You are in charge of the only shelter able to withstand the doomsday machine about to be unleashed against the world. The shelter has room and rations for only seven people, and these seven will be the only survivors to carry on the human race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u200bYour job is to determine which seven people will be admitted. Write an essay giving and defending your choices. The applicants are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. A 16 year-old high school dropout, pregnant, unwed, thought to be somewhat intellectually disabled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. A 28 year-old ex-cop, dropped from the force for brutality. He always carries a gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. A 65 year-old clergyman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. A 45 year-old gay history teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6. A 45 year-old woman doctor who can no longer bear children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7. A 21 year-old jazz musician and composer, a radical who once deserted his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8. A 35 year-old prostitute and drug addict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
9. A 29 year-old carpenter who spent 5 years in prison for pushing drugs. He has been off drugs for six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
10. A 26 year-old lawyer and former star college athlete, who refuses to enter without his wife (#11), so take neither or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
11. Wife of #10: she will die in the next five years of an incurable disease which is hereditary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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