Nicole Hart HIST 2300- Christopher Trobridge Writing Assignment One October 16‚ 2010 “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale ship Essex” In order to understand the ramifications of an event such as the sinking of the Essex one needs too understand the community that produces the crew. Nantucket was an island community much more than the literal sense of word. The islanders of Nantucket saw themselves differently than the rest of the word. They learned the skills of whaling from
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In Life of Pi by Yann Martel‚ Pi has to go through many obstacles‚ which can make him cave in‚ and do things he is not proud of‚ leading him to his fate. “Courage without conscience is a wild beast” by Robert Green Ingersoll‚ describes that doing things without your conscience could get you harmed in the process. Pi demonstrates in the novel the necessary skills needed for survival‚ which were bestowed upon him as he listened to his conscience. Pi’s conscience prevented him from experiencing‚ or
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Unit 4 “The Great War” Notes Outline Complete this notes outline as you review the material throughout the course. You will submit this completed outline to 4.04 Unit 4 Notes Dropbox. Lesson 4.01 “The War to End All Wars” Explore #1: What countries do the characters represent? The first person in the line represents Serbia‚ the second represents Austria‚ the third represents Russia‚ after him; the fourth represents Germany‚ the fifth France‚ and last the sixth person in line represents
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Sean Gamble Professor Kelly Quiz 2 Research Paper 13 March 2014 If I had been a member of the 1898-1899 US Congress I would have supported both our war with Spain and our annexation of its territories. The Spanish-American War served to end Spain’s colonial power in the western hemisphere. In the time leading up to the war there was three years of turmoil in Cuba‚ where Cuban revolutionaries were locked in battle with the Spanish in an attempt to gain independence from their mother country (history
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After 1688‚ Britain underwent a revolution in public finance‚ and the cost of borrowing declined sharply. Leading scholars have argued that easier credit for the government‚ made possible by better property rights protection‚ lead to a rapid expansion of private credit‚ and see the Industrial Revolution as a result of the preceding revolution in public finance. However‚ some prominent economic historians‚ on examination of this hypothesis‚ conclude that the financial revolution led to an explosion
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In 1963 from Birmingham jail‚ Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. was arrested for being a partaker in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation. While imprisoned‚ Dr. King wrote a letter in response to a public statement issued by eight Alabama clergymen addressing these diplomatic acts. Dr. King’s letter conveys his argument by approaching the clergymen’s statement rhetorically. Although his letter targeted all the rhetorical transactions effectively‚ pathos is one of the components that helped convince
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graphically showed off for the United States public by several over dramatic newspapers and American sympathy for the rebels started to rise. The increase in popular demand for United States intervention became an frazzling event after the unexplained sinking in Havana harbor of the battleship USS Maine on Feb. 15‚ 1898‚ which was sent to protect United States citizens and property after the anti-Spanish rioting in Havana. Spain then announced an armistice on April 9 and rapidly started up its new program
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Hardy describes the steel chambers as making “rhythmic tidal waves‚” meaning the currents of the ocean are flowing through the chamber‚ which is causing the harmonic sounds during death‚ as opposed to the undoubtedly-consonance-like sounds during the sinking of the ship. This juxtaposition carries into the third stanza‚ where the reader is presented with the “mirrors‚” once made for the wealthy‚ but are now used by the “sea-worm.” This juxtaposition serves to show how the ship sank from once
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Fredrick Fleet was the workman on guard on the Titanic on April 14. Fleet‚ had warned the personnel on the ship’s control deck to look out for icebergs that night‚ yet nobody was at the control panel that fateful night (McPherson 6). The Titanic was thought to be unsinkable when it was built in 1911. “More than 2‚200 people were now aboard the Titanic including 1‚300 passengers” (Senan 16). The location the Titanic deported from was Great Britain and it was headed to New York. After three long days
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1. What are Gilcrist’s responsibilities to the company? To the employees who might resent her sudden appearance? To Boswell? Gilcrist’s position is a walk-in president of the company due to Gunerson’s death intervened. Now Gilcrist must learn the business in a fast pace and keep it running without Gunerson’s advice. She can expect some skepticism from her employees because that’s what usually happens when change occurs. Her employees will watch her every move to grade if she’s capable of handling
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