Ice Bergers: A Short Story

Richard Leonard Kuklinski, known as “The Iceman” was born April 11, 1935. Kuklinski was a contract killer who was convicted of 5 murders. Kuklinski was given the nickname “Iceman” for freezing a body of a victim to mask the time when the victim was murdered. Kuklinski lived with his wife Barbara Kuklinski and 3 children in the suburb of Dumont, New Jersey. Prior to his arrest, his family was apparently unaware of Kuklinski's double life and crimes. Kuklinski was a contract killer for Newark's DeCavalcante crime family and New York City's Five Families of the American Mafia. Kuklinski favored to murder people with sodium cyanide since it killed very quickly and also was hard to detect. With Cyanide, Kuklinski would simply kill the victim by either injecting the cyanide in them, putting it in the victim’s food, aerosol spray or spilling it on the victim’s skin. After killing his victim, he will dispose the body in a 55-gallon oil drum. Other ways Kuklinski would dispose the body were either burying the body or putting the body in the trunk of a car then having it crushed in the junkyard. Kuklinski says that Robert Pronge, nicknamed “Mr. Softee” has taught him different methods to use cyanide to kill his victims. Pronge allegedly asked him to carry out a hit on Pronge's

The ship had many indications of failure before even hitting the ice. They were warned multiple times by neighboring ships of possible danger, passengers reacted terribly in the chaos - taking the ‘every man for themselves’ approach, pride, the lower class were not seen as equals and therefore not prioritized, and the #1 cause made by crew and passengers alike is ignorance. The crew had been warned about the icebergs in their path but would not slow down for the sake of an image. The ship was barely filled with water when the people had been first notified of the hit, hundreds could be saved with such a fast notice but instead they locked a whole class of people in with the water too die. At one point

not enough of the lifeboats. If there would have been enough lifeboats, many lives could have

On April 15, 1912 at 11:40 P.M. the Titanic collided with an iceberg and by 2:20 A.M. it was at the bottom of the ocean; over 1,500 people died. The massive loss of life was a shock to the world. The “unsinkable” ship had sunk. Despite the Titanic’s claims about being “unsinkable” and completely safe, many avoidable things led to the immense number of fatalities, such as the shortage of lifeboats, lowered bulkheads, and the lack of binoculars. Bruce Ismay, the designer of the Titanic and director of Whitestar line, often chose the comfort of his passengers over their safety. While Ismay was designing the Titanic he thought that the deck was too cluttered so he decided to keep only a third of the lifeboats needed to save all of the passengers

because they all died. She was very unhappy when she was on the ship. The sailors did unspeakable

The thesis of the film “Chasing Ice” is to portray the extreme climate change we are facing today. The film has a clear goal of showing visually the danger we are causing our planet by denying climate change. The aim of the film is to show us visually that climate change does exist and it is happening at a rapid rate. The film does a good job at providing evidence that climate change is happening, by capturing footage of the changes occurring over short periods of time. These videos captured by James Balog’s recording devices make it almost impossible to deny climate change and that is precisely the purpose of the film.

Can you play hockey? Sidney Crosby can. He plays in the NHL. He also won the Stanley cup. I picked him because he won gold for Canada in overtime. He beat Ryan Miller's five hole. He was playing against the USA FOR THE GOLD MEDAL GAME AND Canada WON.

The cause of the sinking is happened because of the mistakes of the captains. The radio message came from a mysterious source – with no actual reports of a minesweeper in the area – yet the Captain Peterson brought illuminated the ship and alerted the Soviets. During this time, it was common for German to resort to being spies for the Soviets, especially since in this area was so close to the Soviet Motherland. The Red Army was extremely close to Poland in 1945, so it would be likely there was Soviet spies aboard since a handful passengers were unregistered. The Wilhelm Gustloff was also equipped with anti-aircraft guns and was carrying injured military personnel, so the Soviets did not know or believe it was a passenger ship.

I grabbed my balls, groaning in misery as I rolled around on the wet concrete. I could tell they were both in my hand, even though it felt like I was choking on them.

Those on the deck could see the huge iceberg weighing thousands of tons pass by like a dark cloud of death. Still, there was no panic. Many people just did not realize the severity of the crash at first. They went along with their card games, their brandy drinking, and their socializing on deck. Some people even played casually with the ice. When people realized that the iceberg had punctured the side of the ship, still there was no panic.

He was a mess; hair askew, eyes hazy, and most of all, he held absolutely no confidence. Icelus was a minor god; an absolute disappointment to everyone. In the Greek prophecy it stated that one of the two brothers would lead to live a very fulfilling life, while the other would caused the downfall of the human race.It was clear that Melenos was the brother destined for greatness, as he had the ability to live inside other peoples dreams. He was abandoning all other paths for the one that could lead to success and fame.

Have you ever been treated unfairly? Have you ever been treated like you have no rights at all? Most people have, but few of them have been treated as badly as Victor and his friends were in “Ice Man” written by Elmore Leonard, just because they are Native Americans.

Ice Break is a short story written by Astrid Blodgett. The story is told in a first person narrator and is from the main character Dawn's perspective. Dawn are at a ice fishing trip with her dad and her younger sister when the car falls into the water and her dad tries to safe them.

When analyzing this disaster the first thing to consider is the engineer’s design of the Titanic. The Titanic was employing many new and innovative designs that were believed to make the Titanic the safest ship ever built at that time. The engineer’s of the vessel made claims that the Titanic was “unsinkable” and that “even in the worst possible accident at sea, the ship should have stayed afloat for two to three days.” One of the features that lead them to this claim was the 16 watertight compartments in the hull of the ship. The way they were designed allowed for up to four compartments to be breached and they ship would still carry

“Fine! Then, I’m not driving!” he yelled back at her, “It’s either Christmas music or we don’t move!”