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    different. Dreaming is when a person has an attainable goal in mind that they want to reach and are willing to do whatever they have to in order to achieve that goal. Dreamers are the ones who have the ambition to reach for their target goal. Chris McCandless‚ a young man who traveled across the country‚ unprepared‚ yet determined. The story Into The Wild‚ by Jon Krakauer‚ gives the readers an insight on Chris McCandless’s journey to Alaska‚ where the harsh conditions

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    Natural Life

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    REWILDING OURSELVES Humans are not alone on the planet. There are many other things that influenced by human. Also we discover new kind of living things with technological improvements. However‚ some kind of organisims become extinct because of damages by human influenced. Instead of human ‚ there are so many organizations to protect the animals which are dying out ‚but we all know that is not sufficent and we also don’t know what to do for the absolute solution exactly. It is my thought

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    Happiness is not ready made‚ instead it is something that comes from your own actions. Like‚ Into the Wild’s main character‚ Chris McCandless was in search of happiness. He wanted to find happiness and comfort in what he does. He tried to defeat his overcomes in search of happiness. Chris wanted to prove that you can be happy doing what you want to do and not something you have to. In Chris’s point of view‚ money‚ luxury ‚ education etc. didn’t define happiness. Instead he thought all that just corrupted

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    many‚ even so he is a very intelligent one. Into the Wild is a true story about Chris McCandless who is found dead in the Alaskan Wilderness. The story recaps his life prior to his death. Krakauer writes this story for the notion of how individuals exist in a state of nature might be a component of the work’s essence. Jon also felt a connection to Chris death as he was a huge nature lover as well. Chris McCandless and Jon both had something in common that could have inspired Jon to write the book

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    upcoming summer on the road as well. His exact words were ‘I think I’m going to disappear for a while‚’” (Krakauer‚ 21) One may say that Chris McCandless was an arrogant fool considering the decisions he made throughout his short life. Others may say he was an incredible inspiration and should be honored beyond his death for his choices. McCandless may have made some questionable choices within his journey‚ yet he was nothing less of an inspiration to those who feel that they have not ‘found themselves’

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    can be an escape for peace‚ and for introspection. For Chris McCandless‚ recently graduated from Emory University‚ it was not just a journey but more of a test of his self-worth. It was in testing himself that McCandless found his peace‚ but at a grave cost. His obsessions‚ with Jack London ’s romantic wilderness and Leo Tolstoy ’s moral standard‚ ultimately blinded him to the harsh and unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. Chris McCandless found his happiness not in the trivial aspects of ’modern society

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    The Vagabond Into the Wild is an adventurous biography by Jon Krakauer‚ written about the travels of Chris McCandless. Who is also known as Alex Supertramp‚ he changed his own name to not be found. Krakauer was a journalist/adventurer himself‚ that led him to the attraction in Chris’s story. Krakauer shared Chris’s story because of the value and meaning his story has. McCandless left his family‚ traveled all around the country‚ then went off the grid in Alaska. His relationship with his parents

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    main character of the book. In Into The Wild‚ the author Jon Krakauer includes stories of others for more than a comparison. Many people believed that Chris McCandless was an outrageous rebel. In the story Into the Wild‚ Krakauer includes stories of others and himself to make Chris McCandless not look crazy‚ but admirable.  Chris McCandless was a bright man. He graduated high school with good grades‚ he went traveling that summer in his yellow Datsun. He then returned to attend college at Emory

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    Magazine about Christopher McCandless‚ a young college graduate who went off to Alaska and died in the woods. Because Krakauer’s article drew a huge amount of mail to the magazine‚ he decided to write a book about this interesting character. He’s a young‚ idealistic guy who forms a life philosophy based on his experience and his reading in college. His idealism‚ ironically‚ leads to his death by starvation. He makes choices that seem foolish as we look at them now. But McCandless genuinely loved

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    Christopher Columbus Genocidal Leader Lisamel Hernandez Lisamel Hernandez American Survey 110 Prof. John Daly 17 September 2014 Columbus’s Historical Role Throughout our life we have celebrated Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus to us is the man who discovered America. But he is not really who they have claimed to be throughout your high school and middle school years. They claim that he is this great person who helped the natives and gave them a better life. In the book “Lies My Teacher Told

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