...Jon Krakauer the author of Into The Wild tries to prove Chris McCandless wasn't crazy. The book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer focuses on Chris McCandless life and reveals that Chris possibly wasn't crazy. He supports his claims with all 3 modes of persuasion which are Pathos, Logos, and Ethos. Krakauer starts with stating that McCandless was a good person that cares about other people more than having a good time. It is said that “On weekends, when his high school pals were attending ‘keggers’ and trying to sneak into Georgetown bars, McCandless would wander the seedier quarters of Washington, chatting with prostitutes and homeless people, buying them meals, earnestly suggesting way they might improve their lives” (Krakauer 113). This says that instead of seeking self gain Chris was more worried about helping other people. Krakauer also implies that Chris wasn't a sociopath but instead just a outcast. Even with intimate...
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...Within Into The Wild (1996), Jon Krakauer portrays a tone that shifts from formal and indifferent to sorrowful and admiring. Krakauer exhibits this change by remaining unbiased and factual in the beginning, but then becomes more personally connected to the subject (Chris McCandless) in the end. He does this in order to give a neutral, journalistic account of Chris’s death, before burrowing deeper into his life and analyzing the personal choices made that led to his demise. Krakauer directs this text primarily towards other travelers and outdoorsman, speaking to them at first like a journalist, but then providing his own voice and opinions as he examines the story. Early on in the book, Krakauer expresses a formal view on Chris McCandless’...
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...require other people in their lives for support and companionship. In summary, happiness is not something that only has one definition. Happiness falls on a very wide scale and everybody achieves happiness in different ways. Human connection is very important in regards to happiness. People often struggle with finding happiness when living in solitude. When people don’t have other people to talk to for long periods of time, they often start to feel lonely or depressed. This is because humans depend on each other to survive in day-to-day life. People develop connections with each other throughout their lives, and these connections become essential to most people’s happiness. All of these ideas are necessary to think about when reading Into The Wild. Chris McCandless was a very interesting person with a lot of human characteristics that are discussed in the book. Chris enjoyed time alone, but didn’t hate people. He went out of his way to avoid people at times, mainly his family, but also didn’t mind being around people at the same time. Chris set goals in his mind that he would not stop achieving. What brought Chris happiness was nature, solitude, human connection, and literature. Chris cares about people. When he graduated college, he committed a selfless act in donating $24,000 to a charity organization to help others. Chris cared very much for his family, and he knew that they cared for him. Everyone comes from a mother and father, and this shows that humans depend on each other for...
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...The devices of plot and characterization in this narrative help to set up the conflict that the protagonist needs to use the restroom, but moreso the problems with segregation and racism hidden underneath, and the resolution, which shows the main character finally relieving that need in a grassy area not too far from a train station. The protagonist of the story would be a black woman named Helene, who needs to use the restroom, her motivation being her ever-increasing bladder. This excerpt centers around the lack of colored restrooms, which is also a clear candidate for the conflict, as the need for a restroom cannot be satisfied, given the time period, and Helene’s race. Helene’s character is revealed to us not only through the foil character, but also the narrator’s own words. The phrase “the thick velvet collar, the fair skin, the high-tone voice,” alone tells us that the main character is well dressed, is significantly lighter than most black people of the time period, and most likely speaks more eloquently than average. This explains why she is often portrayed in a clueless fashion throughout the text, as this information lets the reader infer that Helene is less oppressed, or has been less oppressed, than many more people dealing with segregation in America. The foil could be the other woman Helene describes around line 9 of the text. I believe that this woman is the foil because it shows how she already knows that there are no colored restrooms, highlighting the fact...
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...Society written by Jerry Hannan (performed by Eddie Vedder) The song society is a melancholic song representing Chris Mccandles (Alex Supertramp) journey through his rediscovered life. The song focuses on materialism shaping your identity. The songs theme is strengthen by the fact that the song only is performed by Eddie Vedders humming voice and the strumming guitar. The ebb and flow of Vedder’s voice, paired with the decrescendos and crescendos of the wave-like guitar, reflected the tug of the wild on Alex’s life. The strumming guitar is similar to the cadenced pounding of the ocean, with its tides and undertows; its wild, mysterious grandeur. Chris flees society to find a peaceful place were he's not judged by his belongings, but by his personality. I think he was frustrated by the problems of the world and the greed of humans, as Eddie Vedder murmurs in the opening lines of Society, with the beautiful play on words, “we have agreed, with which we have a greed.” All humans have an instinctive greed, the desire for more; this is universal. How we control and channel this greed shapes our principles. The song has an interesting form. Building up through the verses leading to the catchy chorus. The verses all has four lines, but the chorus starts with two lines leading to four lines ending up with eight lines in the last chorus. As you'll notice the chorus is the only place in the song where's backing vocal humming society. I think it's represent some of Chris's thought...
