16 October 2013
RMS Titanic: A Ship of Widows Response Paper No. 2
The Titanic is never an easy topic for me to discuss or write about. Every time I think of that fateful night I feel depressed and my head fills with faces of all the men, women, and children whose lives were taken from them all too soon. It makes me wonder how different our world today would be if the Captain, Edward Smith, had heeded the warnings of the ice field. It was said that when the Titanic is finished man will have surpassed God. Perhaps the sinking of the ship was God’s way of humbling us? Or was this merely a result of an incompetent Captain who put his pride before the safety of his passengers? “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” –Proverbs 16:18 KJV …show more content…
This was a time of great invention and technological advancement in the US. The steam engines and railroads had made travel and industrialization much easier. Powerful men such as J P Morgan had just opened US steel in 1901. In 1912, having made their fortune creating Standard Oil, the Rockefeller’s fortune had just peaked. Travel to continents was accomplished only by ship. So the building of the Titanic was of great importance and convince to such important traveler’s of the day. This was indeed an era made easier by inventions such as the light bulb, phone, and Ford automobiles. Air travel had just been accomplished by the Wright brothers who made their 1st flight in 1908. This was a time in which almost anything seemed possible and the rich where willing to take advantage of such