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and digital communication and resources make planning, executing and continuing a long term backpacking trip easier than ever before.
Backpacking, like other forms of travel, remains controversial. Goes with the general history of backpacking some of these criticisms date back to travelers’
actions along the Hippie
Trail . Criticism comes from many sides, including the
host countries and other travelers who disagree with the actions of backpackers although the perception of backpackers seems to have improved as backpacking
grows more mainstream.
2.5 About the Novel
Into the Wild 1996 by Jon Krakauer
is a bestselling non-fiction book about the adventures of
Christopher McCandless . It is an expansion of Krakauers 9,000-
word article, Death of an Innocent, which appeared in the January 1993 issued of
Outside . Krakauer intersperses McCandlesss story with a discussion of the
wilderness experiences of people such as John Muir
and John Menlove Edwards
, as well as some of his own adventures. Krakauer first went to Alaska in 1974 and
has returned there twenty times since. He spent three years carrying out the background research work for this biography
2.6 About the movie
Into the Wild is a 2007
film based on the
1996 non-fiction
book about the
adventures of Christopher McCandless
. It was directed by Sean Penn
, who also
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wrote the screenplay, and stars Emile Hirsch
, Jena Malone
, Marcia Gay Harden
, Vince Vaughn
, William Hurt
and Catherine Keener
.
2.7 Modern life
Modern life also called modernity, it is a different term from modern
times ,
it is derived from
Modernism , a movement in
art based on the consciousness that
through the mechanical age of industrialism
, humankind has evolved into something very new - what that would be, would have to be explored by art, and
all previous concepts questioned. Darwin
s Origin
of Species and
Lyell s Principles
of Geology revolutionized the perception of time and race, and that of mankind in particular. There have been numerous ways of understanding what modernity
is, particularly in the field of sociology
. A wide variety of terms are used to describe the society, social life, driving force, symptomatic mentality, or some
other defining aspects of modernity. They include: bureaucracy
, disenchantment
of the world
, rationalization
, secularization
, alienation
, commodification
, decontextualization
, individualism
, subjectivism
, linear
progression ,
objectivism ,
universalism ,
reductionism ,
chaos ,
mass society
, industrial
society ,
homogenization, unification, hybridization, diversification, democratization
, centralization,
hierarchical organization
, mechanization, totalitarianism
, and so on.Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
But as time goes by, modernity which are worshipped and expect to be the mere future answer are failed to fulfill desire and prosperity in aspects of life
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thoroughly. It brought a number of indisputable benefits to people. Lower infant
mortality rate
, decreased death from starvation
, eradication of some of the fatal diseases, more equal treatment of people with different backgrounds and incomes,
and so on. To some, this is an indication of the potential of modernity, perhaps yet to be fully realized. In general, rational, scientific approach to problems and the
pursuit of economic wealth seems still too many a reasonable way of understanding good social development.
2.8 Deconstruction
