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    and each day is an adventure. An exciting unique experience that anyone can choose to create: define a pathway to discover your spirit to explore, to find out what adventure truly means to you. Everyday brings new risks, chances, and ventures - would a true adventurist leave saying “what if?” And so...the adventure begins. Adventuring 101: never underestimate the little things, explore the unknown, and make as many memories as possible. Sometimes, the most memorable adventures, “participation in

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    The action adventure genre has long been considered the easiest kind of book or movie to sell. People believe that the similarities, which are universal throughout the genre and many times very obvious in the most popular books and movies, are just a product of the author’s laziness and overdone clichés. Yet action adventure still remains one of the most popular and most generally liked types. This is because the genre of action adventure fills the holes that are created, in our lives, by modern

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    Huck and Jim's Adventures in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain develops the plot into Huck and Jim's adventures allowing him to weave in his criticism of society. The two main characters, Huck and Jim, both run from social injustice and both are distrustful of the civilization around them. Huck is considered an uneducated backward boy, constantly under pressure to conform to the "humanized" surroundings of society. Jim a slave is not even considered

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    television been lying to everyone and is this evidence made up behind the scenes before the episode airs? Paranormal television shows are fake because they use false evidence that misleads viewers. “Ghost Adventures” began in 2007 with the team of Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin, and Nick Groff. “Ghost Adventures” began as a show of three close friends, technology and the paranormal (McGeorge). The show started as a documentary and took off after they won an award for the best documentary of ghost investigations

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    In Carlo Collodi’s “The Adventures of Pinocchio,” he writes about a carpenter, named Old Joe, who uses a piece of wood to carve a puppet. He hopes to utilize this wooden puppet and travel around the world to gain fame and fortune. At first, Old Joe’s was unaware that the puppet was created by an enchanted piece of wood. He soon figures out that the puppet is animated because it begins to talk and act like a child. Old Joe eventually calls him Pinocchio and brings him up as his son, yet, Pinocchio

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    easier to completely ban the book from libraries and classrooms? This controversy is relevant towards Mark Twain, a world-famous author well-known for his novels titled The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Huck Finn). As stated by an English professor at Texas State University, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can be recognized as “the most famous, most beloved, and most controversial novel featuring a prominent black character and written by a white author” (Tally

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    starts her nonsensical underground adventure. Through her conversations with the strange creatures, and the queer situations that she faces, she hopelessly searches for order, rule, and reason. However, Alice fails and surrenders to the unexplainable actions of these creatures. Unlike Alice, readers who know about Lewis Carroll's life- the creator of this chaotic world- are able to explain, and understand a lot of the aspects that he included in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In his essay, Richard

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: A novel written by Samuel Langhorne Clemens also more commonly known as Mark Twain. Samuel was born in 1835 in what he called “the almost invisible village” in Florida, Missouri. In his younger years he and his family moved to Hannibal Missouri on the Mississippi River. He later used this town as his fictional town of St. Petersburg in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. While Samuel Clemens was savoring all of his fame he and his family were living in Hartford, Connecticut

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an action-packed adventure about Huckleberry Finn, an extraordinary young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The author, Mark Twain, established rigid conflict and left his readers in disbelief over some of the occurrences in the book. All adventure long, Huck and his comrades must adapt to keep their dreams alive. Huck becomes a better person from experiencing all the hardships that he endured, whether it is being thankful for his friends or becoming

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    found that reading the book The Adventures of Hucklberry Finn was more informational about how life was back in the day, while someone like my dad would have just picked it up for enjoyment. The author of the book is non other than the infamous Mark Twain. Born to the name Samuel Clemens on

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