Should People Be Allowed To Survive In The World

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In order to survive in the world, humans go to great lengths. Inside them, they carry a spirit that encourages them to keep going. No matter what, all the examples as follows have a survival attitude that's kept them to become champions. An defeat the odds they challenge.

For instance, a good explanation of surviving is the Titanic. Rose a richer girl is in love with Jack,and the two are struggling to stay alive as the ship goes down. In the end of the movie Jack dies and Rose has to choose whether to die or use the strength she has left to survive and holler the boat that is many yards away, looking to see if there are survivors. As she keeps screaming and nobody is able to hear she finds a whistle,uses it to call the boat rescuers and is

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