A Tragic Story

Chris Mcandless was not brave, nor noble. He was yet another inconsiderate man who thought he could take the world by himself. In the end the only thing that could convince him he wasn’t all that was unfortunately death. People need to realize that nature is a symbol of romanticism but at a brutal cost. His death was jus another statistic; accidental death is the third highest cause of death in Alaska. In 2008 332 accidental deaths were reported. Chris was not a noble or admirable person. The pain he cost worth more that the adventure he decided to take, because of his miss judgment of himself he became another statistic and for that his family, friends and the people hew grew close to had to suffer.
John Krakauer mention that Chris came from a “well-to-do family” this means that Chris was expected to have a good life. But on day he decided to just give 25,000 dollars to charity and drop from the radar. What is very interesting to me is why would he do this if he was expected to have a good life. Thousands of people would be willing to do anything to just be able to live in a home that he was expected to live in. According to Census, in 2008 5.8% of all families in the U.S. were living in poverty, and then you would ask why Mcadless would give up his life to just end up in another statistic.
In his travel Mcandless meat lots of people, most of these people grew fond of Mcandless, only to be struck by his accidental death in the Alaska wilderness. Some of these people were pointless to him until he met them. He made attachments that cause for people to have feeling towards him.
Mcandless journey wasn’t noble or heroic. It was foolish acts that unfortunately cause him he’s life. This should be a wakeup call for many people, Mcandless was expected to do well in is live, but he threw everything away to just go on an adventure and then causing him to just become another statistic.

The Great Gatsby!

I think that the last line of The Great Gatsby is describing how we move towards the past without us noticing. The ocean is always violent in the night, but come dawn it turns silent. Ceaselessly we move forwards in our minds. But what we don’t realize is that our actions speak louder than words, such as Gatsby where he was fixed in the past. He kept thinking that it was summer and that the party wasn’t over. He wanted to stay in the past so that he could keep working on getting back the love of his life.

In the beginning of the book Nick wants to move forward. He comes in and wants to get away from the past, but he is so focused on his goal that he continues sub-consciencly to remain in the past. The boat symbolizes each of the characters and there journey that they want to do. The wave is the problems and there materialist mind. The way that the waves go up and down is the same thing that goes on with each of the characters. There sense of being on top or wanting to go above others. Trying to compete against each other, the game at some points going really high up with parties, and lower when they are in small groups.

Adopt A Beach

For this Article they are informing the public about the adopt a beach program which is run by I love a Clean San Diego organization. The program is all about adopting a beach and then going to help clean it up couple times a year. The one thing that this article is missing is the requirement that are needed for adopting a beach, and what is the time limit. this applies to the MSB work because its all about getting started in beach clean-ups and helping the public to get informed about what happens on the beach.

Article by Sign On San Diego:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/jun/26/1c27greenm133015-smartliving-love-our-beaches/

Gatsby 1-4

i think that gatsby and nick are detached from there environment around them because they like to keep there emotions and opinions to themselves. one more than the other because of how gatsby is more mysterious than nick. he likes to have people wonder about what is happening in his house and his affairs. while nick likes to just sit back and enjoy the show from the side lines because he critiques what other people say and do.

MSB Organizations

The San Diego River Park Foundation

The Vision of a River Park

The guiding vision for the River Park is presented in the San Diego River Park Conceptual Plan which was developed through a series of community meetings by The San Diego River Park Foundation. The plan was completed during the summer of 2002

This organization is connected to the state government because of how it connects with community engagement.

The great gatsby

I think that the narrator is a women. it seems that she is somehow falling for Gatsby, or as if they knew each other from long ago.

I would imagine that the author is trying to make the narrator a part of the story and also try to make it as in they are a big part of the story.

Seeking the Pro's

Save our Beach
A nonprofit organization trying to improve
the water quality in the California coast

http://saveourbeach.org/

1. The most successful element is that they have done a semi- professional website to try and inform there public about the goals. also how the are a non-profit organization yet they still do many things that could in the long run cost lots of money.

2. I think that there goal is much like CoastKeeper and other organizations like it, to try and improve the quality of the water along the California coastline.

3. I think that the biggest thing that they intend is to inform the public on the beach clean-up that they have, and also on how we can make a difference in the coastal environment, where many people don't care about

4. One of the big things that i saw is how they counted how many of specific things they have collected in there beach clean-up's and also they list how long it takes for different things t decompose.

5. The reason that this organizations makes such an impact is because of how they try to shock you with the amount of garbage that we throw away, the don't shock you literally, but in a figurative way. They use the numbers that they have come up with and try to put it in our heads and make it stay in our conscience.

6. I chose this example because of how after ten years they are still managing to make an impact on the minds of many people in America.