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I think my strongest piece is my personal analysis with my research paper in close second...because the personal analysis is really an inspirational piece. My whole life i have kept a journal so being able to write as if i were writing in my journal was really fun for me. I also feel i found the perfect person to write the essay on and i think it really helped that i was able to talk to her and ask her my own questions about her struggle and be able to compare them to my own struggles. Because i was able to get on such a deep emotional level i think it really captures the reader and keeps them hooked throughout the whole essay. I do need to work on making it be able to reach to everyone even if they or someone they know has not experienced issues with their weight. If i can accomplish that i feel that piece of writting will truely be effective.

The essay i have had the most trouble with is the mccandless response essay. Although i know my position on what i think of him..it has been hard for me to put it in essay for and really prove why i think he is a hero...I wish i had like three very specific strong points that i could establish to make my point. It would make the essay a lot easier to write but because i just have a vision of why i think he is the way he is i dunno i feel its not as strong as it could be...i know a lot of people are doing this essay and all that i have read of them i feel each one doesnt have very specific points...im at a loss but trying to make it work hahaha

if he could have would have...

I think if Chris were to survive he would have gone about his life much of like he did before. The main thing that changed for chris while he was in the wild was that he realized that happiness needed to be shared with others. So i believe that the people who were closest to him he would spend a lot of time with and really cherish each of the relationships. I think he would still get angry about society i and how its so materialistic and it would bother him quite a bit, but i dont think it would make him want to go back into the wild. He had a very scary encounter and if he was able to come out of it i believe he would appreciate a lot more about america and the specific aspects that he hated so much before his experience. I think Chris would have done charity work too hahah or something to inform people about his experience. hopefully even teach people about the wild! haha. The possiblities are endless when it comes to chris. I think he would want to go on more adventures and learn even more than he already has. I dont think he would make any serious love relationships though..it just wasnt his style. He is the type of person that cant stay in one place so he would prolly travel all around and keep making the ranomd relationships with people like he did before he went to alaska. No matter what even if he did settle down somewhere i think he would live with the bare minimal aka no extra stuff just the things needed for survival. If living on the edge and with barely nothing like what he did previously was what he was so into and looking for i dont htink he would stop that because i think he believed that materialsm is not the way to live so deeply that no matter what happened that would not change him at all!