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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mark Twain's view in Imperialism

        During class today, David and I researched and talked about the directions of our project. We decided to take an approach that is focusing on Twain's views on imperialism. Twain considered himself as an anti0imperialist. I think that this topic is suitable for us to dive into. I remember we read an essay he wrote, "War Prayer" that expressed his hatred toward imperialism. We found a very useful website with a good amount of collection of sources on or by Twain. This website will help us to do the project a lot more easier. However, we still need to find the right sources sooner or later, so we can start thinking about the outline. 

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Project begins!

     This is out first collaborated English project. I teamed up with David Todd with the topic about Mark Twin. We are interested in researching about him because he was more modernized, so it will be easier to understand his work. I think that it will be more interesting if we are able to come up with one thesis about him, not just writing about his entire life. However, we have not seriously talked about the direction we will take. Today, we worked together to set up the schedule for the whole project. I think we are capable of coming up with good paper.