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    Patience and observation play a vital role in Brian’s survival in the Canadian wilderness. In fact‚ without the skills of patience and observation he would have died. Patience and observation play an important role in Brian’s life. For example when the skunk spray brian if brian was not patience brian could have walk into a bad situation like he could have walk the fire. When Brian was trying to catch the fish he had a flashback to school he remember the word refraction the look like they were under

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    The last 10 percent‚ Leach concluded‚ become hysterical‚ unable to cope with the situation at hand.” (Fitzpatrick) There are many responses to a survival situations‚ some traits are better than others. Throughout Laurence Gonzales’ selection‚ “Deep Survival‚” and Lane Wallace’s article‚ “Is Survival Selfish?” the most important traits for survival can be concluded as using one’s head and having a positive mental attitude. Maintaining a positive

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    surroundings can help with the day to day survival. In Patricia McCormick’s book‚ Sold‚ a 13 year old girl named Lakshmi gets sold from her stepfather to a woman named Mumtaz in India. Lakshmi then has to survive the cruel things that Mumtaz makes her do to earn money back for her freedom. Sold demonstrates that adjusting to surroundings is important for survival through living with limited money‚ getting bullied‚ and coping with raping. Sold demonstrates survival by showing how to get through a situation

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    A high society that gambles with lives My paper argues whether or not the survival lottery saves more lives by just two simple beliefs. Kantian beliefs being the first one which is the belief that it all depends on if the jobs are fulfilled. This agrees with other theories such as the deontic theory that states that you have to uphold your jobs and protect the rights of every single individual no matter if it leads to the worst possible outcome. The second one being Utilitarianism‚ which is the

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    post-apocalyptic United States‚ The Hunger Games tells the story of the young heroine Katniss Everdeen and her journey of survival in both the harsh conditions of her coal mining home in District 12‚ and the later dangerous climate of the Capitol and the hunger games. Survival is one of the major reoccurring themes that Collins weaves throughout the entirety of the story. In Katniss’ case‚ her survival is centered on the skills that her father taught her when she was young‚ (during their illegal hunts in the woods

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    Darwinism In the wild‚ animals compete against one another for survival‚ fighting to keep their spot in the world. America‚ along with every other country goes through tough economic struggle‚ where the population has to fight in order to survive. Social Darwinism is a term used to describe the idea that humans‚ like animals and plants‚ compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in "survival of the fittest." People living in the United States indeed‚ have to fight

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    People always say that they will never do anything they don’t feel comfortable doing when it comes to survival. Humans are not like lions with big teeth where they just kill any living thing that has meat; they do it for survival. Humans are capable to do the unexpected when it comes to survival. In the Civil War‚ there was a battle on a small island where soldiers were being starved to death. Rather than just waiting to die‚ the soldiers are the horses‚ pets‚ and even rats. They didn’t have

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    Survival; the sole instinct that drives humanity at its most base core. The sole instinct of survival has shaped us as a civilization from the dawn of time. However‚ what happens when this tremendous instinct is challenged by insurmountable odds? Thus is the question posed by author Cormac McCarthy in his novel‚ The Road: a tale of a man and his child‚ struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Throughout the novel‚ the Man‚ the primary protagonist‚ is forced to make ever more morally questionable

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    A common theme that was portrayed throughout the hunger games‚ both book and movie adaption‚ was survival. This is a consistent theme that we see pop up throughout the entirety of both versions. When we start out in district 12‚ we see how survival plays a part in the people who live there. The majority of their population is poverty and they obviously have a hard time even putting food on their tables. Along with that‚ they have the reaping in which the children have to hope and pray their name

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    Researching 10 stories about survival 1. Juliane Koepcke was the only one of LANSA flight 508. In tropical forest after the plane struck by lightning. She fell to the nearby stream and she was rescued by loggers 2. Setting sail from the Canary Islands towards the Caribbean in a small boat‚ Steven’s boat go down in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and he was left adrift for 76 days. He eventually made landfall in the Bahamas. 3. Aron’s story was highly publicized in 2003 when he had to cut off his

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