MacBook Pro Shuts down all of a sudden... and How to use A

Hey,
My MacBook Pro recently has been shutting down for no apparent reason... This is really annoying as you can probably guess!!! Especially when you are a student writing a 4000 Word Essay!!!!
Apparently you can use activity monitor to see why it has shut down, and can you recommend something i can do to stop it shutting down
Thanks :]

Mmm,
The Globe is usually associated with trying to do a "Network Boot"!
This may suggest that there may be a problem with your hard drive. Try running Disk Utility to check the drive and see whether , when the Hard Drive itself is selected, S.M.A.R.T. Status is shown as "verified".
Cheers
Rod

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