September 28,2016
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To survive is to continue to live or exist despite dangerous or life threatening situations.
In order to survive in this world people sometimes have to go great lengths.
There are many circumstances that could threaten the survival of a person or a group of people. Some of these include dire socio-economic situations and war. It could also be unexpected situations which arise suddenly such as being shipwrecked or marooned on an uninhabited Island, lost in a desert, or cold, isolated Arctic regions or in a dense forest.
Looking at these various scenarios, it is clear that to survive in each of these situations one would most certainly need somewhat different sets of skills. Therefore, survival skills have to be discussed in terms of the scenario to which they apply and, hence, one could say that there …show more content…
are physical survival skills and economic survival skills among others.
The will to succeed can train us to survive under extraordinary circumstances, too.
Such life and death situations are the subject of some of our most successful movies, including Titanic, One of the biggest box office success of all time. Rose, the movie's glamorous heroine , is in love with Jack, and the two are struggling to stay alive as the ship goes down. In the final scenes of the movie, Jack dies and Rose is faced with the challenge of survival. She can stay in the water and risk the freezing temperatures and the diminishing possibility of rescue, or she can use every remaining bit of strength left in her and summon the lifeboat that is many yards away, looking to pick up those alive in the water. As she sees the lifeboat go by, she finds a small whistle, uses it to call the boat's occupants, and is rescued. Someone else might not have found the strength to go on, weak and exhausted in the freezing water, with a true love lost to such enormous disaster. Rose, however, found the will to survive. The spirit of survival we admire in the heroine of Titanic can help us to endure less glamorous but equally difficult
struggles.
Our lives are plagued by loss, disease, and tragedy. Such adversity helps build character, but more important, it shows whether we can step up to the challenges life presents. The will to survive comes from within each one of us. It is the factor that shapes the way we will be remembered.