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I just finished reading "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer and I'm supposed to have a topic and a basic body of a rough draft by done by tuesday...the problem is, I'm not good at coming up with a good topic. So if anyone here has read it, please help me out. The paper can be about ANYTHING in the book, or something I can relate the book to...the only thing I think my prof. is looking for right now is a thesis with an "edge". Thanks in advance to anyone who replies.
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You are kidding, aren't you?
YOU read the book, but want someone to write you a synopsis, a report?
How much are you willing to pay for some one to sit in for your classes and take your tests for you?
Mom AND dad should give you a swift kick then butt their own heads against the wall for wasting all that money.
You should go to McDs right now, and free up a seat for someone who needs an education.
Or just go into Dad's business now, without the waste of an education.
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oooh baby gmatov, I felt the heat from that flame a mile away
I think you are being a little hard though. He is not asking for a synopsis or anyone to write it for him, but ideas for a topic.
Like if the book was "Robinson Crusoe", he is looking for someone to say "How about relating the governmental structure of Britain in that time period to the character interactions on the island" (That was a topic I did in college BTW
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Geez...calm down. I read the book but found it very hard to relate to the character or his entire story so I'm stumpted on what to write about. All I need is a suggestion...not a paper. Sorry, I should've made that clear. If I wanted to copy a paper, I could've called up my sister and asked for her's since she wrote about the same thing a few years ago. Also, I'm proud to say that I dont pay people to go to my classes and take my tests, I do that on my own(with good results I might add). But once in a while, everyone needs a little help on a problem.
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Remind me about that book please. I can't quite remember what that story was about.
Hope is the trap the world sets for you every night when you go to sleep and the only reason you have to get up in the morning is the hope that this day, things will get better... But they never do, do they? -
It's about a guy named Chris McCandles who goes out into the winderness to "live of the land" for a few months and ends up dying out there. Throughout the book Krakauer tries to explain why and also he gives his own similar life experience.
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OK, I though that was what it was. Let me think awhile....
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The whole story was about discovery of self. And possibly the escape from the maddness that is civilized life. 2 things I can empathize with right now.
Work those 2 things into a paper, and you might do well.
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I wonder if you can draw some comparisons between this work and Walden Pond. Also, if you want to interject a little bit of comtemporary Americana into it, you could attempt to tie in the craze about the Survivor reality series that was so popular a year ago.
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There are some comparisons between chris and walden. They both tried to make a simple life for themselves and so on and so forth. I was thinking of doing something along the lines of chris's life and the literature he read but then I realized that it would be difficult to go on for four to five pages about that. I think going to do "Is it possible to live a simple life in today's civilized society and 'live of the fatta the lan'(stienbeck)" or something like "Why do people seek a better life even if it means putting their life in jeopardy(I could incorporate disillusionment in today's society)". Which one sounds better?
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I think the thesis "Is it possible to live a simple life in today's civilised society" would make a good (and pretty easy) topic to write about.
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How about the paradox that in seeking the simpler life, McCandles actually made his life much more complex? People today actually think that the lives of our ancestors were much "simpler". Nothing could be farther from the truth - we have the simplest lives of anyone in history.
How many people today could actually live off the land? Not many. Do most people today actually understand what that means? Probably not.ICBM target coordinates:
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