Alaska Essay

Alaska is the largest and the least populated of the fifty United States. Full of mountain ranges and majestic wildlife, it has always captivated people’s attention. However with large distances between largely populated areas and the cold temperatures with long winters most people shy away from living there. But for me Alaska is my one true home; where I have family and friends, and where I want to one day settle down to spend the rest of my life. My one true home has always been Alaska, the…

One of the perks of being a Pastor’s Kid that in my life time I had a chance to spend three years in Anchorage Alaska as my father was a Youth Pastor there. While Alaska is a part of the United States one of the interesting things about living there is due to it’s isolation from the lower 48 there is a difference of culture there that is not present in the lower 48. The people there have a much different life, and adapt their lifestyle to fit living up there. One of the things that every new…

for having the courage to leave everyone behind to pursue his desires. McCandless’ parents would not understand their son, what he was going through.The only way for Chris to get away, was to go off radar, for no one can bother him on his journey to Alaska. In the book we find out that he wanted to get away from them because his dad had another family, which had upset him. It was news,where no kid will want to know about their father left one family for another.…

Chris McCandless was a brave person who traveled into the wild with no money and not a lot of supplies. Some people think he was stupid but I think he is a brave person. Life chose that path for him and he enjoyed traveling the country and continent of North America. The wilderness eventually caught up with him though. People wonder how he could have survived or had better chances to survive. I think he could have survived with a person by his side the whole time. He touched a lot of…

The stories of Chris McCandless and Timothy Treadwell’s journeys to Alaska, provokes the common person to ask at the end of it all: Are they men that people should look up to, or are they just individuals who bit off a little more than they could chew? The author of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, reveals Chris McCandless to be an introvert who feels the need to remove himself from a typical life in society and begin his own adventures to figure out who he really is. In an effort to show the issues…

Located in Northeastern Alaska, United States, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the areas used to protect and conserve America’s wildlife and plants. It is the largest Wildlife Refuge in the country at 19,286,722 acres. For more than over a decade there has been political debates about whether or not there should be drilling for oil on the coastal plains. Oil drilling cause’s damage to the wildlife there and cause for animals to become extinct. I think that there should not be any…

mosquito-infested” country—as described by returning California transient workers. Dimond also termed “grossly exaggerated” and “silly” complaints of settlers in the government’s colonization project against its management. These pioneers went to Alaska from drought area of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. “Did these settlers…

friend, Rawlins, unsure of what exactly they’re looking for but knows there’s something to be found. On the other hand, there is also Christopher McCandless who has a goal of first conditioning his body for Alaska’s environment and then travel to Alaska to survive the wilderness. John Grady Cole began his first journey into Mexico blind, yet open minded to what to expect on the other side of the boarder. As he goes on this trip, it doesn’t just open his eyes and makes him start thinking, but…

only then that fishermen are allowed to go fishing. The department makes the call on when fishing can and cannot occur and how long the season will last. But it’s not just Alaska’s Fish and Game department that keeps fish stocks from collapsing in Alaska. Seven state, federal and international agencies regulate and enforce rules designed to maintain how fishing is done. The governing authorities have a strict limit on licenses to fish for salmon and other types of seafoods. The strict harvest…

stop him. He stops at some pretty great places and meets lots of people; but yet he still leaves. He even at one point in the book was offered a plane ride to go to Alaska, he is asked to stay and work longer by people he meets but he said that would be cheating and did not take it. He had relentless determination to go to Alaska just like he had read about. His determination almost made him stupid and it killed him. My second trend is the urge to break free and…