story, and create a dialog around any piece written, and experiences have to be a part of this
dynamic based off of an individuals' past experiences. At the same time, the writer is creating their own legacy, history, and different moments of
realization and how to it is done. As an inspiring fiction novelist, I write stories "loosely based" of what I have experienced in certain moments of
my life, and the most of it is brought forward through my experiences in the earlier years of my life. In essence, it is important that a person captures
their own experiences, because out of every individual experience both bring forth vivid stories and voices to those moments in life left to be
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Mark Twain: Quote Analysis
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure" (Twain). This quote is from Mark Twain. He is a very famous author
who has written such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain's real name is Samuel
Clemens, and was known to have experienced different many things in his lifetime. He has worked as a miner, printer, river pilot, and more
(www.cmgww.com). This tells us that he must have known many things, and possibly how he came up with this quote. To me, this quote means that as
long as you do what you want and follow your dreams, they will come true. I can somewhat relate to this because I am both cautious and careful at
some things I do, and lazy and uncaring about others. So far, I have gotten some sort of success from how I behave, but sometimes it doesn't work out
and I regret it. This most likely relates to Mark Twain himself because of what he has done in his life, and the fact that this is his quote....show more
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I try not to act out for the fear that I might embarrass myself because I don't handle it well. This been successful in the aspect of not embarrassing
myself, but not so much in talking to others because it has given me more of an edge about it. Being lazy and uncaring has definitely not helped me
because it sometimes prevents me from telling being things that are somewhat important. These things sometimes include school things such as grades,
and I sometimes don't tell my parents because I think I will get in trouble, but they find out anyway and I end up getting in more trouble because I
didn't tell
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RenГ© Descartes Discourse
RenГ© Descartes uses Discourse on Method to explain his view that god exists and that human nature consists of the body and soul, which both
interact but can exist without one another. He believed that the body occupies space but has no mental properties. RenГ© believed that it was in fact
the soul or mind that does the thinking or sleeping. Using animals as an example, he highlights in the text how humans unlike animals possess a soul.
In the text, RenГ© originally viewed things to be beyond what they appeared to be, questioning everything. He eventually comes to the conclusion
that in order for him to think, question, or doubt he must in fact exist. This idea creates the quote, "I am thinking, therefore I exist" Our spirits even
come into question and how strong they must be to control the body with waking up or sleeping. He even uses an example of a head still moving
while being detached from the body saying, "... as when we see a severed heads continue to...show more content...
The body, according to Aristotle, is the best machine which was made by god. Therefore, it is better than any machine that can be created by man.
If the machines by man could made by man could have the organs of an animal you could tell no difference but you would be able to do so with
humans. This is due to our ability to speak and relay our thoughts. Other actions would also prove the difference as machine would eventually fail
even if they completed tasks better than man. You see that animal is considered to be inferior to man. This point can be found in the text saying, " On
the other hand, men are born deaf and dumb, and thus deprived of speech–organs as much as they beasts or even more so, normally invent their own
signs to make themselves understood by those who, being regularly in their own company, have the time to learn their language. This shows not merely
that the beasts have less reason than men, but that they have no reason at
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The Lowest Animal Satire Essay
Mark Twain, America's greatest Humorist, shows his skills in satire in "The Lowest Animal." Satire is made of many elements which require mastery
for the satire to be truly effective. Twain is renowned as a satirist because of his greatness with humor and sarcasm, but he is very well–rounded and is
talented in all elements of satire. Twain used satire to educate and entertain the populace with stories that made people rethink the traditional values of
life during his lifetime. He sought to change many social values he saw as wrong by using words to cause the society to change itself. The fact that
Twain was able to do this was due to his great effectiveness as a satirist. In "The Lowest Animal," Twain's effectiveness as a satirist stems from his
talented use of intriguing incongruity, absolute absurdity, scathing sarcasm, and...show more content...
Sarcasm grabs a reader's attention by ridiculing a certain group, individual, or ideal. Twain uses sarcasm in one of the final paragraphs of "The
Lowest Animal" when talking of the outcomes of putting different animals into a cage together and putting different people into a cage together.
Twains says that in the cage with the different animals, the inhabitants are peaceful, when he checks again; but in the cage of the different people,
the people have a disagreement on theology and kill each other, brutally: "When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all
right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh, not a specimen left alive.