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...Oh Rapunzel, let down your hair! (you coming blondie?) Now it’s time to leave your tower to explore the world of body paragraphs! This is the most important part as it makes up the bulk of your essays. Call it a journey to the floating lights! Tip: For all body paragraphs of the three types of essays, you have to cite your sources/evidence. You can do that by putting quotation marks or citing the author or source’s name somewhere in the body paragraph. Body paragraphs for Rhetorical Analysis: Body paragraph 1 and 2 should include a topic sentence followed by a piece of evidence, in this case, a cited quote. After inserting the piece of evidence, you should explain what rhetorical strategy or technique the author uses in that specific example....
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...Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis Jane Mathison Fife The attraction of Facebook is a puzzle to many people over the age of thirtyfive, and that includes most college faculty. Yet students confess to spending significant amounts of time on Facebook, sometimes hours a day. If you teach in a computer classroom, you have probably observed students using Facebook when you walk in the room. Literacy practices that fall outside the realm of traditional academic writing, like Facebook, can easily be seen as a threat to print literacy by teachers, especially when they sneak into the classroom uninvited as students check their Facebook profiles instead of participating in class discussions and activities. This common reaction reflects James King and David O’Brien’s (2002: 42) characterization of the dichotomy teachers often perceive between school and nonschool literacy activities (although they are not referring to Facebook specifically): “From teachers’ perspectives, all of these presumably pleasurable experiences with multimedia detract from students’ engagement with their real work. Within the classroom economy technology work is time off task; it is classified as a sort of leisure recreational activity.” This dichotomy can be broken down, though; students’ enthusiasm for and immersion in these nonacademic literacies can be used to complement their learning of critical inquiry and traditional academic concepts like rhetorical analysis. Although they read these texts daily...
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...Reflections Of Love Table of Contents Prologue Storge (Affection in families)-Definition The Little Black Boy- William Blake Winter Trees- Sylvia Plath Mother to Son- Langston Hughes Philia (Friendship)- Definition Love and Friendship- Emily Bronte Time to Talk- Robert Frost Eros (Romance)- Definition Somewhere Never Traveled- E.E. Cummings Wind and Window- Robert Frost She Walks in Beauty- Lord George Byron Agape (Unconditional Love)- Definition How Do I Love Thee- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love is More Thicker than Forget- E.E. Cummings Biographies Epilogue Storge Affection Affection- is the love through familiarity, especially between family members or people who have otherwise found themselves together by chance. It is described as the most natural, emotional feeling because it is outcome of love due to family ties. Fatefully, it is the strong point what makes it the most defenseless. The affection is “built-in” and as a consequence people expect it. Prologue This poetry anthology is a collection of poems, which shows the people's view of love. As I am a hopeless romantic, I chose this topic. I think the journey that life takes us all on is one filled with many adventures. I believe to truly live life to the fullest would be to love. If a person can say that he or she has never truly been loved or loved someone then he or she has never really lived. The feeling of love is so euphoric. The...
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...Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Rhetorical analysis writing Pleasant point of view Immediately I arrived at the appointment spot I stood gazing at the view she would approach. Everything was live and encouraging including the caressing breeze from the palm trees near the small artificial beach. Behind the narrow tunnel, two pretty twin girls played their trumpets in such lulling rhythms that stole away the boredom of the park. They seemed to draw the attention of the music lovers as they easily shifted from tune to tune. The parrot picked the words and helped to amplify the popular classical compositions that everybody associated with in Indiana. Even the gardener in the flower bed extension realized the vivacity in the park, unlike her early morning hour. The rose, lily, and hibiscus flowers intermarried like formally wed couples that cited the parents for the good parenthood they had attained. She adjusted her helmet and radiantly gazed at the tunnel point a time when an oak tree danced shaking off its bright red, blue and orange canopy of leaves. The leaves fell from above like the rare rain in the semi-desert covering everything that the tree’s shade touched. It sent a spring of motion among the other hidden creatures including the white and black -spotted wild cats who whimpered and rolled over the blanket that had formed in their place. The horse neighed in a rather merry mood as the queue of children anxiously anticipated to take a ride that quantified the time spent...
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...Kelsey Franklin English 1106 Mr. Royal Rhetorical Analysis February 15, 2015 Zoo Cages How would you feel if you were locked in a cage, made of cement with nothing to do or no way to look out and see the world? If you were constantly being pointed at by people starring down your every move, through a 12 inch glass? Well zoo animals go through this everyday of their lives. The radiolab called, Inside Out Cage, by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich and the scientific article, Transfer and Acclimatization Effects on the Behavior of Two Species of African Great Ape (Pan troglodytes and Gorilla gorilla) Moved to a Novel and Naturalistic Zoo Environment, both discuss the scientific discovery and the effects on gorillas in different type of cages...
