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    “Ride Your F#%king Bike – The Movie. Powered by Chainsaw.” Directed by Ryan Marcus. Featuring Fox athletes Josh Bryceland, Josh Lewis, Kirt Voreis and other Fox teammates, the movie documents three weeks on the road with a wild crew up for anything. Filming kicked off at Fox Headquarters in Irvine, California and continued north through Oregon and Washington before crossing the Canadian border and reaching Vancouver Island. The movie is dedicated to Steve Smith, aka Chainsaw, a World Cup…

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    Two Wolves Themes

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    throughout the book. It is about Ray’s actions and the repercussions that occurred because of it, including how Ray is perceived as a ‘wrecker’. In the body paragraph two, the setting, regarded how Ben raised in the suburbs and being confronted with the wilderness and nature is one of Ben’s greatest fears. In addition, it stated his survival and confronting his fears. The final paragraph remarked, apropos of the knowledge regarding his Pop being a criminal, which led Ben to become more conscious…

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    My project is about the Ernest Shackleton expedition. My thesis is: In 1914, the Ernest Shackleton expedition set out to be the first to cross the Antarctic continent. Shackleton encountered many challenges. Although the expedition never reached their goal, they set an example for future generations that with perseverance and the human will to survive, anything is possible. The idea came from my interest in the outdoors. This story of survival caught my attention. This topic relates to the…

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    brave person who traveled into the wild with no money and not a lot of supplies. Some people think he was stupid but I think he is a brave person. Life chose that path for him and he enjoyed traveling the country and continent of North America. The wilderness eventually caught up with him though. People wonder how he could have survived or had better chances to survive. I think he could have survived with a person by his side the whole time. He touched a lot of people’s hearts and it’s a…

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    Kafka's The Hunger Artist

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    artist, mankind has a very limited, miniscule, or almost none existent attention. This is why so many of his forty hours performances were often stopped short. At the center of this narrative lies the theme of hunger. Hunger, in this story, is not the act of going hungry. Instead, Hunger represents the ultimate withering away of what is the human condition; to be something…

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    genevieve wakutz Q1: Social Construction of nature and Rethinking Wilderness “The task of making a home in nature is what Wendell Berry has called “the forever unfinished lifework of our species” (Cronon, 87). Centuries ago humans lived among nature, hunting and gathering to survive. Yet the advent of agriculture pulled humans away from nature and gradually we isolated ourselves from the wilderness, only to return on occasion. From the capitalist-consumer culture to our urban centers, we have…

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    complete his dream or the idea. Alex want find a path in the author that read that how they been in the wild to show how hard it was in the wilderness but they all story wrote by the author that he amire into the influence in the story they told he have a idea that he could let in wild to survive but in the end he die because he wasn’t prepared to go in the wilderness of Alaska is a danger wild with poison berries and the way he went to the bus was cut of because the water was…

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    Matt's Character Analysis

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    at home alone? Matt was left alone for seven weeks in the Maine wilderness at age 12. No friends. No family. No companionship whatsoever. Matt’s father showed wisdom in leaving him alone in the wilderness at age 12 for 3 reasons: the cabin needed to be protected, Matt demonstrated manly character, and Matt developed a friendly relationship with the Indians. The first reason Matt’s father should have left him alone in the wilderness at age 12 is the cabin needed to be protected. If Matt had…

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    Crossfire Trail Analysis

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    Crossfire Trail Author: Louis L’Amour Charles Rodney had been broken down, forced to work and was beaten constantly for the last year. This last beating killed him. One of his good friends Rafe Caradec was on the ship when he was dying. He had Rafe to promise him to keep his ranch on his land in Wyoming safe and take care of his wife, Ann Rodney. Rafe promised him. Rafe went and traveled to his ranch in Wyoming. He went into the town’s saloon near his land and made a toast to Charles…

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    Into the Wild rough draft Chris McCandless was born into a wealthy family, taking vacations every year along with being a little spoiled. Unfortunately, he didn’t have such a good relationship with his family, which led Chris to run away only being close to his sister. Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into the Wild, shows us that even the rich people that have everything that one can ask for, also go through alot. In Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer characterizes Christopher McCandless as self reliant and…

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