Dani DiPentino WR 101 10/20/10 There’s No Place Like Home As a little girl growing up in a tiny Illinois farm town‚ I would often dream of moving to Chicago and becoming somebody completely different. When I finally arrived there after graduating from high school‚ I was absolutely overwhelmed. After a while‚ I discovered that while my location had changed‚ I was still that small town girl. Since that time I have asked myself: is home merely a state of mind? Is geography nothing more than
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ANWR Outline I. Introduction A. Context 1. 19 million square acres in Alaska’s coastal plain 2. A wildlife reservation preserve‚ abundant with vast habitats and oil reservoirs B. Relevant 1. Drilling could possibly destroy the habitat and way of life for animals 2. It could also give the United States a 6 month supply of oil 3. Is the drilling worth it C. Thesis statement 1. The United States Congress should allow drilling in ANWR due to the economic‚ environmental‚ and social benefits
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Tahaira Dancy Mr. Mulkey Advanced Placement Language and Composition 14 May 2014 Into The Wild Test: Prompt #2 McCandless was brave enough to do things most people would not even think about doing. "He was looking for more adventure and freedom than today’s society gives people‚” comments one of Chris’s friends" (Krakauer 174). What modern society offers did not appeal to Chris McCandless; he wanted a different
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“Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision‚ getting on and doing it‚ because I want to see my kids again‚ or whatever the reason might be.” -Bear Grylls‚ survival expert. The protagonist of “To Build a Fire” by Jack London may have been fearless‚ but that does not lead to him to survival. He makes several critical mistakes that cost him his life‚ including‚ as Bear Grylls talked about‚ making decisions and taking action. The protagonist did not think about his actions
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I agree that Chris McCandless was ignorant and bright at the same time but he liked to do what he did. He didn’t really have common sense but he was brave. Chris McCandless came from a rich family and graduated from Emory University he was a top athlete and a top student in the University. Whenever he graduated from college‚ Instead of embarking on a prestigious career or work he chose to give his savings to charity. i think if he would of kept studying he would of had a good life and lived longer
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Is Holden capable of reaching his dream? Everyone has had a dream job since they were small‚ it might have changed over time but it was always something they loved. In “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger we meet Holden whose dream job is to be a catcher in the rye. Holden states that in his dream job he would “catch everyone if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if they’re running and they don’t see where they’re going I have to come out of somewhere and catch them.” (Salinger‚ 173)
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On the 23rd Of June‚ I‚ Officer Samuel Tulipano was dispatched to Point Nepean beach regarding a missing persons. It was cold and stormy. I met with Andrew the father of Grace‚ the missing person. He said that he‚ and his two daughters grace and Annie were playing a game called tracking where they hide from each other and leave signs of where they hiding‚ they leave sticks and marks in the ground to find each other. We looked around and found no signs of where grace could have gone. Andrew said that
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In the film Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) I will demonstrate that the main message is how meaningful friendships are and how those friendships will help you when you need it the most. I will use Frodo’s journey with the “Fellowship of the Ring” to validate this claim by analysing Richard Gombrich theory of cognitive and affective belief. Moreover‚ I will use Arnold van Gennep’s theory of the rites of passage to illustrate the creation and meaning of Frodo’s friendships. I will
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A tale from Nigeria Two men called “Good- is-never-lost” and “Evil-is-never lost” went to make a farm. They chose a good place and began to cut the tree. But did not clear the bush. When this was done they waited at home till the dry season should come. This would allow them to burn the bush before they dug the ground. It happened that spider‚ ignorant of the danger‚ began to spin his web there‚ and he married and had a large family. Antelope also came and said that it was good place
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In Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance”‚ he states that “For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure”. That was much of the country’s reaction when it came to reading about Chris McCandless‚ a man who set off into the woods to try and go against the grain of society who then succumbed to mother nature‚ in Jon Krakauer’s novel “Into the Wild”. Many of those readers would have considered Chris dumb and ignorant‚ but I see Chris as following his beliefs with those beliefs relating
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