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ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE DOCUMENT : YOUTUBE VIDEO  Alaskan Bush People: Season One DVD Trailer, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9q5rDLXrhI This document is a trailer from the american reality show Alaskan Bush People. As the title says, it shows a family who lives in the woods of Alaska, as independently as possible from civilisation.  First of all, in this trailer, we learn from their lifestyle : hunting, working on their family village, preparing for winter... The video says they are going have to move places. This means they live like nomads. They don't have a home, they just get installed wherever they like and build a little house there.  Furthermore, the family is composed of eight members. Each one of them has their own skill relevant to surviving in nature. For example, Noah has a talent to invent useful objects, Bear is a master at climbing trees and Bam - Bam always make sure his brothers are acting logically.  Noah inventing a mole ridding devic

POST 1 : THE MYTH OF THE NOBLE/GOOD SAVAGE 1) This myth is commonly attributed to the 18th century philosopher Rousseau. He believed that the orginal man was free from sin, and the concept of "right" and "wrong". These men called savages were viewed as noble, from the philosopher's point of view. This appeared during the Indigenous lands invasion. Invaders would write how happier the Natives were, than the Europeans. Some colonists stayed with the tribes. The Natives didn't understand the concepts of materialism and heritage. They explained the foreigners that they didn't feel the need to exchange material with other states. They were happy with what they had in their territory.  2)  Bug-Jargal (1826) A detail from  Benjamin West 's heroic,  neoclassical   history painting ,  The Death of General Wolfe  (1771), depicting an idealized  Native American . 3) We can find the myth of the noble savage in the Disney movie Pocah