Christopher’s Life Lessons Christopher McCandless could be described as insane and very dumb for leaving his home and family to never return on a journey to Alaska. On McCandless journey, he learned many important life lessons that he wouldn’t regret. Christopher does not see wealth in material items. When he leaves his family and home, Christopher donates his entire saving of $24,000 to charity, abandoned his Datsun in Nevada after it is damaged from the flood, and burns his own money. Christopher
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Winter has been mild so far this year, but pretty soon the cold will arrive. Before the cold really arrives, you need to winterize your garage door and get it ready. Here are four steps you need to take to get your garage ready for winter. Replace Weatherstripping Your garage door has a weatherstrip that goes around the outside edge. It creates a seal with your garage door and your garage. Weatherstrips do not last forever; eventually them crack and become brittle. When this happens, air is able
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This article talks about Jon Krakauer's new book Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. It goes into detail of how he wanted to write this book and how it came to mind. Someone close to him was raped and she had her life going in the right track. She had a great job and her life was going great but then see was raped. Shortly after that she got raped again but by a family friend, so Jon was interested and wanted to know about more cases. He was lead to a Missoula and then found
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For my argument book, I chose The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, and much unlike many of the other blog posts so far, I enjoyed it. The book is sort of like a diary that Ronson writes in as he learns more about psychopaths and how they are studied. He gets his information from multiple different sources; some chapters are about the extremely anti-psychology scientologists, and some are about psychologists who have spent their whole life studying psychopaths and how to identify them. Ronson writes
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I first read "Into Thin Air" right after it was first published five years ago. It haunted me at the time, and it continues to do so today. By now, the story has been told so many times and by so many different people that it hard to remember that Krakauer's original account is the one that made it famous to begin with. Were it not for his incredible abilities as a storyteller, it is doubtful that anyone outside the world of mountaineering would remember what happened at the peak of Everest in that
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Through reflecting on my literacy history, I recall reading and listening to unconventional fairy tale texts that contained frenetic pictures such as Jon Scieszka’s The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other fairly Stupid Tales. I loved reading such texts because they would always make me laugh. Like many other children, I also gained a love for Dr. Seuss books such as The Cat in the Hat. I was quite fascinated by the variety of adjectives used in the text as well as how the vivid and dynamic illustrations
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There are more than one destination that can either be how you wanted it or be totally unexpected. You never know the outcome of a journey. Just like with Malcolm X’s “My First Conk,” Jeannette Walls’s “The Glass Castle,” and Jon Krakauer’s “Into The Wild.” All outcomes of a journey with a successful destination. The journey itself is more important than the destination because only the lessons you learn come from the journey such as curiosity, identity, and courage. Curiosity is one of the many
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In Grand Opening by Jon Hassler, Catherine is a willing, welcoming, and friendly women who does what she believes is good. Catherine tends to be generous to others but will not be used. Catherine does what she believes is the right thing to do and also righteous, but the outcomes are good and bad. First of all, Catherine is a woman willing to do things everyday people are not interested in or even think twice about doing, like having Wallace work for them (though this will bite back later in the
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In Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776, Jon Butler argues that aremarkable, yet overlooked, transformation took place in the American coloniesbetween 1680 and 1760. This transformation manifested itself in almost everyaspect of colonial life, and changed the socioeconomic makeup of America forever.This gradual revolution included an ethnic and racial diversity, an increasinglymodernized economy, a growing display of power that would form the foundation of the political system and reveal
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debate regarding the extraction of bee pollen for medical purposes. However, changes in Federal Drug Administration (FDA) regulations now threaten the experimental use of bee pollen. In his documentary entitled: Won’t You Please Help Us with the Bees? Jon Stewart argues for the continued extraction and production of bee pollen for medical purposes. Stewart uses many rhetorical strategies in his argumentative film. Stewart details the debate as this: local farmers and beekeepers have, historically,
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