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    hopes that he would convince his teachers he was not smart and he would be taken out of the accelerated classes. McCandless rarely planned or prepared for the future‚ causing him to be unprepared for his journey into the Alaskan wilderness. He traveled into the wilderness because he wanted to discover what was missing from his normal life. Through his journey he realized that true happiness is when you share experiences with others. Unfortunately he discovered this too late into his journey and when

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    decides to push the deer over the edge of the river. The narrator uses figure of speech when he expresses “ I stood in the glare of the warm exhaust turning red; around our group I could hear the wilderness listen” ( Stafford 1520). Perhaps by thinking this way he felt that the wilderness and nature were watching and observing him to see what he would do next. It’s obvious that nature itself cannot hear a human but wild animals can hear and may have a sense of what he was feeling. He

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    The Call of the Wild

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    taken from a novel „The Call of The Wild” by Jack London‚ published in 1903. In the given passage Buck‚ the main character of the story‚ experiences the visions about a sauvage ’hairy man’ and starts to hear the call of the wild. His longing for wilderness becomes irresistible‚ which he finds confusing and at the same time fascinating. Buck manifests his will to understand the origins of the call in orderto establish his real identity. In this commentory I will focus on the question how does the

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    Nature Is All

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    Nature Is All In this essay‚ I will come to grasp the conception of nature in broad scope to show the impact on the dimensions of cultural life. Its impact needs to be approach through pluralistic ideals as nature in itself is an all inclusive term. While some would argue the specificity of certain natural phenomena as the only “nature”. I will say that nature is indeed everything that exists outside the existence of the mind and how the mind perceives things. This ideal will pragmatically

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    Chris McCandless

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    did. He didn’t mean to hurt his family or himself in any way. Some believe that Chris’s family problems had gotten the best of him and that he was ready to put an end to his life. It is ignorant to think that because he went into the Alaskan wilderness completely prepared for the amount of time that he planned on staying there. Even though Source One never mentions Chris having a map‚ Source two says “Counter to the portrayal in the Krakuer book and Penn film‚ Chris McCandless carried ‘into the

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    Bagas Yudhiswa Putera 120222415482 The Causes of Christopher McCandless’ Journey to Alaska In Into the Wild Movie Introduction Into the wild is a movie which is based on a true story of Christopher McCandless‚ a good-fortune man who suddenly decided to live into the wild. This movie is directed by Sean Penn and released in 2007. The main character‚ Christopher McCandless‚ is played by Emile Hirsch.Before the movie was made‚ Jon Kraukauer has published Cristopher McCandless’ life in a novel with

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    Education

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    [http://www.studymode.com/essays/Hatchet-Essay-1451517.html# save] Brian‚ the animals that attacked him and the food he ate while he was in the Canadian wilderness. When I read the book and saw the movie I found many differences between the events in the book Hatchet and the events in the movie A Cry in the Wild. In the book when the plane crashed in the wilderness the rescue plane came after he founded food‚ made fire‚ and a shelter to[http://www.studymode.com/essays/Hatchet-Essay-1451517.html# live]. When

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    Into the wild

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    how to live free and not be controlled. He can be called a fool because he had a good education and a bright future but he chose to go unprepared into the wilderness and risk his life and eventually die. In April of 1992 Chris who grew up in a well to do family‚ decided that he wanted to hitchhike to Alaska and walk alone in the wilderness of Mt. Mckinley. Before Chris decided to do this he had a nice future ahead him. He graduated with honors from Emory University in the summer of 1990. Chris

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    Arctic Wildlife Refuge

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    The Arctic Wildlife Refuge‚ in Jimmy Carter’s opion " is one of America’s last truly great wilderness". The former President uses his personal experiances to show why the Arctic Wildlife Refuge should be left be. Also he enacted legislation to help protect the wilderness from further development‚ with bipartisen support. Jimmy Carter want this area to be protected from industry destroying the natural beuaty‚ along with keeping around for future gernations to enjoy. While the president was

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    Deep Survival

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    How to survive in the wilderness 101 Everyone at one point in their lives has a situation where they have to decide or do something on their own. The more experience they have the better the outcome usually is. What if you had to survive in the wilderness by yourself? Could you find food‚ make a fire‚ make shelter‚ etc. In the short writing Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales‚ she explains many reasons or ways people survive in these situations. Personally‚ I think the biggest way to survive is

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