This mind map takes two of the four major aspects of the book and expands them for possible topic choices for the final paper. You will expand the other two topics.
Education: proposed changes to High School Curricula call
for the teaching of nonfiction
The history of Nonfiction: not limited to U.S. In other words, the
Genre's history, period
Different subGenres and the growth of a genre, such as True Crime, which is
immensely popular
Is the genre vulnerable to hoax? What are some of the famous
hoaxes in Nonfiction?
Other Books by the Author
First Book, "IntoThin Air" an autobiographical account of the worst season on Everest for fatalities,
and how he nearly died.
The controversy the book stoked, the vilification of the book and Krakauer by other
professional climbers
OTHER BOOKS THAT COULD BE EXPLORED ARE "UNDER THE BANNER OF GOD" AND "INTO THE WILD" AND THE CONTROVERSIES OR ISSUES THEY
EXPLORED
CAMPUS LIFE
LAW
HOW THE COURTS HAVE HISTORICALLY TREATED VICTIMS OF SEXUAL
ASSAULT
HOW DOES THE AGE, SEX, AND RACE OF THE VICTIM CORRELATE WITH THE
CONVICTION RATE OF THE PREPETRATORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT? ?
HOW THE COURTS HAVE HISTORICALLY TREATED ALLEGED PERPETRATORS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
IN "DATE RAPE" CASES OR CASES IN WHICH THE VICTIM KNOWS/IS FRIENDS WITH
THE ALLEGED PERTRATOR, DOES THE CONVICTION RATE HAVE ANY CORRELATION
WITH THE RACE OF THE ACCUSED PERPETRATOR? WITH THE RACE OF THE VICTIM?
THE LAWS OF THE LAND(S)
DOES THE SENTENCING
VARY FROM
STATE-TO-STATE FOR
SEXUAL ASSAULT? WHAT
ARE THE DEGREE
DIFFERENCES? (1ST
DEGREE, 2ND DEGREE . . .)
AND ARE MITIGATING
FACTORS TAKEN INTO
ACCOUNT DURING
SENTENCING? WHAT IS THE
ALFORD PLEA?
HOW IS SEXUAL ASSAULT HANDLED IN THE COURTS IN
OTHER COUNTRIES?