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    there ‚I like the Asiatic culture‚ people there live in peace and live in harmony with nature ‚and they are more developed than us ‚and that my reasons behind going there. However when I saw the movie” into the wild” ‚ I liked the Christopher McCandless idea’s to go to the wild ‚ but I disagree with him in many sides .so let us make comparaison

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    movie Grizzly Man narrated and directed by Werner Herzog and the novel Into the Wild written by Jon Krakauer‚ Timothy Treadwell and Chris McCandless both were driven by the idea of removing all traces of the mainstream modern world. Both of them chased a common goal and that was self satisfaction. That said‚ their need to satisfy themselves was different. McCandless wished to spend his summer cloistered in the remote Alaskan bush collecting and hunting for food. Treadwell was an altruistic hearted

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    Christopher McCandless was a bright young man who had graduated from Emory University‚ and was an avid outdoorsman. An article was written after his death‚ “Death of an Innocent” that discussed his time in Alaska as well as his motives for traveling there. A movie was later made about his adventures in 1992 and 1993 titled “Into The WIld”. Chris’s journey was all in an effort to achieve a higher level of transcendental thinking‚ transcendentalism being the belief that in order to understand the nature

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    money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.-Christopher McCandless Currency does corrupt‚ it’s like having power. Money is something which people can do crazy things. The desire of cash will certainly change people‚ or not having enough money will make some individuals be a victim of crime. It’s very difficult

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    thinking of the people we might hurt‚ or the consequences that our decisions might lead to. After reading Into the Wild‚ I think that Christopher McCandless was Inconsiderate. In my opinion I think that McCandless was Inconsiderate of the people who really cared about him. Whether it was his family or the people he met along his idiotic journey McCandless did not take their feelings into consideration. This is seen in the book on chapter 13 of into the

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    McCandless Vs. Shepherd Christopher McCandless and Adam shepherd both had a purpose in Life and they both achieved it in very different ways. Chris McCandless was educated‚ lived with his parents and sister‚ but didn’t have a great relationship with his parents. Adam shepherd was also educated‚ lived with his parents and brother‚ and both his parents have cancer. Chris McCandless had a greater purpose and was more admirable because he went places and impacted so many people. Christopher McCandless

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    Franz West A Brief biography of Franz West Franz West was born in Vienna in 1947 and studied at the Academy of Applied Arts‚ Vienna. He died in Vienna in July 2012. West’s work has been a fixture in countless international survey exhibitions such as Documenta and Biennales all over the world‚ and it is included in major public collections including Centre Pompidou‚ Paris; Museum Ludwig‚ Cologne‚ the Museum of Modern Art‚ New York; and MAXXI‚ Rome. Recent solo exhibitions include “We’ll Not

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    Compare and Contrast of Treadwell and McCandless When reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer as it documents the journey Chris McCandless took and watching the movie The Grizzly Man as it documents Timothy Treadwell’s journey to document bears I was struck by how similar the two men‚ McCandless and Treadwell‚ really were. Yes‚ there were a great many differences between the two but also by how similar they were. While both men showed how they hated modern society and felt a strong desire to live

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    Arturo Martinez Anthropology 2014 Franz Boas - The Ellis Island Research. Franz Boas is known as the founder of American anthropology and he dedicated his life to anthropology. Boas is recognized for some early work but mainly for the research he conducted in Ellis Island‚ New York. Boas once said “No culture is inferior to another.  No language is inferior to another.  No race is inferior to another.” (1848 – 1942) With the Ellis Island project‚ he found that exactly. Immigrants coming into

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    Introduction Franz Marc was a German artist and printmaker‚ and also one of the key statistics of the German Expressionist movement. Franz Marc was born in February 8‚ 1880 in Munich and past away in March 4‚ 1916‚ eventually Marc was only 36 years old. Wilhelm‚ the father‚ was an expert landscape painter; his mother‚ Sophie‚ was a strict Calvinist. Marc began to study at the Academy of Fine Arts‚ Munich in 1900. In 1903 and 1907‚ he spent time in France‚ intensely in Paris‚ visiting the city’s

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