mardi 3 novembre 2015

Life's Possibilities Hypertext

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It all started like this.


You are a young student finishing High School and you know that you want to go in a business program in cegep but you just don't know where to go.You have decided your top three favorite cegeps that you would like to attend.

Choice 1: Ahuntsic College
Choice 2: Montmorency College
Choice 3: Brebeuf College


































Scene 1.


Now that you are a student at College Ahuntsic you see that the courses are boring. What do you do?


Choice 1: Drop out of school and start making money on the streets.
Choice 2: Continue taking your courses even if they are boring.
Choice 3: Skip class and go hang out and smoke with your friends.


































Scene 2.


You are now one of the most dangerous and richest drug dealer's in the country. But you want more money and you want to have bigger distributors to expend your market throughout the country. Your best friend in the business tells you to go with an important distributor from Mexico. Another close gang member thinks that you should slow down before getting caught by the cops and F.B.I. he is a really thoughtful guy and you trust his instinct. What do you do?

Choice 1: You choose to meet and do business with the Mexican distributor.
Choice 2: You choose to slow down and keep a low profile


































Scene 3.


You have set up a meeting with the distributor where you will make the transaction. But at the last minute the Mexican cancels the meeting because he doesn't find the place of the meeting safe. You find that a bit weird.

Choice 1: Do you cancel all of the operation.
Choice 2: Do you accept the terms of the Mexican distributor.


































Scene 4.


Finally, you were right the Mexicans were trying to take the money without giving the product by shooting all your gang members. At the same time, your so called best friend was working for them. They tried to kill you, but you escaped. After that you hide for a while and give yourself a new name. You think about going back to school but you still don't know where.

Start again: Therefore, you want to go back to college but still don't know which one to choose. What will be your new purpose in life?

































Scene 5.


Your best friend who gave you the advice to meet the Mexicans is very mad so when you are alone with him he shoots you in the head and take the organization of the drug deal on his lead.

Start again: this life brought you to a dead-end, but you could still make a difference. Try again.


































Scene 6.


The time when you slow down makes you think about the real important things in life. You feel like you want to accomplish something that will stimulate your mind and that will not get yourself in danger. Therefore, you think about getting a legal job or start a company.

Choice 1: You decide to apply for a legal job.
Choice 2: You decide to start your own company.


































Scene 7.


The only job you can get is to work as a janitor in a Walmart because you only have a High school degree.

Start again: At this point,you make the decision to go back to college.


































Scene 8.


The company that you start is a big success and by working hard you get a lot of connections from around the world. At the same time, your knowledge from the streets give you an advantage over the people who stayed in school to study what you learned by experience. However, you have the willingness to learn more on the financial field to have.

Start again: So you go back to college.


































Scene 9.


One day, during your last semester at Ahuntsic a long time friend of yours comes to see you and propose that you to start a company that will make you and him one of the richest people in the world. This guy is someone who always had a lot of big ideas and motivation but dropped out of high school before getting his diploma. He talks to you about his plan and it seems to makes sense but you've been accepted to HEC University. If you join your friend to start a company you will have to let go of your opportunity to go to University.

Choice 1: You decide to go to HEC University.
Choice 2: You follow your friend and start a company.


































Scene 10.


One day, HEC University is victim of gun shooting by a mad student. This student was upset because the school had rejected his admission due to his bad grades. In the hallway you see a girl who has been shot in the arm and right next to you there is the door to get out of the school. What do you do?

Choice 1: You save the girl.
Choice 2: You save yourself by taking the door to get out.


































Scene 11.


Finally,the girl that you saved is now your wife and you have three invaluable kids. You work as a successful stock broker in New York and you write a book that reflects on the decisions that you made in the past and the other opportunities that your life gave you.

Start again: How different would be your life if you had made different decision?

































Scene 12.


You live your life in shame of what you did in that University and how you left that girl all by herself.You fall down into a big depression,you take drugs, drink and smoke.Finally, end up dying of a heart attack.

Start again: Would you do things differently now that you know this bad reality.


































Scene 13.


You and your hard working friend just succeeded in making the company famous and profitable in the whole province of Quebec. Now, you have a decision to make with your associate in order to bring the company to the next level. The both ideas will give you more income.

Choice 1: Do you introduce the company to the international market.
Choice 2: Do you expand your company in all the Canadian territory.


































Scene 14.


