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I believe the United States should reform its political rules and practices to become more democratic by using proportional representation to determine who gets seats in the legislature, extending voting rights and implementing a parliamentary system. I don’t think the U.S is as democratic as it has always claimed to be. Our current voting laws…

I will preface my remarks with a caution about being too focused on inequality. I care much more about poverty. For example, income distribution is far less equal in my own country of the United States than in a country such as Cambodia. Yet the poor in America have much higher incomes than the average…

Introduced by James Truslow Adams in his 1931 book epic of America, the American Dream is the goal to achieve your best life through hard work and perseverance. Many books have taken this phrase and formed a theme; The Great Gatsby and Into the Wild are two books who express this theme. The American Dream,…

Levitsky & Ziblatt begin by accounting for the rise of other authoritarian leaders in the past such as Hitler, Mussolini, and Hugo Chavez and they explain that many people incorrectly believe that we can keep democracy safe by having the people hold democratic values but that in reality, political parties are democracy’s gatekeepers’. They must…

Hamlet and Chris McCandless prove themselves to be very similar in a variety of ways throughout the course of their respective journeys. Although these characters are clearly from different time periods and experience different challenges, they are still similar in many ways. The similarities that can be seen between these two characters can help us…

Into The Wild, traditionally a book written by Jon Krakauer, was produced into a movie based on a true story and directed by Sean Penn. Fresh out of college, pressured to move on to law school by his parents, protagonist Christopher McCandless, later re-names himself Alexander Supertramp and ventures out on his own with few…

According to the CDC, (Central Disease Control and Prevention) , about 93.3 million adults suffer from obesity in America as of 2016. That is nearly 30% of the entire population of America. I say “suffer” because obesity acts and is treated like an epidemic, affecting an enormous amount of people and for their entire lives….

The book I decided to read for my indy choice was Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer. I chose this book because watching the movie and hearing about his story was just not enough. I wanted to learn more about Chris Mccandless and his long journey from a young intelligent college graduate to an Alaskan…

With obesity in America rising more and more every day the question must be asked, who is to blame? Today children ages 2-19 have an 18.5% chance of becoming obese during their childhood and adolescence (CDC, 2020). That being said there must be something that could be done to help kids with weight gain, but…

Justice For Chris The movie “Into The Wild” does justice to the book and to Mr. Chris J. McCandless himself. The movie portrays McCandless as a self-reliant, knowledgeable, and wild runaway who wanted to see the world as it is in its purest form. McCandless knew he didn’t want to be a pampered and treated…