Comparing Titanic In History Channel And Nat Geo Newspapers

In the year 1912 a ship named Titanic set out on her first voyage, but she never made it back. The word was that this ship was “unsinkable” but that was proven wrong when she capsized along an iceberg. The ship had many people aboard; some like Ruth Elizabeth Becker survived while others died trapped in the water. Thousands of individuals believe that the Titanic sank due to the large iceberg that it hit, but that’s not the major factor in why so many lives were lost that day. There were many contributors (most of them being human selfishness and faults).

My selection for the National History Day Project is the documentary, I choose this because I’ve never really done a documentary before so I thought that maybe trying to make one would be a good first start for me, I’ve always done

The movie Titanic although, had quite a few differences from the actual event.The first difference is how the director, James Cameron, made the movie primarily based around Jack and Rose. These were not real people on board the Titanic. They are entirely

With the seafloor scanned and analyzed we can now find out what really happened here when Titanic went down under water, to retrace on how she possibly sank. Titanic made this two mile descent to the bottom of the ocean and the way the debris is spread around the ship gives us clues on how she went down to the bottom. The over size of the debris field is a key clue on how Titanic hit the seafloor, how fast and how she impacted the floor. Evidence over the years have given us answers to questions we have had for years and the debris field itself gives us clues of what happened below the ocean.

Delgado is a maritime archaeologist, explorer and author. He has spent nearly four decades in underwater exploration. He wrote the article “Archaeology of Titanic” which discusses the process of discovering the sunken ship and how it was made possible through many technology advances. Delgado states, “Seventy-three years after the sinking, in the early morning of September 1, 1985, Argo, an unmanned deep-sea vehicle, disturbed the darkness for the first time.” This statement shows that the curiosity of people was so strong that they created a deep-sea vehicle to go down and take videos and photos of the remains. The people were dreaming of a day when they would finally be able to go into the deep Atlantic Ocean and discover what was under the surface. This was a great leap in the technological world and an even greater leap in discovering the Titanic after all these years have passed. Delgado believes that Argo is a dominant contributor in the search of the titanic and its remains because it allowed archaeologists to receive more information about what was going on two miles below the surface and become aware of the condition the Titanic was currently

it is also not hard to point out many differences.It is far smaller than the ship I will use for my point of reference which is the oasis of the seas. The titanic is shorter in length, width and height other differences include the amount of lifeboats. There are similarities between the two. Some of the similarities include both are passenger boats as well as being huge for the Time.

The two media sources I’m going to use are Eyewitness to History and the History Channel.The disaster I’ll be writing about is the sinking of the Titanic(also known as the “unsinkable ship.”)The sinking of the Titanic happened on April 14,1912 at 11:40 P.M. in the Atlantic Ocean when leaving Southampton to New York City. The cause of the sinking was because of an iceberg the ship crashed into.There were 2,200 passengers, after the collision with the iceberg there was only 705 survivors and 1,522 passengers died.

“The stars slowly disappeared, and in their place came a faint pink glow of another day. Then I heard, ‘A Light, a ship.’ I could not , would not, look while there was a bit of doubt, but kept my eyes away.” Newspapers all around the world wrote about the sinking, as did the passengers who survived the terrible night. Three of these accounts are: The Sinking of the Titantc,1912 by Elisabeth Sutes, and The San Francisco Call Articles. These Newspapers focus on where the sinking was, how it happened, what caused it, and what time and place it happened. The personal account focuses on what happened, what was seen, and what was felt while the ship was sinking. Although newspapers present interesting facts about the sinking, the personal account

Documentaries have always contained point of view and persuasion. The art of documentaries is manipulation of an audience for a purpose, as John Greison says “documentary film is the creative treatment of actuality”. The first documentary “Home of the Blizzard” was created in 1913 by Frank Hurley Productions. It was the world's first insight of experiences through a screen. In 1922, the first successful documentary, Nanook of the North, was documented by Robert J. Flaherty, though the black and white reel film caused a lot of controversy for portraying staged events as reality. Nanook of the North was published for the purpose of persuasion, conveying the directors view of the eskimo life by voice over narration, using a Bell & Howell camera,

Secondly, If more people study where the Titanic and where it landed we can find more answers. We could find out why it sunk, why it landed the it did, we could find out why some of the lifeboats only were half full, and many more. But if people were to bring stuff up we wouldn’t be able too.

Thesis: The Titanic sank because the route was not changed in time of the hit, the cold water mirage, and man’s error.

“...more than 1,500 lost their lives in the disaster” (“Titanic”), on April 15, 1912. The Titanic was the largest ship in history at the time and was believed to be unsinkable. The ship had the most advanced technology during her time, which caused society to believed she was “unsinkable”It marked a line in history that day for the whole world. Even though the disaster was dreadful the event inspired people to create films, books, and articles about it. The Titanic was a magnificent ship but the construction, the disaster and the safety precautions changed to world greatly.

The weaknesses about CNN.com is that they did not put enough information about what caused Hurricane Katrina. I feel like the strengths of times.com is that they covered a lot about how Hurricane Katrina affected the community. The weaknesses about times.com is that they did not put that much information about how the community recover. I feel both sources lacked information that was provided was accurate. I feel that CNN.com gave first-hand knowledge of was transpiring. Times.com covered what happened 10 years later after the disaster. Both provided pictures, but not live news footage, and I felt that i got a lot of facts regarding to the

I already mentioned several media by which competing discourses of the past, and of risk, reach their audience and attempt to gain recognition and influence the greater historical narrative of the group. According to Morris-Suzuki (2005), out of the “Kaleidoscopic mass of fragments we make and remake patterns of understanding which explain the origins and nature of the world in which we live. And doing this, we define and redefine the place that we occupy in that world,” (Morris-Suzuki 2005:2). We do not learn the story of disasters from a single source or a single voice. Even when a news outlet is the sole medium to learn of such an event, the format of news reporting for periodic broadcast and for twenty-four hour news channels will share

In the early hours of April 15th 1912, the luxury steamship R.M.S Titanic sank during its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic after sideswiping an iceberg. Of the 2,240 passengers on board, more than 1,500 lost their lives in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history. Since its doomed maiden voyage, Titanic has remained a fixture of public consciousness and popular culture. The most famous example of this is James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic. This film centres on the fictional love story of characters Jack and Rose, which is intertwined with the chronicle of the 1912 sinking. Following the sinking, several investigations took place, which involved interviewing witnesses and survivors and consulting maritime experts.