Christopher Marlowe

“If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man (Krakauer 14).” Chris McCandless wanted to hike into the wild because he wanted to find himself. He saw his parents, who were not very open or exciting people. Chris lived his life through what his parents’ wanted/expected. This is something the Chris did not want. He wanted a purpose in life and that was something he hadn’t found yet. Going into the wild Chris did not know what was going…

According to the UAF, the main things you will need to survive the alaskan wilderness is food, water, oxygen, and shelter/warmth. But Chris Mccandless had hardly any food or clothing to keep warm, which brings me to ponder why he would run away from the complete life he already had. But after I learned about Chris’ life back in El Segundo, California, I understood why he escaped to his only home he ever knew, the wilderness. In Jon Krakauer’s book “Into The Wild”, Chris Mccandless struggled to…

How could a feeble Irish woman be capable of rescuing over 200 children? Missionary Amy Carmichael did exactly that! Travel to India and took children from house of his homes and brought them into a safe environment. Carmichael shared the love of Christ by advising the women and children, who were often thought as inferior to men, and help them learn how to except Jesus as their Savior. At the age of 14, she decided she wanted to follow God and spread His Word across the world. Following the…

Isabella of Castile was put into a position where she ruled with more power than her husband. This in the fifteenth century was uncommon, but she did so with grace. Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen describes the time that she held the throne with her husband Ferdinand of Aragon. It describes the struggles of war and the challenges that were met. Nancy Rubin Stuart describes these events with much enthusiasm and accuracy. From the Spanish inquisition to the voyages of Columbus.…

Memento, by Christopher Nolan, is an all encompassing film that takes a deeper look at time, memory, morals, vengeance, through the story of Leonard Shelby, a man who suffers from retrograde amnesia that is on a mission to avenge his wife’s murder and rape. These themes are portar Memento, by Christopher Nolan, is a film that changed the course of cinematography in the early twenty-first century. The film is cut and edited in a way that not only turns the experience of watching in a puzzle, and…

did not want anything to get in their way. When the Europeans came to the Americas, they found native people living there. The natives and the Europeans differed in many ways. They had different languages, cultures, and even looked different. Christopher Columbus and Thomas Harriot were some of the explorers that came to the Americas to find new land and resources. Columbus and Harriot had similar experiences when they came to this new land. These two men had the chance to benefit from the…

The movie Memento (2001) was a film about Leonard, an insurance investigator who suffered from anterograde amnesia. Memento (2001) did a fair job in not only explaining the condition of anterograde amnesia but also gave readers many thoughts after watching the movie. There are many human intelligence traits illustrated in the movie varies with different characters in the film. Leonard, an insurance investigator, who developed anterograde amnesia after an incident in his house, when his wife was…

A majority of you know that Christopher Columbus was the first to discover and explore the Americas, but many are unaware that this is a mythical statement; in fact, the information that we have learned about this individual is mostly false and inaccurate. We have been taught to think that this man was an amazing person, we have been taught to believe that he was courageous, intelligent, and modest. Still to this day, schools are educating children with these lies. Historians have looked into…

The world is a better place because of the exploration of John Cabot, Ferdinand Magellan, Hernan Cortes, Francisco Pizarro, Amerigo Vespucci, Leif Erickson , Henry Hudson, Jacques Cartier, Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, Robert de la Salle, Christopher Columbus Francisco Coronado and more. Without the exploration of these great explorers the Americas and the other countries would not be as developed and advance. First of all, life for the Native Americans before the exploration was…

In Zinns chapter, He questions that all the deaths of the Indians was necessary for human progression and for the progression of the new world. The killing of Indians continued for years upon years and the only thing the Englishmen and Conquistadors got out of the killing was land. The search for the “gold” became a way for Conquistadors to become selfish and kill the people who welcomed them with hospitality. Disease will end many lives and the Indian population will diminish. The Awark…