Monday, March 4, 2013

Thesis for "Life on the Mississippi"

Post a thesis for "Life on the Mississippi." Please make sure you have a topic, position, and statement. Your thesis should be clear, focused, arguable, analytic, and creative.

20 comments:

  1. Life on the Mississippi shows us that when people are trying to examine nature, they might not percieve the simple beauty of it.

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  2. In the story "Life on the Mississippi", the main character could have been a better apprentice than he was.

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  3. In life on the Mississippi, Mark Twin gain more than he lost.

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  4. Even though the main character had mastered the steamboat as he wishes, ironically, he started losing his good impression of river after he was able to discern river.

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  5. A teacher might be a demon outside, but the inside is a loving mother figure who cares for the disciple.

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  6. Things are not as easy as they seem.

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  7. It is hard to enjoy your work.

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  8. It is difficult to find something that is truly passionate unless one spends a long time examining it.

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  9. As you get more and more familiar with something, the beauty fades.

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  10. In "Life on the Mississippi," the Mississippi River symbolizes the path in life that people must go through.

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  11. Human beings tend to want what they can't get.

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  12. In the story "Life on the Mississippi" it argues that there's more to see than just what's on the surface.

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  13. In the story "Life on the Mississippi", Mr. Bixby shows more concern than impatience when teaching Mark Twain about the works on the streamboat.

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  14. The goals that people accomplish always seem less appealing once they have it, causing them to always seek out new things and never settle down and be happy.

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  15. In "Life on the Mississippi," Bixby is portrayed as a good teacher through interactions with Mark Twain. *

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  16. Being harsh is what makes Bixby a good teacher.

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  17. In "Life on the Mississippi", Mark Twain's idea that a learned person cannot appreciate the beauty of his/her subject is wrong.

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  18. In "Life on the Mississippi", it could be argued that theres always the beautiful and ugly side to one thing.

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  19. Life on the Mississippi shows that one have to give up something in order to gain anything

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  20. In Life on the Mississippi, the river symbolizes a dream that people want but after they get it, they don't appreciate it anymore.

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