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Imagine leaving a simple comfortable life behind to go live out in the snow. Now, on top of being completely alone imagine having little knowledge on how to survive. Sound fun? Well, this is exactly what Chris McCandless did. McCandless traveled into Alaska with rice and a small amount of knowledge on poisonous berries, told from the story. Although Chris tried to act as though he was doing something great he actually was causing harm to himself and everyone he actually cared about. Chris…

Health issues and the decline of the Warao Tribe by Jennifer Fitzwater Objective In any culture/society disease and health related issues have many devastating affects. In very remote parts of the word these problems can wipe out an entire group. In the remote village on the Orinoco River Delta in Venezuela lives the Warao tribe. In recent years many diseases have made their way into this remote village. These diseases have created a deadly problem for the tribe. I would like to find out how…

For years, man and nature have coexisted in harmony, but in recent years, man and nature have become increasingly disconnected, as air conditioning, GMO’s, and other innovations have been made to combat the natural way of life. Some people, such as Christopher McCandless, wish to be one with nature again. As his journey to the Alaskan wilderness proved, nature and man have a glorious and close, but sometimes unforgiving and unsympathetic relationship. This is because some men deeply admire…

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the two main characters are named George Milton and Lennie Small. George and Lennie are forced to leave their homes in the town of Weed, and they go on a journey to start their new lives as farm hands. By hitch-hiking, walking, and riding freight trains, many people traveled to find new jobs. “The exact scale of migrants is unknown, but it’s estimated that up to 400,000 Southwesterners moved west during the 1930s and up to 300,000 moved into California a…

She takes out the barrette from her hair, plays basketball with her cousins, and acts like a boy. “See girls wear them too” (73) she even persuades her parents into buying her hiking boots by telling her father that other girls also wear them, knowing that her father likes her being very feminine and would not refuse what she asked for. Showing another example of how her father likes the taste of femininity and how she takes that…

Many people viewed Chris McCandless from different perspectives, and came to several conclusions about this young man. Some deemed him to be incredibly clueless, while others saw him as a boy who simply just followed his heart. “I just don’t understand why he had to take those kind of chances,” Billie protests through her tears. “I just don’t understand it all” (Krakauer 132). In the novel, “Into The Wild”, Jon Krakauer portrays Chris McCandless as exactly who he is. A young, reckless boy who…

Tourism as Advertised in Hawaii For this paper, I choose to focus on Hawaii. Hawaii is a state composed of the islands of Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe. I choose Hawaii due to its portrayal in popular culture as a modern paradise, and wanted to see how the reality measured up to my perceptions. I will begin by discussing tourism as advertised. I will start with the history of tourism on the island, then how Hawaii is portrayed through marketing and…

It was a weekend the girls had been looking forward to for a long time. Phoebe, Betty and Reagan had organized a short camping trip at a state park not far outside of their town. As soon as the choir rehearsal ended on Friday afternoon, the girls hopped into Reagan’s car and began their vacation. All three of the girls were talented and passionate musicians, ranking highly in the top choir and band of their school, and would never dream of missing a rehearsal. After an exciting hour in the car,…

Once everyone was all ready and in the field uniform we started to jog to the commissary for dinner and of course we had the farthest camp from that. it was around a 3 mile jog there in boots. It felt like it took us forever and when we finally made it there we had to get our food. It was the army packets and were like chalk in a bag. We had 5 minutes to eat. This next thing was going to be the hardest things so far because right after…

Upon entering the wild, the only things Chris brought were “a ten-pound bag of rice...cheap leather hiking boots [that] were neither waterproof nor well insulated…[and a rifle that] was only .22 caliber,” (Krakauer, 5) which was way too small for the game he was about to hunt for. According to folks who live in Alaska, the essential supplies for going into…