Titanic Essays

Thesis: Captain Smith was responsible for the sinking of the Titanic because of his actions and responsibilities this was shown by him ignoring several iceberg warnings and deciding to go through the ice field at full speed. Who was the reason the titanic sank? This is important because it tells us information of how Captain smith was the reason the titanic sunk. We should care about this because it might tell us or give us clues of how or why Captain smith was responsible for the sinking of the

fast as I could back on the ship, the front was underwater, smoke stacks started to fall. Titanic started to rise I ran to the back, I looked lost confused, I grabbed on to the wet rusty railing, men shouted women and children first. You could hear the despite cries of the dead and the dying, the breaking bodied of falling people, the glooming rockets used to find us. By the time a ship came to us, titanic won’t be the new gleaming, ship of dreams, but the old rust wreck of nightmares. People climbed

The article “Into the Dark Water” by Lauren Tarshis is about Jack Thayer who was on the real “Titanic” and lived. He was 17. In the article it tells about him trying to get off the ship after it hits an iceberg. The article included many exact quotes from him. I think the author included the exact quotes so people can imagine it in their head more. When you can imagine the story in your head it makes the story or article easier to understand and more fun to read. In the text it says, “but we did

The RMS Titanic; A Tragedy Based on Class. In April, 1912, the so called "unsinkable" Titanic set sail to New York. The great ship was as big as five city blocks, and weighed thousands and thousands of tons. Everyone who was everyone grabbed a room on the luxurious ship for the trip of a lifetime. On April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg an sank into the icy depths of the North Atlantic. People were shocked at the news of the "unsinkable" Titanic sinking and this

Because of the war, my life will never be the same. It was noon and the Titanic was about to leave the port. My family and I all barely made it before the doors were closing. It was a rough couple of days on the ship heading to America. Even though we weren't the poorest people we still went to third class were there were a lot of Irish immigrants like us. The conditions weren't horrible but the food was disgusting. It was not good. The person across the hall from us got sick from the food conditions

The two media sources I’m going to use are Eyewitness to History and the History Channel.The disaster I’ll be writing about is the sinking of the Titanic(also known as the “unsinkable ship.”)The sinking of the Titanic happened on April 14,1912 at 11:40 P.M. in the Atlantic Ocean when leaving Southampton to New York City. The cause of the sinking was because of an iceberg the ship crashed into.There were 2,200 passengers, after the collision with the iceberg there was only 705 survivors and 1,522

more to it. For example, a waitress earning $7 per hour and wins a jackpot of $1 million won’t be in the same situation as the one whose business is worth $1 million. And this is what we will discuss further in one of the films. The two films, Titanic and The Great Gatsby help understand the medium of socioeconomic class with the concept of inequality. A film as a media focuses on one subject at a time; conveying the message presented in the story. Also a film is easy to understand. Both the films

Today, November 5th. Searching. For two generations the Alaskan coast bore several sunken vessels. There was one vessel that was more important than any of the others. The area has been searched for years looking for that one vessel they knew had encountered an Iceberg and had sank taking with it hundreds of lives and also burying an untold amount of Jewels and treasures with it. Searching for this treasure had went on for years until finally just a few years ago one of the men searching uncovered

Ship Casualty Project On the April 23, 2013, 0817 local time, “American Dynasty” was approaching a graving dock at Esquimalt in British Columbia, Canada, (48°25.9’N, 123°25.8’W) when it suffered an electrical power and propulsion failure. The “American Dynasty” drifted off course and collided with the Canadian frigate, HMCS “Winnipeg” FFH 338, which was moored nearby. Both of the vessels sustained structural damages, as well as the naval pier to which HMCS “Winnipeg” was moored. Six shipyard workers

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a vessel named after the man Edmund Fitzgerald who was the President and Chairman of the Board of Northwestern Mutual Insurance. The vessel was taking taconite from Superior, Wisconsin to Zug Island which is near Detroit, Michigan on November 10, 1975. The storm on Lake Superior that fateful day killed all 29 crew members. The vessel was 729 feet and 13,632 gross ton empty of cargo. She was the largest ship to sail on the Great Lakes for 13 years until 1971. The Fitzgerald