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    his family could be late returning. The first reason Matt’s father should not have left Matt alone to care for the crops and the cabin‚ is Matt was too young. When his father left him there matt was only twelve years old. He was immature‚ and nearly died because of it. Matt was inexperienced‚ and made choices poorly due to it. The second reason Matt’s father should not have left Matt alone to care for the crops and the cabin‚ is anything could go wrong. Had the Indians not been friendly‚ or if

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    Into the wild Sarah 10.b A middleclass young man named Christoffer left all his friends‚ family and money and started a journey throughout America. His goal was to live in the wild in Alaska and get away from the modern world. In the 20 months leading up to his goal he met a lot of people‚ who also traveled around the world. Two of the people he met were hippies‚ who traveled by driving around. He became good friends with them‚ and he stayed with them for a while. All the people he met‚ he

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    In Emily Dickinson’s poem I Died for Beauty‚ but was scarce. The plot of the story is about death‚ beauty‚ and the truth. Imagine a dark room with two caskets side by side with a stone brick fireplace and stone hedges with names carved in it all covered up with moss and fallen brown leaves. They either died for truth or beauty. Emily dickinson’s forms for most of her poems are formal and the rhyme scheme is ABCB. Author is connected to this poem because she either had a falling out with her parents

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    “Canyons by Gary Paulsen was a well written story that people who like reading will enjoy. “Canyons” takes place in the canyons in El Paso‚ Texas. Brennan Cole is a fifteen-year old boy who likes to run to escape his thoughts. Coyote Runs is an Apache boy who wants to be a man and is told he will be going on his first raid. Coyote Runs goes on the raid and is successful until he gets shot in the leg. He tries to escape to the medicine place until he gets cornered and is shot in the head. Brennan

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    Lisa’s Cat The day Muffin died was a huge disaster‚ at least to Lisa it was. The whole thing had happened on a sunny and enjoyable afternoon. Lisa Louise had just come home from school after saying goodbye to her friend who had walked with her. She rushed into the house‚ wanting to find her cat‚ Muffin‚ for a big welcome‚ only to find Muffin lying on the floor! She hadn’t seemed to look‚ well . . . very much alive. Lisa rushed to her side‚ but it had been too late; she only found the already hardened

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    The stories in Chapters eight and nine not only provide a more concrete look into Chris’ sanity‚ but also allow us to more deeply understand his person and his purpose. In Chapters eight and nine when are introduced to the stories of Gene Rosellini‚ John Waterman‚ Carl McCunn‚ and Everett Ruess. Each man had a different story however obviously the same skeletal structure. Gene had began his journey into the wild as an experiment “in knowing if it was possible to be independent of modern technology”

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    How many people died on the Titanic? The Royal Mail Steamer (RMS) Titanic built by the White Star Company in the UK and owned by American tycoon‚ J.P Morgan met its fate while on its maiden voyage to New York when it struck an iceberg and sank two hours later in the early morning of April 15‚ 1912‚ in the Northern Atlantic. A total of 2224 people boarded this ship during its sail and a sum of 1514 people perished with it. The name Titanic‚ a Greek methodology means gigantic and it took a total of

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    Secondly‚ Christopher McCandless was an intelligent and idealistic young man who craved adventure and risk taking. McCandless reflected his passion for the wild and nonmaterialistic items in accordance to Henry Thoreau’s way of thinking. Henry Thoreau believed that man could come to terms with his own existence and find a higher purpose. According to Krakauer‚ during McCandless’s adventure he “Put a match to it. One hundred and twenty- three dollars in legal tender was promptly reduced to ash and

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    Our presentation is about Henry David Thoreau in comparison to Chris McCandless. Henry David Thoreau was an American author‚ poet‚ philosopher‚ naturalist‚ surveyor and many other things. He was born on July 12 1817 in concord Massachusetts‚ He grew up with his brother whose early death left Thoreau feeling extremely traumatised. Until he was 28 he worked as a surveyor alongside his father making pencils. He was said to be someone who found joy in his daily life. But his real passion was for nature

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    introduces the anecdote of the bubble boy. The bubble boy was a child who “had been transferred antiseptically into a chamber at birth because he lacked an immune system” (76). Dunn uses this one instance of the bubble boy to prove that the bubble boy died after reattachment to other germs and bacteria due to his lack of interaction with these species. Together these experiments are anecdotes that Dunn uses as resources to support his other large

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