These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court" (Twain 378). This sarcasm brings
"peaceful" religions into question as to whether they are truly peaceful or just a way of separating people. Sarcasm is a very powerful element of
satire as it brings to light the downside of ideals by mocking
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Analysis Of The War Prayer By Mark Twain
Mark Twain is known as the one of the most influential and prolific writers of our time. Many literary greats who followed him such as William
Faulkner declared him the father of American Literature and the most celebrated humorist and realist of all. Twain used his life experiences growing
up as a child along with his experiences as a river boat captain in Missouri to help shape his writings. His uncanny ability to use language of the
common man in specific regions of the country, connected readers honestly with his characters. The War Prayerpublished in 1905, was a particularly
sobering and controversial piece which offered a scathing indictment of war in general, but quite likely the Philippine–American War specifically.
Twain was also known for his satirical writings relative to race and culture, but it is the "War Prayer" that is one of the more powerful pieces that
represents Twain's fervid anti–war position. Samuel Clemens propensity to draw on his own experiences started early in writing when he adopted the
name Mark Twain presumably to connect back one of his most positive first experiences in life when he was a riverboat captain; "mark twain" of
course signifying a safe depth for riverboat operation on the river. Twain was well traveled and encountered diverse and unique people in various
parts of the country. He was also exposed to many of the issues that were facing society at the time. America was being transformed and a lot of this
change came
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The Most Famous And Richest Men Essay

  • 1. The Most Famous And Richest Men Essay Schlosser explains about one of the most famous and richest men, J.R. Simplot, who was born in 1909 in Idaho and grew up farming, helping and working with his family. He dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen and decided to leave home. When he left home, he soon found work in a potato house. He then became a potato farmer who worked for Lindsay Maggart who was the landlord and was quite good at what he does. He was buying and selling potatoes and he even became one of the leading transporters of potatoes in the West. He was selling potatoes from left to right. Simplot even bought a machine, "an electric potato sorter." The machine was purchased by him and Maggart. When they decide to part ways in their business, hey flipped a coin to see who would have to keep it and it was him. Luck was definitely on his side. Simplot was making a lot of selling potatoes and during the World War II; he sold dried onions and dried potatoes to the American military during the time. Simplot who a smart man, who even started to invest in freezing food and began selling frozen fries to the company McDonalds. Since the taste was similar to the fresh cut fries in stores and also cheaper. McDonald's very own Ray Kroc was amazed by it. Nowadays French fries are very popular. Today there are three potato companies Simplot, Lamb Weston, and McCain that controls about 80% of the American Frozen French fries. Even though there are much smaller independent potato growers, they have a harder Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. The American West And American History Essay The American West is one of the most famous and important part of the American history. The American West or another name the American Frontier started off in the late–1700 and ended in mid–1940. Although that part of history ended, but the influence and the old west culture is still around today. So let get into the history of the American West, of what made the West what it is and how all the forces molded the West. There are many factors that made the West, from government, politics, wars, climate and geography. So why are all these factors matter, because when the people wanted to expand their settlements they have to deal with the consequences that they have to risk. Each part of this paper will give you history of each individual era from the expansion of the West, Civil War and the reconstruction of the nation, Home on the Ranch, and rise of the industrial America Many think that the American West is all about cowboys and Indians, but it's really not. The American West started when the settlers moved to the west of the Appalachian Mountains in 1730 and began to explore the new world. One of the first people to move to the West in search new settlement is the legendary frontiersmen which who are mainly scots–Irish. Like, Daniel Boone. These men went up and across the Appalachian Mountains to explore, find resources, and find new settlements. Towards the 1800's many white Americans from the east began to settle in the western part of the country "the Great Plain" after Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Living On The Frontier Narrative In the 1840s on June 25th my 9th birthday my family is packing up to move to the Michigan frontier. On our way there we saw seagles, deers, wolves, bats, owls, eagles, and trees. It took 26 days to get there, because we came from New York. The government said if we live here at this piece of land for several years we could own the land for free. As soon as we found the land we built a house so we would not freeze to death during the cold snowy winter. This will be our first Christmas away from our family living on the frontier. Me and my dad have been hunting racoons so we can give our family each one their own coon skin hat. My sister is making us all warm