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    party‚ smoking weed‚ or popping a pill other than aspirin. It’s absolutely amazing how peer pressure was almost non-existent when I was a kid‚ but as I grew up I started to realize that I’m constantly surrounded by it every single day. Instead of staying true to my youth‚ I eventually ended up giving in to the inevitable. I was halfway through my freshman year and I had yet to have any problems with peer pressure at all. Not a single person had offered me drugs yet or even asked me to go out to a

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    Peer pressure Peer pressure is influence that a peer group‚ observers or individual exerts that encourages others to change their attitudes‚ or behaviors to stratify to group standard. It also might encourage others to have bad attitude and behaviors for example‚ smoking‚ alcohols‚ drugs‚ etc. Like most people‚ you already know that smoking is bad for your health. But do you really understand just how dangerous smoking really is? Tobacco contains nicotine‚ it’s too high addictive drug that makes

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    Huckleberry Finn

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    from his family and risking his life for his freedom‚ Jim remains positive and protects Huck as if he were his own child. Jim is consistently noble and loyal in all his actions and proves the be the only fit adult role model for Huck. 3. For Huck Finn‚ there is no clear line between honesty and dishonesty. There are times when he tells the truth and times when he knowingly lies. Huck differentiates each side according to loyalty and betrayal‚ he is truthful to the ones he is loyal towards (Jim‚

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    wrote their novels‚ they chose some unlikely “heroes.” Samuel Clemens‚ the author of Huckleberry Finn‚ chose to have a scrawny teenage boy to be the “hero” of the novel. On the other hand‚ Theodore Dreiser‚ the author of Sister Carrie‚ chose a rural town girl to be his “hero.” Huckleberry Finn and Sister Carrie were written as picaresque novels. Although as picaresque novels they share similar

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    Should Canadian government apologize to Chinese Canadians the way their ancestors were treated No one is superior than other except piety and good actions.(Prophet P.B.U.H)Racism and equality are two opposite‚ but very important things that really affects the world peace.To being a racist and not given rights to others what they deserve is a worst thing that hides all qualities of a person.Even though‚ that is what Canada did to Chinese and I think that Canadian government should apologize

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    Ko‚ Sam English Per 4 Honors English Summer Assignment 1) Traits: uneducated‚ young‚ and individualistic Throughout the book‚ it is hinted and notified that Huck Finn is the narrator. As the reader continues to read‚ he or she realizes the amount of slang and many misspelled words. The Book is written through Huck’s perspective. Because Huck has many misspelled words‚ slang and‚ grammatical errors‚ I can conclude that he is uneducated in literature. When Reading the book‚ it

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    The Censorship of Huckleberry Finn Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a significant book in the history of American literature that presents readers with the truth of our past American society in aspects such as speech‚ mannerisms‚ and tradition that we must embrace rather than dismiss by censorship. It is a novel that has been praised and proclaimed America’s “first indigenous literary masterpiece” (Walter Dean Howells) as well as one that has been criticized and declared obscene. It has

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    Huckleberry Finn - Thesis

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ Twain shows us two Sides of the coin by putting good role models for huck such as: Judge Thatcher‚ Widow Douglas‚ And many more. On the other side he shows us also bad examples of role models‚ characters like Pap‚ the king‚ and the duke. Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Twain Shows us through Huck the importance of a role model in ones life. Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we meet many characters

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    Huckleberry Finn Context

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    town of Florida‚ Missouri‚ in 1835. When he was four years old‚ his family moved to Hannibal‚ a town on the Mississippi River much like the towns depicted in his two most famous novels‚ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). Clemens spent his young life in a fairly affluent family that owned a number of household slaves. The death of Clemens’s father in 1847‚ however‚ left the family in hardship. Clemens left school‚ worked for a printer‚ and‚ in 1851

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    new friends‚ learning to study and do homework‚ and navigating through increased peer pressure are just a few aspects of middle school‚ which leave eighth graders clawing at the doors to get out. The seemingly pointless struggles of middle school do‚ however‚ direct students to decide who they are as people‚ and how their surroundings affect that. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ main character‚ Huck Finn‚ experiences a series of struggles‚ similar in meaning to middle schoolers’. Through

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