... slurs. As a result, Mayor Greg Nickels states in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that he plans to address racial profiling by adding video cameras in every squad car, holding quarterly community forums and improving police training. But he modified the council's plan on data collection, choosing to collect information from all traffic stops on a continued basis rather than for just one year ... . He also says that he will combine that data with what citizens say during quarterly community forums and biannual citywide survey of attitudes toward police. Furthermore, many school aged kids to...

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... with Jim and the relationship the two have developed over the course of that time. At some point in his contemplation he decides to write a letter to Jim's owner, Mrs. Watson, telling her the whereabouts of Jim. Still, Huck continues to have some difficulties, until finally: with the letter in hand, he says, "All right, then, I'll go to hell" (214 ... ). All the muscles in Huck's body tell him to do the "right thing, " to send his letter to Mrs. Watson, and to turn Jim in back to slavery, but his heart tells him otherwise: to rescue Jim. Certainly, no one wants to accept their fate in he...

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... African-Americans is abundant within this novel due to the extensive use of this word. For example, when Jim is introduced, he is not introduce as Jim but as "Ms. Watson's big nigger."" So a child of African-American descent reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn today would take that notion lightly or go as far as to telling his parents of ... ...

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... of jail or death for his friend. Throughout the book, Huck and Jim become very close friends as they travel along the Mississippi River and although Jim is considered "Miss Watson's nigger," Huck acts as if him and Jim were close relatives. This relationship between Jim and Huck would have probably been seen as unusual during the time the story takes ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate