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    Into the Wild is a true story of a young man named Chris McCandless, an Emory graduate who is found frozen dead in the Alaskan wilderness on September 1992 when he was 24. McCandless grew up in a wealthy Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C, and is a very gifted athlete and scholar,who from an early age reveals deep intensity, enthusiasm, and a strict moral compass. Into the wild is the true story of Chris McCandless, a young Emory graduate who is found dead in the Alaskan wilderness in September…

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    Chris McCandless leaves everything he has acquired in his life in the big city. His parents started out average, but made a name for themselves as rocket scientists, and became very wealthy. Many people might ask why Chris wasn't content with his life, or why he wanted to get away from everyone. Chris believed that his achievements were useless to him, and that he needed to find happiness, and enjoy the process of doing it. His Journey into the wild was an adventure, but more importantly an…

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    in an abandoned bus in the middle of alaska. Chris McCandless was a person who wanted to escape civilization and the problems in the real world. He didn't want any communication with his family. Chris Mccandless…

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    otherwise. Chris’s goal was to reach the Alaska wilderness and he didn’t want anything else except that. Everyone has their own personal goals and Chris’s goal was to live his live how he aspired and he shouldn’t be looked at as a lunatic for trying to obtain it. On his journey, Chris encountered many hardships and challenges throughout his voyage. Chris had so much dedication and bravery he never once wanted to back down and abandon his dream of reaching Alaska. A person with this much…

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    With Kit's considerable amount of knowledge of hunting and cooking skills from living on the frontier, he proved himself to be a valuable member of the expedition team despite his age and his height. Even though Carson was 5' 7", he was considered small compared to the men he lived with. As more and more time passed, Carson, too, became just as skilled in beaver trapping as the others, and he established himself as aggressive and efficient when fighting people who meant harm. His fighting skills…

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    knew his father’s secret; however, he never told him which led Chris to a confusing situation. For that reason, Chris left his family to seek for his own happiness. On his adventure to Alaska, he met many people and left them a good impression. Unfortunately, the story ended with the dead of Chris in a bus in Alaska. Unlike his father, Chris never worshiped the value of the money as he had sent all his money to a charity, dumped his car and burnt all his money. Materialism give people unlimited…

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    On April 27, 1992, Christopher Johnson McCandless wrote, “I now walk into the wild,” intending to leave behind the sins of society for the wilderness. Chris had to decide between his family and friends’ happiness and pursuing his own. McCandless chose to chase happiness, believing that self-reliance and appreciation of purity in nature were the only elements that would allow for it; thus, he embarked on his Alaskan odyssey, leaving without any word of his plans or communication along his journey…

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    living mostly by himself in the wild and trying to reach his goal of getting to Alaska. Chris decides to make this journey after learning about a secret his parents hid from him since he was born. This revelation led him to have a warped sense of his childhood and the relationship he has with his parents. While on his travel, he meets many people and forms unique connections with each of them. Ultimately, Chris reaches Alaska but dies after living there for over one hundred days. With all the…

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    Essay On Mount St. Helens

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    crash together, move apart, and rub against each other forming most volcanoes. The tectonic collisions are a slow-moving event, as if set in slow motion, creating a long process that eventually resulting in the formation of volcanoes. The Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest is known for its deep evergreen forests and numerous tall jagged cones and this area is home to the Strato-Volcano Peak known today as Mount St. Helens. Originally named “Louwala-Clough,” or “Smoking Mountain,” by the…

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    McCandless’s Identity Crisis Identities provide the personal cornerstone for people. Under pressure, however, the cornerstone fractures and a new cornerstone displaces the crumbling cornerstone. Cornerstones develop similarly to identities for they both change under pressure. An identity, however, changes with experience. The experiences that McCandless encounters causes his identity to change frequently. McCandless’s abandonment of his past identity leads to the creation a perfect identity and…

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