question remains… Who or what is responsible for the sinking of the ‘unsinkable ship’? The Titanic set sail on April 10‚ 1912 carrying 2200 passengers and 1300 crew. She hit an iceberg on April 14‚ 1912 at 11:45 p.m. At first the captain thought that the ship had merely scraped the iceberg. The damage was much worse... The iceberg scraped the hull so bad the rivets used to hold the ship together popped out. The gash in the hull let water come into the ship at 10 tons per second! Of the 2200 passengers
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In “Convergence of the Twain‚” Thomas Hardy describes the greatness of the Titanic and the vanity that embodied its doom‚ radiating an admiring‚ yet regretful tone towards the events of April 14‚ 1912. During the first stanza‚ Hardy talks about the Titanic’s “solitude in the sea.” “Deep from human vanity‚” implying that the reason the Titanic is so deep‚ sunk under water is due to the vanity that created her‚ and ultimately sank her. The headline of the Titanic was “unsinkable‚” typifying
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Shunned and shut out because of her pride‚ Medusa ’s tale can assuredly be compared to the captain of the Titanic‚ Edward John Smith. Medusa was a very beautiful mortal‚ who had many suitors‚ although‚ she was very prideful about her appearance. Later on‚ Medusa got turned into a hideous monster by Athena‚ the goddess of wisdom and war. Her story ended in a great deal of tragedy and she was full of regret. The story of Medusa can be compared to the captain of the Titanic‚ Edward John Smith for many
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He’s A Live Wire‚ Metaphor and Poetry The use of metaphor in poetry is one of the most important aspects of poetic style that must be mastered. Metaphor can be described as figure of speech in which a thing is referred to as being something that it resembles. From the perspectives of construction‚ poetic and cognitive function and working mechanism‚ where metaphor is constructed from human perceptual experience and is extended through imaginative processes. An important feature of cognitive
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titanic event that revealed many reasons behind its sinking. The essay will then focus on the main factors that lead to the Titanic disaster. These include claims that the Titanic sank because its crew were sailing too fast and failed to see the iceberg before it was too late. Others argue that the Titanic disaster was caused by the poor design of the ship according to (http://writing.engr.psu.edu/uer/bassett.html ). There are also claims that argue that the failure of the Titanic lies heavily on
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have been prevented or at least lessened. On the night of April 14‚ 1912‚ as Titanic was crossing the Mid-Atlantic‚ Titanic struck an iceberg on its starboard side. Crews tried to avoid the iceberg but there was just not enough reaction time. Passengers aboard the ship said that it felt like the engines started‚ they had no idea the ship had struck an iceberg.[ii] The
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Titanic “The Unsinkable ship” The Titanic was known as "the unsinkable ship". She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage in April of 1912‚ during which she collided with an iceberg. She was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. A numerous amount of people believe that the collision that occurred on April 15‚ 1912 was The Titanic’s sister ship The Olympic‚ and that the wreckage was premeditated and was used to commit insurance fraud
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poem‚ I remembered the incident on April 15‚ 2016 in which the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean after colliding with iceberg during its maiden voyage. The poem reveals that due to the popularity of the Titanic‚ not many people would pass up the chance to passage on the ship. During the voyage‚ people having the best moments of their life‚ until they hit the iceberg and all fell into the ocean. I believe that anyone can reach the level of death at any moment of their life‚ whether they are
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Our Iceberg Is Melting is written by John Kotter‚ the leadership and change guru at Harvard Business School and Holger Rathgeber‚ the modern global manager from Frankfurt‚ Germany. The main topic and the author’s purpose in writing the book are to make successful change through the eight step process. The type of the book is management book that can use by people in every level such as manager in one organization‚ high school student‚ executives‚ retirees and others in order to better achieve what
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Progress Report Once you have written a successful proposal and have secured the resources to do a project‚ you are expected to update the client on the progress of that project. This updating is usually handled by progress reports‚ which can take many forms: memoranda‚ letters‚ short reports‚ formal reports‚ or presentations. What information is expected in a progress report? The answer to this question depends‚ as you might expect‚ on the situation‚ but most progress reports have the following
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