Kiera Duncanson Essays - Aviation Accidents And Incidents, Culture

Kiera Duncanson Alive Bethune Cookman University Ms. Vance February 8th, 2017 Abstract This paper will be about the movie Alive. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors is a 1974 book by the British writer Piers Paul Read documenting the events of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. This paper will also exemplify division of labor, tradeoffs, automatic actions, cultural pressure, praxis, psyche, survival, social animals, and culture and how it relates to each scene in the movie. Alive In the film Alive, battle is appeared in an extremely unequivocal and crude sense; it indicates what number of various ways individuals manage a hard time . An European rugby group crashes down in the Andes, and they each battle with the moment physical change in their own particular manner. Division of Labor Division of Labor is defined as the breakdown of labor into its component and their distribution among different people to increase efficiency. Throughout this movie, there were many scenes where division of labor was implemented. When the plane crashed, automatically, division of labor began to form. As captain of the Rugby team, Antonio immediately took on the leadership role and everyone fell into place. The first thought was to attempt to save the people who were still alive and in critical condition . Antonio appointed Roy, Zerbino, and Rafael to search for the other half of the tail of the plane later on in hopes to find the battery for the radio to call for help . Tradeoff Tradeoff is defined as giving up one thing in return for another thing. Throughout this movie, a lot was sacrificed. In order to keep a fire going, one of the players were willing to throw in their guitar in order for them to keep warm. All in all, the players risked their lives in exchange to survive a 72-day nightmare. Automatic Actions An automatic action is defined as the theory that the activities of humans and animals are controlled by physical or physiological causes rather than by consciousness. The best scene that shows this concept was around 47 minutes. Some of the players decided to climb the top of the mountain in order to get a better look of where they were, find the other half of the plane, and try to find help. As they continued to climb, part of the mountain caved in and one of the players slid down the mountain close enough to fall off. Automatically, without hesitation, the players linked up to bring him to safety. Cultural Pressure Cultural Pressure is defined as the cultural influence a peer group has on its members. An example of this term would be when Susanna was told in order to have another baby, she would have to eat. The only thing that they were eating were flesh from dead bodies at that point. Another example of Cultural Pressure was getting Roy to go with them to climb the mountain and look for help. He was scared and did not feel he could do it. He was pressure into continuing because they did not want to give up despite how cold it was. Praxis Praxis was defined as the practice of an art, science, or skill. The only example I could relate to this term would be the fact they had medical students on board attempting to help the wounded players and families. Psyche Psyche is defined as the center of thought, feeling, and motivation directing to its social/physical environment. At 7 minutes and 47 seconds the plane started to go through turbulence. The pilots of the plane were the first to experience this feeling. They knew the plane was going to crash. As the back half the plane ripped off, the players were in shock. I could only imagine the feelings and emotions they were going through. Survival Survival is defined as doing what we have to do to survive. In my opinion, this whole movie was based off survival from beginning to end. These players had to learn to survive in an environment they were not used to. They decided to unzip the seat covers and use them as blankets. They stacked up their suitcases in order to section off the plane from the