Have you ever been in a situation where you had to choose survival over helping someone? Some people have been known to go to great lengths for survival. In Lord Of the Flies, the 9/11,and The Titanic. In those important things people had to choose life or helping someone. So in maybe in danger you all have to choose. Not all of the choices are good, but all of the choices are permanent. In Lord Of The Flies there was kids who had to choose survival over helping. There was a plane crash. The pilot and all of the adults died. On a deserted island there were young kids. Some of the kids knew each other and some kids didn't know any one. They all had to come together and build shelter, find other survivors, find food, and make a fire. So they …show more content…
The ones who went to hunt found fruit, and pig tracks. All pitched in to kill the pig. A couple months later. A Lot of kids made a tribe, and some died. On 9-11-01 there was a lot of chaos and choices. There was two planes that crashed in the twin towers at New York. A Lot of people were confused and scared. A lot of people decided to jump off the burning building, some were stuck, and some were dead. A lot of them had choices to make. A Lot of them were bad choices because none of those choices were good or helpful. Almost all of them had to make choices for themselves, and couldn't help anyone. Even the firefighters had choices on how to help or how to even save them. In the end thousands of people died on that tragic day. The night Titanic crashed and sank. I think that the people who were working shouldn’t have made on the rich woman and kids, but that was a choice that they had to make. Some of the passengers even decided to jump in the freezing water, even though the didn't go nowhere but only down. The captain had a choice to help but all he did was lock himself in the steering room. A lot of passengers decided to stay where there were at but all they could do was hope
In the novel, Lord of the Flies, The boys have just landed on the island are have gathered together. They talk about what they need to survive and how they will be rescued, when the meeting comes to an end Ralph mentions that, “there’s another thing. [They] can help them find [them]. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice [them]. So [they] must make smoke on top of the mountain. [They] must make a fire” (Golding 38). In the quote, the first assembly is happening right after the crash. They all group together and decide what their priorities are so they can get rescued. They all decided that they need fire, shelters, and food. It is in this very quote that survival is what drives one’s decisions because even after a plane crash, the surviving boys gather up and decide what they need to survive with. No matter what has happened, they all had the will to overpower the traumatic experience and decide and act upon their decisions. Along the same lines, in the movie, Castaway, Chuck Noland also demonstrates that survival is what influence one’s decisions. In movie Castaway, Chuck is seen doing many things that show how the will to survive impacts his decisions and actions. This is demonstrated when it is his first few days on the island, he
We make important choices everyday that can affect our futures. Whether it is deciding what to eat for lunch or deciding what college to go to, these decisions can affect our lives in many ways. Choice is the act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities. By making a smart choice, your health and welfare can be much better but if you make a bad choice, you future can be different than what you intended it to be. Whether it is a mild choice or a major one, choices can affect the way your life unfolds in the future. In the book, The Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings, the main character Brady Parks is faced with a major dilemma. He has to make a decision to either turn in is friends for murder or to live
steadiness as the only common good and go extreme to preserve safety. Nevertheless, situations exist where people have to abandon some
September 11, 2001 is known as the worst terrorist attack in United States history. On a clear Tuesday morning, there were four planes that were hijacked and flown into multiple buildings by a terrorist group named al Qaeda. This group, led by Osama bin Laden, killed nearly 3,000 people. Out of those 3,000 people more than 400 police and 343 firefighters were killed along with 10,000 people who were treated for severe injuries. Many lives were taken, and to this day, people still suffer from the attack. September 11th is the most influential event of the early twenty-first century because it made an increase in patriotism, it caused a rise in security throughout the nation, and it had a tremendous effect of thousands of lives.
