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Determination
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Determination
See also Perseverance.
Agathocles
(361–289 B. C.) Syracusan king; “burned his ships behind him” in attacking Carthage. [Gk. Hist.: Walsh Classical, 9]
Balboa, Rocky
determined prize fighter takes on impossible dream. [Am. Cinema: Rocky in EB (1978), 552]
bulldog
bred for doggedly refusing to let go. [Dog Breeding: Misc.]
Dry Guillotine
book by French escapee from Devil’s Island. [Fr. Lit.: Dry Guillotine]
Ignatz
tenaciously refuses Krazy Kat’s advances. [Comics: “Krazy Kat” in Horn, 436–437]
Jones, John Paul
(1747–1792) Revolutionary War naval hero; remembered for saying; “I have not yet begun to fight!” [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 260–261]
Keller, Helen
(1880–1968) though blind and deaf, becomes noted author and lecturer. [Am. Hist.: Hart, 439–440]
Little Engine That Could
succeeds when others refuse to help. [Children’s Lit.: The Little Engine That Could]
Message to Garcia, A
against great odds, American officer makes his way to Cuban general leading a revolt against Spain. [Am. Lit. and Hist.: Benét, 662]
Papillon
wily prisoner endeavors repeatedly to escape from Devil’s Island. [Fr. Lit.: Papillon]
Santiago
struggles long and hard for great fish. [Am. Lit.: Old Man and the Sea]
tortoise
slow and steady, it wins the race against the hare. [Animal Symbolism: Mercatante, 22; Gk. Lit.: Aesop, “The Tortoise and the Hare”]
Tovesky, Marie
outgoing and friendly, despite husband’s insane jealousy. [Am. Lit.: O Pioneers!, Magill I, 663–665]

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This would account for the low determination coefficient of the potential fit to fecundity data, because the number of eggs produced in successive partial spawning events decreases, resulting in a less adequate relationship with the organism's morphometric variables, however there is no evidence in the fecundity-length data.
 
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