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Background (Early Life and Family Connections Erastus Smith was born in Dutchess County, New York in 1789. He earned his nickname “Deaf” because of a childhood illness that caused him to have impaired hearing. When he was eleven or twelve his family moved to Mississippi. His first visit to Texas was very brief and took…

Section 1: Forms of Government Communism Government When we think about the word “Communism” lots of negative thoughts come to our minds without truly understanding what the term actually means and how this way of govern could be beneficial for the individuals living under these forms of government. To expand on this thought, communism allowed…

In Jon Krakauer’s Into The Wild, Chris McCandless independently takes on an adventure to Alaska. Before leaving, Chris donated the money in his bank account to a charity and got rid of anyndocumentation about himself. McCandless willingly walks into the wild in effort to disconnect from society and find peace within himself. On the journey…

Into The Wild: Text and Film Contrasts Both the Into the Wild book by Jon Krakauer and it’s film adaptation written and directed by Sean Penn are amazing works in their respective modes of media.  Both works are respectively captivating in their portrayal of Christopher McCandless, though there are interesting differences between the two. The…

There are many ways that humans add value to their lives, but most people aren’t truly achieving their own happiness. Many people believe that they will become happy if they just get a better job and make more money to buy more things because these materialistic items only fill our insecurities. The gift of life…

Tragic foolishness or heroic idealism? This is the dilemma in describing Chris McCandless and his journey. Chris was a city boy and scholar from Virginia who sat out to seek a new life for himself. His exact reasons still remain unknown, but what we do know is that he burned most of his possessions, abandoned…

Poverty, it does not segregate, it does not matter the color of skin, your gender, anything, poverty affects everyone. The government would like you to believe that the great recession healed after it happened in 2008, but it still is affecting us everyday. The continued effects and causes of those affect can be seen in…

Income inequality has been around since the 70s; to what may have caused it has many factors and contributions to it. While researchers believe these changes are closely related to the increase of more skilled educated workers, others believe new productions skill-biased technology has been the solid reason for income inequality in a workplace. Robert…

After the Second World War, a ravaged world began to reconstruct itself. The devastation left behind convinced all nations that in the future they should strive to avoid a conflict of such massive scale, and although during the Cold War there have been situations close to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war, the planet has…

The United States Presidential election of 1800 became one of the most radical elections of its time. This election candidates were Thomas Jefferson a Democratic-Republican, Aaron Burr a Democratic-Republican, John Adams a Federalist, C. C. Pinkney a Federalist, and John Jay who was a Federalist also. This was the first election where people ran for…