winter outfits out of fox skin. Our normal day we get up when the sun rises Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. The American Old West: Myth Versus Reality Ray Miss Dae Selcer ELA III 22 December, 2011 The American Old West: Myth versus Reality Western, a genre of short stories that are set in the American west, primarily in the late of the 19th century ("Western" 598), and still being told until today by films, televisions, radio, and other art works. The major of moving to the west was because of the Homestead Act, 1862 ("U.S. Statues at Large" 392) which would give lands to people who stayed there for five years. This lead to a huge wave of immigrants moved to the West, and they had to face to many hardships and conflicts such as Indian attacks, tornadoes, blizzards, and illnesses. Yet the portrayal of westerns is always very romanticized compared to the real...show more content... The largest concentration of blacks in the state was in Sacramento County, mainly because of the gold rush (12). Blacks would ride trade ships to the west coast and then desert, if they were slaves, or leave the ship, if they were free men, to settle there (12). Another example of a corrupt black cowboy was Cranford Goldsby. Known as Cherokee Bill, he was the black counterpart to Billy the Kid. He was born Cranford Goldsby into a law abiding family; his father was a Buffalo soldier in the West (Katz 155). One of the most famous cowgirls was Belle Starr, she was called the 'Bandit Queen'–a lovely lady who ruled outlaw gangs with her guns, her will and her personal favors. She has been credited with stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, cleaning out crooked poker games with her six–shooters, and galloping down city streets with pistols blazing (Arnott). These evidences tell us that there were really some famous black cowboys and cowgirls in the real West but they weren't romanticized in western arts as much as the white cowboys. Comparing to the book Shane, homesteaders and ranchers were taking the lands of Native Americans, so there definitely was a conflict between these people. However, Schaefer never mentioned about Native, African, or Asian Americans in the book. It can be seen as a case of discrimination. HOW WAS WESTERN ROMANTICIZED COMPARED TO THE REALITY American Tall Tales are the strongest evidences to support Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Turner Frontier Thesis One of the most famous arguments made in the world of environmental history was sparked by Frederick Jackson Turner in his essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History". In his essay that came to be known as the Frontier/ Turner Thesis, he claimed that modern American culture and innovations had been developed by the growth of America into the western frontier. The migration of Americans to the western frontier originated through their desire for adventure as well as fertile and cheap land that was open for the taking. The frontier promised possibilities of expanding new markets in an unclaimed portion of the country. There are, however, several critics of the thesis, such as George Pierson, who disagree with Turner as to the...show more content... According to Turner, through America's conquest of the frontier, the cultural traits of Americans could be credited to the directly to the land and "that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness; that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things... that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism"(Turner 34). While on the other side of the argument, Pierson believed that traits of modern Americans such as democracy and individualism had already existed in other parts of the world, and the frontier itself had not created whole new theories and ways of Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. On Keeping A Notebook By Joan Didion The author of novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays, Joan Didion (b. 1934) began her career in 1956 as a staff writer at Vogue magazine in New York. In 1963 she published her first novel, Run River, and the following year returned to her native California. Didion's essays have appeared in periodicals ranging from Mademoiselle to the National Review. Her essay "On Keeping a Notebook" can be found in her collection of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968). Didion's other nonfiction publications include The White Album (1979), Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Fixed Ideas: America since 9.11 (2003), and Where I Was From (2003). Didion has defined a writer as "a person whose most...show more content... The woman in the dirty crepe–de–Chine wrapper had come down from her room for a beer, and the bartender had heard before the reason why George Sharp and she were separated today. "Sure," he said, and went on mopping the floor. "You told me." At the other end of the bar is a girl. She is talking, pointedly, not to the man beside her but to a cat lying in the triangle of sunlight cast through the open door. She is wearing a plaid silk dress from Peck & Peck, and the hem is coming down. Here is what it is: The girl has been on the Eastern Shore, and now she is going back to the city, leaving the man beside her, and all she can 21 22 Didion / On Keeping a Notebook McQ_Part–I.qxd 24/11/2005 12:19 PM Page 22 see ahead are the viscous summer sidewalks and the 3 a.m. long–distance calls that will make her lie awake and then sleep drugged through all the steaming mornings left in August (1960? 1961?). Because she must go directly from the train to lunch in New York, she wishes that she had a safety pin for the hem of the plaid silk dress, and she also wishes that she could forget about the hem and the lunch and stay in the cool bar that smells of disinfectant and malt and make friends with the woman in the crepe–de–Chine wrapper. She is afflicted by a little selfpity, and she wants to compare Estelles. That is what that was all about. Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Emerson's Metaphors Ralph Waldo Emerson can go by many titles: scholar, philosopher, wordsmith. All hold true in one of his greatest pieces, Self –Reliance. In which, he uses his words to spread an idea of individuality in thought and how essential it truly is. Scattered throughout the massage are examples of metaphors, comparing his vast and complex ideologies to comprehendible and mundane objects, he uses allusions as well, bringing to light not only Biblical themes, but also men of old more times than often seen as great and influential and referring time and time again to the Bible. In doing these things, Emerson conveys his ideas, swaying and bending the words to his will. A first arguably more evident example of this would be found in his metaphors. In this writing, Emerson's meaningful metaphors proclaim the sheer importance of individuality and how much it is longed for, saying that "every heart vibrates...show more content... Emerson compares the individual, the original mind to the minds of Moses, Plato, and Milton in his first paragraph. He describes them as not speaking the thoughts of men, but the thoughts of themselves. This is to show if these men can be viewed in such a light for as task such as speaking with their own individuality, then all men can be great and do the same. Not only did Emerson bring up great men, he also talked about the Bible and connected his ideas to God. In the first paragraph, Emerson speaks not only of Moses, but also the trumpets of the Last Judgement. In doing so, he describes how fear holds us back from being an individual, having individual thoughts. Somewhat contradicting to himself, in the second paragraph he says "God will not have his work manifest by cowards", meaning that men need to be original and not live in fear of judgement for their individuality, despite God having been responsible for the trumpets of the Last Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 8. Springfield Massachusetts: A Western Frontier As other European countries conquered and laid claim to the New World of the Caribbean and West Indies in the late sixteenth century, they brought along the practice of slavery. Eventually, slavery expanded to the north, to colonial America. Like Boston and Roxbury, Springfield Massachusetts became to be known as the most Western settled frontier in the early 1600's and a city of many firsts. Such firsts include the exploration of the Western front by the likes of William Pynchon to expand the economic resources of theMassachusetts Bay Colony plantation. The city of Springfield and its establishment was indeed a city on the hill, where three rivers met causing the perfect location for a new established plantation. After the brutal war between Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 9. American Frontier Spirit American Frontier Spirit The frontier is concept in the American mind which basically describe the discoveries of new place and opportunities (Richoux, 2012: 1). Frontier itself mean a line that separating two different place. Ray Allen Billington (1889, in Richoux, 2012: 2), defined border as part of a state or country that forms the border of the settled and the inhabited areas. While Kjellberg (2013: 11) defined that frontier spirit comes from subjugation on the Native Americans who originally reside in America and the take over the region there previously by the settlers. The main concept of this spirit is the idea to moving or civilize and subjugate a new place for the prosperity of the nation. However, Turner (1893: 2) explain that the Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. Mark Twain And Thurber Comparison Essay Anisha Reynolds Ms. Newell ELA 10 14 November 2017 Comparison of Twain and Thurber Mark Twain and James Thurber portray conflict in their humorous writing using literary devices. This enhances their stories and makes them enjoyable to read. Mark Twain in "A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England" and James Thurber in "The Dog that Bit People" use hyperbole, understatement, and precise diction to portray the conflict that develops their humorous writing. Thurber and Twain use hyperboles to convey conflict. For example, when Uncle Horatio visits, he says, "He said he wasn't afraid of any dog that ever lived and that he would put the dog's plate on the floor if we would give it to him," (261). This shows how he is exaggerating, because it is impossible to not be afraid of every dog that comes your way. This also shows that the dog is frightening to everyone but the owner. An example from Twain's writing says, "... Probable nor'–east to sou'–west winds, varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low...show more content... In Thurber's work, when Muggs dies, it says, "On the board I wrote with an indelible pencil 'Cave Canem'," (262). This shows Thurber's use of precise diction to show satire. Thurber uses latin to show humorous writing because "Cave Canem" means Beware of the Dog. For example, in "A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England," Mark Twain states, "I like to hear rain on a tin roof, so I covered part of my roof with tin, with an eye to that luxury. Well, sir, do you think it ever rains on the tin? No, sir; skips it every time," (255). This shows Twain's use of precise diction when he uses the words "skips it every time," because the rain can't skip something every time. This also shows how his use of precise diction helps him create fantastic hyperboles that stir one's imagination. Twain and Thurber's use of precise diction helps depict Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. Personal