Short Story: Blood Brothers

Doesn’t matter of what materials the boat is made of, what matter is the weight. The ability of a boat to float depends on its average density. Ships need to have air to have less density than water, so it can float. If less air is in a boat, the boat can sink.

George Pocock is a name recognized amongst several people with connections to Seattle, the University of Washington, and the rowing community around the United States. He is looked upon as one of the greatest boat builders of all time and has numerous accolades because of his astounding boat building skills. Despite George’s successes and accomplishments throughout his life, the journey that led him to such a successful career was one full of struggle and relentless desire to chase a lifelong dream.

Our boat is in a square shape so that the pennies can equally balance in each corner and the center. As seen on page 14 the material that makes up the boat are popsticle sticks because they seem to be stronger. If they’re stronger they will be able to hold more pennies. The popsticles have a length of 11 cm, we decided to have this size because we couldn’t add another roll of popsticle sticks since we were going to exceed our budget which was $1, 500.00 (page 12). If we include the propeller, the length of the boat would be 19 cm (page 9), due to the paper clip and wooden stick being added between the straw as seen on page 18. Me and my partner chose this deisgn because we wanted to create an innovative propeller, so we used straws, paper clips,

Vern was the second caretaker that the Lenihans employed looking after their 1940s cottage during the winter months, opening and closing it in the spring and fall. However, once early in the summer, Theodore Lenihan Sr. wanted to transport a 19’ long inner lake sloop from Parry Sound to Blackstone Lake. The sailboat had already made its way from Cleveland by train. It was hard to see how this could be done quickly and efficiently. However, Vern was chosen as the man who could get it done – he was always the man who could get it done!

wind and rubber under the boat so you would go which way you steered the wheel.

Gerald is a 19 year old that has other brothers that all want the inheritance of their parents for themselves they are all selfish and they are fighting over the money and they keep fighting then gerald snaps and he stabs one of his brothers and left him for dead as he was running the cops saw him and they chased him and through the city and when he found his house he ran in then the brothers attacked him for killing his own blood and then he fought out of it and he got into a fist fight with his brothers and that wasn't for killing his brother it was for the money and he was losing when his close friend came and broke up the fight and the friend got punched in the face and he drew a gun and yelled “quit this fighting aren't you guys brothers” and Gerald ripped the gun out of his friends hand and he shot it

I made the boat by folding it to make it 6x6in, and then I folded the sides halfway in, and then brought them up to make the walls of the boat.

The Boat is a short story written by Alistair MacLeod in 1968. The story is narrated by a boy when after he has grown up and become a professor at Midwestern university in Cape Breton, east Canada. The narrator reflects on how events in his childhood have shaped the man he is today. He speaks about his family and the cold, frosty fishing community in Nova Scotia they belonged to. There is a somber tone and a presence of sadness, dismay and death throughout the extract. It is told in the first person, which allows for the emotions of characters to be expressed the most precise. This way, themes and symbols of the short story are carried across to the reader better. The narrator recalls his youthful teenage years as the only son, and youngest

I made my boat out of foam core. It was left over from a yard sale that we had at my house about a year ago. I made a pattern of the sides and top of the boat out of paper first. After I did that I took and cut those shapes out of foam core so the ship resembled the one on the cover of the book. I had the top, the bottom, the sides, the back, and the boxes that go on top all cut out so I put them together using both tape and my mom’s hot glue gun. I even made a rudder for the bottom of the boat out of foam from

Rainsford decided to build a boat himself. He rushes into the forest and collect some wood and rope, it took him approximately five days just to chop down trees then collect wood. Just after, he collected the woods, he started assembling the boat right away.

Some were driven by screws like most modern boats, and others were driven by big paddle wheels. There were two different types of paddle-wheelers; the sternwheeler and the sidewheeler. The sternwheeler had a single wheel at the stern of the boat, where as the sidewheeler had one wheel on either side. On both types of paddle-wheelers, the wheel was large and the outside was fitted with paddle blades. When the blades pushed through the water, power was produced for the boat.

This section talks about the life of pi and other animals who shows floats up to the lifeboat. Orange Juice the orang utan, who's on a raft of bananas, and who looks like (to Pi) the Virgin Mary bathed in a halo of light. So Pi fails to grab any of the bananas. Pi imagines indicator boards blinking and urgent phone calls. "The tsimtsum has sunk!

I hand him the anchor and he tosses it into the lake causing a splash of water to explode up and splash the side of the boat. With the boat off the music on, it was peaceful sitting back with Mark and Karen enjoying each other’s company while the kids were up on shore. Engaged in conversations and laughter time seemed to have gotten away from us, looking around I can now see more and more boats as they show up. The darkness from the night sky had now consumed the lake, the soft glow of lights from the boats settling in around us was our only lighting.

The smell of musty cigarette smoke and booze invaded Russell’s nose as he sauntered over to the bar top, boots clicking on the grimy floor. He made his way over to his acquaintances with a purposeful stride and calmly ordered a bottle of bootleg liquor.

In the early days on the boat there is a hyena, orangutan, and a zebra on the boat as well. The animals do not last long as all three ends up dead as measures get more desperate. Pi’s telling of the story has both realistic and unrealistic elements. The actions of Richard Parker are typical of a Bengal tiger but things such as a blind man in the middle of the sea or a carnivorous island make Pi’s story less believable. Once rescued, two insurance agents come to speak to Pi about the case of the ships crash.