Today, you are one of the most successful business men in the world. The company you started with your friend is ranked in the top 20 companies with the biggest incomes in North America.

Start again: Are you overwhelmed that you made these decision in your life? Do you think you would be at the same point if you had taken a different path? Find out!


































Scene 15.


During your exchange with some Canadian business man you found out that your associate lied to you about some contract that you signed and you end up getting no money from the that company you started with him. All the overtime work you did for this company brieng you to a dead-end.

Start again: Would you have done things differently now that you know who he really is?


































Scene 16.


After all those skipped classes you end up failing all of them and you have to make a choice.

Choice 1: You decide to cancel your semester.
Choice 2: You decide to continue college on probation.


































Scene 17.


Although, you still have to leave the house so that your parents do not suspect that you have quit school. So you take a full time job at a Tim Hortons that is far away from home. One day, while you are serving people you see your dad walk into the Tim Hortons and immediately recognizes you. He then leaves the coffee shop. When you come back home from work you see all your clothes in a box at the front door. What do you do?

Choice 1: You go live with one of your friends.
Choice 2: You go in the house and face your parents and the consequences coming with it.


































Scene 18.


One day, while you are watching television with your friend,who let you live in his apartment, the police brake down the door and put you and him under arrest for fraud. You will be found guilty and you are sentenced to 5 years of prison for fraud.

Start again: Would you make a better decision now that you know the drawback of the decision leave your parents house?


































Scene 19.


After many arguments with your maddening parents you will finally go back to school but still have no idea of where you want to go and what you want to do with your life.

Start again: It is up to you to make the right decisions this time.


































Scene 20.


During the middle of your semester you go see an academic advisor who helps you find your real point of interest. You finally find two really interesting jobs who bring you motivation. The first one is being an architect but you would have to change your orientation to pure and applied and do two more years in college. The second one is being a stock broker and the great thing about it is that you are already in the right program.

Choice 1: Do you change orientation to go into pure and applied.
Choice 2: Do you stay in the same orientation to study in finance.


































Scene 21.


You finally end up finishing your college courses in four years and you are accepted at Harvard University with a scholarship for having straight A's in all your courses.

Start again: Now that you have reached this level would you change the way you did things.



































Scene 22.


Now that you have finished college you are going to HEC university, one of the top business universities in Canada and make a lot of money since you know how to invest your money and make decisions who will be profitable for you.

Start again: Did you made all the right decisions? Yes or No?.


































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Scene 23.


In the beginning of your semester at Montmorency you have a lot of options coming your way who will affect your school environment and your life completely. Which one will you choose?

Choice 1: Join the Montmorency football team.
Choice 2: Join the Montmorency basketball team.
Choice 3: Focus on school and work a part time job.


































Scene 24.


By the end of the football season you have a lot of recruiters that want you to play for them. But, you really have two option of university that really interest you.

Choice 1: McGill University.
Choice 2: Laval University.


































Scene 25.


During your semester at McGill you find yourself falling behind in school and you have to give in a final assignment worth 50% for tomorrow at 10:00 am. Now, it is 4:00 am and you still have to do the other half of your assignment. You really need a good time management if you want to finish this work. What do you do?

Choice 1: Buy an assignment on a website.
Choice 2: Finish the other half of your assignment to the best of your abilities.


































Scene 26.


You end up getting caught by the teacher for plagiarizing your essay. You are expelled from McGill University and your football career is now over.

Start again: Would you do things differently?


































Scene 27.


You'll have a 50% on your assignment and end up failing in this class. Therefore, you will miss the last three games of your rookie football season for your failure in school. But next season you will make a huge comeback in the University football league and be the first draft pick of the CFL (Canadian Football League).

Start again: Would you make the same choices again.


































Scene 28.


At a certain point in your semester, you are the best quarterback of the university football league and there are a lot of parties going on because of your success and the success of the team. You are starting to hang out with a few guys at the party who are not from the school. Later during the night they bring you somewhere far from the party and start threatening you. They say that they will break your leg if you don't loose the final game of the series. What do you do?

Choice 1: You accept their terms scared that they might hurt you or your loved ones.
Choice 2: You go to the police to report what you've been the victim of.


































Scene 29.


Finally, you loose the finals on purpose and confess to the media that you were threatened to loose the game. Though it is too late to do anything about it. Also, you will get banned from all professional sports leagues in the country.

