Next Step.

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NoƩmie Comeau

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Word count: 1816

Choice count: 31

Section count: 20

Image count: 20

Error count: 0

Field Related Analysis:

Tourism : 30 matches (Air, City, Contract, Control, Event, Extra, Food, Human, Member, Plane, Program, Resources, adventure, air, alternative, circle, contract, course, embark, event, national, network, program, rules, software, stop, through, times, vacation, vector)

Law/Paralegal-Technology : 27 matches (answer, closure, company, composition, confession, contract, death, director, escape, family, Financial, fine, force, four, government, interest, land, minutes, office, Rules, section, security, setting aside, software, stock, test, trafficking)

Education : 23 matches (CAT, Down, National, School, choice, classmate, college, course, courses, don, first, grade, grades, graduate, guidance, learn, learning, management, project, school, test, university, vacation)

Target Structure:

dead-end job (1 match)

dread (1 match)

income (1 match)

invaluable (1 match)

lack of (1 match)

maddening (1 match)

more often than not (1 match)

put aside (1 match)

though (1 match)

time management (1 match)

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Next Step.

where

Where do you go?

Finally, you finished your grade eleven and you don't know where you want to go for college. You can go to Montmorency College in Financial Services like the guidance service recommend it to you base on the personality test you made. Or you can go to Ahuntsic College in Graphic Design, the filed that really interest you but you are not totally sure about this future you may have.

Choice 1 : Financial Services.

Choice 2 : Graphic Design.

finance

Financial Services.

You choose to play safety with the finance. But, unfortunately this program is not for you. Everyone is boring. Every course is boring. Everything is boring. You just lose one year of your life in the wrong program. Good job. You can switch to Graphic Design for next session or abandon school to go to travel the world.

Choice 1 : Go in Graphic Design

Choice 2 : Travel the world!

Design

Graphic Design.

That's it, you found your domain! The courses and people in your program are so interesting and so rewarding! You learn a lot of things. For example, four-color printing processes, the usefulness of the color circle, the difference between matrix and vector images, etc. or all the principles of composition as the contrast of all types, alignment, typographic gray, management of white, in addition to learning software for graphic design. Everything is so interesting! You are motivated like never before but your DEC is coming to an end and you wonder if your future job is not a dead-end job. There are two choices for you: working for a company, or working for you.

Choice 1 : Working for a company

Choice 2 : Working for you.

travel

Travel the world!

Traveling was the best decision of your life. You have seen unimaginably beautiful places, meeting people who have changed you forever and faced poverty and famine in poor countries. You never thought you would experience so many emotions and discover so much about life while traveling to the four corners of the planet. More often than not, you have been lucky all along your adventure. You have been able to find small jobs here and to help you survive in times when you were lacking money. But, even though traveling was the best decision it was also the worst of your life. You must have been dread your last job because while you were learning the rope you were kidnapped by a guy who worked for a human trafficking network. You are already sold to someone and you are waiting to be picked up. You have two choices: You can try to escape, or hope that the person who bought you does not have too many bad intentions.

Choice 1 : Escape!

Choice 2 : Hope for the best.

company

Working for a company.

Working for someone else with lots of people on the same project brings a lot of maddening into your life. Working in this graphic design office is very stressful. People are putting pressure on you all the time so that you work faster and have better ideas. You feel overwhelmed and you put aside your family and your loved ones.You question yourself a lot: ''Are my income big enough to accept this?'' Your answer is a no. You have two choices: You can go back to the university in graphic design to become an artistic director or work for you.

Choice 1 : University

Choice 2 : Work for you.

Job at home

Working for you.

At the beginning, it was not easy. You could not find a lot of customers and a lot of them were really unpleasant with you. They refused to pay the extra hours you spent on their company logo, or they change their minds five times about the concept that you have to start over each time, and so on. A chance that you keep in touch with a classmate who has decided to make the same choice as you and go on his own. His invaluable help and support helped you to get through all this. Now you have a clientele with whom you feel good and that allows you to work all year long. You can now stop setting aside your family and friends for your job because you have employees who can take care of the contract while you go on vacation. You have a lack of nothing, your time management is now great and everything is fine!

Write a choice here.

escape

Escape!

