S. S's Central America Research Paper

Thoughts of drowning run rampant in every man’s mind on that boat. At dawn, the men decided that their only chance is to row toward the distant shore again and swim when the boat finally capsizes.

Central America Central America, just south of Mexico and North of Panama, consists of just six countries; Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Of those six, all share a distinct common history except for Belize. Belize for one is incredibly small, and while Spanish is the official language of other Central American countries, in Belize English is spoken. So throughout this paper as I carelessly say 'Central American' I am not including Belize whose history and development was far different than the others. Although Central America is located close to the United States in relation to the Eastern Hemisphere, our ways of life are indescribably different.

When Ruth Elizabeth Becker entered her bedroom, she saw three small, but elegant beds and a small mirror and a bunk bed. There was carpet with patterns on it. This Second Class bedroom was worth $60 In today's monetary standards - $690. When set her things down, she heard people outside of the room loud with excitement. She ran outside to see what it was. “ What is happening out here?” she asked “The ship is moving we are starting the trip!”

My dad was born in the small Central American nation of El Salvador, more specifically in Anamoros located on the east side of the country. He lived in the countryside so he often played with their animals, spent most of his childhood swimming in the rivers or playing soccer with his friends, and would frequently hang out with his grandparents in the afternoons. In 1980, when he was about 12 years old that all began to change, he and all those around him needed to be more cautious about their surroundings.

This passage is an extract from Joseph O’ Connor’s Star of the sea which was penned in the year 2002. The passage makes use of a third person narrative view point as a result of which the readers are provided with a vivid image of passengers aboard a stormy sea ship. The passage talks about a ship afloat a stormy sea and how the passengers on the deck are caught unaware due to this storm. The author uses a descriptive style of writing with short crisp sentences that heighten the pace of the story. In the last two paragraphs however, the author uses longer sentences that signal a slower pace and show the readers that the storm has died down for the time being. The author has interspersed the action with 2 dialogues. It is interesting to

Alistair MacLeod’s “The Boat” is a literary success on many levels. His ability to evoke mood, sustain a meaningful theme and a strong setting make this piece particularly impressive.

They have little energy and are no longer sure of rescue. This is, in my opinion the most interesting part of the story emotionally. The characters seem truelly desperate and nothing makes for a better story than a bit of desperation. Their struggle is intense and realistic. it becomes easy to picture these men struggling to survive against the harsh winter waves. How hard they struggle is both ironic and amusing. The narator describes the crew as the correspondent sees them. "The oiler was ahead in the race. He was swimming strongly and rapidly." The oiler is obviously trying the hardest to survive; a wasted effort on his part. "Off to the correspondent's left, the cook's great white and corked back bulged out of the water, and in the rear the captain was hanging with his one good hand to the keel of the overturned dingey." The captain and cook are struggling as well but barely manage to hold on. In my opinion this shows how useless they are to the whole party. The captain has done nothing but shot orders and the cooks optimism did nothing to help the

There wasn’t time for all her questions. It took all Gabe and Steve’s strength on one of the big ‘oars or horns’ and the Captain on the other one to get the boat pushed off from the sticky bottom of the loading dock. As the heavily laden boat moved into the open water, Alma noticed water seeped between the top of the bottom two boards. She took a moment to bend her head in prayer while the Captain steered with the long aft pole and both men worked the long sweeps to get the 16’ wide boat righted into the channel. She wasn’t sure, but guessed it was over three times as long as its

After days of being out at sea a storm started up. Lightning struck the boat, but everyone was okay. It had seemed like a long night, while the boat shook back and forth from the storm. Ben tried to fall asleep for hours and finally was able to.

The humidity and stench were overwhelming, but I kept thinking and reminding the children that it was going to be all worth it. I had only seen a few familiar faces, but most of them I had never seen before in my life. Before the first night ended, Maribel and the children had made a few friends on the ship. It was a good way to make the voyage go by faster, for when they were at play everything seemed to go faster.

As we boarded the steamship, it was really packed. I noticed that a lot of people came from different backgrounds. One day in and the trip

One night, they took the boat to the beach. After several attempts, they got into the ocean. They got lost at sea for a week. They didn’t

After checking in with the people in the dive shop, we began to load the boat. It was a slow process, but with a bit of teamwork, we were ready to leave at sundown. As I hopped into the boat I glanced out toward the horizon. The sun was beginning to set, and the colors of the night sky were slowly rising. The pale blues of noon were retreating as the fiery colors of the sunset took their place in the sky. “We’re all ready to go,” the boat captain hollered over the sound of the engine. With a shove and a kick, the boat slowly made its way away from the dock, and towards the unknown.

Max excitedly exclaimed, “well this is exciting.” I think most of us were kind of confused because this is pretty serious. So we got into a position to try to get everybody that fell out and every boat did this. Luckily the boat that

We started out early before the golden sphere was awakened. Mother hurried me to eat faster. We had to get into our vessels and head out. We had split up into small groups, five people per canoe, heading onto the blue. The river was an amazing Tigris god with animals swimming in and out of the sapphire ripples. It sparkled as the golden sphere arose. We had cider, food, weapons, and shiny things to trade. Our trading Chief