experience in Writing There are many sources for a writer to use, when it comes to using other evidence to back up a statement. Often, as a student, I would use evidence from literatures as a source, and this is the most formal and effective way to express one's opinion. Because by using someone else's work, I could build a connection with the reader, and let the reader believe there are other people who have the same belief as I do. There are different kind of sources that writers can choose from to support their opinions, such as literatures, websites, and studies. But there a special kind of resources: personal experience that is greatly used in writing. Although they are people who believe personal experiences may have some expectations and should not be considered as the public opinion, I still believe personal experience can be greatly used in writing, and supporting one's statement. And the reasons will be stated in below. First of all, a personal experience could make the readers feel more connected to the topic that the author is writing about. If the author has experienced of something like this, it is likely for the readers to feel the same way. By opening up the author's own experience, the readers will not only feel more connected to the story, but also understand the author a little more. For example in the article "Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation" by Jean Twenge. The author gives a numbers of reference of statistics that he found on websites, but they are just numbers, the reader still feel they are irrelevant to the story. It is the moment as the author starts to talk about his interactions with his friends and relatives, me as a reader feel a sense of connection to the story for the first time. Instead of just numbers and statics on the paper, I could see real life examples, and apply these examples into my own life. second, by using personal experience as a style of writing, the author could let the readers have a more realistic experience. The readers will not only read what is going on at that time, but also feel what the character is feeling at certain moment, and actually be a part of that story. For example, in the Canterbury tale by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 12. Facebook is one of the most famous social networking services and websites. It launched in February 2004, and it is operated and privately owned by Facebook. As of July 2011, Facebook has more than 800 million active users. People spend a great deal of time sharing private videos and pointless status updates on their profile. We cannot deny the fact that facebook has helped many people learn and stay connected with each other, and has helped to make the world more progressive towards becoming one nation. However, it has countless disadvantages which have touched almost everyone in the world. Many people advise that Facebook and social media should be monitored for several reasons. Facebook contributes to cyber– bullying and other crimes...show more content... Children who have been cyberbullied are more likely to express depression, anxiety, and low self–esteem, according to Bullying About.Com Website. If social networking and facebook were under surveillance, the number of cybercrimes would be reduced accordingly. To stop these problems from getting worse, the government should take action by making new laws to protect children and teenagers from cyberbullying. When it comes to the workplace, facebook and social media have played a negative role in terms of productivity, according Forbes Website. Facebook and social media are used by many employees who are paid to work, not to express opinions and exchange stories. Instead of working, some play facebook games like Farmville. For example, as an employee, I have encountered problems related to facebook and social media. All the employees in our company were free to use social media and networking when they wanted, and due to this freedom work performance was negatively affected. For this reason, our company conducted a survey and investigation regarding work performance, discovering that facebook and other social media were major drains on workers' output. Because of these results, our company decided to monitor and restrict the use of facebook and social media. Therefore, the work performance returned to its previous level respectively. Since that time, the use of facebook and social Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 13. Most famous work Edward Witten is most known for proving the string theory using a mathematical equation. Werner Heisenberg's research in 1943 became the base from which the string theory grew from. Yoichiro Nambu, Holger Bech Nielsen, and Leonard Susskind first had the idea of string theory in 1970, but the scientific community lost interest quickly. Due to the discovery of quantum chromodynamics, John. H Schwarz and Joel Scherk where able to study boson (elementary particle) patterns and found that they acted as strings and that their properties matched graviton (elementary particle). This discovery led to the bosonic string theory, which was the first string theory that is still taught to students as they are starting to understand the...show more content... Witten is also known for his mathematical achievements. Witten was the first physicist ever to win the Fields medal; one of his more known contributions to the mathematics field was his ability to understand the Jones polynomial. These are only a few of the countless contributions Witten has made to science and mathematics. Awards: MacArthur fellowship (1982) Dirac Medal (1985) Albert Einstein Award (1985) Fields Medal (1990) Henri Poincare Prize ( 2006) Alan T. Waterman Award (1995) Dannie Heineman Prize (1998) Nemmers Prize (2000) Harvey Prize (2005) Crafoord Prize (2008) Lorentz Medal (2010) Isaac Newton Medal (2010) Fundamental Physics Prize (2012) Biography: Witten was born in Baltimore Maryland on August 26th 1951. His father Lorraine Witten was also a theoretical physicist who specialized in gravitation. Witten then went on to attend park school of Baltimore and received his Bachelor of Arts, after this he went on to get a major in history