Start again: If you could go back in time would you do things in different way.


































Scene 30.


Finally, the cops will find and arrest the suspect who had threatened you. You will win the final with your team with an undefeated season of 16-0. You are now considered one of the best quarterbacks in the history of university football league.

Start again: Now you know this reality, do you want to know more?


































Scene 31.


During an usual game of the season you fall down badly and you get injured on your left knee. The doctor says that it is an ACL and it is very hard to come back from that kind of injury. It would take a year to fix it with rehabilitation that can cost a lot of money or you can undergo surgery on your knee that will give you 70% of your mobility back. If you do the surgery you will have to quit basketball.

Choice 1: Do you start the rehabilitation for your knee to be able to start the season next year.
Choice 2: Or do you do an operation to get your knee at 70% of it's abilities.


































Scene 32.


One year later, your knee is 100% ready to go back playing on the team. Although, the coach makes you bench the first games of the season because he tells you that he wants you to take it slowly. But, you tell him that you are ready to play. Despite that, he still does not want to listen. Meanwhile, you have a chance to go play for Dawson college. The coach of the Dawson team wants you as one of his starting players. What do you do?

Choice 1: You wait for the coach to give you more game time.
Choice 2: You change college to go play for Dawson College.


































Scene 33.


Finally, the coach puts you in the starting five and you have the chance to show the recruiters your talent. You will end up getting recruited by an American University.

Start again: Would you still wait for the coach approval?


































Scene 34.


Finally, you don't like the way that the Dawson coach works and you will find a lot of difficulties showing your skill level to the recruiters. Although, you get recruited by Concordia University.

Start again: I'm sure you could've gone further in your basketball career. Find out.


































Scene 35.


You are now unable to do any other sports and you see yourself loosing motivation to go the school. Then, you fall into a big depression. During this time, one of your friends offers you the chance to make music with him knowing that you love music.

Choice 1: Do you join him?
Choice 2: Do you decline his proposition?


































Scene 36.


Finally, you and your friend are getting a lot of contracts from many artists to produce their music. Now the both of you are ready to start your own label.

Start again: Are you satisfied with your life or would you make different decisions?


































Scene 37.


Even with your depression and lack of motivation you still manage to go to university to become a teacher. You don't like this job but you still take it because you don't know what else to do.

Start again: Go back if you don't like this ending.


































Scene 38.


During that part of your life with school and work you still have a lot of free time and you use it to go out. Your parents are always cussing you out because you are not serious in school and you are always going out partying and clubbing. You are really tired of them annoying you. What do you do?

Choice 1: You move out and go get an apartment.
Choice 2: You stay home and stop going out.


































Scene 39.


Now, you have your own apartment but the only problem is that you have to pay more bills and you just work as a part-time worker.One day, one friend of yours talks to you about a company called ACN and ask you to join him in his project with this company. He says that you will be able to get money faster then with any usual job.

Choice 1: Quit school and take a full-time job.
Choice 2: Join your friend in the ACN company.


































Scene 40.


Today, you are a full-time worker in a restaurant. Your parents do not want to talk to you because they are ashamed of what you are now and the fact that you quit school. You still think about going back to school but you have to pay your apartment and you have no other place to live.

Start again: Would staying in school have been a better idea, find out.


































Scene 41.


You finally get no money from that company you even loose 500$ just to join them. You end up loosing your apartment and have no choice to live with a friend who does not clean anything in the apartment.

Start again: You still have the chance to change your future.


































Scene 42.


Today you are at John Molson school of business and a lot of companies already wants you for your abilities and the grades that you have. One of those company offers you a really big salary but you have to move out in New York far away from your family.

Choice 1: Do you accept the proposition and move out to New York.
Choice 2: Do you denied the job and finish your studies at John Molson.


































Scene 43.


You are now a important manager in the company that hired you back in university and you have a lovely wife that you met in New York during the first year you moved in.

Start again: Are you satisfied of your present life? if not, you can go back.


































Scene 44.


Today you are a young business man that was hired by a company from Ottawa right after you finished university. You are still near home which allows you to visit your parents several times during the year.

Start again: Can you do better decisions, find out.


































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Scene 45.


Now, you are a student of Brebeuf College and you are playing basketball for the college team. The only problem about your life in this college is the price to get in. Your parent can't pay your schooling anymore because they do not have the financial health they need for that. Although, you still want to finish your program there. What do you do?

