"Wilderness" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 50 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    believed that people struggling together was by far better than one person struggling alone. Both Jesus Christ and Jim Casy go to the wilderness to get their thoughts and beliefs together. Casy’s main goal was to find the meaning of “holy”. Casy tells the Joad family‚ “An’ I went into the wilderness like Him‚ without no campin’ stuff.” (81) While in the wilderness‚ Jim Casy realizes that holy is when mankind is united as one. He believed that every person was just one piece of a universal soul and

    Premium

    • 847 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    emotionally)→ Search for answers in the unknown (Unknown is what can’t be explained—no God and reason and science can’t explain can’t explain everything; grew also out of the physical wilderness‚ unexplored territory of the West—including Louisiana territory. The geographical wilderness causes humans to reflect on the spiritual wilderness)→analysis of emotions and unconscious (although pre-Freud‚ there was a sense that there was a deeper consciousness→ Civil War Romanticism→ mysticism back in→ God is in nature

    Premium

    • 391 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    and found in the wilderness. This observation supports the idea that those of color are constantly viewed as inferiors and poor. This stereotype can easily be seen in both images. The first picture is a magazine article cover from the National Geographic Magazine‚ in which its subheading in “Australia’s Cape York Peninsula.” This area is a very remote area found in Queensland‚ Australia. It is the largest untouched wilderness in Australia and is also one the last remaining wilderness areas left on Earth

    Premium English-language films Art William Golding

    • 689 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Into The Wild Response

    • 640 Words
    • 3 Pages

    a successful outcome is assured isn’t a challenge at all.” Chris also believed in same thing‚ he didn’t want to do things that he knew he is going to successful in. He wanted to challenge himself by going to Alaska and living there alone in the wilderness. Chris loved nature‚ so he left his family‚ to find some peace. Krakauer wrote in his book Into the Wild that‚ “you are wrong if you think joy comes from emanates only or principally from human relationships. God had placed it all around us. It

    Premium

    • 640 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    He entered into the wilderness with low equipped materials with just 10 pounds of rice‚ hiking boots and a small rifle. He endures physical extremes in the wilderness which contributes to his realization and enlightenment. Throughout his adventures in the wild‚ however‚ Chris becomes a fanatic and physically deprives himself. “Two years he walks the earth. No phone‚ no pool‚ no pets‚ no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist”(Krakauer 163). He adventures in the wilderness of Alaska and isolates

    Premium Family English-language films Mother

    • 582 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Author’s Perspective Christopher Johnson McCandless was an American hiker who adopted the alias Alexander Supertramp and ventured into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992 with little food and equipment‚ hoping to live simply for a time in solitude. Little did his family and friends know‚ but when Chris stepped into the Alaskan wilderness‚ he would never come out alive. Jon Krakauer documents Chris’s journey and the people he met on the way to his final destination. He struggled throughout

    Free Into the Wild Jon Krakauer

    • 1055 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    made high efficiency collaboration with Nature Conservancy-a famous environmental protection organization. They have worked closely with each other for decades to create the Disney Wilderness Preserve (DWP) in central Florida (“Working with Companies”‚ n.d.). Their collaboration was a success (“Florida‚ the Disney Wilderness Preserve”‚ n.d.)‚ bringing positive outcomes for both business corporation and environmental protection. The research question of our group is: How Disney achieve a highly efficient

    Premium Walt Disney The Walt Disney Company Burbank, California

    • 1015 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    London and Henry David Thoreau. He is a transcendentalist because he spread his ideas to accept the new realm of experience‚ he had always been someone who can keep himself occupied without material objects or people‚ and he traveled to the empty wilderness of Alaska by himself to discover

    Premium Henry David Thoreau Transcendentalism Concord

    • 1138 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Her dad‚ an entomologist‚ allowed young Margaret Atwood to explore the nearby Canadian wilderness(“Margaret Atwood a Biography”). Since this‚ she has wrote about the wilderness in contrast to civilization in many of her publications. In Cat ’s Eye‚ Atwood makes the female main character ’s dad an entomologist‚ living in Canada just like Atwood ’s father in real life (“Cat ’s”). Her

    Premium Literature Fiction Margaret Atwood

    • 1721 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Aldo Leopold

    • 1075 Words
    • 5 Pages

    have caused him to convince many have the immense value and beauty of nature‚ and the importance of the preservation of wilderness. One of Leopold’s most important contributions to the conservation movement was the development of the concept of the “land ethic” which must first be defined in order to understand Leopold’s basic argument in favor of protecting the wilderness and nature. One of the first premises of this concept is the presumption that humans are co-members of the global community

    Free Morality Human Aldo Leopold

    • 1075 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Next