Christopher Paolini

Societal Stuff Most of society is viewed as something terrible by almost every teenager and most adults. What society is is a group that everyone seems to want to conform to. Everyone wants to fit into society, except for children because most children don 't understand social constructs. Chris McCandless and Martin Luther are examples as to why it’s probably not the best idea to live outside the bounds of society. It is better to live within the bounds of society because it 's hard to live…

There is a famous disney movie, Beauty and the Beast, about a prince who gets cursed and is turned into a beast who must fall in love with someone, otherwise he will remain that way forever. In the beginning, the beast is thought of as this terrifying monster who everyone is afraid of, but towards the end of the movie, he turns out to be a nice and caring character who is actually the complete opposite of scary. People just assumed he was terrifying because of the few actions that the movie…

At the beginning of the semester we discussed Christopher Columbus’s Letter to Luis de Santangel and Danticat’s “Maguana 1492” as part of the theme of wonder and horror. I really enjoyed that topic and found it interesting, so for my research paper I discusses how the wonder that was experienced in both of these texts are different. I claim that the wonder Columbus experiences is more fabricated and that he uses marvelous to raise his observations and the land he sees to a level of perfection,…

There is several information I learn through this class. All this information was mentioned in the chapter of the books we used for this class. Most of the information I have learned was about History, History’s textbooks, Publishers of textbooks, and the story of America. History is a course that is supposed to tell the stories of the past to the present generation. However, History presents the stories not as they exactly occurred. The stories of the past of America were not told exactly as…

It is a sin to write and read the following. It shows the ways in which the character, Equality 72521 from the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, and how he was not in by any means wrong in writing what he had written. The following will go through the community, himself, and finally his independence from the community and his “brothers” of his old life. The community is the words you hear most often when talking about an environment. It’s one of those words we are all taught when we were younger about…

Chris McCandless wrote in his journal: “Happiness is best when shared” when he was living on his own in the wild of Alaska. This statement can be viewed as deeply ironic considering McCandless intentionally severed his connections from society to be alone. What was his motive to do something so drastic? Jon Krakauer, a man of adventure and thrill seeking searched for an answer, and in his search he discovered the similarities between himself and Chris. Captivated by McCandless’ journey for…

It is also necessary to note that this period from the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century called the Age of Exploration was not the first means of exploration. In fact, before Christopher Columbus voyage, the Portuguese and Spanish ships explored the West African coast. The Portuguese were the early explorers in the oceanic revolution who managed to discover new territories with the help of Prince Henry the Navigator. The Portuguese…

Chris McCandless, was at peace in the end. He found everything that he was searching for by the surroundings in nature and pure isolation. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer demonstrates that isolation is something that will help achieve inner peace, serenity and experience a raw exhilaration of human emotions that can only be found in the core of isolation. Krakauer placed many stories or fellow adventurers whose stories ran parallel to McCandless’s, in which they demonstrate how isolation helps…

ETHOS 1: One of the many reasons Jon Krakauer wrote Into the Wild was because of his emotional connection with Chris McCandless through the comparison of experience and personality. Despite the fact the two individuals never met, it was obvious to the author that McCandless shared much of the same childhood. Krakauer used the strategy of publicly addressing his relationship with his own father to prove that he had the credentials to explain Walt McCandless’s impending future with his son.…

The Columbian Exchange was an encounter between the Native Americans and the Europeans that drastically changed both cultures. Both peoples exchanged items such as cattle, plants, and even some cultural aspects. The effects of the Columbian Exchange reverberated through North America as foreign European ideas became more and more familiar. Crops played a large part in the Exchange. The Native Americans supplied the Europeans with tobacco, maize, beans, tomatoes, and potatoes. These newly…