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    noticed a stranded motorist off to the side of the road, Off. Antillon decided to stop and assist the individual. He and the motorist were outside of their vehicles inspecting the problem car; at this time, another officer who was on-duty joined them. Soon after this Sandra Briggs, a drunk driver, crashed into the vehicles that the officers’ and civilian were near. The crash sent the stranded vehicle into the guard rail, slamming Officer Antillon into the railing; it also caused the stranded…

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    happens to 13 year old Brian Robeson when he is going to Canada to visit his dad. But when the plane he is flying in crashes because of the pilots sudden heart attack, He is stranded in the Canadian wilderness where Brian is isolated and stranded and has nothing but his hatchet and himself to try to survive. Even though Brian is stranded he manages to survive after a grueling fifty four days in the wilderness. Unlike Brian I do not think I would be able to survive because of my characteristics…

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    In week 7, Jennifer Olson gave a presentation talk on the stranding network in San Juan County Washington. Olson talked about the importance of the stranding network and in what ways their team is doing adding to the vast amount of information known on these animals.The Marine Mammal Stranding Network is important due to contributioning knowledge and help it provides. Not only this, but the stranding network uses this data to present/ inform management decisions. This knowledge is valuable due…

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    Have you ever been stranded out in the wood before? Well Brian Robeson for the novel Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen has. Brian was stranded in the Canadian wilderness for 54 days living on his own without anything but a hatchet and the tool he made to hunt with. He was stranded out in the wildness because of a plane crash he was in. This was a very good lesson for Brian because he learned how to live on his own, he even learned how to watch his surrounding. Brian had a lot of memory during this time…

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    The past few days we haven't been to lucky either that for sure. The only one who has really been eating is baby Kaesyn. 11/17/15 Dear Grandma, well we are stranded out in the middle of nowhere were right at Canyonlands Utah! I Miss you dearly! Devan crashed my car into a hanging rock everyone is alright from the crash but we are suffering from no food or water, we don't know how we are getting back there is…

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    Yann Martel's Quests

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    any quest tale. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, emulates the conventions of a quest in its incorporation of a quester in the protagonist, Pi, moving to Canada due to deficient governance in his home country on a ship that sank, which leaves him stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger seeking for the will to survive through faith, and along the…

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    Golding portrays innocence to wickedness through a character named Jack. The boys attempt to create a society after being stranded on the island. They will eventually fight for leadership. William Golding shows loss of innocence through a innocent choir boy who learns to hunt and ultimately a savage. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, Jack is an innocent choir boy stranded on a island. When Ralph calls them together Jack wonders if there is another adult on the island. “Isn’t there a man…

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    Cast Away Analysis

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    able to communicate with no one. He wasn’t able to communicate with no one due to the fact that he was alone by himself in an island. Because he was isolated from people in the island there was a chance that he could have common cold. Since he was stranded on a deserted tropical island there was lack…

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    What if there were girls on the Lord of the Flies island? Maybe there would be all girls, an equal amount of girls to boys, or just one girl. What would change? In Lord of the Flies, there is a group of boys stranded on an island, and they eventually split into two groups: savagery and civility. However, with girls on the island, everything would change. What if there were no boys on the island; only girls? The girls would most likely have a lot more order that the boys did. Also, they…

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    challenged by the face of savagery while being stranded on a deserted island with no adult governance. Golding employs symbolism in this novel to allocate an overshadowing and in depth meaning. These symbols consist of the conch shell, spectacles, and the beast. Representing law, power, and authority, the conch shell played a key role in the novel Lord of the Flies. In the beginning as the boys - Ralph and Piggy - first discovered that they were stranded on the island, with no adult guidance,…

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