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    memories of sitting around the campfire with family and friends‚ telling stories and roasting marshmallows‚ laughing the night away. The fresh‚ strong scents of pine and cedar overwhelm the bacon and sausage‚ sending the message that trees rule the wilderness. The distinct aromas of lake water and granite rock fill the air as well. All of it combines to create one of the best smells in the world. Just then‚ the odious scents of fish guts‚ from the early morning fisherman cleaning out their trophies

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    Stegner’s‚ ¨Wilderness Letter¨ ‚the novelist is informing to the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission his view toward the situation. He is explaining how important the wilderness in which we live in and how it provides natural servicers for humans and all other species that are essential to our health‚ our quality of life ‚and also survival. In his letter‚ he also talks about the preserving of our natural world due to the history and how it has helped shape the population. Wilderness is a getaway

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    thinking about the situation. A new attitude “new Brian”‚ combined with improved powers of observation‚ patience and a degree of luck‚ enable Brian to survive his time in the wilderness. Brain learned from the environment in his time‚ after the plane crashed. Brian had very little to eat‚ so he scavenged around the wilderness and found gut berries‚ which he shared with a bear‚ collected turtle eggs to eat and caught fish with his homemade spear. Brian learned to get food for himself to survive. Brian

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    overcome a number of obstacles during his childhood that would eventually lead to what could be considered some of the greatest moments in early conservation history. He was also an avid outdoorsman who would undertake long trips to be out in the wilderness as well to explore new areas which he believed should be set aside. Without Roosevelt‚ the national park system might never have been created‚ and certain areas of amazing land may have been lost entirely. Born on October 27th‚ 1858‚ on East Twentieth

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    attack and the plane crashes is an example of that. The place that gives a sense of the conditions and obstacles also known as setting is the Canadian wilderness inn the summer. Brian was very lucky that it was summer not winter so it was easier to survive. The sixth element is quest or the journey could be when he gets lost in another part of the wilderness and can not find the lake. The six elements hero‚ physical action‚ fast pacing‚ violence‚ setting and quest were used greatly in A Cry in the Wild

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    non-conformist” (Emerson). He defied society‚ lived in the wild‚ and never cared about “things”. He existed off the land in Alaska‚ the west coast‚ and even Mexico. McCandless did not want anything else in life but happiness; he found this in the wilderness. As Emerson states in Self-Reliance‚ “society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of ever one of its members.” Conforming to society means to not be true to oneself. McCandless thought that conforming to society would make him another

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    behavior because McCandless made a lot of unwise choices. To add on to that McCandless would not accept assistance from any of the people who were trying to help him out even though it was pretty obvious that he was about to head into the Alaskan wilderness clearly underprepared. The first reason why Krakauer’s argument isn’t justified is because Christopher McCandless made a lot of unwise choices during the duration of his trip. First of all he did not tell any of his family members exactly where

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    Method Questionnaire “One man’s wilderness is another’s roadside picnic ground” (Nash‚ 1982) There has been much debate on a definitive definition of what wildness is in terms of the UK‚ as it has no true wilderness areas. The Scottish Natural Heritage define it as “the wild character of the landscape‚ its related recreational value and potential for nature are such that these areas should be safeguarded against inappropriate development or land-use change” (SNH‚ July 2002). However‚ little work

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    Hatchet Hatchet is an amazing survival story. The book is about Brian Robeson a 13 year old boy who has been stranded in the Canadian wilderness. The author really explained how Brian felt and what he had to do to survive. The author talked about a mysterious secret between Brian and his mom. The author explains in detail what it looked like‚ how he felt‚ and what he did. I think the author did a good job on explaining this. The story starts with Brian going to visit his dad in the summer after

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    13-year-old boy named Brian. On a trip to the Canadian oil fields to spend the summer with his dad‚ the pilot of the Cessna he was traveling in suffered a heart attack and died. Brian landed the plane in the forest. Brian learned to survive in the wilderness with only a hatchet that his mother had recently given him. The book tells all about adventures where he faced including hunger‚ animal attacks and even a tornado. He learns to make fire with the hatchet and eat foods he can find‚ such as

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