No presente artigo, analisamos o romance As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn, Twain, levando em conta as questões políticas e sociais que permeiam. Discutimos como a escravidão branquitude se manifestam na narrativa. O artigo é importante devido ao fato considerarmos aventuras vividas pelos personagens Huck Jim uma fonte reflexão rica para quem queira debruçar sobre costume, crenças, moralismos do...

Huckleberry Finn is one of Mark Twain’s outstanding masterpieces. Superficially, it tells a story about a 13 or 14 year old boy’s adventures with Negro Jim on the Mississippi river. In fact, it reflects the growth process of Huck through adventures. His growth is embodied by his choice on independence, his change of attitude towards Jim, his moral growth, and the different social roles he plays...

There are three kinds of people – commonplace men, remarkable men, and lunatics (Mark Twain, Following the Equator). Over the past 15 years or so I have had the distinction of being considered a member of each of the categories of humans identified by the great American humorist, author, and philosopher, Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain). My initial exposure to oncological PET as a fellow at th...

The brown-headed nuthatch (Sitta pusilla) was likely extirpated from Missouri in the early 1900s as a result of habitat loss through extensive logging. Conservation partners including Department Conservation, United States Forest Service, University Missouri, and others, relocated 102 nuthatches Ouachita National Arkansas to Mark Twain 2020 2021 establish local population. We tracked 50 individ...

Writing about democracy, Walt Whitman said, “It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.” The word “diversity”— or the term “cultural diversity”—also has a history in Virginia that has yet to be enacted or actualized in some meaningful way. Clearly, a relationship between these two pieces of unfinished business exists, a relationsh...