... : to live completely off the land and test himself in ways, "that mattered," and as Krakauer's friend Roman points out, "very few, if any, of the people who call McCandless incompetent have ever done it either." Through his journalistic approach in his long form feature piece, Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer is able to piece together the chilling story of Chris McCandless and give ... a better understanding of this self-made vagabond through extensive research and Krakauer's own personal connection ... ...

• Word Count: 800
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

... . Rauch fails to address nearly every trepidation environmentalists have with biotechnology which severely jeopardizes the strength of his call of action to implement the use of biotechnology. Rauch directly states the environmentalists' concern "that transgenic organisms might prove unpredictable. One possibility is that transgenic crops would spread from fields into forest or other wild lands and there become environmental nuisances, or worse. A further risk is that transgenic ... plants might cross-pollinate with neighboring wild plants, producing "superweeds" or other invasive or ......

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate