Effective communicators are people who develop effective communication skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Also, effective communicators develop communication skills appropriate to the setting and the audience. In other words, effective communicators are people who adequately understand and express thought in a specific concept towards their audience. The Writing and Research 102 Into the Wild essay is an essay done for the Writing and Research class here on NOVA as a branch of Concordia University of Irvine.…
Preventable Deaths “Into thin air” by Jon Krakauer is a personal account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. One out of every four climbers, dies on the mountain, according to Jon Krakauer's book. Fifteen climbers died in the 1996 climbing season alone. With odds such as these, who should decide who is allowed to climb the mountain, and who is not? Should an individual decide they can do it, all on their own?…
Into Thin Air Book Review Involved in one of the most tragic events in Mount Everest history, Jon Krakauer organizes the events that lead up to this day on May 10, 1996 in which altogether eight people lost their lives. Krakauer originally was hired to write an article for Outside Magazine detailing the commercialism on Mount Everest. In order to write the article, he was required to climb only to Base Camp which is strictly the first base on Everest. However, Krakauer wished to reach the summit of the highest mountain on Earth where he was assigned to Adventure Consultants. This was the service that lead Krakauer and the other twelve members of his team up Mount Everest.…
“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill, the trick is to get back down alive.” This quote from Jon Krakauer captures the gripping story of Into Thin Air which summarizes Jon’s emotional and physical journey while climbing the tallest mountain in the world. Through extensive climbing and note-taking Jon is able to share his experiences and tell a riveting story about his life or death experience from the perspective of a reporter which provides an amazing point of view about summiting the most vigorous mountain known to man. When Jon Krakauer was tasked with writing an article about Mount Everest from base camp he said that he wanted to experience Everest from the summit. Outside Magazine was surprised but paid…
Unlike the literature I am required to read during the school year, the books that I read for pleasure are more focused on issues that can relate to one's actual life. The books I read for pleasure are more of a release. For example, I read "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel to get a better view on the idea of intangible belief and dry factuality. I enjoyed "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury because it provided a new perspective on the idea of censorship. I also read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Of Mice and Men" in order to receive valuable insight on the idea of loss of innocence.…
Title: “Taming The Star Runner” The title makes me wonder what kind of horse The Star Runner was. It sparks my interest and makes me also wonder how he tamed the Star Runner. The title fits well with the book because in the book the main character was untamable like the Star Runner. I was excited to read another S.E. Hinton book.…
The historical non-fiction book I chose to read was Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which was written by Jared Diamond. After reading the descriptions of the historical non-fiction books, the description of Collapse engrossed me the most. I was interested in the book because it explained how and why some of the most famous ancient and modern societies just fell apart and collapsed. In Jared Diamond’s book, he talks about societies that collapsed such as the ancient societies of the Maya, the Greenland Norse, the Easter Islanders and about modern societies such as Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and more. In the book, he analyzes the falls of these societies and explains their collapses by using his “five-point framework.”…
I chose the book “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. The genre of this book is fiction. There are three literary terms that Connell uses. The first one is plot, which is the story line to the story. The second one is suspense, which is the reader’s feeling of curiosity, uncertainty, or even anxiety about the outcome of the events.…
The Mount Everest expedition, in the spring of 1996 was famous for the big storm and how many lives were lost. There were multiple team and many people that ascended the mountain at this time, with different intentions. Many of them go to say that they made it to the top, some want to be the first for their country and others are go up there for journalism or to just go up. In the novel Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer explains that this disaster had many actions take place that made all of the deaths of many possible. The people of this journey learned that it isn’t just about making it to the top, you have to make decisions that will get you back down safely.…
“Genres have the power to help or hurt human interactions, to ease communication or to deceive, to enable someone to speak or to discourage someone from saying something different” (Kerry Dirk). The word “genre” has a prototypical definition of “category”, one needs to analyze the definition on a deeper level to understand that “genre” means more than just “category”. It is to an extent a “[tool] to help people to get things done”, as described in the article “Navigating Genres” by Kerry Dirk. The literal definition of genre is a category of artistic compositions, in literature, characterized by similarities in form, content or context, but what makes one genre unique from another is its writing elements such as rhetorical devices, targeted…
Magazine story writer and novel author, Jon Krakauer, is on a notorious adventure to climb the legendary Mount Everest. While examining and analysing “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer from a reader response perspective allows the reader to bring personal traits, memories and experiences to the text, forces the reader to look past the words in search for a deeper meaning, and it allows readers to see different perspectives of others while reading. It is fairly easy to connect with Krakauer on a personal level because, he is a very descriptive author allowing the reader to connect with him emotionally, he is very reliable as an author, and his ways of writing makes it easy for the for the reader to connect with Krakauer with a personal aspect. Krakauer…
These genres deviated from the boring realities of our world. While I did take an interest in reading, the books that my teachers gave me to read were boring, non-fiction, books with no pictures. The lack of readings I did began to have an effect on the way I wrote. It wasn’t until then my teacher decided to introduce to us book reports. We could read any book we wanted and then write we liked and disliked about the book, however it had to be on a level that was suited for us.…
Banned Books: A Girls Life Online. Everyone loves to read a good book once in awhile. Some people may tell you they hate to read, but chances are they're lying. but what if some of our favourite books gets banned?…
Another Place, Another time is a story by Cory Doctorow who published the story at the age of 17, he now is an online blogger. The opening of the story is about a young boy named Gilbert, who is very interested by the concept of time. He lives with his father in the summer and Ms. Curie, the housekeeper all year round ( his mother passed away while giving birth to him) and in winter his father heads back to the sea for the rest of the year. Gilbert loves to play outside with his friends, the neighbor kids who are known as the Limburgher children: Emmy, Erwin, and Neils. He goes on many adventures with them, for instance playing in the switchyard.…
In seventh grade, my reading experience went farther downhill. The teacher expected us to do projects reflecting over what we had read every time we finished a book, with a minimum of five per trimester. I hated doing these reflection projects, so my quantity of reading fell further to just five books every three months. However, the final nail in the coffin of my reading came in eighth grade. On the first day of school, the teacher informed us that the only genre we would be allowed to read for out reading logs, which were unnecessarily complicated, was nonfiction.…