I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. ... In the private arena this meant wholesale intimidation, beatings, and lynching of black Americans, who didn't "give up the road."" ... As Stanley Brodwin states in his essay "Blackness and the Adamic Myth,"" there is no escape for any human being since each generation builds on past sins and must continually pay the debts accrued. ... Both blacks and whites (and every infinite gradation in between) are bound to suffer the consequences ...

• Word Count: 3141
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Locke's book, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding," presents the concept of Tabula Rasa or blank slate, which states that the human mind receives knowledge through the experience without any pre-existing innate ideas when they were born. ... Tom is a middle-class boy who received religious teaching and was indoctrinated with social values. ... In the events that Huck and Jim continue their journey towards free states, there are times that they steal food from the nearby towns. ... The society's belief that the black people should be enslaved because they are inferior subspe...

• Word Count: 1203
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I got into my old rags, and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied" (Twain 2). ... As Cardwell states in his opinionated essay on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adverse criticism charges the last chapters with destroying the credibility of Huck's moral maturation; he loses sight of his discovery that men are often vicious and hypocritical, and he fails to demonstrate any reasonable accommodation with society (Cardwell). ... Understandably so (given the time period on the novel), Jim also feels inferior to Huck, given that he is a white boy and Jim is a black man. ...

• Word Count: 2204
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography