How can authors show the evolution of characters? Employing various settings for a character throughout literary pieces can change their attributes. Diverging environments can affect characters’ tones along with their ethics‚ motives‚ and worldview. By devising multiple situations in which characters reside‚ authors deliberately insinuate change. Setting‚ therefore‚ directly correlates with the advancement of characters and their personas. Exemplifying this relationship‚ Jon Krakauer frequently depicts
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H OW D I D T H E K L O N D I K E G O L D RU S H CHANGE CANADA The Klondike Gold Rush contributed a lot towards Canada’s economy. It brought over 22 million dollars into our economy which is over a billion dollars today. It also brought many people to Canada increasing its population‚ as it did to Dawson‚ Vancouver’s and Edmonton’s population. The gold rush also largely contributed towards Yukon’s confederation in June 13‚ 1898. The gold rush also helped us expand by bringing more people
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from university‚ he stopped talking with his family and donated his College money to charity then started traveling across the United States then later abandoned his car in a flash flood. In April 1992‚ he hitchhiked to the Stampede Trail in Alaska. He started down the trail with 10 pounds of rice‚ a camera‚ a map of the area‚ books‚ multiple identities‚ 300$‚ his diary‚ library cards‚ a .22 caliber rifle and lots of bullets. During the long hike he traveled through the forest and across a frozen
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to start his own private empire. Then gold was discovered. People came from all over the world to find the mother-lode of gold. Gold was a very valuable substance and back then even a little bit could satisfy you for life‚ therefore triggering a stampede of half a million people. There were two men who founded this gold. There names were John Sutter and James Wilson Marshall. At the time‚ James Wilson Marshall was working for John Sutter on making a water powered sawmill in Coloma‚ California when
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Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12‚ 1968 – August 1992) 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. Almost four months later‚ McCandless’s remains were found‚ weighing only 67 pounds (30 kg). It has recently been speculated that Chris had developed lathyrism‚ caused by his consumption of seeds from a flowering plant in the legume family
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drive proved that it could be done and it laid the groundwork for the expansion of the “cattle kingdom.” Abiline Kansas reigned as the railroad of the cattle kingdom due to many market facilities there. Millions of cattle were driven up the Chisholm Trail to Abiline between 1867 and 1871‚ but shortly after that‚ agricultural development in western Kansas was taking much of the open range land. Cattleman had to develop other roads and other markets outlets farther west‚ in Kansas‚ Nebraska‚ Wyoming and
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Chris McCandless from Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer experienced a new idea of life from venturing off into the Stampede Trail. Growing up‚ Chris’ personality drove him to make decisions through his childhood and his young adult years. He knew at a young age that he had different goals than what his parents had hoped. "You had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one around‚ neither family nor people whose judgment you respected. At such a time you felt the need of committing yourself to something
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was sent to the Company’s headquarters at Fort Victoria‚ and James Douglas‚ Chief Factor in charge of the Western Department of the Company‚ forwarded it to the San Francisco mint. It was the arrival of this small pocket of gold which started the stampede of miners‚ 30‚000 of them‚ to Forts Victoria and Langley in the spring of 1858. Fort Langley no longer bothered with the trading furs or curing salmon. It was much more profitable outfitting miners in food and clothing. For the first of half of 1858
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We decided to go there because I heard someone say that the temperature can be unbearable anywhere below sea level‚ While we were walking through the trail‚ I was surprised to see many different animals‚ such as a gray fox‚ a desert bighorn‚ a coyote‚ a bobcat‚ a mountain lion‚ a mule deer‚ and Ravens. we even saw a desert tortoise. I remembered reading that desert tortoises were low in number because
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case. Hubris and arrogance were the death of Christopher McCandless‚ for they made him underprepared and ungrateful of what he had. Christopher could still be alive had he taken more interest in learning more about the specific area around the Stampede Trail and taken more supplies with him‚ even if he did plan to use them‚ because after all‚ its better to be safe than sorry. Hubris leads to bad decisions no matter what your
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