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    He grew up in Missouri, however during his adulthood he lived in several states including CT, NV, and NY. February 2, 1870, marks the date that he married his wife Clieve Clemens, he was 40 years old. Together they had three daughters, and a son. Twain lived as head of the house with his wife, two unmarried daughter, and his servant Thomas Dorthey. Before his death on April 21, 1910, Mark Twain wrote numerous amounts of books

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    Samuel Langhorne Clemens better known as, Mark Twain was born on November 30th, 1835 in the town of Florida, Missouri on the banks of the Mississippi River. The banks and towns of the Mississippi will become the setting of two of the world's most translated books. These books are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain’s life as a child and a steamboat pilot before the civil war shaped his writing in the two most known books past and present, using realism

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    Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Twain’s short story, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was about a man named Jim Smiley who would bet on anything and win. Smiley turns a frog into a pet and bets a stranger, Dan’l Webster, that his frog could jump higher than any other frog. Webster had sabotaged the race by feeding Smiley’s frog buckshot. Buckshot is a type of pellet used in shotgun shells

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    Mark Twain Influences

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    Mark Twain was born with the name Samuel Clemens. Being shaped by the society in which he lived, Twain developed a style of writing that would make him one of the most well known authors in American Literature. Mark Twain lived during a time of overwhelming social, political, and economic change. He developed a disdain for the rich elitist of his time and the injustice of the recently freed slaves. These factors shaped the life and works of Mark Twain and had a profound effect on the style of writing

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    Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In these books, Mark Twain recalls his own adventures of steamboating on the Mississippi River. Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on November 30, 1835 in a small village of Florida, Missouri. His parent's names were John Marshall Clemens and Jan Lampton Clemens, descendants of slaves in Virginia. They had been married in Kentucky and move to Tennessee and then Missouri. When Sam was four, his father, who was full of the

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    Mark Twain was born in 1835. He grew up in Hannibal Missouri. Twain was fascinated by v the Mississippi River. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He got the name Mark Twain from a riverman’s call, “By the mark-twain,” which really means “the river is twelve feet deep.” The depth was deep enough for a steamboat. Twain’s writing was strongly influenced by the Mississippi River and his travels. Twain learned how to pilot a Mississippi steamboat when he was a cub pilot. The steamboats could

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    San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has energetically inundated himself into debate by declining to remain for the playing of the national hymn in challenge of what he esteems are wrongdoings against African Americans and minorities in the Assembled States. Kaepernick had this to state after the amusement "I am not going to confront indicate pride in a banner for a nation that abuses dark individuals and ethnic minorities," Kaepernick revealed to NFL Media in a select meeting after

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    Biography of Mark Twain Twain, Mark, pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent humor or biting social satire. Twain's writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression. Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he was four years old. There he received

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    Mark Twain

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    well-read among our age group as well. He encouraged a lot of American people to fearless actions in their lives. He was a champion of radical experimentation and unconventional thought Obituary of Mark Twain. Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, died on April 21, 1910 in Redding, Connecticut of a heart attack. He was 74 years, 4 months and 22 days old when he died. Mark Twain is an American icon whose sharp wit and inimitable genius have entertained countless readers for more than

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    Mark Twain was born on November. 30, 1835 in the small town of Florida, MO. Mark’s birth name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. In 1839, the Clemens family moved 35 miles east to the town of Hannibal, in Mississippi. Mark kept to himself and in doors in his early years because of poor health and sickness. That was the case until he became years of age. He recovered from his illness and started playing outside with the rest of the children. Growing up his Father was a judge and worked a lot. He also

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