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U S S Aircraft Carrier
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One Friends Join
681 wordsGrowing up in the streets of Los Angeles one will be caught into the temptations that are out there. One of the biggest temptations being caught into gangs. It is pretty hard not joining one especially when you see all your friends joining a certain crew or gang. This temptations are brought upon you during your junior high years, when everyone wants to fit in and find all the friends on can find. Fortunately for me a incident occur that would change my life forever. It was a hot summer day in S...
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Open Boat Short Story
1,054 wordsIn Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, Crane uses a personal experience that happened to him to pattern this short story after. Crane's writing style consists of a very prominent use of naturalism. Naturalism is simply the struggle between nature and man, with nature being the most powerful force. In The Open Boat, Crane writes about a sinking boat, therefore placing his characters at nature's mercy. The story line for The Open Boat is based on a true experience Crane had while smuggling guns to Cuba...
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Hoover Dam Las Vegas
1,231 wordsThe construction of Hoover Dam is considered to be one of Americas finest engineering achievements. However the dam that rose from the floor of Black Canyon was not only a structural accomplishment, it was a proposition firmly rooted in practicalities. The necessity of such a dam had been obvious for more than two decades. The Colorado Rivers cycles of drought and flood in the American southwest incapacitated the growth of the agricultural industry. It was felt that a dam that could control the ...
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Odysseus And Crew Halls Of Hades Circe
561 wordsOdysseus and his comrades arrive at the island of Area, the home of the beautiful Circe, a formidable goddess, with a mortal womens voice. (Homer 10. 135 - 137). Following the transformation of Odysseus crewmembers being turned into pigs. Odysseus travels through the forest towards Circe's home, where he meets with Hermes, the god of the golden wand (275 - 276). During the meeting Hermes presents Odysseus with directions to help free his crewmembers of the magical spell and also get Circe on the...
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Gold Rush James Marshall
1,012 wordsImagine yourself building a sawmill and all of a sudden you see something shiny in the ground. You pick up the shiny pieces and determine that you just found gold. You go tell your foreman what just occurred. Soon, the news spreads that gold was found. Millions from all around pour into a place they had never seen before. These young white men were in a pursuit for happiness not realizing the hardships they would encounter on the way to California. In January of 1848, James Marshall had a work c...
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Power And Authority Human Rights
696 wordsSet in 1839, Amistad is the true story of a revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad, whose cargo of 53 Africans rebelled against their captors. Captured off the coast of Connecticut when their desperate attempt to sail home failed, the Africans are forced to stand trial for the murders of the crew that had held them prisoner. To win their freedom, the Africans, with the help of the abolitionists, find themselves taking on not just the Spanish, but the entire American system of justice. (Interne...
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Gap Between The Rich Mortality Rate
518 wordsA number of aspects about the film, Captains Courageous were quite interesting. The first is the gap between the rich and the working class. The second is the way the shipmates could work their way up the ladder to captain. The third aspect that interested me was the very high mortality rate. Apparently this was considered socially acceptable back then. I was intrigued about how much camaraderie and competition existed between the boats and their crews. Finally, I was amazed at the father and so...
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30 A M P M
1,362 wordsTitanic Titanic was the largest ship in the world, built by a workforce of 17, 000. The ultimate in turn-of-the-century design and technology. First-class suites ran to more than $ 55, 000 in todays dollars, and when she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY, she held among her 2, 227 passengers. The cream of industrial society, including colonel John Jacob Astor. Macys founder; U. S. congressman Isidor Straus and Thomas Andrews, the ships builder. The ship was bui...
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Lot Of Money Carbon Dioxide
877 wordsMars has been a place NASA and other organizations have wanted to conquer after the Apollo missions. It has been several decades since anyone has sent anything to Mars. Lately though Mars has been the main focus to space engineers and scientists. This is because in 1989 President George Bush called for a manned mission to Mars (Sky & Telescope). This will cost a lot of money and effort. In 1969 people were celebrating the first manned mission to the moon. People were in awe of their own ability....
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Brave Mouse Reepicheep University College Oxford Lewis
1,154 wordsThe story begins in the bedroom of Eustace Clarence Scrubb... he disliked his cousins, the Pevensies: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. He was small of stature, but somewhat of a bully. The Pevensies had come to stay with him and his family, which they did not want to do, as they dislike Scrubb as well. Edmund and Lucy were sharing some memories of their adventures in Narnia in a room at the Scrubb house, in which hung a picture of ship sailing straight towards you... the ship had a dragons head o...
