Comparison Of Survival In Black Hawk Down, The Grey, And The Good Lie

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To live in this world, you have to know how to survive, not like hunting or anything, but in the matter of knowing. Let me explain, In your entire life you need to have courage, knowledge, and much more , because without it you probably wouldn’t be in this world. like in this three films: Black Hawk Down, The Grey, and The Good Lie. The three films for me are a good example of survival in my opinion.

In the film "Black Hawk Down", a battle between the US forces and the Somali forces, breaks out when the US forces goes to Somalia to deliver food, humanitarian aid to the starving population in Black Hawks. The Somali forces take down the US Black Hawks, at this moment the US forces have to survive the heavy firefights. On these firefights, the

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