known film, many people assume that they know the harrowing stories of the tragic tale of the Titanic. But quite often, those harrowing stories of survival and demise are told from a man’s perspective. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that only “19%” of the male passengers and crew survived the shipwreck while “75%” of the female passengers and crew lived, or maybe it is because the coverage of the tragedy and inquiries into the global disaster were mainly presented from the male perspective (Henderson)
failures known to man are created by small errors. Just like everything on this Earth, technology wasn’t there to mess up. It was humans that made the oversight. Was it carelessness that made these great failures? Or was it something that we simply overlooked? Can we really blame Mother Nature? Can we blame pride and competition; the desire to be first? How about emotions? Tragedies have and will continue to define us as a people. And people are interesting because people have choices. First of all, what
captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes. In the Book 102 Minutes Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn wrote about the time that elapsed before and during the unforgettable tragedy on September 11th. Each chapter of 102 Minutes was at least one minute, and in those minute the reader was provided with information about the attacks as well as the stories of workers and heroes. The authors lead the readers up to the horrible happening by giving us stories about how people led their
could this happen? It was a breakdown at every step of the way, and regulators included. The majority of it was done outside of insured depository institutions. But there were some banks that were doing it, too. And I think that was more in response as they were losing market share to third-party originators who were the shadow banking system -- pretty much completely outside the regulatory system. They could get funding from Wall Street securitizations, and again, the risk was being passed on to investors