When placed on a deserted island, a group of strangers banded together to try to survive. They decided on a leader, problem-solved, fought off a beast, and formed their own society, even if it was somewhat flawed. This was the situation in the famous TV show, Lost. The Lord of the Flies and Lost are similar in these many different ways, with the exception that the show featured a tribe of adults instead of children. That just proves how difficult it is to maintain order in a society; even the adults struggled with keeping it peaceful and civilized. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents a broken society of savage boys fighting one another to suggest that man’s capacity for evil is brought out by the need for power and control.
hunted with bows and arrows and as the years went on and how they trade with other tribes and
September 11th, 2001 is one of the worst days in the United States of America’s history by far. It all began at 8:45am when a stolen airplane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. Many people believed that this was...
In life, situations arrive that force us to make tough choices. Sometimes those choices are not what we feel are compassionate or morally right. We make these decisions to save ourselves. These are decisions of self-preservation, and they override compassion. Tadeusz Borowski depicts these choices in his book This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen. He shows that when people are put in the choice of doing what’s right or preserving their life, one is preferred over the other. Would they rather save their selves or just watch others be sent to their death. In the novel, the narrator wrestles with his decisions and like Borowski suffers from them.
This topic is relevant to today’s society because it is important to save lives, and doing the opposite would just be inhumane. For example, there’s a single mom on a little adventure on Everest, alone, and she fell. Should rescue services help her to reunite with her little kids? Or should they “accidentally” put the poor kids in an orphanage? With the example given above, it is crystal clear that the option to save the mom is the best choice. And that’s why people do have the right to rescue services when they put themselves at risk. There are a lot of mountain climbing accidents happening every day, think about it, imagine how grieving life would be for the unfortunate climbers’ families if rescue services can’t help
If there is a serious medical situation, would you save your own health and life rather than saving the lives of other people who are at risk? Many people find it important to save the life of other people instead of their own life. They believe it is their responsibility to help those who are in need. In order to make their society better their ready to help at any cost. In the novel, A Death Struck Year by Makiia Lucier the main character, Cleo Berry including other characters sacrifices their life to help others. The article “SARS: The people who risked” by Kevin Fong is a good example of showing the sacrifices that the people can make when there is a dangerous virus outbreak. Another article, “ A Good Death Ebola and Sacrifice” by Josh
September 11, 2001 was a day that Americans and the world for that matter will not soon forget. When two planes went into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and two others went into the Pentagon and a small town in Pennsylvania, the world was rocked. Everyone in the United States felt very vulnerable and unsafe from attacks that might follow. As a result, confidence in the CIA, FBI, and the airlines were shaken. People were scared to fly after what had happened.
As it stands in the Canadian Criminal Code, there is no duty imposed upon citizens to rescue a stranger whose life is in danger due to an outside predicament and therefore, it is up to the discretion of the person encountering the danger to decide if they would like to offer aid to another. However, Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (R.S.Q., c. C-12), states that “every person whose life is in peril has a right to assistance. Every person must come to the aid of anyone whose life is in peril, either personally or calling for aid, by giving him the necessary and immediate physical assistance, unless it involves danger to himself or a third person, or he has another valid reason.” (1982). At face value, this obligation
I Hope To Survive “I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best” as Benjamin Disraeli says. In the novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding, A group of boys get trapped on an island during WWII and they have to figure out a way to survive on their own, inevitably they end up killing two of the audience’s favorite characters, and become savage until they get rescued. The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho, is about a boy who never loses hope and goes on his personal journey to find treasure in the Egyptian Pyramids. In both books, there is a visible recurring theme of survival and hope, though they may be used in different ways. Both of the books explore how the characters survive.
They swung clubs and knocked everyone out of the way. Then Polynesia(a talking parrot) brought millions of black parrots from South America. Most of the other tribe got their ears bit off. Doctor Dolittle was made king of the tribe. They changed his name to Jong Thinkalot because they didn’t think Dolittle fit him.
We make choices every hour, every minute, and every second of our lives; whether big or small our choices are slowly putting us in the direction we choose or end up. Many of us do not realize what contributes to the choices we make and why it affects others the same way if affects us and because of this many authors and writers have written stories and articles about coming to terms with making a choice and how to better ourselves when it comes to decision-making for the future.