Death of a Naturalist

after.” McCandless easily relates to this as he went on an adventure with a hunger he had no means of fulfilling. Within a sea of naturalist and, opposing, transcendental texts, his ideology was not clearly defined even to himself. In the burrows of Mt. McKinley, Chris McCandless died of starvation in 1992. Many esteem his ideals, but controversy remains on whether his death was necessary. Despite Krakauer’s undeserved romanticism in Into the Wild, McCandless was not justified in shunning…

Jack London is the epitome of the Naturalist movement in American literature. Many of his works, including The Call of the Wild include the essentials of Naturalism such as, but not limited to: taboo topics, Darwinism, violence, animal and nature imagery, determinism and the struggle for survival. His novel The Call of the Wild is continually referred to as his greatest work and is still revered as a prominent element in American literature. Influenced by major philosophers such as Charles…

I, along with what I can only assume is 99% of the human population, have often found myself wondering why cruelty exists in a supposedly good world. If there is a benevolent God, why are there mosquitoes, which infect millions of people with malaria each year? Why are there dart frogs that produce poison potent enough to kill 10 grown men? Why is there the ichneumon fly, which injects its victims with eggs that eat the unfortunate victim from the inside out as they hatch? The ichneumon, which…

Accomplishments before Death A Reflective Essay on Three Things I Want to Accomplish Before I Die “A great accomplishment shouldn 't be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward,” quoted from Harvey Mackay. Everyone that has lived on this earth has always had set goals specifically for themselves. It is absolutely essential for anyone to have goals or else there is nothing to strive for in their lives. Without goals, there would be no accomplishments, and without…

The law strives to preserve the order of society, while promoting morality and justice. Given that the law limits human autonomy through restriction, the question arises as to when and to what extent should a state limit the freedom of its citizens. In “On Liberty”, John Stuart Mill provides an answer to this question in the form of the harm principle: the sole reason for interfering with the liberty of an individual is to prevent the harm of others (Mill 1859). This principle states that law or…

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, and naturalist, who served as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900, the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901, then reached the pinnacle of his political career when he was elected as the 26th President of the United States in 1901 and served until 1909. Roosevelt had a passion for reading and writing. Over the course of his lifetime, Roosevelt authored 38 books, which included…

Comparison Between The Rite of Spring and Appalachian Spring The Rite of Spring (1913), composed by Igor Stravinsky, and Appalachian Spring (1944), by Aaron Copland, are ballets that center around folk culture. The Rite of Spring suggests a story of human sacrifice and has an overall a harsh and almost disturbing mood. Appalachian Spring tells the story of a new couple celebrating their new house and is lively and happy. The two ballets stem from a common base of folk culture, yet the mood of…

Harvard, Emerson studied various scholarly religious and poetic texts as well as sampled the treatises and travelogues. After graduating from Harvard, Emerson became a Unitarian minister, but his life changed personally and professionally after the death of his wife, Ellen Tucker Emerson in 1831. The following year Emerson resigned from Unitarian minister arguing he didn’t have faith on special divinity of Jesus. Emerson along with Frederic Henry Hedge, George Putnam and George Ripley planned…

ship to London, and brought his new acquisition with him. He had high hopes of making a fortune exhibiting the mermaid. Eades created ads for his exhibit, which garnered some interest from the public, unfortunately they also gained the interest of naturalists, who immediately revealed the mermaid as a fake. He continued to run his exhibit from 1823 to 1825 out of a Piccadilly coffee house, and for a time he attracted up to three hundred visitors a day. However when ticket sales abruptly…

Bothe sides of the conflict are present in the painting in a symbolic way. The artist was brilliant in allocating the figures of the painting to represent a contrast of life and death in a very symbolic way. The artist uses an atmospheric perspective in this painting as we can see the main figures who are the soldiers are closest to us where the mountains and the forest behind them. The painting is a symmetrical but balance as we…