Portland Trail Blazers

ventured all throughout North America living off of the barest of essentials/resources. Unfortunately, he paid the ultimate price for his lack of preparation and naivety in the end. Chris was found dead in an abandoned Fairbanks City bus on the Stampede Trail in Alaska. Thus the novel was written to further describe the events leading up to Chris McCandless’ death. In order to successfully tell Chris McCandless’ story, Jon Krakauer utilizes rhetoric in the forms of ethos, logos, and pathos.…

The day started out exceptionally. It was around 4:30 AM and the sun was just piercing through the veil of the horizon. I jumped out of bed, dressed in a long sleeve and a pair of old faded jeans and proceeded to brush my teeth as well as a long hot shower. Afterwards, as a precaution, I had breakfast because I didn’t know where we going to eat on the way to Boston. Rushing to get there already I grabbed my sling bag with my pillow, snacks and money and made my way to school where adventure was…

In 1980, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh came to Oregon in hopes to spread love and enlightenment. However, on September 17, 1984 a report was filed to the Wasco County Health Department regarding a food poisoning at local restaurant in a town called The Dalles. Reports of food poisoning kept coming and within a week there were 750 cases of illness. The Centers for Disease Control, or also known as CDC, later determined that the poisoning was not linked to poor worker hygiene, but was a deliberate…

Wilderness; To McCandless and many other people, it has a very special and specific allure. While to most it is a lawless and dangerous place, McCandless sees the wilderness as a pure state where the evils of modern society don’t exist. This is a place where someone like him can live by his own rules and only be dependent on himself. And for McCandles this was what compelled him to live in and of the wilderness. Although McCandless journal entries depict that he does receive some answers for his…

In other word, Jackson’s message was favorable towards the Native Americans. He addressed and recognized the calamities and devastations brought on by early settlers and later the American people. Jackson believed that by moving the Native Americans out of the southeastern United States and onto the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) that he would be aiding the Natives in a manner that would assist in the rehabilitation of their culture and society, which has been under continuous attack…

During the Nineteenth Century, western expansion was erupting in America, and federal policy decided that certain tribes had to be confined to fixed land plots to continue their traditional lifestyles. American Indians were being forced off of their lands, and they were not adjusting well. Federal policy was trying to Americanize the “savage” indians so that they could be introduced into American society. American Indians were sent to live on small areas of land within a group’s territory that…

American History Assignment # 5 Indian Removal Act What was Jackson’s view on Native Americans? What was the impact of the Indian Removal Act? Jackson before and during his presidency despised the Native Americans. He felt they should not be independent and that they could present a security issue for the United States, since Europe during that time period was trying to develop a bond with the various tribes to “prevent expansion” in the United States. Jackson believed and supported the…

The Pender Vs Parker case was first brought to light when there was an opportunity for the Omaha Nation to legally tax the all liquor sales throughout the Omaha Tribal Reservation. In 2006, the Omaha Nation Tribal Council elected to tax and regulate liquor sales on the reservation to help stimulate economic development. The tribe’s liquor regulations require licenses for the businesses that sell alcohol and a 10 percent tax on alcohol purchases. A group of retailers sued in federal court in 2007…

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in the wild just you, nature and no one else around, well Christopher McCandless did he set off to live off into the Alaskan Wilderness following the Stampede trail that led him to an old abandoned bus where he lived for a short period of time but later died in that bus. Along his journey to the Alaskan Wilderness, he has made a few friends along the way. There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages to living on the road, so is life on the road…

The Native Americans are the original Americans. At one time many tribes lived as hunter gatherers and farmers made of different tribes spread though North America for numerous years. However, through the settlements of the New World by Europeans, unfair treatment from state and federal government, slavery, and suffering (diseases like smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever. All imported by the Europeans, to which they have no…