Who should survive essay
introduction
I wrote this essay on Feb 16, 2014. The purpose of writing this essay was to make an argument about which people to bring to an island in the highest possibility of survival.
reflection
The hardest part of this writing was to decide who to bring to the island. Every one had his/her advantages and weaknesses, so we have to make a best combination. We had to consider about races, family, and their jobs as well. I did well in listing their advantages and weaknesses. I would try some different ways to introduce the people I chose the next time, because I found that the pattern I introduced them was all the same. I learned to think many aspects altogether, to find the best choices.
Who should survive?
If I choose seven
from the eleven to the island, they would be Dr. Dane, Mrs. Dane, Bobby Dane,
Mr. Newton, Mr. Blake, Mrs. Blake, and Father Frans.
Firstly, Dr. Dane, he is in good health. Our purpose is to make sure all seven people would survival, so a good health is very important. He is a college professor, and likes botany as his hobby. We can guess that he is smart and has many knowledge from these. Also, the hobby botany can help them on the island a lot, because he can tell what plants are edible, what are poisonous, and what can cure sicknesses. While he has these advantages, his disadvantages are the fact that he enjoys politics and his family. Enjoy politics means, he likes to do things in his way, and not listen to others. This might cause some small problems because survival needs cooperation.
Dr. Dane has a wife which is Mrs. Dane, and a child Bobby Dane. Mrs. Dane is a counselor and learned psychology. I think we need a counselor on the island because people might be homesick and mentally weak in the wild environment. She can help them and maybe she can make everyone held together to survival. But Mrs. Dane is not so healthy. She is obese and has diabetic, which means she might need more food than other people and needs medicine for diabetic. Her another disadvantage is same as his husband’s, her son. Bobby Dane is only ten years old and has low IQ 70. Ten years old may sounds like not a problem, but actually he cannot help much but needs someone to take care of most of the time. Moreover there are predators on the island. However, if we think about bringing Dr. Dane and Mrs. Dane, the little boy Bobby won’t be a big problem.
Mr. Newton is a young, 25-year-old black people. He has been learning medical school for one year, and also physically fit. He is the youngest adult of all, and is healthy. What he can do for others is that he knows about medical stuff, so he can work with Dr. Dane to make cures when someone is sick. Also, he likes music. Surviving is the most important thing, but when people lost interests of life and don’t know what for to survive, it would be hard to live. So Mr. Newton can use his hobby to entertain others and cheer them up.
Mrs. Blake is an electronics engineer, and is college graduate. She is young and don’t have any sicknesses, so we can assume she has good stamina. Also, electronics engineer is not an easy job for a girl, I think. She must have knowledge and interests about science and tools. She is a member of Zero Population, and believes the population on the earth should grow smaller. This tells us maybe she wouldn’t like to care about others, but would feel annoying about others. Well, she won’t just kill or hurt others, so it won’t be a serious issue.
Mrs. Blake has a husband who is 51 years old, Mr. Blake. He knows about mechanics, has experience in construction, and is quite handy. He would be really helpful in building homes for people to live. He can make many tools by hands. This is quite important because people need tools to do things, such as weapons for hunting. He is a little bit old for running around with young people and hunting, but it won’t be a problem. Though, a problem of him might be his anti-black views. Mr. Newton is a black person, so he and Mr. Blake may have some arguments. I still chose them two because I think the problem would be solved during the survival. There are not only them, but also other five people on the island. Not everyone are sympathize with anti-black view, so others would try to help this out. Also, I hope Mr. Blake would change his mind about black people by knowing Mr. Newton in close distance during the team works.
The last person I chose is Father Frans. He was a college athlete, and has farming background. We can know that he has good stamina. His farming background is so helpful on the island because he can help growing vegetables for food! People need food to survive before than surviving from the predators or the coldness. The disadvantage of him is that he’s often criticized for liberal views.
I didn’t choose Mrs. Garcia because she is only ninth-grade educated, and might be endurance from the fact that she married at sixteen and divorced at eighteen. In addition, she has a three-month-old baby. Although the baby is healthy, she is too little to survive on the island. She always needs her mother and cries all the time, and very easy to get sick. And for Mary Evans and Dr. Gonzales, Mary doesn’t have anything that is useful for surviving, and though Dr. Gonzales is a doctor, he has heart attack. These are the reasons I didn’t pick these four.