  • 14. and a minor in linguistics from Brandeis University. He then attended Princeton University where he got his PHD in physics. Witten married Chiara Nappi who is a professor at Princeton University and also has her PHD in physics. Witten has three children and one grandchild. Interesting Information: Steven Hawking stated that Edward Witten's M–theory might be the ultimate theory of the universe. The most interesting fact about my dead physicist is that he is Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 15. Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known by the name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, and served an apprenticeship with a printer and then worked as a typesetter, contributing articles to the newspaper of his older brother Orion Clemens. He became nothing less than a national treasure. He captured a world audience with stories of boyhood adventure and with commentary on man's faults that is humorous even while it probes the roots of human behavior. One of his most famous essays (satire) that I will analyze is, "A Presidential Candidate", which was written on June 9th, 1879, in which he evokes a sarcastic tone to mock presidential candidates by using syntax, diction, irony, and examples from his own past. In his work, he embodies the characteristic of honesty, which is uncommon among candidates. His main purpose was to categorize politicians as inhumane people. He believes they are untruthful, cowardly individuals because they disguise themselves and attempt to hide their guilt. He begins the essay by saying he has made up his mind about running for President. But unlike the others, he is going to, "...own up in advance to all the wickedness I have done, and if any Congressional committee is disposed to prowl around my biography in the hope of discovering any dark and deadly deed that I have secreted, why–let it prowl" (para.1). He sought to dive into the election as an open book, Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. My reflective thoughts on Donald Murray's "All writing is Autobiography"п»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»ї, are easily aligned with this work as it continuously offered textual examples to the reader from fiction and non–fictional viewpoints, as to the fundamental notion that all writing is autobiography. Murray without a doubt creates an argument about the affect a person's experience shape the outcome of any work awriter may produce, in which I agree. п»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їп»їFor example, Donald Murray's poem "Black Ice" is written with an autobiographical voice, although most details did not take place–– he admits, but the poem continued to bring forth an organic rhythm of story telling without any hints of small truths while Murray injects the extra influencing details. Murray...show more content... For example, in fiction writing, as long as the details are organically placed–– the story will not seem to have a large of amount of non–truths–– at the same time, the smaller truths will continue to tell a bigger story. According to Murray, fiction is called a "liar's profession". The readers are not always equipped with the knowledge of how a writer must construct their work, in that adding influencing details in order to draw a vivid image of certain environments, surroundings, or to capture the emotional state of the writer, character and so on. Murray illuminates this objective to his audience and highlight the writers ability to tell a story, and create a dialog around any piece written, and experiences have to be a part of this dynamic based off of an individuals' past experiences. At the same time, the writer is creating their own legacy, history, and different moments of realization and how to it is done. As an inspiring fiction novelist, I write stories "loosely based" of what I have experienced in certain moments of my life, and the most of it is brought forward through my experiences in the earlier years of my life. In essence, it is important that a person captures their own experiences, because out of every individual experience both bring forth vivid stories and voices to those moments in life left to be Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. Mark Twain: Quote Analysis "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure" (Twain). This quote is from Mark Twain. He is a very famous author who has written such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain's real name is Samuel Clemens, and was known to have experienced different many things in his lifetime. He has worked as a miner, printer, river pilot, and more (www.cmgww.com). This tells us that he must have known many things, and possibly how he came up with this quote. To me, this quote means that as long as you do what you want and follow your dreams, they will come true. I can somewhat relate to this because I am both cautious and careful at some things I do, and lazy and uncaring about others. So far, I have gotten some sort of success from how I behave, but sometimes it doesn't work out and I regret it. This most likely relates to Mark Twain himself because of what he has done in his life, and the fact that this is his quote....show more content... I try not to act out for the fear that I might embarrass myself because I don't handle it well. This been successful in the aspect of not embarrassing myself, but not so much in talking to others because it has