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335:, and safari films. Survival films are darker than most other adventure films, which usually focus their storyline on a single character, usually the protagonist. The films tend to be "located primarily in a contemporary context" and so film audiences are familiar with the setting, and the characters' activities are less romanticized. In a 1988 book, Thomas Sobchack compared the survival film to romance: "They both emphasize the heroic triumph over obstacles which threaten social order and the reaffirmation of predominant social values such as fair play and respect for merit and cooperation". The author said survival films "identify and isolate a microcosm of society", such as the surviving group from the plane crash in 60: 41: 347:(1972). Sobchack explained, "Most of the time in a survival film is spent depicting the process whereby the group, cut off from the securities and certainties of the ordinary support networks of civilized life, forms itself into a functioning, effective unit". The group often varies in types of characters, sometimes to the point of caricature. While women have historically been stereotyped in such films, they "often play a decisive role in the success or failure of the group". 384:, or having such a mode as an option, the player must continue playing for as long as possible without dying in an uninterrupted session while the game presents them with increasingly difficult waves of challenges. A variant of the mode requires that the player last for a certain finite amount of time, after which victory is achieved and the mode ends. The mode is particularly common among 270:, the percentage of people in a study or treatment group still alive for a given period of time after diagnosis. It is a method of describing prognosis in certain disease conditions. Survival rate can be used as yardstick for the assessment of standards of therapy. The survival period is usually reckoned from date of diagnosis or start of treatment. Survival rates are important for 585:, Barack Obama's former lead speechwriter, spoke to The Ringer about the designated survivor selection process in 2016. Favreau initially said that the process is "entirely random," but then backtracked a bit and said that sometimes, the designated survivor depends on what the president intends to say in their speech. 372:
games, which focus on survival of the character as the game tries to frighten players with either horror graphics or scary ambience. Although combat can be part of the gameplay, the player is made to feel less in control than in typical action games through limited ammunition or weapons, health,
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There are various kinds of media about survival. In both fiction and nonfiction, stories about individuals surviving despite particularly dangerous circumstances are popular. There is also a wide body of educational literature, sometimes referred to as a survival guide, offering advice on
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set in hostile, intense, open-world environments. Players generally begin with minimal equipment and are required to survive as long as possible by crafting tools, weapons, shelters, and collecting resources. These can take the form of
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in which one or more characters make an effort at physical survival, generally while being subject to hazardous conditions or a catastrophic event. It often overlaps with other film genres. It is a subgenre of the
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for analyzing the expected duration of time until one or more survival-ending events happen, such as death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. One element of survival analysis is the
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games, where the player must improve the defenses of a specific location in order to repel enemy forces for as long as possible. Survival mode has been compared to the gameplay of
107:, literally meaning "to outlive". Most commonly, "the term 'survival' means physical survival — that is, a struggle to avoid physical extermination". For example, 127:, so in Darwinian terms the phrase is best understood as survival of the form that will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations. 570: 164: 277:
Individuals who are concerned with surviving an anticipated catastrophic or apocalyptic event are often grouped within the practice of
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in the event the president along with the vice president and multiple other officials in the presidential line of succession die in a
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is often preferred, particularly in some religious circles. It is not simply that it is free of the associations the term
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to become their own "designated survivor" to maintain the existence of Congress in the event of a mass-casualty event.
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CBS News reports that the president and their staff are responsible for selecting the designated survivor, and
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being), to physical object, and to abstract things such as beliefs or ideas. Living things generally have a
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Survival outpost in Antarctica, designed to shelter humans from harsh environmental conditions
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instinct to survive, while objects intended for use in harsh conditions are designed for
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speed and vision, or through various obstructions of the player's interaction with the
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Where are the Dead?: Exploring the idea of an embodied afterlife' (2016). p. 10.
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has with merely 'living on', or with lucky escape. More positively, the term
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Sobchack, Thomas (1988). "The Adventure Film". In Gehring, Wes D (ed.).
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in the struggle for existence. Darwin defines the biological concept of
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suggests some superior quality of existence, whereas the term
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Historical references to survival cover aspects ranging from
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suggests mere temporal extension, a continuation of the
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In much of the literature on life after death, the term
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is employed more or less interchangeably with the term
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without food or water, being attacked, or being in a
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Index

Survival (disambiguation)
Survive (disambiguation)
Survivorship (disambiguation)

U.S. Marines
survival skills
Thai military

sentient
self-preservation
survivability
Late Latin
supervivere
Charles Darwin
natural selection
survival of the fittest
fitness
reproductive success
individual
empires
civilization
engineering
surviving spouse
right of survivorship
designated survivor
presidential line of succession
State of the Union
presidential inaugurations
decapitation
continuity in the office of the president

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