Comparison-literary dialect
Sarah Jensen
Am. Lit. Essay 2
Proud to be Black
A dialect is the variety of language associated with a particular place, social level, ethnic group, sex, age, and so on. Most of us have a normal way of using language that is an intersection of such dialects and that marks us as being, for ex....
Gilded Age and Monopolies
"The Gilded Age" is a reference to a period of rapid economic growth during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. During this period the U.S. economy grew at the fastest rate in its history and created the modern industrial economy. The United States sh....
Immigration in the Gilded Age
Immigration is an important theme in American History, beginning with the original immigrants from England who founded Jamestown. Before the Civil War, immigrants to the United States came mostly from Northern and Western European countries. After the Civil War, America experienced an industrial ex....
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as "Mark Twain," was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was one of the foremost American philosophers of his day; he was the world's most famous humorist of any day. During the later years of his life he ranked....
The Gilded Age of American Politics
Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner coined the Gilded Age of American Politics term in 1873. It refers to the rise of the wealthy class after the reconstruction in 1865 to 1877. The Gilded Age also saw the rise of the Populist Party, the end of the spoil system, Western migration, and the effect ....
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