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Mark Twain Research Paper

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Samuel L. Clemens, pen name: Mark Twain.
Born in Florida, Missouri 1835, was someone who would change the game of literature forever. Starting out as only a helper and mere apprentice, Mark Twain rose up above poverty and failure. He stopped following in the shadows of others to become his own voice. Though he may be gone, his work has lived on and will be one of America’s greatest classics and controversial pieces of literature.
Mark Twain was born on November 30th, 1835. Twain was the sixth of seven children and the child of John and Jane Clemens. After his father died of pneumonia in 1847, Twain took on many strange jobs to support his mother and family. In the beginning of these strange jobs, Twain worked in journalism. He was first
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