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Spring 2002
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SURVIVE
Choose 7 people to
survive. List them in the order in which you would choose them and
indicate the reasons for your selections, i.e., why you selected these
particular persons and why you placed them in this particular order.
Tomas Lopez: Puerto Rican, 23
years old, on death row in Louisiana State Prison, convicted of
kidnap/rape/murder of two little girls ages 8 and 11.
Keisha Cunningham: 12 years
old, sickle cell patient, African American, IQ 85, only child of
father who is in prison and mother who is crack cocaine addicted.
Baby Boy Doe: 5 months old,
African American, abandoned by mother in hospital at birth, Down
Syndrome, no other known relatives.
Dr. Sylvester Washington: 45
years old, white, HIV+, Ph.D. in Romance languages, closet homosexual,
married with two teenaged sons.
Martin Running Water: 89 years
old, Native American, perfect health, runs 3 miles every day, married,
6 children, 20 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren.
Sheryl Lu: Asian American, 19
years old, asthma, heroin addict, three children ages 4 years, 2
years, and 11 months, never married.
Beauregard Fairfax Montgomery,
IV: 29 years old, white, arrested for embezzling funds from family
owned business, Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan, pregnant wife, twin
daughters age 3.
Gladys Spaulding Spencer
Wentworth: 69 years old, very rich white lady, divorced three times,
no children, no health problems.
Jean Louis Rennard: Haitian, 41
years old, arrived in U.S. as a boat person, in this country
illegally, married, 4 children, diabetic, obese, alcoholic.
Boo Phelps: African American,
16 years old, high school drip-out, indited for murder in drive-by
shooting of two other teenagers, sings in teen choir at Second Baptist
Church, father of three daughters (ages 3 years, 2 years, and 20
months), never married.
Dr. Benjamin Kim: Korean
American, 49 years old, pharmacist, arrested for Medicaid-Medicare
fraud, on dialysis, needs kidney transplant.
Mrs. Louise Kim: Korean
American, 35 years old, pharmacy clerk, mother of Brenda (#13), and
wife of Dr. (#11).
Brenda Kim: Korean American, 10
years old, straight-A student, violin prodigy, has leukemia.
George Webster: white, 25 years
old, schizophrenic.
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