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Gilgamesh's Dangerous Journey
A person today could have a similar experience to Gilgamesh’s dangerous journey in order to acquire knowledge on something. News reporters can be put in dangerous situations in order to get knowledge on certain subjects or places. For example, news reporters who go out to places that are in the middle of hurricanes are in dangerous situations because there is usually flooding, storms, and debris flying around them while they are reporting the information they found out about how the hurricane is affecting that area. This is the same for news reporters in war zones, who have been known to sometimes have to deal with a fight breaking out as they’re in the middle of reporting, or they get captured by the opposite side’s army. I most likely

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