Melting Icebergs

reason to believe that the captain and the wireless operator are at fault. First of all, the lookouts did not see the iceberg before time because the captain did not provide them. Also, It states on page 18 that the captain didn’t take the iceberg warnings seriously and thought that the Titanic was unsinkable. And my last reason is that the wireless operator didn’t listen to the last iceberg…

Charles Lightoller was the Second Officer and only surviving commanding officer on the maiden and final voyage of the White Star Line’s ‘unsinkable’ Titanic. After the ship collided with an iceberg, Lightoller oversaw the of loading passengers into lifeboats on the port side, famously only allowing one man on all eleven lifeboats. Lightoller, after a narrow escape from death after going down with the ship, went on to give key testimonies for both the US inquiry and the British Board of Trade…

It is Sunday, April 14, 1912, at 11:39 pm. The shout, “ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD!!!!!!!” is heard. 37 seconds later, the Titanic hits an iceberg and starts to sink. The sinking lost more than half of the ship’s crew and passengers. Of around 2,228 people aboard, 1,503 died and 725 survived. Yet this tragic disaster improved safety for future ships. How? The sinking of the Titanic during the night of April 14, 1912 and the early morning of April 15, 1912, was a tragic disaster. This was truly the…

The Titanic was the “unsinkable” ship that sank and took the lives of 1,522 passengers and crew. The ship was widely believed to be the safest ever built at the time; however, the ship’s builders never said it was unsinkable. It was actually Shipbuilders magazine that described the ship as “practically unsinkable”. Though it has been over one-hundred years since the sinking of the Titanic, the story, which includes both heroes and villains, still enthralls us (Hutchings). The idea for the…

In twenties century of 1912 America suffered one of the big unforgettable historical disasters. The most gigantic and luxury steamship instead of getting to the New York seaport, it sideswiped to the iceberg in North Atlantic ocean and dive to the depth of the sea. Theretofore, the Atlantic sea witnessed many ships and vessels ply in various purposes between Europe and America. It may many ships sank into the sea for different reasons, but nobody thought this kind of a ship with having such a…

calmly. Then on the night of April 14, 1912 at 11:40 p.m., the ship struck an iceberg. It is said that this was not because of one mistake, but a series that led to the Titanic sinking. One reason is that many believe the ship was traveling way too fast during the icy weather. Another reason is that people think that Captain Edward J. Smith didn’t pay enough attention to the warnings that were received about the icebergs. Also, the crew that were…

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Although the films The Blue Angel and the Titanic are very different, they do have a few similarities. In The Blue Angel, Immanuel Rath and Lola Lola embodied the contradiction of the provocative young female and a wretched old man in a relationship. Seductive Lola Lola embraces her sexuality through being a cabaret dancer and singer. Rath, the professor is stern, lonesome and much respected because of his profession. Rath meets Lola Lola in the process of punishing his pupils for distributing…

A long time ago, there were big sailing ships on the river. One night in a storm, a big ship sank. All the lanterns on board were lit as the ship went down. Now, they say that on stormy nights you can still hear the flame of the lanterns being extinguished as they clashed with the water, at exactly 11 O’ clock. There have also been sightings of ghostly figures roaming on the nearest shores or shadowy figures laying on pieces of debris afloat in the enormous body of water. Reports of this…

“The Convergence of the Twain” by Thomas Hardy and “Titanic” by David R. Slavitt, although written in different time periods, both discuss the tragic event of the Titanic, the gigantic ship that sank after hitting an iceberg in 1912 (History). The two poems similarly portray the great wealth of the ship and its short-lived nature, through the use of irony, and diction. Ultimately through social influences while using contrasting forms, use of words and tone in narrating this event, both…