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Miles An Hour Mississippi River
1,033 wordsRobert Fulton started the very first commercially successful steamboat service in America. His steam-powered paddle boat, the Clermont, sailed up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in August of 1807. This trip lasted 32 hours The first steamboats were demonstrated in 1787. They were used on the river ways to bring cargo, cotton, sugar, and people to their destinations. The steamboat played a major part in the population growth. The steamboats were usually made of wood and were all kin...
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Good Vs Evil Moby Dick
511 wordsIn the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville, the apparent themes: good vs. evil, civilized vs. uncivilized, and conventional vs. unconventional are throughout the book, but they are not as superficial as they seem. In treating the theme good vs. evil, the apparent message is one of Ahab being the innocent victim. A man disfigured and tormented by a beast of nature. In juxtaposition to that the whale can be perceived as being evil because of what he did to man. However, if we are to look at this ob...
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Man Versus Open Boat
477 wordsThe Open Boat is a story of four men who drift across a January sea in an open boat, since they lost their ship some time after dawn. The main conflict in this story is man versus nature, in this case the raging sea. Stephen Crane gives a description of two days spent on a ten-foot dinghy by four men a cook, a correspondent, which is Crane himself, the injured captain, and the oiler, Billy Higgins. This story enforces that this is a collective experience. The emotional support and the knowledge ...
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Outlook On Life Faith In God
1,786 wordsAlmost everyone has heard of or read Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe is an inspired novel of adventure: The story of a mans faith, courage and ability to survive on an uninhabited island facing all of the forces of nature and to emerge triumphant over hardships and adversity. Defoe's novel is a story of an English sailor marooned for twenty-seven years on a deserted Caribbean island surviving by his wits: hunting for food: rescuing a savage from a cannibals feast and, final...
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Crimes Against Humanity World War Ii
1,620 wordsIn ancient times prisoners of war were usually treated without mercy. With Greeks, for example, it was common practice to kill the whole adult male population of a conquered state. The ancient Britons also killed their prisoners in a screwed up way. The Ottoman Turks executed 30, 000 Christian prisoners during the War of Candia. In Western Europe, however, as chivalry spread in late medieval times and the practice of sparing and ransoming prisoners was started. Over one hundred thousand people d...
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Count Orlok Fast Motion Film
330 wordsTitle: Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grades Year: 1922 Director: F. W. Murray Starring: Max Schreck, Greta Schrder, Gustav Van Wagenheim The story begins in Bremen, Germany. A little real estate agent, assigns his employee to visit the remote castle of Count Orlok, who wishes to buy a house in town. During the trip to Orlok's lair in the Carpathian Mountains, images foretell doom. In an inn, all of the customers fall silent when the employee mentions Orlok's name. Outside, horses bolt and run, a...
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Goal For This Operation Uss Alabama Ramsey
363 wordsWhen Russia rebels gain control of nuclear weapons in the USSR, the United States retaliates by deploying the USS Alabama, a nuclear submarine. Which is commanded by Captain Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman), a veteran solider and Naval Great. Ramsey selects Lt. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington), to be his right man on this mission; Hunter is a Harvard graduate and prefers to use his brains to weapons unlike his Commanding officer. The USS Alabama's mission was simple, it was to basically go in...
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Holy Bible God Makes
1,252 wordsHebrew and Greek attitudes toward killing are similar, but once religion is factored in a remarkable difference is revealed. Early Hebrew citizens were murderous people by nature, much like the Greeks, but had God looking down on them saying to them that killing was wrong. Greek citizens would engage in war and human sacrifices with the gods on their side, and even sometimes the gods would take part in the murdering. The Greek way of life was murderous due to their strong urge to be revengeful, ...
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Caliban Comes To Represent Innocence Of An Audience Play
1,010 words... is audience. He will be free to retire when they have applauded his efforts one last time, once he has indulged their pleasures for the final performance. The magic of the island stage originates from a source that is present as an airy spirit, Ariel. The name Ariel has a Hebrew meaning of lion of God, the messenger. Ariel becomes the allegorical representation of the magic of the theatre, the magic that can exist nowhere other than the stage. Just as a playwright holds jurisdiction over the...
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