People have been known to act in extraordinary ways in order to survive. Write an informative essay that explains the lengths to which people will go in order to survive. Use examples from real life, books, movies, or television to support your essay.

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Indeed, people have been known to act in extraordinary ways in order to survive. The lengths to which people will go in order to survive are impressive to the degree that some have called these acts "miracles."

I would like to set the following example to understand the magnitude of people's reactions when confronted with a dangerous situation.

I remember September 2017, when a large earthquake hit Mexico City. I immediately watched the news because I have many good friends in México and I love the country and its people.

I was watching the news reports. Reporters were covering the news from some places where buildings collapsed. One image impressed me the most. It was the video of an old, slim woman, lifting a large and heavy rock in order to rescue her granddaughter.

Unbelievable! How a grandmother had the strength in that very moment to act in a desperated way, only focused on one accomplishment: to rescue her granddaughter.

If somebody would have told me about this, hardly I had believed it. But no, I watched the video on the news.

In the end, with the help of the rescue teams, she could find her granddaughter, alive and well.

Later in the news, the reporter interviewed the lady and of course, she could not explain how she did that amazing feat. Just as a reference, the reporter asked two big and strong men to try to lift a similar rock just to show the audience how heavy it was, and of course the two men were not able to lift it.

So yes, the human being is capable of doing extraordinary things in order to survive in the face of danger.

appeal to ethos is your answer.

a. both connotative and denotative.