Show Boat

Hungary were called the central powers. During this world war many battles took place on land, but they also took place at sea. Germany had new weapons at the time called the U-boats, which was an underwater submarine that was able to sneak up on the enemy without being seen. So one year into war on May 1915 a German U-boat sank the British luxury ocean liner called the Lusitania. This killed 1,198 people and 128 americans lost their lives. This caused much debate in whether Germany was…

Mariner begins his story. The mariner and his crew were set in the middle of the ocean. The ship had detoured towards Antarctica to get away from a bad storm, but then they got caught in the dangerous, foggy ice field. During the journey an albatross shows up to get them through a stormy weather, but then the Mariner decides to shoot it. After the terrible decision of killing the…

Picture yourself stranded on a sinking boat in the middle of the ocean. Would you attempt to save yourself and everyone on board or completely give up on the idea of escaping this tragedy? Would you expect help to come for you or step up and try to lead everyone to safety yourself? Luckily, in the short story “The Open Boat” written by Stephen Crane, he answers these questions in his writing that is about four crew members on a boat that have found themselves faced with this exact dilemma. This…

Retell: In the film Apocalypse Now, scenes focus on the use of reconciling two opposing views of the same reality. In the scene, Willard aboard the navy patrol boat crosses paths with a Vietnamese sampan. At the moment, Willard is asking the men on the navy boat to ignore the sampan and continue on their journey. But, according to the protocol the Chief makes Chef search the sampan to look for any evidence of trafficking of supplies. A Vietnamese woman on board runs towards a basket which…

As part of the exposition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the narrator vividly describes the setting. He explains that he is in a boat with five men, one of which being the storyteller, Marlow. The narrator then goes on to create a descriptive image of his surroundings in the boat on the river. Throughout this description, Conrad uses foreshadowing, imagery, connotative words, symbolism, and personification, creating a shift in tone, in order to illustrate that Marlow’s journey up the…

First the british government failed at protecting the lusitania from attack. British intelligence knew that attacks have been made towards them, the location of the U-boats and still decide to pretend that they knew nothing. Leading the sinking of the Lusitania; “The Lusitania remained a passenger liner, but with the hull of a battleship”(12). In addition, on May 1st, no one on board knew about the American oil tanker…

The water was just as welcoming as it had been on the night when Rainsford had fallen off the yacht; not at all. However, he supposed wildly flailing in the deep murky blue of the ocean was better than being torn apart by the pack of hounds. Rainsford held his breath underwater, the salt stinging his eyes. “Clever one, that Rainsford fellow.” General Zaroff remarked, peering at the blustering waters. He lit one of his cigarettes. “What a shame, though. Death by drowning.” Confirming that…

the ocean as the sun began the set and saw a strange man on a small fishing boat. Puzzled Juana called out to the strange man, “ Sir, it is getting late! The ocean tends to be rough at night!” The strange man looked at her and said, “ I am a professional everything will be fine!” Juana knew how the seas were at night and wanted to warn the man of the danger he is getting himself into. Juana saw that the paste of the boat was slow and she noticed as the waves began to pick up. “ Sir, you have to…

finally arrived to shore, one of the men, the oiler named Billie Higgins, was already dead on the sand. He had drowned when the boat overturned. A few days after, Crane published “Stephen Crane’s Own Story,” a newspaper account of the sinking. Stephen Crane’s newspaper account of the sinking of the Commodore and his short story based on the shipwreck, “The Open Boat”, are very similar and very different. Both works are descriptive and detailed and use the same event and…

The Ordeal of Donald Boone is a direct account of a deep sea diver’s terrible timing, and the medical miracle of keeping him alive. Donald Boone was a deep sea diver the worked for the “Taylor Diving and Salvage Company” onboard an offshore barge. Underwater divers experience extreme conditions on a daily basis and as a means to better regulate the time divers spend under heavy pressure conditions barges have pressurized living quarters for their divers. At the end of a dive each diver gets into…