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    Twain’s book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, told the story of a white boy, Huck, helping a slave, Jim, to escape in the 1840s. The use of language in the book, such as the N-word and Huck’s language, has caused great controversy. While some people comment the book as an outstanding anti-racism book, this book is not suitable for being taught to the general students for its language, its difficulty of understanding, and some possibly misleading context to younger students. Adventures of Huckleberry

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    to go humble myself to a nigger; but I done it and I warn’t sorry for it afterwards, neither.” This is a quote from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a novel written by Mark Twain and was first published in 1844. There is a Disney film that is similar to the book called The Adventures of Huck Finn. Although, there are many differences between the book and the Disney film: character difference, plot events, and the resolution tie into the essential ideas of intellectual vs. moral education

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    Alice's Adventures in Wonder Land, James and the Giant Peach 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was written by Lewis Carroll in 1865. It was written for children and is a story of a twelve year old girl who falls down a rabbit hole. On her adventures, the protagonist, Alice, comes across many weird and wonderful scenes, sites and characters. She comes across many creatures and animals with anthropomorphic behaviour. The entire story is set in a strange world of continuous change. 'James

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    animated version. In the nearly 60 years since the animated film came out, technology in filmmaking increased tremendously, namely with CGI and new visual effects. This enables the filmmakers to create a version of Lewis Carroll’s famous novel that is live-action, while still including the fantastical world he imagined. For example, CGI and special effects that did not exist in 1951 were used to create many characters in Tim Burton’s film, such as the anthropomorphic animals that Alice encounters

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    The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a great American book. It deals with conflict between races. It shows the accurate history, it doesn't just butter-up history and make it something we want to hear. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn deals with the racism, it deals with what actually happened. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is sometimes controversially dramatic, using the N-word so often, to grab your attention.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a

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    The film Alice in Wonderland (1951)- Disney's animated adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the most well known. The story is mainly for children. Disney combined scenes from both ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’ for the storyline, and characters like the Griffin, the Mock Turtle, the Duchess, the Jabberwock and Humpty Dumpty, were left out. I believe he did this because he thought that those characters were either too evil to be in a children’s movie

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    An American Summer is a movie that retells the story of the classic Adventures of Tom Sawyer remixed into a 1970’s Southern California setting in order to explore new themes and ideas. In this modernized setting, the story diverges from the original plot, while highlighting similar elements as the original novel. In An American Summer, the characters are meant to be reflective of their Tom Sawyer counterparts in namesake only, and the adaption does not follow the nuance and elements of characters

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    Through watching the film version of one of the greatest and most well known novels of all time, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, many valuable lessons can be learned as well as many characteristics of regionalism observed. This novel, which was considerably provocative for the time in which was published, is the story of a poorly educated southern boy helping a runaway slave to freedom in the mid 1800s. Huck, the main character, runs away from his abusive father, Pap, and goes on

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    Alice in Wonderland Masterpiece: Carbon Copy Can a perfect Alice movie be made by only mixing and matching aspects of more than one movie? If so, how would it be accomplished? I propose that it can be done and this paper has compile information showing by finding the perfect Alice Character, sticking to the true spirit of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland original story line, incorporating the right visual and special effects, as well as, the best animation, sound, art direction, and the best

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    events in this occurrence that most shape who we are. Although works have been concocted in a variety of contrasting time frames and worlds, growth is a recurring theme expressed in a gamut of ways. Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the popular film The Matrix use primary colors to depict concepts of paracosm in order to portray parallel journeys from uncertainty and doubt to acceptance. As the novel Alice in Wonderland commences, Alice is portrayed as an innocent young girl

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