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    Thomas Andrews Do you know who’s responsible for the sinking of the R.M.S Titanic? Well I am going to answer that question. The reason this topic is so important because, the Titanic sinking changed the boating laws forever.you should care about this for so many reasons. I consider that Thomas Andrews is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic because, he lied to Captain Smith, he also rushed though the design and testing, and built the ship with many other flaws.

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    George Dunton Widener was age 50 when the titanic sank. He was born and from Elkins Park Pennsylvania. George Widener was a very rich man and had a job in pennsylvania as a street car firm in philadelphia. Widener and family had been staying at the Paris Ritz Hotel which is located in paris. Widener boarded with his family on the titanic at Cherbourg. Widener and his family boarded and occupied cabins C-80/82 (1st class). In the afternoon on April 14th, Widener and his wife were standing

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    prominence, and recognition. In the poem “Titanic,” the author David R. Slavitt provides a refreshing angle on the topic of death and materialism. By eulogizing the tragedy of the sinking of the Titanic ship, Slavitt persuades the reader into his theory that if they sold tickets to board the Titanic, who would not go? With a dynamic selection of images, the reader is taken on a journey of what it would be like to die a glorifying death by the sinking of the Titanic. The author proceeds to make the reader

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    flaw, creates destruction and the insatiable desire for more. It leads to testing nature and eventually to downfall. On April 14, 1912 the Titanic and its unsinkable pride collided with an iceberg. The people onboard noticed the Iceberg too late to avoid it. In “The Convergence of the Twain” , Thomas Hardy expressed his belief that fate brought down the Titanic due to human pride though his descriptions of the ship and its people and his descriptions of nature and the iceberg. Hardy uses metaphors

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    standing creator, mother nature. The Titanic is a marvelous example of one of our tried, and failed ideas to survive mother nature. The Titanic was killed not because of a flaw in her building, but a flaw in the humans that were supposed to keep her and her passengers safe. The Titanic was special from the blueprints, to the changes she made and how we are all safer for it. The Titanic was a very beautiful ship. She was 882 feet long and 175 feet tall, the Titanic included 4 elevators, “palm courts

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    Why Was the Big Beast So Important??? Was the Titanic one of the most devastating shipwrecks? In 1912, the largest man-hand built ship set sail for New York City. On her voyage she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean at 2:20am suffering the loss of about 1,517 people.(Welsh). Some basic facts about the big beast that may help, she weighed about 46,000 pounds. She was 882 feet log with nine decks for the crew and passenger plus another two for all of the equipment. She was carrying 3,500 people when

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    event may have been worse than the sinking of the Titanic. The European designed and manufactured luxury ship boasted a length of 883 feet and was described, billed and sold as “The unsinkable ship”. This behemoth, massive ship weighed well over fifty thousand tons and dominated the Atlantic for her maiden voyage. The Titanic, like many other entities of the time, was not immune to calamity. Off the coast of the United States of America, the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the ocean

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    advertisement, a teenager’s mind automatically references to the movie “Titanic.” The Titanic movie was based on a the true story of the Titanic ship that sunk in 1912. Titanic ship hit an iceberg on its way to New York and immediately sunk into the ocean, killing over a thousand people that were on it. Later around the 1970s, TV producers told the story of the Titanic ship, while using a fictional romantic story and producing the film ‘Titanic.’ By showing the Ford car pulling a huge ship on ice, with ice

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    Anyone who knows me knows that I am absolutely terrified of being out in the middle of the ocean. Some say I have watched the Titanic one too many times, but I do not agree. Ever since I can remember I have been beyond fearful of large bodies of water. How my best friend convinced me to go on a cruise with her to the Bahamas is beyond me. Oh boy did I not know what I was getting my crazy self into. Once I finally convinced my over-protective parents to let me go the nerves really started to set

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    The Titanic movie begins with a salvage crew looking throughout the debris of the huge ship, in the hope to find a blue shiny diamond that is called “the heart of the ocean”. They instead find a photograph of a young lady wearing the diamond around her neck. That lady was Rose Dawson; while she was watching Tv, she sees her photograph and sets off to find the man who found it, then she joins them on their ship and the story of the Titanic ship begin. The story starts talking about two fictional characters

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