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    Dear‚ Carine     Hey sis well I finally made it to Alaska! It’s been a hell of a journey‚ but I’m here and that’s all that matters. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to properly say goodbye to you it hurt a lot but I had to just go. I’m writing this letter to you because you actually understood me‚ nobody else was able to but you could. The reason I left was because I didn’t need all these nice things I wanted to go out and see how long I could survive in the wild I thought it would be a fun thing to do

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    “If you’re getting rad and there is no one around to see it‚ are you really getting rad?” (Andy Hayes) This question proposed by Andy Hayes is a tough one to answer‚ and is one that puzzles skiers and snowboarders across the world. On one hand‚ you just nailed a totally righteous line that would undoubtedly leave you’re alpine counterparts flabbergasted. On the other hand‚ nobody saw it‚ and will anybody actually believe your word when you tell them of your incredible feats. Besides for the question

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    “If your presence can’t add value to my life your absence will make no difference.” Have you ever thought about venturing out into the wild? If so what would you bring? Chris McCandless went out on a journey thinking he could survive the great Alaska‚ he let his ignorance control his life.Therefore claimed his life. McCandless the main character “Into The Wild” is a reckless and selfish human being. In the novel it states that “his family had no idea where he was or what had become

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    Deepak Chopra once said‚ “The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.” When pertaining to survival‚ the main character in “To Build a Fire” by Jack London failed to follow three main steps in Laurence Gonzales’ nonfiction trade book‚ “Deep Survival.” The main character failed to stay calm‚ to think‚ analyze‚ and plan‚ and to never give up during his trek through the pure‚ untrampled white snow. One reason the main character

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    Transcendentalism is a philosophy where people have knowledge about themselves and the world around them. People that practice this philosophy are known as transcendentalist. They accept this ideas as a way of understanding life relationships. John Krauker´s novel‚ Into the Wild‚ is about a young man named Christopher Johnson McCandless (also known as Alexander Supertramp). He leaves his family‚ friends‚ and education to undertake an adventure throughout North America and up to Alaska‚ living off

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    Yashoswini Chakraborty Unforeseen Wild Berries Over the summer‚ my parents and I took a rousing vacation to Northern Alaska. As a young girl‚ I always yearned to visit Alaska and viewing its vast mountain range and nonpareil wildlife. As there wasn’t much opportunity to see that in the monotonous New Jersey. I have always considered hiking and viewing natural pulchritude as a form of merriment. Case in point‚ my father and I hiked in the Grand Canyon‚ approximately three years ago ‚ feeling

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    “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences.” ( McCandless). Christopher McCandless a young man wanting to experience life to the fullest in the Alaskan wilderness without a plan. I support Cellarman’s argument about McCandless is ignorant due to his lack of planning for his trip into the wilderness‚ but I disagree with him because I think McCandless courage nor his ideas are very inspirational. As a matter

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    The most important place in Chris McCandless’s life is quite possibly the place he died‚ the fateful Fairbanks bus number 142. The bus is situated in a clearing in the Alaskan wilderness‚ surrounded by tall trees‚ undisturbed by the advances of modern life. While the painting is based on an actual image of bus 142‚ the vast emptiness of the clearing around the bus symbolizes how alienated McCandless felt by his community for his atypical beliefs. The brush growing around the bus and in the corner

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    Survival: What does it Take? He was stuck‚ he knew that much. His arm was pinned from the forearm down between a large boulder and the side of a canyon wall. He waited… And waited‚ and waited. For six days. What started as a leisurely climb through the beautiful Utah back country had turned into his worst nightmare. Seeing no other option‚ Aron Ralston began the process of amputating his own arm with a pocket knife just below the elbow. He later managed to climb down‚ flag down a truck‚ and make

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    Docs Google+ Gmail Calendar more All DocsEdit Into the Wild vs Thoreau ’s Walden Bally Elizabeth Bally Mr. Cunic English 11 Honors 13 Jan. 2013 Into the Wild vs. Walden Into the Wild is a movie based on the adventure of Chris McCandless as he breaks away from his civilized life and travels across the country to live in Alaska. Chris bases his journey off the core beliefs of the novel Walden by Henry David Thoreau. The novel is a description of Thoreau’s life as he exiles

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