Chris Guillebeau's Analysis

In the book Projekt 1065, Michael O’Shaunessey is thirteenth year old, Irish boy. He is apart of the Hitler Youth, but he doesn’t like Hitler rule. He feels sympathetic for the Jewish people and wants to help the Allies take away Hitler rule by spying. Michael is talking about the uniform he has to wear he states, ‘I feel like a traitor wearing it.”(page 26, paragraph 3) He only stays apart of it because he hopes to get information about Hitler to give to his parents. Michael likes to be a lone wolf so one ask him questions. He has a really good memory which helps him learn German easily and keep secret information he find well. For example a woman says to him, “Your German is good. If I didn’t know your father was the Irish ambassador, I

In the book Into the Wild the main character, Chris Mccandless, made a rational decision to exclude himself from human society because he believed that going beyond what his parents and society wanted he would live a happier life. Chris wanted to leave society and venture into the wilderness to find the true meaning of who he was. Chris Mccandless was neither crazy or ignorant to live off in the wild where there was no people or anything to interact with but nature. Chris wanted to find his inner self and not only was he a role model for kids all across the country but he also followed his dream. Even though it was selfish of him to leave his family, Chris Mccandless is not crazy because he followed his dream, lived his life the way he wanted to, and went into the wild to find who he truly was.

In the article “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, Mike Rose’s main focus was to convey that there are forms of intelligence than just being intellectual. Rose, suggest that a broader perspective of education allow us to expand our understanding of what intelligence is. Rose explains what our culture views as intelligence: “Our cultural iconography promotes the muscled arm; sleeve rolled tight against biceps, but no brightness behind the eye, no image that links hand and brain” (Rose). In making this comment, Rose urges us to take a step back and to look society’s perception of blue-collar work as not as demanding or requiring as much brain powering as white-collar work. Often people do not realize that a person who has a blue-collar job is just as

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have

In the war, it often thought that soldiers, go to a country to keep peace in that part of the world. Unfortunately that is not always the case;during these tours ,soldiers die everyday from cultural violence,and misguided information by their superiors and in this story that has occurred. Jimmy Cross

In the novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless takes a wild journey. Although some believe that his journey and thought process was noble and courageous, he was actually extremely fatuous throughout his journey. Many people that Chris met along the way made remarkable attempts at making him aware of the dangers that he would surely face in Alaska. Chris McCandless knowingly stepped into the treacherous wild without being prepared for what reality would throw his way.

Wardle says that any new worker, who is becoming member of a discourse community, encounters issues with authority and identity concerning learning to write for the workplace. In order for the new worker to learn new written practices, they may be asked to “give up some measure of authority to which they believe they are entitled” (Wardle 4) Wardle means that whatever the workplace recognizes as effective or appropriate, although it may not be, has to be recognized by the new worker as such. Hence, the new worker is being asked to give up values of efficiency and ethics for the sake of fitting into their workplace. Wardle defines authority as “an intangible quality granted to persons through institutions, which renders their pronouncements

In Alan T. Nolan’s work, Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History, Nolan reexamines historical sources, including Lee’s official and personal correspondence and many other writings on Lee. Nolan states, without going too far into his own background, that he is “suspicious of saints,” and this suspicion is what led Nolan’s desire to review long held beliefs about Lee. Nolan examines Lee’s views on slavery and points out that Lee believed that slavery benefited the “African,” associating the black race with degradation and believed that the races were best separated. Nolan argues that as a general, Lee, though brutally effective on the battlefield, lacked an understanding of national strategy. Nolan would have readers believe

Have you ever wondered what our future will be like when we are old and grey, when we have grandchildren of our own? In Chip Ward’s letter to his grandchildren “We screwed up” (2012), he writes about how wasteful, greedy, and self-centered he and his generation is when they were younger. Ward’s generation did not stop to think once about how incompetent they were about using non-renewable resources such as coal, oil, gasoline, etc. They also forgot to keep in mind how being piggish with these materials would pollute the air we breathe and the water we drink today. Chip Wards generation was the most avaricious, wasteful and egotistical generations of all.

Bastard out of Carolina was a very good book with many controversial topics to be talked about. Ruth Anne “Bone” Boatwright was born straight out of wedlock to a fifteen your old Anney. Anney’s daughter, Bone gets sexually abused and beaten savagely by her step father Glen Waddell, the least

The Gentle Giant Unstoppable by Tim Green who was a co-valedictorian at Syracuse University, and he was also a star defensive end in the NFL. He played for the Atlanta Falcons. Now he is a lawyer and a bestselling author.

My principal,Aaron Waldrip told me that he spends a lot of time devoted to human resources. He discussed with me that his approach to conflict is to fix the situation. In his opinion he rarely chooses to fight or flight to resolve a problem. I pressed him for a reason he he might choose to use the technique of flight when dealing with the conflict. He instructed me that he would consider flight is it is not his responsibility as an administrator to correct the problem or if the teacher or staff might gain experience or grow from the experience if he walked away from the situation. To begin with, Mr. Waltrip discussed the situation in which two teachers were not getting along. He tried to get the teachers to resolve the problem but it did not

Nicolas Carr believed that an individual's personal choice toward technology had little to do with the technological advancement. According to Carr, the views conveyed by Lewis Mumford about the technological progress was completely wrong because he gave credit to solely technology as advances in science and engineering rather than highlight

BILL FRENCH CASE Question 1: What are the assumptions implicit in Bill French’s determination of his company’s break-even point?

Chris Mccandless was a man that many would call crazy or maybe even immoral. He left everything to live in the wild and become “one with nature”. He had determination, a strong mindset, fearlessness and courage. I believe that my life and the life of Chris Mccandless are not similar in any aspect. In fact I wish that my life was more like his and that I had the drive and determination to do what he did.