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13 Year-Old Boy Who Killed: A Case Study Of Brian Robeson

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Picture this! You are a thirteen year-old boy names Brian Robeson. You just watched the pilot of your single passenger plane suffer a heart attack. You somehow managed to keep the plan going and have just crashed it into a lake. Then you nearly drown and now need to find a way to survive. Well here are three of his survival strategies. Trial and error, thinking positive and planning ahead.

Brian's first survival strategy is trial and error. Some examples of this are when he made a bow and arrow. The first time he tried to make a bow and arrow, he made it too tight. When he shot it, it splintered back up in his face, nearly blinding him. Second, when Brian had to fly the plane, he had to put the gears up and down and all around until it was

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