Although it may seem like a lovely proposition to go and frolic in the wild to the average, aesthetic voyager looking for philosophical guidance, many do not do said frolicking. Chris McCandless was one of the few who chose this type of life: to live completely off the land and test himself in ways, "that mattered," and as Krakauer's friend Roman points out, "very few, if any, of the people who call McCandless incompetent have ever done it either.... Krakauer carries over his journalistic style from his article in Outside to the long form feature Into the Wild in the way he...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

Rauch fails to address nearly every trepidation environmentalists have with biotechnology which severely jeopardizes the strength of his call of action to implement the use of biotechnology. ... One possibility is that transgenic crops would spread from fields into forest or other wild lands and there become environmental nuisances, or worse. A further risk is that transgenic plants might cross-pollinate with neighboring wild plants, producing "superweeds" or other invasive or destructive varieties in the wild....

• Word Count: 1283
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Such is the disdain aimed towards him and The Brotherhood that a dedicated social event called The Two Minutes Hate is created by The Party where exaggerated images and twisted messages from Goldstein appear on telecreens, with the aim of purposefully riling viewers and generating hate (in fact, it is considered an actual crime if one does not fully express their anger during the broadcast). ... The Inner Party liken the Proles to herd animals, wild, uncivilized and ultimately of no threat to their power, whilst conversely they view the Outer Party as a nest of potential dissent and betrayal, ...

• Word Count: 1916
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Gloria Anzaldua, author of "How to Tame a Wild Tongue,"" would argue that imposing mandatory requirements to learn this new way of thinking called "academic discourse- are both oppressive and objectionable. ...

• Word Count: 1430
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• Grade Level: Graduate

Globalization is essentially a process by which an ever tightening network of ties that cut across national political boundaries connects communities in a single, interdependent whole, a shrinking world where local differences are steadily eroded and subsumed within a massive global social order (Mo...

• Word Count: 1995
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Both Eugene Delacroix's painting Women of Algiers in Their Apartment of 1834 and Charles Baudelaire's prose poem, "Beautiful Dorothea" can be understood in terms of Baudelaire's comment in the Salon of 1859 that "a fine painting should be produced like a world . . . each layer heightening the reality of the dream bringing it nearer to perfection." Each artist creates his work as both a dream and a reality by a layering of contrasts, most generally that of reality and dreamscape, but also interior and exterior, viewer and viewed, individual and environment, light and dark, con...

• Word Count: 2157
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate