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As a child, I remember watching flocks of geese fly off in search of a warmer climate each fall.- anecdote
The typical bird can fly between twenty and fifty miles per hour.-fact
Migration allows birds to travel to where food is easily available. - example
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a "stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess".
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"Into The Wild", by Jon Krakueur, tells the story of a twenty year old man named Christopher McCandless. He had just graduated from college where he studied Law. Instead of pursuing and advancing his career in Law, McCandless chooses a path which is somewhat strange. He begins his journey taking the western route and later moving north to Alaska.
He undertakes this journey because he believed that the present world which he lived in and was trying to escape from was 'stifling and reeked of material excesses'. The kind of life he now chooses to live is best described as an Ascetic life only that in his case, he does not go the spiritual route. As he begins his journey, he takes along with him books about edible wild plants and thriving in a lifestyle such as he has chosen.
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C. Life in Boston's civilized culture
"A Wagner Matinee" takes place in Nebraska and Boston in the 1900s. During this time, Bostonians could attend concerts by European composers, i.e., Richard Wagner. Americans who moved west, i.e., Willa Cather's family and aunt Georgiana in the story, left worldly pleasures behind. Instead, the settlers endured long hours of strenuous labor, and natural disasters, i.e., floods, drought and prairie fires that were harsh, and physically demanding.
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