Choice 1: Take a part-time job.
Choice 2: Ask for a scholarship at Brebeuf College.
Choice 3: Transfer to Vanier College.


































Scene 46.


Now that you are working, studying and playing for the team you are really tired. Therefore, you get really sick and you can't get out of bed for 1 week. Your parents say that you need to go to the hospital because it is getting pretty serious but you think that they are just over exaggerating things and that you will be fine.

Choice 1: You go to the hospital.
Choice 2: You stay home and get better by yourself.


































Scene 47.


The doctors give you many tests to see what is the cause of this problem but they do not find anything. They say they want to keep you in the hospital for one more week but you have a tournament in Quebec for the series coming this week with the basketball team. What do you do?

Choice 1: Stay 1 more week in the hospital for observations.
Choice 2: You go to the tournament.


































Scene 48.


Finally, the doctors come to see you and tells you that you have cancer. If you had gone to the tournament you would probably be dead by now.

Start again: If you want to change your life, you still can!


































Scene 49.


Finally, during the first game of the tournament you feel dizzy and have a heart attack, the ambulance will come get you on the court to bring you to hospital but you will die on the way there.

Start again: You can change this reality and choose a better one.


































Scene 50.


After two weeks you are still sick and you have difficulty breathing. You go see the doctor and they say that you have cancer. They propose you two different treatment to cure your cancer. What do you choose?

Choice 1: A chemotherapy.
Choice 2: A new experimental therapy who has presently had a lot of success.


































Scene 51.


Finally, the chemotherapy turns out fairly bad and the doctors are saying that you only have 2 years to live.

Start again: If you want to live longer.


































Scene 52.


Finally,the experimental therapy gives a good response and is able to kill the cancer after 1 year. You are now cancer free.

Start again: If you want to try another path, you can.


































Scene 53.


When you ask the administration of Brebeuf for a scholarship they inform you that you can have a scholarship for the school but you have to be able to keep an R score of 27 and more in order to obtain the scholarship. At the same time, you see that you can ask for a loan to help you pay the schooling costs but you will have to pay the loan back when you finish your studies. What do you choose?

Choice 1: The scholarship.
Choice 2: The loan.


































Scene 54.


You are now so focus on school and basketball that you have no time for your friends and family. But one of your friends is having this huge party for the last week of the semester and you really want to go. The only problem is that you have a final exam the next day after the party and if you fail you will lose your scholarship. What do you do?

Choice 1: You go to the party.
Choice 2: You stay home to study.


































Scene 55.


Finally, you will fail your last exam of the semester and loose your scholarship because you went to this party. Also, you will find out afterwards that during the party you had unprotected sex and that your sexual partner is now pregnant and wants to keep the baby.

Start again: If you can change your life would you?


































Scene 56.


Finally, you will have a good score on your exam and will be recruited by a university from the United States for your good grades and your athletic skills in basketball.

Start again: You could change your path if you want a different ending.


































Scene 57.


During your last semester in brebeuf you are in a really bad position because you didn't work during all your time in that College and you have to pay back the loan. You have a friend who is doing fraud and he tells you if you want to have your money faster he can help you. Do you accept is proposition?

Choice 1: Yes.
Choice 2: No.


































Scene 58.


Finally, you get caught by the police 1 week after having withdrawn money from an account that was not yours. In other words, you get arrested for fraud.

Start again: You can have a better ending, try again.

































Scene 59.


Finally, your parents will be able to pay back the loan and you will be recruited by the Kentucky University to play NCAA first division.

Start again: Would you do things differently now that you know this reality?


































Scene 60.


Now that you are at Vanier College you have the opportunity to go play for their basketball team. Basketball being your biggest passion, you take this opportunity to join the team
Choice 1: You join the Vanier team.


































Scene 61.


Now that you are a player for the team you see a lot of girl coming your way and who wants to date you. The only problem is that you have been seeing a girl for a few days and you are starting to like her. What do you do?

Choice 1: Go get the most girl that you can.
Choice 2: Only date this girl that you like.


































Scene 62.


Finally, you will get aids from one girl that you slept with. You will pass different tests to see what is the infection and the doctor will tell you that you are HIV positive.

Start again: DO you won't to take another path, You can.

































Scene 63.


You end up getting married with this girl that you was dating back in Vanier,

Start again: You can choose another path.



































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