Alaska Range

At first it was fall all of a sudden. The weather started to change, and it didn't look good at all. It started getting colder in the mornings when he woke up. Brian hadn't realized it had came so fast, but winter was right around the corner. He was definitely not ready for the cold weather at all, the way he is right now he would freeze to death. The cabin he built and is staying in was not winterized, and was not airtight. There was lots of openings in his make shift walls. Brian didn't even…

The day starts out normal the sun was up, clouds and the sky was blue. On an island where it’s unrecognized to some parts of the world, in a great town of some parts of Indonesia there’s a man named Chris. Chris lived with his family in a normal life and since he was a little kid he wanted to be a scientist to learn about storms. Also another guy named Emman, in the car Emman was riding along with his parents and they got into a car accident which both of his parents died except for Emman.…

How important is it to get something that is wanted, even though it is not needed? That is the question that the United States needs to ask itself when it comes to deciding whether or not they should drill for Oil in the Arctic. The United States already produces the most oil in the world, so what makes drilling for oil in the Arctic necessary? It’s because the United States, a fossil fuel dependent country, wants more oil, even though it isn’t needed. The United States needs to face the…

The big question everyone has argued for so long is "What precisely was Chris McCandless?", from the book “Into the wild”. Many argue Chris was a "nutcase" or a "sociopath", wile others call him "a hero" or “a true transcendentalist", in his travels. I, however, say Chris was a lost, ignorant young man who was just looking for more in life and wanted to find it out for himself by going on his own Odyssey. Chris McCandless shows much of his ignorance in multiple incidences of his travels by…

authentic self, which was his essential target. He didn’t find himself comfortable with the person everyone assumed him to be. Without doubt he was ready to sacrifice everything to find himself. Chris went on a journey and the ending destination was Alaska. After being by himself for 112…

In the book, “Into The Wild,” by Jon Krakauer, Jon trailed Chris McCandless from the warm and civilized East Coast, to the bitterly cold Alaskan wilderness, Jon followed through his footsteps in hopes of understanding, and to relate to the walking paradox that was Chris McCandless Come back to this. Jon Krakauer thought that Chris McCandless was kindred spirit, Jon Krakauer related to Chris on many different fronts, such as tensed family issues, a similarly adventurous soul, and that they had…

argument to drill in this area in the first place. Another argument is that jobs would be created by the oil drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge. The article also states that this would take away from other jobs elsewhere and bring them to Alaska, but only for a short time during the oil drilling itself. This…

Christopher Johnson McCandless was a bright, young man from a well-to-do family; whom after graduating college, donated all of his money to charity, gave himself the alias, ‘Alexander Supertramp’, and briskly set off to venture into the wilderness of Alaska. With these events of his life left behind, McCandless embarked on symbolic journey, not just to live off the wild, but use his journey as an emblem of a modern day transcendentalist that he set out to be. McCandless used this expedition as a…

actually leave to find the meaning of their life. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is about the story of a man named Christopher McCandless who was a man that through his journey found friends that tried to helped him get to his final destination of Alaska where he died. Chris McCandless stands out because he left all his money, family, and bright future to live a life of constant traveling, being hungry, and sleeping most nights only to have the stars as a company on lonely nights with no home.…

Alaska became a state in 1867. Alaska’s geography is constantly changing. The size and distribution of Alaska’s population are constantly changing as are the nature and character of the structures they build and the resources they harvest. Alaska is the largest states in The United States, its twice as big as Texas. People from the other states come and visit Alaska, there are different things here in Alaska, theres different animals here such as Polar Bears, Grizzly Bears, Wolf, Fox, Rabbits,…