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Jamie Han
30 March 2016
ENG 112-39
Professor Intawiwat
Annotated Bibliography
Byers, Chelsey. "Life's Too Short to Put Off Your Bucket List." News Gazette Jan 20 2015.
ProQuest. Web. 17 Mar. 2016.
Chelsey Byers is the Family Life Educator for University of Illinois Extension, serving
Champaign, Ford, Iroquois and Vermilion Counties. She provides community-based training and
education on life issues affecting families, adults, and individuals as they age.
This is a secondary source: It capitalizes on a bucket list to understand the importance of making
the most of the one life that each of people has. It contains the list of the benefits of a bucket list
and several tips to remember as one creates and works on a bucket list. It also explains why
putting off a bucket list is not good and confirms the point of a bucket list.
This source relates to my topic because it focuses on benefits of a bucket list with explaining
about people who think that life will slow down some day and will do all the things they have
been putting off. It helps me to understand about the background and perspective on my subject.
REFELCTION:
This source focuses on three main issues. These are motivating oneself, getting self-confidence,
and do not rationalizing oneself. I am going to use this information in my essay such a way how
people stop waiting for the right time to come along to fulfill their dreams of bucket list. The
ideas outlined in this paper appear to be largely the authors personal opinion mixed with her
own research. The article provides a basic information of a bucket list such as benefits of a
bucket list and things to remember as creating and working on a bucket list. This text was very
helpful even though it did not help me to understand the topic any more than I already did. I
basically used it to support what I already had to say about the topic and what I was thinking.
Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. First ed. New York: Anchor, 1997. Print.
Jon Krakauer is an American writer about the outdoors and the author of best-selling non-fiction
books and magazine articles. He is also the editor of the Modern Library Exploration series. His
numerous bestsellers include Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Under the
Banner of Heaven, Into the Wild, and Into Thin Air.
This is a book source: Into the Wild is a non-fiction book based on the travels of Christopher
McCandless across North America to Alaska. In 1990, Christopher graduates from Emory
University in Atlanta, Georgia, and he decides to go on his journey to Alaska without telling his
family. McCandless travels with his old car at first, but he throws away his car and gets rid of his
identification card and a drivers license to escape from the society. Later, he goes on a trip to

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Alaska by only his foot and hitchhiking, and he refers his own as Alexander Supertramp to
people who meet through the journey. With those peoples help, McCandless arrives to Alaska
and finds a bus. He hunts animals to eat and stays to live inside that bus. One day, he finds a
plant, the Wild Potato, that is eatable, but it is a toxic plant. He does not know that plant has a
toxicity; therefore, he eats the plant, and then he gets sick and becomes weaker. Finally,
McCandless dies in the bus of Alaska because of a poisonous plant and starvation.
This book relates to my topic because it exactly focuses on my topic for this project. It gave me
Chris McCandlesss story with the details of how he did himself to accomplish his dream. It
helped me to visualize how Chris grew and discovered himself as Alexander Supertramp
through his journey.
REFLECTION:
This book focuses on three main issues. These are self-discovery, ultimate freedom, and the
relationship between family and other people. I am going to use this information in my essay as
the background information of Christopher McCandless. The author provides a useful list of
suggested information further reading at the end of each chapter. The ideas outlined in this paper
appear to be largely Christopher McCandlesss experiences mixed with the authors own
research and has a lot of supporting evidence presented what McCandless did for his Alaska
journey. The article provides a basic overview of his story but also is specific in its discussion
questions and really gets me thinking on my topic. Although written for a knowledgeable
audience, the writing style is informal. This text was very helpful to think specifically about my
topic what I have to do and need to more information for my essay and project. I used to write
my essay based on it and supported other information what I already had to say about the topic
and what I was thinking.
Mark, Lois Alter. "How My Bucket List Changed as I Get Closer to Kicking It." The
Huffington Post. The Huffington Post, 7 Sept. 2014. Web. 17 Mar. 2016.
Lois Alter Mark is the founder and the award-winning writer of MidlifeAtTheOasis.com. She
won BlogHer Voices of the Year Peoples Choice Awards in 2012 and 2013 and was selected,
out of 100,000 applicants, to accompany Oprah Winfrey to Australia as one of 150 Ultimate
Viewers.
This is a general internet source: It capitalizes on the authors challenges to complete her bucket
list in her fifties. This article provides the short story of the authors life since she was in her
twenties when she wrote her first bucket list. It contains the summaries of her traveling for her
bucket list how her life changed through her bucket list. It shows that the author has the
significance of a bucket list to her life even though she is approaching her sixties.
It relates to my topic because the author spent her own life to travel anywhere with her family.
Although her beloved gods were gone and her husband retired, she did not afraid of her or her
familys futures. She spent her thirties raising her children and lived under repression, but she
decided to go on a trip with her family because she felt like time was running out. This article
about her life changing story is what I wanted to write about my topic.
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This source focuses on the authors life changing. I am going to use this information in my essay
such a way of the examples of living with a bucket list like Christopher McCandless. The ideas
outlined in this paper appear to be largely the authors personal opinion mixed with her own
experiences and has a lot of supporting evidence presented how she traveled in Africa with her
husband. The article provides a basic overview of the authors story how she lived before she
went to travel somewhere but also is specific in what she did after she went to Africa such as
volunteering at The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. It really gets me thinking on my topic in a
different way of the story of McCandless. Although written for a knowledgeable audience, the
writing style is informal because the author wants tell her life story to someone else to
recommend this experience of those kinds of bucket list trips. This text was very helpful to
understand my topic as an older person like this author. I used it to support the information that
how people will feel if they did not try their bucket lists or dreams.
"Talking with Emile Hirsch." The Washington Post. The Washington Post, 21 Sept. 2007. Web.
24 Mar. 2016.
The source published with no specific authors name given because it was provided by The
Washington Post. The Washington Post is an American daily newspaper based in Washington,
D.C.
This is a primary source: This source capitalizes on the interview of Emile Hirsch who played
Christopher McCandless in a film, Into the Wild to gratify the peoples curiosity. The interview
questions are not all about the role, McCandless, but some of questions point out to the
connection between Emile Hirsch and Christopher McCandless. Emile Hirsch responds those
questions with his own experiences through making a film and as a stance of McCandless.
This interview relates to my topic because it focuses on the feeling of Emile Hirsch as
Christopher McCandless. Even though I did not live like McCandless, I could feel of
McCandlesss mind in an indirect way through Emile Hirschs responses.
REFLECTION:
This source focuses on Emile Hirsh how he felt about some scenes from Into the Wild, how
Christopher McCandless would felt, and how he did for making this film. I am going to use this
information to add details in my essay about how McCandless would feel or think during his
journey. The ideas outlined in this paper appear to be largely the audience-centered questions and
Emile Hirshs responses of his personal opinions mixed with putting himself in McCandlesss
position. The article provides open-ended questions about McCandless and the film, and it makes
Emile Hirshs emotional responses. Although written for a knowledgeable audience, the writing
style is informal because Emile Hirsh answered all of questions like talking to surrounding
people. This text was very helpful to understand McCandlesss complicated feelings when he is
going on a trip to Alaska. I basically used it to support what I already had to say about the trip of
McCandless from my essay.
Wasilewski, Michael. "The Importance of Having a Bucket List." Officer.com. Officer, 30 Apr.
2015. Web. 24 Mar. 2016.

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Michael Wasilewski is a police officer who works full-time for a large suburban Chicago agency.
He has been popular contributor of Officer.com since 2007 writing on a wide range of topics to
include officer wellness, relationships, mental health, morale, and ethics.
This is a secondary source: It capitalizes on the importance of a bucket list. It contains the basic
information of bucket list and opinion of the author and the most of people. Each paragraph is
accompanied by effective sentences to think about having a bucket list. It gives information
about why having a bucket list is benefit by using emotional and physical ways.
It relates to my topic because it focuses on a bucket list and people who work stressful in the
society. It is a general information of a bucket list but helps me to organize my topics
information as a list.
REFLECTION:
This source focuses on three main issues. These are the importance of a bucket list, the benefits
of a bucket list, and building a bucket list. I am going to use this information in my essay as the
background information of a bucket list. The author provides a useful list why a bucket list is
important to the social workers. The ideas outlined in this paper appear to be largely the authors
personal opinion mixed with his own research. The article provides several benefits of having a
bucket list and explains specifically each of those why they are benefits. Although written for a
knowledgeable audience, the writing style is informal. This text was very helpful even though it
did not help me more than I already know about my topic. However, I basically used it to support
what I already had to say about the topic and what I was thinking.
Williams, Ceri. "Start Saving in Good Time if You Want to Live Out Your Dreams before You
'Kick the Bucket'." Western Mail: 28. Oct 12 2013. ProQuest. Web. 17 Mar. 2016.
The authors name is Ceri Williams, but I cannot find any information about this author.
This is a secondary source: It capitalizes on saving money by preparing financial plan before
starting bucket list. It provides information to people why saving many is important and
statistically points out the majority of peoples problems about money. It let the audience knows
how important starting saving is according to Welsh rugby star, Dan Biggar, and Principality
Building Society.
This source relates to my topic because it focuses on saving money for a bucket list. Its statistic
data is very useful to know about people who work in their retirement years or already retired.
REFLECTION:
This source focuses on three main issues. These are writing own bucket list, preparing financial
plan, and saving money for a bucket list. I am going to use this information in my essay such as
giving examples if people do not save their money for a bucket list and get close to their
retirement. The ideas outlined in this paper appear to be largely the authors personal opinion of
financial plan mixed with his own research about people who are retirees or in their retirement
years. The article provides a basic story of retirees money but also is specific in its statistic data
through a survey. It really gets me thinking to save my money for my bucket list as well. It was
written for a knowledgeable audience; the writing style is formal to give accurate information.

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This text was very helpful even though it did not help me more than I already knew or did. I
basically used it to support what I already had to say about the topic and what I was thinking.