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...Text Analysis №2 “Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. Kate Chopin was born in 1851 and grew up in the household dominated by generations of women that greatly influenced her style of writing. Many of her works deal with women searching for freedom from male domination, and she is considered to be an early feminist writer. Chopin wrote over a hundred short stories, many of which were published in two collections: Bayou Folk and A Night in Acadia. Her two novels, At Fault and The Awakening deal with the controversial themes of divorce and adultery. The story under analysis is called Story of an Hour and belongs to a psychological type including social element because the author depicts the inner world of the main character, her thoughts about her future life which reflect relations between men and women at the end of the 19th century. The story is close to some extent to Galsworthy’s The Man of Property as it shows the relationship between husband and wife typical of the Victorian society. The text under consideration has the close plot structure because we observe all the four elements here. In the exposition the reader meets the main characters of the story and learns about the heart disease which one of them has. Then, the events develop in the following way: Mrs. Mallard is told “as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” by her sister Josephine and we see the usual reaction of a wife who lost her husband which is brightly illustrated with the help of the metaphor...
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...have to be careful and allow the animals to reproduce so extinction will not become an issue. Families should only be allowed to hunt a maximum of five animals a month. When a family exceeds this limit, they will be prohibited to hunt during the following month. Once the amount of certains animals go down, those animals will be restricted from being poached for several months so they can reproduce. Hunting, killing, and gutting out the animals is how world hunger will be eliminated. This new approach towards life will allow people to be healthy and lean instead of starving and depressed. We only care about ourselves, the wild life is our way of survival. So people of the world, begin or continue to hunt and poach all animals for our own benefit. http://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2017/02/22/kent-county-man-convicted-of-poaching-17-point-buck/ Rhetorical Analysis I state a past event on poaching and use satire to portray my approach to the world on ending world hunger. I first state the event that occurred, then my opinion and others, and lastly my approach on fixing the poaching issue. In the first two paragraphs i state the event and issue that has occurred recently. The issue being a woman “illegally hunting and poaching a buck.” I use satire by saying “Smith is a daredevil in my book.” When I really think that Smith made a bad decision. I also used satire when claiming someone's opinion on Smith's actions. A witness states that “she's one crazy woman that I’d love to go hunting...
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...Iliad and the Odyssey. The use of epithets was used as well in a much earlier Mesopotamian poem known as the Epic of Gilgamesh. In the Homeric Poems and the Poem of Gilgamesh the two stories share stock epithets and epic similes. The paper will first discuss epithets in the Homeric poems, then discuss the epithets in the Epic of Gilgamesh in comparison. Homeric Epithets Places The epithet, as previously mentioned, was essentially a byname. It saw its full use in the Homeric Epic which is why this paper chooses to discuss the Homeric poems first. While it was defiantly used to describe individuals such as Gods and certain characters, it was also used to describe certain places as well. Homeric scholar Bowra discussed this in her analysis: “Homeric...
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... Tolerance Relativism Propaganda Television Open-mindedness Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found from the “Open-Minded Inquiry” page found here:http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/open-minded-inquiry/579 Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 3. Question : When making inferences, it is important to: Student Answer: Infer things that extend beyond experience and evidence Rationalize inferences that contradict one another Identify assumptions that lead to the inferences All of the above None of the above Instructor Explanation: The answer can be found in “The Analysis and Assessment of Thinking” [Paul and Elder Website] http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/the-analysis-amp-assessment-of-thinking/497 Points Received: 1 of 1 Comments: Question 4. Question : According to DuBois the color line is Student Answer: The difference between how whites and blacks were treated in the South A line between the North and South A boundary between white and black communities in the South...
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...Critical Reading 1. Preview. Look “around” the text before you start reading. ... 2. Annotate. Annotating puts you actively and immediately in a "dialogue” with an author and the issues and ideas you encounter in a written text. ... 3. Outline, Summarize, and Analyze. ... 4. Look for repetitions and patterns. ... 5. Contextualize. ... 6. Compare and Contrast. When you write about literature . . . Some Tips for Academic Writers Sentence Style 1. Use simple sentences as rubrics (pointers). 2. Use compound sentences to suggest balance and to present pairs of ideas of equal value. 3. Use complex sentence to emphasize the most important ideas and to subordinate less important ideas. 4. Avoid "empty" sentence frames that say little or restate the obvious. 5. Use present tense when referencing details in a literary work except for passages written in the past tense. 6. Incorporate short, key quoted phrases into analytical sentences. 7. Avoid the use of such words and phrases as "you" and "the reader" that often lead to wordiness. 8. Avoid the phrase, "In conclusion," when opening the concluding paragraph. 9. Avoid gratuitous complements and superlatives. Paragraph Development 1. Use Pattern 1 paragraph frames for most paragraphs in the body of academic essays. 2. Begin body paragraphs with claims as topic sentences that repeat key concepts from the thesis sentence. 3. Always introduce the speaker, context, and/or significance of block quotations. 4. Always...
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