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    if he stayed, but he chooses from his heart and picks to go home to his wife and his family. During his confrontation with the sirens he decides break free instead of giving up. “Let the men tie you in the lugger hand and foot back to the mass, your crew must only twist one more around you.” Lines 673 and 678 Even though he kept getting tied up, he still found a way to get out, this shows the

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    scenarios that he has to evaluate and plan to get the desired outcome. However, sometimes he and his crew make mistakes, and these mistakes cost them dearly. So, they overcome them, making an impact on the narrative. The question is: What lessons are readers of this tale ultimately supposed to understand from reading about these mistakes and flows? The most mistakes made were made by Odysseus’s crew who continuously doubted their leader, and for a good reason, and cost them greatly. After Odysseus

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    Shackleton

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    The goal of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was to become the first explorers to land on the Antarctic continent as well as cross it. The original plan was to sail Endurance through the Weddell Sea and then use dogs and sledges to support the crew of six men to march on the opposite side of Antarctica. However, their ship became trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, before they could reach the Antarctic coast.

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    two locations. In which seven Continental flights were bound for the Newark Liberty International Airport from Buffalo Niagra International Airport on the same day. Little did the passengers and crew members know that Flight 3407 was special. As the plane was approaching the New York area, the cockpit crew observed ice accumulation on the aircraft’s wings. This was an indication of the flight operating in a low temperature area and may have been the cause of the crash. The accumulation of ice on

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    continually upped the ante to see who was better, who could get to the moon first, and ultimately, who would prevail as the world's top power. On the micro level, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise viewed the newcomer, Jack Swigert, as the outsider of their crew. They believed he truly didn't earn his spot with them and got there based on a faulty blood test. Days before the launch, Jim and Fred didn't like the new guy and had a small power struggle with him aboard the Apollo 13. However, once things went

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    How To Survive A Purge

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    What I would do to survive if I was in middle of a purge, I would try to find a gun shelter and stay there locked up everything close that can no one can go in. If someone tries to go in I would just wait for them to go inside and then once they are there I will shoot them or hit them with something that would knock them out. What you need to survive a purge just find some place that you think it would be safe and take your weapons or something that would knock someone out. And wait for them to

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    To the Teleseryes’ crews, Differentiation is needed in order for the local Teleseryes in the Philippines to improve its products and services. Differentiation can be achieved through designing meaningful differences in order to distinguish the local Teleseryes to other foreign telenovelas which are being offered in the market. Specifically, Product Differentiation which pertains to improving the product that the Philippine Telenovela Industry is offering-Teleseryes should be performed. Furthermore

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    transportation, in the eyes of historians, crew members of the actual ships, and even slaves who went through this voyage themselves. All of them have a different way of describing how the Middle Passage was truly experienced. However, when looking at them in a general sense, a very clear conclusion can be made: slaves were kept in a horrific environment, which often affected the crew on board, but the only reason the slaves were kept alive was because the white crews saw them as monetary beings rather than

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    based on a sperm whale attack on a crew at sea. Moby Dick is about Captain Ahab’s revenge for Moby Dick and Ishmael narrating. While In the Heart of the Sea is about a crew’s

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    How Is Odysseus Selfish

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    Throughout the text of The Odyssey, Odysseus is fixated into several situations, where he is forced to choose between his crew, and himself. When in these situations, Odysseus almost always chooses himself. Odysseus is proven disloyal throughout the book because of his selfishness and greed. Odysseus decided to return to Ithaca, not to save the townspeople, but to win back Penelope from the suitors, and reclaim his title as king. He often thinks very highly of himself, mostly because he is favored

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