After analyzing the situation, you can not, not try to escape. It would be giving up too quickly. After having managed to cut off your links you manage to make diversion to get away by the window and guess what? You succeed! Following this traumatic event you decide to come back to Quebec with people you love but unfortunately your misery is not over yet. A few weeks after your return the government launches a national security alert due to an epidemic of an unknown disease. Some people say it looks a lot like what you see in zombie movies. You have two choices: stock food and supplies while there is still time or go as far as possible to avoid the epidemic.

Choice 1 : Stock food and supplies.

Choice 2 : Go as far as possible!

Oh no...

Crap.

The man who bought you used you as a martyr for months before killing you. You were sucked up in some trouble just because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Choose where you want to start again.

Choice 1 : Travel the world!

Choice 2 : Graphic Design.

costco

Stock food and supplies.

Arrived in the Costco, you're not the only one wanting to make reservations. While you fill your basket you hear a small group of people plotting to take the Costco by force at the closure to make it their base during the zombie attack.

Choice 1 : Join them

Choice 2 : Continue to the cereal section

island

Go as far as possible!

You decide to fly. You're lucky you managed to embark on the last plane that will take off before Canada closes the borders. You land in Ireland, down there, everything is fine for the moment but it's not far enough to feel safe so you travel again until you reach a small island lost in the middle of the Indian Ocean called Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It is so far from everything that you save yourself from the epidemic and you end your life on this beautiful island and being part of the 5% of the population to have survived all that.

Choice 1 : What a life!

uqam

University.

You have great grades because you put your 100% in all of your projects and you graduate!

Choice 1 : Have a cat.

Choice 2 : Have a baby.

costco

Join the Costco group.

The group accepts you. At the closing of the store, you wait for more people to come out before acting. You manage to take control of the store by scaring everyone. But one member of the group wants to kill everyone to have fewer people to feed and live longer. Who are you following?

Choice 1 : Follow the guy who wants to kill people

Choice 2 : Follow the rest of the group

police

Finish your Costco purchases.

When you get home, you come across a police barrage. You do not understand what's going on. The situation seems to be deteriorating much faster than the government says. You understand that you must not stay there.

Choice 1 : Go home with an alternative way.

Choice 2 : Flee to the United States.

cat

Having a cat.

Having a cat is just like a baby but without all the inconvenience of a baby. The cat will not prevent you from sleeping for weeks or months of your life. Your cat is not going to stubborn and fugue when he is going to be a teenager. No. You made the right choice.

Choice 1 : what a life!

baby

Having a baby.

Having a baby is not really what you expected. You do not sleep anymore. You lose patience and your whole life turns only around your progeny. You sometimes regret not having taken a cat instead, it will have been less complicated.

Choice 1 : what a life!

usa

Flee to the United States.

You do not have time to get out of the country that Canada is closing the borders. You are far from home, in a city you do not know. It's bad. You stop 5 minutes to think. You see far away people who do not look healthy. The closer they get, the more you understand that they are zombies. You are not armed, you panic and you get caught. A painful death that nobody wants to live.

Choice 1 : What a life!

bunker

Go home with an alternative way.

You succeed to go home with your supplies from Costco. You find your family, and everyone is fine for now. Things continue to escalate and your father has a confession to make to you. He is a survivalist. He bought a bunker a long time ago but there is not enough space for everyone. You decide to leave your place to your sister. It's a heartbreaking moment, everyone is crying. You manage as you can outside but the zombies are more and more numerous. After a few days you end up becoming one of them.

Choice 1 : What a life!

skull

Follow the guy who wants to kill people.

Finally the whole group followed you. A lot of people are dead, leaving the strongest alive. You create rules to survive, you do not need to refuel because you are in a Costco. You have everything for a very long time. After a few weeks, you miss the sun. You can stay indoors forever or go out to get some fresh air.

Choice 1 : Go out!

Choice 2 : Stay inside forever. What a life!

outside

Follow the rest of the group.

Finally the guy who wanted to kill everyone was neutralized. Everyone is alive. However, after a few weeks you start to regret your choice. He was right. You will run out of resources and you will have to move to another place very soon. On the other hand, you are a lot of people to defend you, it will be advantageous.

Choice 1 : What a life!

outside

Go out!

You're the first person to go out since it started. You discover a very calm and deserted city. All the zombies are dead. Unlike any movies that have been created on the subject, the bodies of zombies has moldy and there is nothing left of them. You tell everyone the news and you can rebuild a life outside the Costco.

Choice 1 : What a life!

The End.