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Captain Smith Gave Birth
2,536 wordsI have always been intrigued by the Titanic, but my interest boomed with the recent development in how the side of the ship was damaged. I was amazed that instead of causing a gaping wound, as was previously believed, the iceberg that Titanic hit merely caused a series of small rips in the side of the ship. Sonar was used to determine that the side of the ship had six small slits that were no bigger than a single hand (web). This research amazed me because of the amount of water that passed thro...
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Women And Children Third Class
2,604 words... She made immediate plans to return to America after receiving the bad news. She booked passage on the first ship to America, which happened to be the Titanic (web). She boarded in Cherbourg, France and considered herself lucky and was put in a stateroom on B deck for $ 130. By Thursday evening Brown was well aquatinted with Colonel Archibald Gracie, who would later throw her into a lifeboat unwittingly. On the night of the collision, Brown had stayed up to finish reading a book as she was an...
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Bermuda Triangle Coast Guard
1,229 wordsThe Bermuda Triangle is a triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico. Many people believed that people, ships, and planes have mysteriously vanished in this area. The size of the triangle varies from 500, 000 square miles. Some trace the mystery back to the time of Columbus. Bermuda Triangle estimates range from about 200 to no more than 8, 000 distress calls in the area and that there have been more than 50 ships and 20 planes to go down in the Bermuda Tria...
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Number Of Immigrants Point Of View
1,268 wordsThe concern about the impact that immigration impose on American society is not a new one. Since the discovery of the New World immigrants from all over the world moved to American continent in search of a better life, that this vast and rich in sources, yet scarce in population land had promised them. Soon the immigrants outnumbered the native population. They came from England, Europe and Asia. In addition, millions of Africans were imported as slaves. By 1700 the United States became a countr...
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Cup Of Tea Top Deck People
553 wordsHello, my name is Richard Peterson, I am travelling first class, on the Titanic from Ireland, I am moving to New York because I want to make something out of my deep interest in motorcars. I am travelling with my Wife - Mary, Mum - Jean, and brother John. On the evening of 11 th April 1912 at about 11 Oclock I was having a cup of tea with my wife in our cabin when we felt a rather large shudder. We didnt think much of it at the time as we thought that is could have been anything. Room service kn...
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Racial Mixing Socio Political
779 wordsLiving on a Lifeboat In his article Living on a Lifeboat, Garret Hardin outlines a general idea of what is going to happen to the world, as we know it, if proponents of Liberalism will be allowed to impose their degenerative social doctrines upon citizens in Western countries. By applying a scientifically proven statistical data, Hardin leaves us with no doubt that it will only be the matter of time, before Western civilization descends back into barbarism, if we embark on fitting everybody into...
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Number Of Deaths Face
1,382 wordsRose DeWitt Bukater The sinking of Titanic is one of the most famous of tragedies in our history. Everyone knows that the unsinkable ship found its home at the bottom of the ocean before it even reached its first destination. Many films have been made in an attempt to recreate the events of that fateful night on April 15, 1912 but none have been as realistic as the version of Titanic directed by James Cameron. When we think of Titanic, we remember the horrific number of deaths that occurred. A h...
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Middle Class Families Lifeboat Ethics
898 wordsHardin's Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against The Hardins Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against The Poor No! You Cannot Come In Hardin's Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against the Poor No! You Cannot Come in Garrett Hardin writes about saving the poor in his essay Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against the Poor found in The Blair Reader. Hardin writes about how the rich countries are in the lifeboat and the poor countries are swimming in the ocean. He also writes about how the United States helps other countries...
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United States Citizens Legal And Illegal Immigrants
2,164 wordsMany immigrants come to the United States because it is known as the land of opportunities, but in the last decade many political analysts are saying that there are no more opportunities left for the citizens already living here. Immigrants come here for job opportunities and to start a new life and career. The question though is that, by allowing the number of new immigrants to influx are we end up sacrificing the people that are struggling to find those opportunities. The number of new immigra...
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J J Small Town
1,333 wordsThe woman who would come to be known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown was born on Dealer Alley and Butler Street in Hannibal, Missouri on July 18, 1867. She was born during a very bad thunderstorm and her mother predicted right then that Molly would not be just another pretty face. Margaret (Molly's birth name) grew up in a small town with a surprisingly small population of less than 20, 000 people. (Heroine of the Titanic, 1) Margaret attended school for thirteen years. It was during these years t...
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Waters Of Lifes Home Of Dr Sea
675 wordsLucy Stowe's Journey When Lucy Stowe boards a ship to travel to Villette, she is asked Are you fond of a sea-voyage by (the yet to be known) Ms. Fanshaw. Since this was Lucy's first trip abroad, she answers that her fondness is yet to be experienced. Nonetheless, Lucy's partiality for the sea is evident throughout the novel. She illustrates her past with a myriad of nautical metaphors and image ries of water that suggests a spiritual connection to the sea. This connection appears to derive from ...
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Number Of People Standard Of Living
3,047 wordsPopulation Problem Two hundred years ago, Thomas Malthus, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, reached the conclusion that the number of people in the world will increase exponentially, while the ability to feed these people will only increase arithmetically (21). Current evidence shows that this theory may not be far from the truth. For example, between 1950 and 1984, the total amount of grain produced more than doubled, much more than the increase in population in those 34 years. More r...
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Life Of Pi Yann Martel Tiger
867 wordsAnimal magnetism Life of Pi Yann Martel 319 pp, Canongate In the authors note that prefaces this vertiginously tall tale, Yann Martel blends fact and fiction with wily charm. Yes, hed published two books that failed to shake the world eager, studious-young-mans fiction with a strain of self-conscious experimentalism and taken off to India nursing the faltering seeds of another. But no, he didnt there meet a wise old man who directed him to a putative main character, now living back in Martel's n...
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Moral Obligation Absolute Poverty
1,137 wordsRobbing the Rich to Give to the Poor Poverty has conquered nations around the world, striking the populations down through disease and starvation. Small children with sunken eyes are displayed on national television to remind those sitting in warm, luxurious houses that living conditions are less than tolerable around the world. Though it is easy to empathize for the poor, it is sometimes harder to reach into our pocketbooks and support them. No one desires people to suffer, but do wealthy natio...
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