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“Adventure.” The Random House College Dictionary. Revised Edition. 1981. Print.
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"Adventure" 1
"An undertaking involving risk, unforeseeable danger, or unexpected excitement”.
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"A Life Lived in a Rapidly Changing World: Samuel L. Clemens 1835- 1910." The Mark Twain House & Museum. Web. 16 May 2012.
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Twain Bio 2
Twain was born on Nov 30, 1835. Twain moved to hometown of Hannibal Missouri at the age of 4. As a young man, Twain worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Twain went on to write The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Boys' Ambition, and The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.
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Hemingway, Ernest. "For Whom The Bell Tolls." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, 2012. Web. 16 May 2012.
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For Whom The Bell Tolls 2
Book Takes place during the Spanish Civil War. Robert Jordan left the US to fight on the Republican side. He goes behind enemy lines to work with a group of guerrilla fighters. Their task is tro blow up an enemy bridge. On the mission he meets and falls for a young woman named Maria.
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"Ernest Hemingway - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 16 May 2012
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Hemingway Bio 2
Hemingway was born in 1899. We wrote for a newspaper in his younger years before serving in WWI in Italy in the ambulance unit. He ws injured and spent some time in the hospital. After returning to the US, became a reporter for American and Canadian newsparers. He returned to europe to report on events. He spent lots of time in Europe (including his time living in Paris).
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Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc., 2000. Print
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Life on the Mississippi 1
All of the boys in a village on the banks of the Mississippi River want to be riverboat pilots. All people in the town become "alive" when the boats pass.
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Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc., 2000. Print
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The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County 1
Jim Smiley was a man who loved to bet on anything and everything. One day Jim found a frog, named it "Dan'l", and taught it to jump very far. Along came another man and bet Jim that his frog (a random frog) could jimp farther than Dan'l. While Jim had his back turned, the man filled Dan'l with lead shot. Dan'l and Jim lost the bet because of it.
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Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc., 2000. Print
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The Turtle 1
A turtle struggles to tavel up the incline of a hill. Upon reaching the hill, he begins to cross the street, but he is soon sent right back to where he came by a truck.
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Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc., 2000. Print
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In Another Country 1
A man who fought in the war stays in a hospital in Italy to receive healing and while there he talks to and hangs out with other vets.
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"John Steinbeck - Biography". Nobelprize.org. 16 May 2012
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Steinbeck Bio 2
Steinbeck was born in 1902 in Salinas, California. He went to Stanford University but he never graduated. His first attempt to become a writer failed but he soon became know for his novel Tortilla Flat. He Wrote many works later in life and most deal with the economic problems of rural labour.
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Steinbeck, John. BrainyQuote. Xplore. Web. 16 May 2012.
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Steinbeck Quote 2
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike”.
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Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. 1937. New York: Penguin, 1993. Print.
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Of Mice and Men 1
George and Lennie, two migrant workers, travel west in search of a dream of owning their own farm. They end up staying and working on a farm. Lennie is mentally challenged and doesn't know his own strength, so in the end he winds up breaking a man's hand and killing that man's wife. George decides that he must kill Lennie to prevent any more accidents.
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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876. Introduction and Notes H. Daniel Peck. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003. Print.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1
Tom Sawyer and his friends who live on the banks of the Mississippi become involved in multiple misadventures including a murderous plot and dangerous cave adventure.
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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1884. Introduction George Saunders. USA: Modern Library, 2001. Print.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1
Huckleberry Finn and his friends who live on the banks of the Mississippi become involved in several misadventures including Huck's journey down the river with a slave named Jim.
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