All the people have their plus sides and minus sides, so cooperation is needed there. People have to use their strength to help others to make the life on the island better, and work together to counteract the weaknesses. Also, some minus sides that are took for a problem in normal daily life, might not be a big problem during the survival. The condition is quite different, so I think they’ll make this out.
Firstly, Dr. Dane, he is in good health. Our purpose is to make sure all seven people would survival, so a good health is very important. He is a college professor, and likes botany as his hobby. We can guess that he is smart and has many knowledge from these. Also, the hobby botany can help them on the island a lot, because he can tell what plants are edible, what are poisonous, and what can cure sicknesses. While he has these advantages, his disadvantages are the fact that he enjoys politics and his family. Enjoy politics means, he likes to do things in his way, and not listen to others. This might cause some small problems because survival needs cooperation.
Dr. Dane has a wife which is Mrs. Dane, and a child Bobby Dane. Mrs. Dane is a counselor and learned psychology. I think we need a counselor on the island because people might be homesick and mentally weak in the wild environment. She can help them and maybe she can make everyone held together to survival. But Mrs. Dane is not so healthy. She is obese and has diabetic, which means she might need more food than other people and needs medicine for diabetic. Her another disadvantage is same as his husband’s, her son. Bobby Dane is only ten years old and has low IQ 70. Ten years old may sounds like not a problem, but actually he cannot help much but needs someone to take care of most of the time. Moreover there are predators on the island. However, if we think about bringing Dr. Dane and Mrs. Dane, the little boy Bobby won’t be a big problem.
Mr. Newton is a young, 25-year-old black people. He has been learning medical school for one year, and also physically fit. He is the youngest adult of all, and is healthy. What he can do for others is that he knows about medical stuff, so he can work with Dr. Dane to make cures when someone is sick. Also, he likes music. Surviving is the most important thing, but when people lost interests of life and don’t know what for to survive, it would be hard to live. So Mr. Newton can use his hobby to entertain others and cheer them up.
Mrs. Blake is an electronics engineer, and is college graduate. She is young and don’t have any sicknesses, so we can assume she has good stamina. Also, electronics engineer is not an easy job for a girl, I think. She must have knowledge and interests about science and tools. She is a member of Zero Population, and believes the population on the earth should grow smaller. This tells us maybe she wouldn’t like to care about others, but would feel annoying about others. Well, she won’t just kill or hurt others, so it won’t be a serious issue.
Mrs. Blake has a husband who is 51 years old, Mr. Blake. He knows about mechanics, has experience in construction, and is quite handy. He would be really helpful in building homes for people to live. He can make many tools by hands. This is quite important because people need tools to do things, such as weapons for hunting. He is a little bit old for running around with young people and hunting, but it won’t be a problem. Though, a problem of him might be his anti-black views. Mr. Newton is a black person, so he and Mr. Blake may have some arguments. I still chose them two because I think the problem would be solved during the survival. There are not only them, but also other five people on the island. Not everyone are sympathize with anti-black view, so others would try to help this out. Also, I hope Mr. Blake would change his mind about black people by knowing Mr. Newton in close distance during the team works.
The last person I chose is Father Frans. He was a college athlete, and has farming background. We can know that he has good stamina. His farming background is so helpful on the island because he can help growing vegetables for food! People need food to survive before than surviving from the predators or the coldness. The disadvantage of him is that he’s often criticized for liberal views.
I didn’t choose Mrs. Garcia because she is only ninth-grade educated, and might be endurance from the fact that she married at sixteen and divorced at eighteen. In addition, she has a three-month-old baby. Although the baby is healthy, she is too little to survive on the island. She always needs her mother and cries all the time, and very easy to get sick. And for Mary Evans and Dr. Gonzales, Mary doesn’t have anything that is useful for surviving, and though Dr. Gonzales is a doctor, he has heart attack. These are the reasons I didn’t pick these four.
All the people have their plus sides and minus sides, so cooperation is needed there. People have to use their strength to help others to make the life on the island better, and work together to counteract the weaknesses. Also, some minus sides that are took for a problem in normal daily life, might not be a big problem during the survival. The condition is quite different, so I think they’ll make this out.