Mark Twain Thesis

Mark Twain: The Man of his Century
Samuel Clemens more often spoke of by his pen name Mark Twain, was born on November 30, 1835 in the small town of Florida, Missouri, as Haley’s Comet blazed through the sky. Mark Twain was an American humorist and author, he was considered to be the funniest man on the planet. Mark Twain was a truly brilliant performer when he went on his lecture circuits, and could enthrall virtually any audience. He wrote a whole slew of very successful books and short stories. Mark Twain was a hilariously inept businessman, always implementing get-rich-quick schemes; which, brought him to the brink of ruin time and time again. Mark Twain lived through a multitude of American history in his lifetime. He traveled by
In 1861, Sam went west with his brother by stage coach. He tried his hand unsuccessfully at silver mining. He worked in the newspaper and rubbed elbows with all kinds of characters in Carson City. During this phase, he encountered Native Americans and had many adventures and experiences which inspired his writing of “Roughing It.” He was challenged to a duel and decided to change location to San Francisco.
While in San Francisco he wrote an article condemning cruelty to Chinese immigrants. His boss would not run it. He soon moved to Sacramento. The Sacramento Union Newspaper sent him to the Sandwich Islands (later known as Hawaii) to write articles. He traveled the Sandwich Islands (as they were then called) and wrote articles. This experience led him to start giving live lectures.
Pen Name
When Clemens was at the age of 27, in February, 1863 he wrote a humorous travel story and decided to sign his name "Mark Twain." “Mark Twain” comes from a riverboat term. To test the depth of the water, a crewman shouts "mark twain!" The crewman is calling for two fathoms of water depth (1 fathom=6’) which, is the minimum depth for save, navigable water. "Twain" is an old-fashioned way of saying
The Paige Compositor, developed by James W. Paige, appeared to be an engineering marvel, for when it worked like it was supposed to, it mesmerized audiences. It was designed to eliminate the need for manual typesetting for printing presses. To manually typeset, one must pick up and set one letter at a time to be printed. In understanding the manual process, it is easy to understand why so much money and effort was put into expediting the process mechanically. Unfortunately the Paige Compositor was a very temperamental machine, reliant on trial and error adjustments. The Paige Compositor had ~18,000 moving parts, therefore making it unreasonably complex and quite liable to break