The Wild, And Its Effects

In schools and counties all over, the book The Call of the Wild is being banned from 8th grade curriculum. For reasons such as that the book is based on true events, that the book describes actions of animal abuse that still occur today, and that banning books causes illiteracy and it caused by illiteracy, I do not believe that The Call of the Wild should be taken out of 8th grade curriculum.

Jon Krakauer wrote an extraordinary book entitled Into the Wild, which was adapted for film by Sean Penn. The book and film features the journey of Christopher McCandless, the son of wealthy parents who graduates from Emory University as a top student and athlete. However, instead of embarking on a prestigious and profitable career, he chooses to give his savings to charity, rid himself of his belongings, and set out on a journey into the Alaskan wilderness where he meets his untimely death. Some people would say that Christopher McCandless' decision to go on his way to Alaska was plain stupidity and would consider it as an act of idiocy. I think that Chris McCandless was bright and ignorant at the same time. He had no common sense, and he had no business going into Alaska with his romantic silliness. He made a lot of mistakes based on arrogance. I don't admire him at all for his courage nor his noble ideas. Really, I think he was just plain crazy.Krakauer, J. 1997). Although, others would say that it was a decision based purely on curiosity and self worth, as his journey would also be considered as wise. Chris McCandless’ journey was necessary.

In Jon Krakuer's novel Into the Wild, the main character, Chris McCandless, seeks nature so that he can find a sense of belonging and the true meaning of who he is. However, it is the essence of nature that eventually takes his life away from him. At the end of his life, he is discovers his purpose and need of other people. After Chris McCandless death in Alaska, Krakuer wrote Into the Wild to reflect on the journey that McCandless makes. Krakuer protrays McCandless as a young man who is reckless, selfish, and arrogant, but at the same time, intelligent, determined, independent, and charismatic. Along with the irony that occurs in nature, these characteristics are the several factors that contribute to McCandless death.

Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer is a piece of literature that explains the strange, yet popular, death of a young man named Chris McCandless. Throughout the book, Krakauer uses quotes to express how Chris’s personality touched each person he met as he traveled the country, making his way to the state of Alaska. Krakauer does amazing job by going in depth and really researching the death of Chris, his friends and acquaintances reactions, and similar stories that follow the same pattern as the one of Chris. But Krakauer wrote this book for a reason. The nonfiction novel was written because after writing an article on McCandless, the author found himself haunted by his death, but also related to the type of person Chris was, and wanted to learn more about the boy who died in the wilderness. He wanted to find answers. Krakauer’s purpose was to inform us of the bizarre death of Chris McCandless, and to shine light onto his journey across and to discover why he did so, because of how much his death haunted him.

Into the Wild is an adventure to be remembered, and shows how the wild shaped and influenced Chris’s life. Jon Krakauer writes the story on the adventure of Chris, and he shows how happiness is felt when shared together. The author Jon Krakauer is also the narrator in the book, and he investigates the people who knew Chris.

For this experiment, my hypothesis was that the population was not going to remain in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium over the course of three generations. This is because in Rendel’s literature, he states that disturbances of mating can appear due to gene changes which can give rise to drastic fitness reductions of the animals that have been

THe book starts when billy sees down the street a wild dog fight and sees that other dogs re ganging up on a red bone hound. After billy saves the do he takes the dog home to take care of the dogs injures and then he has a flashback whenhe had 2 red bone hounds. He remembers how the dogs affected him for the best when he won the dog show and also won the hunting contest. He also has the memori of when his dog died and could not understand why his dog died. "If he gave them to me, then why did he take them away?' I asked. 'Billy, your mother and i had decided not to seperate you from your dogs. we knew how much you loved them. We decided that when we moved to town we'd leave you here with your grandpa for a while. He needs help anyways. BUt

Selective breeding also could cause a decrease in biodiversity due to inbreeding. Inbreeding is the production of breeding between closely related individuals [2] and is used as it increases the chance of having favourable alleles and desirable phenotypes in the offspring. However, due to the individuals close genetic relations to one another this can cause many problems for the biodiversity of the population of dairy cows. Traits that may be disadvantageous now will be continuously chosen against during genomic selection and embryo transfer as the DNA is being scanned and checked for undesirable traits. However, this disadvantageous trait may become an advantageous trait in the future but it will be lost through the generations of selective breeding against it and are difficult to get back. As a result, this affects the evolution of the species as a whole because they develop and change to suit the desirable traits chosen which results in the undesirable traits being lost altogether.

