Case Study of “EPIC OF SURVIVAL – Ernest Shackleton’s Voyage to the South Pole” By Reuben Q. Binasoy‚ SILVER Group‚ UB EMBA Intake 17 I. Most Compelling Facts / Main Learning Points a. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition started out on August 8‚ 1914. The last of the crew members were rescued on August 30‚ 1916. More than 2 years after they had set out – in the face of the many dangers they faced during the failed expedition – Shackleton mustered together the courage‚ willpower‚ wit
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The article “Literature As Survival: Allende’s The House of The Spirits” by Peter Earle argues that literature such as The House of the Spirits and One Hundred Years of Solitude brought historical awareness of what occurred in Latin America. Additionally‚ the story is “living on” and it is a celebration of reality in Latin America (Earle 543). Both Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende wrote about Latin American history in a way that it can be forever remembered. Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years
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come in handy. To survive‚ some decent skills/traits to have would be; all around smarts from “My escape from North Korea”‚ stubbornness from “trapped”‚ and basic Boy Scout taught skills from “Up”‚ survival‚ a story to be told. Hyeonseo Lee from- “My escape from North Korea” is a prime example of survival utilizing her combination of streets and book smarts. A clear example of this is shown in page 2 where she is interrogated in suspicion of being a North Korean she- “…managed to control all the emotions
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homosexual‚ gay‚ or genderfluid. Whether or not someone wants society to view them as a man‚ woman‚ boy‚ or girl really shouldn’t matter. As individuals people should not be limited to the choices others. They should be allowed to make their own choices. People’s own identity should be protected by the government and be treated equally like any other person. According to Gender Spectrum “Gender is a spectrum and not limited to just two possibilities.” When people get older in life they feel like they
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War of the Worlds In a majority of actions novels ‚ survival is a common theme . Survival is a key to ‚ well ‚ getting out alive from whatever the problem may be that’s putting your life in danger . In the novel War of the Worlds‚ survival is a big theme‚ or the one that made the most impact . The main character and his family had to go to major extents in order to survive . By showing that ‚ they had to gather all food sources ‚ the author stating himself and the main character making countless
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ELECTRICAL SUBMERSIBLE PUMP SURVIVAL ANALYSIS MICHELLE PFLUEGER Petroleum Engineer‚ Chevron Corp. & Masters Degree Candidate Advisor Dr. Jianhua Huang With help from PHD Candidate Sophia Chen Department of Statistics‚ Texas A&M‚ College Station MARCH 2011 ABSTRACT A common metric in Petroleum Engineering is “Mean Time Between Failures” or “Average Run Life”. It is used to characterize wells and artificial lift types‚ as a metric to compare production conditions‚ as well as a measure
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In Deep Survival‚ Laurence Gonzales explains how people survive difficult situations. Gonzales explains that survival is not having bravery. Also‚ he explains that some people do not survive simply because they give up. Some people just can’t take the stress and and danger that they basically freeze and give up. It’s not about having enough knowledge to know what to do‚ it’s about doing what you think is right in that situation and not what others suggest. While some may question Gonzales’ position
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when in a life-or-death situation should not be held responsible for what they do for survival because in order to survive‚ people must do what they need in order to survive. To start‚ if people were to be held accountable‚ people in a life-or-death situation would just end up dead because they wouldn’t want to do anything because it would cost them to do so. By way of illustration‚ in “ The Cost of Survival”‚ the author says‚ “ when people believe that they are going to receive a large bill for
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How Stress Effects Cancer Survival John Steinbeck once wrote "A sad soul can kill you quicker‚ far quicker‚ than a germ” Having a condition like cancer can cause great stress. Having cancer tends to raise anxiety along with over whelming stress believe it or not this can affect the survival of the diagnosed person. Recent studies have shown that a person with illnesses like cancer that can combat stress have a higher survival rate than those who don’t deal with stress well. Learning to deal with
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determine the fundamental effects that temperature has on the growth and survival of bacteria. During the first experiment five different bacterial broth cultures of Escherichia coli‚ Pseudomonas fluorescens‚ Enterococcus faecalis‚ Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus stearothermophilus were individually incubated at temperatures of 5‚ 25‚ 37‚ 45 and 55°C for one week in an aim to distinguish the effect temperature has on growth and survival of the five different species. After one week they were observed for
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