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    Francisco was wrecked by a powerful earthquake and for the next few days was consumed by fires that destroyed a large portion of the city. Jack London writes a hair-raising description of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The earthquake destroyed many buildings and also started fires. The fires spread quickly throughout the city. The fires lasted two days‚ Wednesday morning until Thursday night. The fires destroyed almost all of the buildings‚ hotels‚ stores‚ and houses in San Francisco. People

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    London Research Paper

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    beautiful city on Earth. As you cross the London Bridge‚ you see the Eye of London‚ the worlds largest Ferris wheel‚ and Big Ben at the Tower of London. The architecture is amazing‚ and even the trees have a different kind of beauty. There is no doubt that the beauty and liveliness of this city makes it a perfect place to live. If I could pick one place to live for the rest of my life and be totally content‚ I would pick the countryside just outside of London. I have never visited a more peaceful place

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    To Build A Fire Survival

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    and if had known them better‚ he could of had a higher rate to survive. The man in the story To build a fire‚ did not have many skills to do and could have improved in many ways shown below… Survival skills is not something that the old man had and needed to improve on.The man could not strike a match because of how cold it was and he had injured his arms and feet because of not been able to build a fire. “Twenty times he scratched before he succeeded in lighting it. As it flamed he held it with his

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    the movement of Naturalism. Naturalism is a writing style that aims at recreating nature in its entirety. An element similar to naturalism‚ determinism is a style which expresses that all outcomes are the result of an unbroken chain of previous actions. Yet another extension of naturalism‚ social Darwinism takes the theory of Charles Darwin‚ survival of the fittest‚ and applies it to characters in a story. A story that utilizes all of these styles is Jack London’s To Build a Fire; and it does so

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    To Build A Fire Theme

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    This excerpt from ”To Build A Fire” is about a man trekking through Yukon territory with his dog. The man has no supplies‚ is alone‚ and is trying to make it to a camp by sundown. Before the main character left‚ an old-timer from the trail told him it was bad to walk through alone after negative fifty degrees. The man ignores the advice the other man gave him. As a result of this‚ he walks the trail anyway in negative one-hundred degree weather and dies from hypothermia. The actions of this man show

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    Naturalism

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    Naturalism According to the powerpoints provided by the reporters‚ Naturalism exhibits the helplessness of man against nature; man is dependent on nature for survival reasons but nature does not depend on man in order to exist. Man’s struggle to overcome nature and have full reign over it would be futile as nature has its way that man would not be capable of predicting and avoiding‚ thus‚ leading to his defeat‚ which is ultimately death. It presents nature as indifferent‚ making use of environmental

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    The story To Build a Fire demonstrates possible dangers of traveling in the Yukon under extreme cold. Through a young man‚ Jack London depicts the consequences of ignoring instinct and survival advice. The man travels with a dog‚ who can perceive the dangers of the freezing wilderness. The reader learns of the man’s personality through descriptive words and phrases while journeying through the story. At the beginning of the story the man turned aside from the main trail. He stopped at the top

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    Composition II 10/20/2010 Snow-blind In Jack London’s short story “To build a fire” a man sets out with his dog in extreme cold temperatures confident in arriving at their campsite where the man’s friends are waiting. London uses the element of foreshadowing to hint at the traveler’s impending doom. The first example of foreshadowing can be found where the man acknowledges that there certainly are risks that are included in the undertaking of his adventure. London writes “he knew that there were springs

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    cannot control nature‚ man can defeat nature. However‚ human errors can cause nature to defeat man. The two main guides‚ Rob hall and Scott Fischer in Into thin Air and the Man in “To Build a Fire” errors played a huge role in their battle against nature. In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Jack London’s “To Build a Fire”‚ man’s propensity to underestimate nature’s strengths and excessive pride led to nature’s victory. In Into Thin Air‚ the guides’ propensity to underestimate nature’s strengths was

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    transform from being a domesticated home dog to a dog of the wild. The author Jack London has written many popular books including the Call of the Wild and many more‚ his books all display his descriptive writing style very well. London has many different methods of developing themes in his novels and in this novel he uses bucks transformation to develop the theme. In the Novel The Call of the Wild the author Jack London develops the theme by showing the transformation of a domesticated dog to a

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