given me more of an edge about it. Being lazy and uncaring has definitely not helped me because it sometimes prevents me from telling being things that are somewhat important. These things sometimes include school things such as grades, and I sometimes don't tell my parents because I think I will get in trouble, but they find out anyway and I end up getting in more trouble because I didn't tell Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. RenГ© Descartes Discourse RenГ© Descartes uses Discourse on Method to explain his view that god exists and that human nature consists of the body and soul, which both interact but can exist without one another. He believed that the body occupies space but has no mental properties. RenГ© believed that it was in fact the soul or mind that does the thinking or sleeping. Using animals as an example, he highlights in the text how humans unlike animals possess a soul. In the text, RenГ© originally viewed things to be beyond what they appeared to be, questioning everything. He eventually comes to the conclusion that in order for him to think, question, or doubt he must in fact exist. This idea creates the quote, "I am thinking, therefore I exist" Our spirits even come into question and how strong they must be to control the body with waking up or sleeping. He even uses an example of a head still moving while being detached from the body saying, "... as when we see a severed heads continue to...show more content... The body, according to Aristotle, is the best machine which was made by god. Therefore, it is better than any machine that can be created by man. If the machines by man could made by man could have the organs of an animal you could tell no difference but you would be able to do so with humans. This is due to our ability to speak and relay our thoughts. Other actions would also prove the difference as machine would eventually fail even if they completed tasks better than man. You see that animal is considered to be inferior to man. This point can be found in the text saying, " On the other hand, men are born deaf and dumb, and thus deprived of speech–organs as much as they beasts or even more so, normally invent their own signs to make themselves understood by those who, being regularly in their own company, have the time to learn their language. This shows not merely that the beasts have less reason than men, but that they have no reason at Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 19. The Lowest Animal Satire Essay Mark Twain, America's greatest Humorist, shows his skills in satire in "The Lowest Animal." Satire is made of many elements which require mastery for the satire to be truly effective. Twain is renowned as a satirist because of his greatness with humor and sarcasm, but he is very well–rounded and is talented in all elements of satire. Twain used satire to educate and entertain the populace with stories that made people rethink the traditional values of life during his lifetime. He sought to change many social values he saw as wrong by using words to cause the society to change itself. The fact that Twain was able to do this was due to his great effectiveness as a satirist. In "The Lowest Animal," Twain's effectiveness as a satirist stems from his talented use of intriguing incongruity, absolute absurdity, scathing sarcasm, and...show more content... Sarcasm grabs a reader's attention by ridiculing a certain group, individual, or ideal. Twain uses sarcasm in one of the final paragraphs of "The Lowest Animal" when talking of the outcomes of putting different animals into a cage together and putting different people into a cage together. Twains says that in the cage with the different animals, the inhabitants are peaceful, when he checks again; but in the cage of the different people, the people have a disagreement on theology and kill each other, brutally: "When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh, not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court" (Twain 378). This sarcasm brings "peaceful" religions into question as to whether they are truly peaceful or just a way of separating people. Sarcasm is a very powerful element of satire as it brings to light the downside of ideals by mocking Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 20. Analysis Of The War Prayer By Mark Twain Mark Twain is known as the one of the most influential and prolific writers of our time. Many literary greats who followed him such as William Faulkner declared him the father of American Literature and the most celebrated humorist and realist of all. Twain used his life experiences growing up as a child along with his experiences as a river boat captain in Missouri to help shape his writings. His uncanny ability to use language of the common man in specific regions of the country, connected readers honestly with his characters. The War Prayerpublished in 1905, was a particularly sobering and controversial piece which offered a scathing indictment of war in general, but quite likely the Philippine–American War specifically. Twain was also known for his satirical writings relative to race and culture, but it is the "War Prayer" that is one of the more powerful pieces that represents Twain's fervid anti–war position. Samuel Clemens propensity to draw on his own experiences started early in writing when he adopted the name Mark Twain presumably to connect back one of his most positive first experiences in life when he was a riverboat captain; "mark twain" of course signifying a safe depth for riverboat operation on the river. Twain was well traveled and encountered diverse and unique people in various parts of the country. He was also exposed to many of the issues that were facing society at the time. America was being transformed and a lot of this change came Get more content on HelpWriting.net