A 4 year old half saint bernard half scottish shepherd dog named Buck is living a lavish life under the care of Judge Miller and his servants in Santa Clara Valley, CA. The favorite of Judge Miller, Buck is a token to be cared for. Unfortunately though, around this time gold was found in the vast north, which require large dogs like Buck to haul sleds around in the cold snowy weather.

Chris McCandless wanted to go into the wilderness and experience a new environment. He left everything behind; his family, his possessions, and his home. All the possessions he has are the items on his person. Leaving all this to adventure out into the Alaskan wilderness. His ill-equipped person, and little knowledge over the land, he wants to try to spend a few months out in the middle of nowhere, with no-one around. P6

By separating slaves from the land, white culture protected its rights to ownership and citizenship. However, the connection was fragmented, not damaged. Even if Sweet Home detained natural beauty, the slaves living there were quite familiar with the ‘wildness’ of nature. As a child, Sethe remembers her mother how “she’d had the bit so many times she smiled” (Beloved 203). Similarly is a human attributed and the opposite of it signifies inhumanity of whites and non-humanness of blacks. Her mouth becomes everlastingly imperfect from ‘the bit’, marking an animal intended for work. Dixon remarks on how “slaves knew that as chattel they were considered part of the property and wilds of nature, which a smoothly functioning plantation could restrain” (17).

Transcendentalism is a slightly complex word that describes a rather simple idea. It began all the way back in the beginning of the nineteen hundreds with Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalists navigate their writings through five main ideas: the goodness of human and respect for other beauty, respect and beauty of nature, the importance in self-expression, non-conformity, and reducing the dependence on property. These ideas are not only distributed throughout pieces of writing, but also set guidelines in which many people live their lives by. Into the Wild is written about a man, Chris McCandless, living his life based on transcendentalism. McCandless left his family behind, went into the wilderness, lived off the land for about two years, and, consequently, fell in love with the beauty that surrounded him. He was a very independent man who lived by his own rules and no one else’s. This is only one of numerous writings that follow a key of transcendentalism. Others include: “Self-Reliance,” “Civil Disobedience,” and “Walden.” Each story relates to one another in their own way.

Into the Wild presents many interesting and complex characters for discussion and of these characters there are none more complex than Chris. Chris presents fascinating viewpoints for how he believes the world to be. Chris views society and culture form a more cynical standpoint. He disapproves of culture and seeks to understand the meaning behind it. Eventually, he finally understands but, it's simply too late.

There is another side to the biodiversity of the evolutionary field, as the population weakens the species start the inbreeding of smaller populations, thus playing a role in the extinction of a species. Inbreeding is reproduction among members of a species that are genetically similar. The genetic inbreeding is designed to bolster populations of species whose numbers are in decline. However, when only a few species or varieties of a species are cultivated or survive, the genetic diversity of the organism declines, and population is more vulnerable to being wiped out by new diseases or climate changes because of the inbreeding (Alters, 2000).

The journey, the experiences; memories, lessons, the steps to get to the destination from the beginning, has seldom been talked about through the transformation of wilderness. However, the destination is well recognized throughout written history. During the Colonialization of America, there was a belief of wilderness being the land of the devil (Nash, 2012). Which continued to evolve into a legal stance known as The Wilderness Act of 1964, in which it describes wilderness as “area of undeveloped Federal land retaining its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions and which (1) generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, with the imprint of man's work substantially unnoticeable; (2) has outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation; (3) has at least five thousand acres of land or is of sufficient size as to make practicable its preservation and use in an unimpaired condition; and (4) may also contain ecological, geological, or other features of scientific, educational, scenic, or