The Titanic was a great luxury ship that embarked on April 10 and sank in April 15‚ 1912. It departed from Southampton‚ England and it’s destination was to New York‚ United States‚ carrying many immigrants and around 28 nationalities on the expected 7 day voyage. The Titanic was known as "unsinkable" before the tragic event and since the day "Titanic‚ the unsinkable" became an oxymoron‚ people still don’t know who should be the blame of it till present day. There’s been many suspects on the list
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Depression was caused by an economic system out of balance. There was too much supply with little demand. This situation was created by monopoly pricing‚ unsound banking practices‚ overproduction‚ high tariffs‚ and tightening of money supply by Federal Reserve Board. B. A slump in economic activity with over speculation in stock and buying stocks on margin caused the stock market to crash in October 1929. The stock market crash marked the beginning of Great Depression. C. The Depression was characterized
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Human nature has a tendency to search for a culprit after a disaster; one who has read The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare may use such behavior to understand the happenings in the play. Romeo and Juliet is a play centered around the quest of two lovers in the city of Verona on their adventure of finding love. Alas‚ the love Romeo and Juliet share is one that is forbidden‚ due to the feud between their two families: the Montagues and the Capulets. Through their rebellious determination
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Love Gone Wrong By: Celeste Smith If anybody is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet‚ it would be the families. If it weren’t for the rivalry between the Capulets and Montagues‚ Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have had to be married in secret; Tybalt wouldn’t have felt the need to fight Romeo (who turned it down because his wife‚ Juliet‚ was kin to Tybalt which caused Mercutio to jump in and be killed)‚ and Juliet wouldn’t have gone to Friar Lawrence in search of a solution to not having to be
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tragically cursed main character in the Greek play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ by Sophocles. Oedipus is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother. Oedipus has many characteristics that affect the decisions that eventually bring him to his doom. Oedipus’ downfall was caused by his own actions and he is the only one that can be blamed for his own misfortunes. Some of the traits Oedipus possesses that cause his downfall are swift action‚ truthfulness‚ and impatience. These qualities destroy Oedipus throughout his
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Gertrude’s Suicide? In the Shakespearean tragedy "Hamlet‚" Prince Hamlet’s mother Gertrude encounters many misfortunes‚ which she feels that she is to blame for. Gertrude was brought into the middle of everybody’s dilemmas and thus felt responsible for the occurrences that happened to all of the significant characters throughout the play. She allows her emotions to build up in an unhealthy manner and this leads to her eventual death. The question that surrounds her death
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Germany was mainly to blame for the outbreak of World War 1. Although other countries were partially to blame for there actions‚ which lead to the outbreak of war; it is clear that they only played a minor role in the eruption of the Great War. In 1904 the rivalry between nations increased to a certain extent; causing countries to expand armies‚ certain nations to build up alliances and for some to try and increase their empires. Germany was an imperialistic country therefore had lusted after
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War never truly has one person or side at fault; each front brings something to the table. Nevertheless‚ the American Revolution is a conflict that raises major debate over who to blame. The American colonies were at a standstill. How could a new nation grow with such a controlling mother country always on its back? As a result of the French Indian War‚ the British had to pay for their colonies war debts. For England to pay for these debts‚ Parliament imposed multiple harsh taxes and acts on
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Was Germany to Blame for World War One? One hundred years after the brutal bloodshed of World War One‚ the conflict which involved almost every country in the world‚ is still known as “The Great War". The number of casualties in World War I‚ both military and civilian‚ totals to around 37 million: 16 million deaths and 21 million wounded. Around 9.7 million military personnel and 6.8 million civilians were killed‚ not to mention those who went missing or were never found. A question that still lingers
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A name was mentioned in Act II in parenthesis before Ruth’s line‚ which sparked an interest in me to research it. Where the playwright put her name‚ I could not just ignore it. She was a critically acclaimed actress and singer during a time where people of color were not widely accepted in the film industry. After further research‚ she was awarded a Tony the exact same year the civil rights movement‚ in 1968. Maybe Hansberry wanted this line said in the way Pearl Bailey would say it. “You remember
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