INTRODUCTION Mariners spend much of their life beyond the reach of land. They sometime face dangerous conditions at sea. Yet men and women still go to sea. For some‚ the attraction is a life unencumbered with the restraints of life ashore. Seagoing adventure and a chance to see the world also appeal to many seafarers. Whatever the calling‚ those who live and work at sea invariably confront social isolation. Industry experts increasingly recognize isolation‚ stress‚ and fatigue as occupational
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from thinking that her husband is as miserable as her. <br><br>In the first passage from the poem‚ The Wanderer‚ it speaks of exile by saying‚ "To the wanderer‚ weary of exile cometh Gods pity‚ compassionate love‚ though woefully toiling on wintry seas with churning oar in the icy wave‚ homeless and helpless he fled from fate." It can be easily seen‚ in this passage‚ how common exile was in the poem‚ but also what a great pain it must have been to deal with the trial. The author continually describes
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Sonntag 1 Ashley Sonntag COMP II 11:00-11:50 10/1/14 The 7th Boat Every year‚ an unreported amount of people die at sea or from ocean-related causes. Drowning‚ salt contamination and other ailments cause an assortment of problems for sea-loving people‚ as well as hurricanes‚ typhoons‚ and disasters like erosion. Some even believe what once belonged to the sea always belongs to the sea and she will take what is rightfully hers. In both “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami and “The Open Boat” by Stephen
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sight‚ suddenly reveal their secrets to him when he stumbles over them. The fisherman who turns to the sea for his livelihood is fascinated by the beauty of the multitudinous creatures that swarm in the seas. Many of these creatures are found even on the shore. But the oceans often conceal the beauty that lies below their surface‚ and to catch a glimpse of the beauty of the world below the sea‚ hundreds of divers everywhere explore the bottoms of the oceans‚ even at the risk of losing their lives
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(29‚028 ft.)‚ along the Himalayan Range. Dead Sea : The world’s lowest land area is the Dead Sea (303 m. below sea level)‚ which is actually a salt lake in the Israel Jordan border. Pacific Ocean : The largest ocean is the Pacific which washes the eastern shores of Asia. Philippine Deep : The world’s deepest ocean depth is the Philippine Deep (10‚918 m. below the sea level)‚ along eastern Mindanao. Indonesia : The
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portray the two themes through detail and emotion. "The Seafarer" creates a storyline of a man who is "lost" at sea. There is a major reference to the concept of the sea and how it "captures" the soul and leaves a lonely feeling. The character is set to know the consequence of the sea but something keeps calling him back to it. "And yet my heart wanders away‚ My soul roams with sea‚ the whales’ home‚ wandering to the widest corners of the world‚ returning ravenous with desire‚ Flying solitary
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Since the sixteenth century‚ corsairs from Muslim countries in North Africa has mastered the Mediterranean Sea lanes with violence. At that time the United States won its independence‚ the state of the Barbary Coast such as Tripoli‚ Algiers‚ Morocco‚ and Tunisia have undermined the world merchant ships for three hundred years. The crew was detained in captivity until their home countries agree to pay a ransom for their release. If no ransom was forthcoming‚ the crew is sold as a slave. Over time
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unknown of the sea. The men of the open boat had a lot of trouble they had to face together with losing one of their members of the crew in the process of getting to shore‚ but with their faith and persistence led them to find land. The story “The open boat” was an extremely depressing story but in the same time encouraging. Days after days would the captain and the rest of his crew would see and feel the wrath of the sea. Knowing that they had very little chance in enduring the sea without any
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fighting the icy cold seas. Ideas fill minds with despair and doubt. Some struggle with the knowledge of coming danger‚ others with the fear of not knowing. “The Seafarer” is an elegy that compares the sea to the fear of everyman‚ of every struggle and hardship. However‚ contained in this elegy is also the answer to these fears. The author depicts the value that one should not be concerned with this world‚ but rather to take joy in the Lord. The author of “The Seafarer” describes the sea as a grave for
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spite of this resistance‚ Pai believes that she is destined to be the leader of her tribe. First‚ she beats the boys in tiaha‚ showing how capable she is. Then‚ when the boys fail the final test of recovering the whale tooth‚ which Koro threw into the sea‚ and she succeeds and knows that she is special. Next‚ she is able to call to the whales to help. When Koro calls in despair to the ancestors to help find a new chief‚ they do not respond. However‚ Pai calls and deep within the ocean‚ a pod of whales
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