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    of 1500 people that died on this ship while the crew was rejecting the message from the other ship. The titanic sank because the ship’s crew was ignoring the messages that the other ships were sending and then one of the crew members spotted an iceberg and the ship hit it. Mr.Anthony wood frost was a foreman engine fitter he was second class because he had an average job. He was born in late 1873 in Hull‚ yorkshire‚ England. Mr. Frost died on the sinking ship on its voyage to new york. It has

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    In the year 1912‚ the tragedy of the “Unsinkable” R.M.S (Royal Mail Steamer) Titanic occurred‚ but why? According to www.historyonthenet.com‚ there are many possibilities why the Titanic has an early grave‚ 12‚500 feet under water‚ resting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Historians have argued over the possibilities ever since the incident had occurred. They believe the Titanic sank because of human error. Three of the many human errors that occurred on April 14‚1912‚ are first of all Captain

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    Analysis of Metaphors in Two Italian Sign Language (LIS) Registers Russo‚ Tommaso‚ 1948Sign Language Studies‚ Volume 5‚ Number 3‚ Spring 2005‚ pp. 333-359 (Article) Published by Gallaudet University Press DOI: 10.1353/sls.2005.0009 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/sls/summary/v005/5.3russo.html Access Provided by University of Queensland at 08/03/10 11:57AM GMT TOMMASO RUSSO A Crosslinguistic‚ Crosscultural Analysis of Metaphors in Two Italian

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    2 The significance of metaphors for our everyday communication referring to the example “football is war” Table of contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………....3 2. Definition of metaphor……………………………………………..3 3. Reasons for using metaphors…………………………………….3 4. Metaphorical concepts……………………………………………..4 4.1 Structural metaphors………………………………………...…4 4.2 Orientational metaphors……………………………………….5 4.3 Ontological metaphors…………………………………………6 4.3.1

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    Contrastive Analysis of the Conceptual Metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY in English and its Equivalent in Vietnamese Department of English Ho Chi Minh University of Education Instructor: Bui Nguyen Khanh Ho Chi Minh City‚ June 19th‚ 2013 1 I. ABSTRACT Since its introduction in 1980‚ the publication “Metaphors We Live By” by Mark Johnson and George Lackoff has successfully persuaded the readers to see all metaphors in a new light. The 1980 classic maintains that metaphorical expressions

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    compares the intent of the original areas within the ship purpose to the current location at the bottom of the ocean; in addition to the fate of the ship and the iceberg. The Titanic was known to be the largest and most luxurious ship of its day. It was considered by its builders to be unsinkable however in April 1912 she struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the ocean taking hundreds of lives with her. By coincidence this was also the same year that Hardy losses first wife‚ Emma Lavinia Gifford

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    The Titanic was one of the worst cruise ship disasters know in the world. The Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912. Over 1500 passengers died as a result of the Titanic sinking. To understand why the Titanic sank‚ one has to apply the three accidents theories to the disaster and then determine what theory applies the most. The first theory is natural accidents theory. Natural accidents theory states that every system fails at some point depending on how the systems is designed. The way

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    Smith was going to be retired after the maiden voyage of Titanic and he wanted to end his career by arriving to New York at record time which shows a possible reveal of an attempt of committing suicide from Captain Smith because even when there were iceberg warnings‚ Captain Smith ignored it. He would have clearly known the consequences. So with the record time and career in focus‚ he didn’t care to change the speed before it was too

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    The Titanic was one of the largest ships the world has ever known‚ but on one horrific night the ship struck an iceberg‚ sending people into a delayed panic. Many lives were lost because of their age or class status. Because of the crew and the captain’s negligence‚ too many lives were lost; this all could have been avoided if they had just heeded the warnings of the other boats. Master Frank Philip Aks was one of the few people saved from the tragic event. The evidence provided by the essays given

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    continue to debate what possibly could have occurred during the brief moment to not only save the Titanic’s thousands of passengers‚ but also save the ship itself. One of the most disputed arguments of the debate was for the Titanic to collide with the iceberg directly‚ rather than avoiding it. It was hypothesized that since there was more material towards the end of the ship‚ it would allow the vessel to absorb most of the impact at its tip‚ crumpling only two to three of the ship’s watertight compartments

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