Titanic Essays

dream is "To have great ambition or to really hope for something". Well, I say make those ambitions a reality and hope active. Robert Ballards Lifelong dream was to find the Titanic. For 13 years the dream of finding her dominated his life. In 1985 his 13 year quest ended when he discovered the muddy hulk of the H.M.S. Titanic. What is your quest? Do you have a "lifelong dream"? Is there anything :dominating your life" enough to hold your attention for 13 years? Without a dream, life is quickly reduced

Explore the ways Priestley presents strong attitudes in ‘An Inspector Calls’ ‘An Inspector Calls is a moralistic play set in 1912 and written in 1945 in which both: the audience and the characters learn something. One of the way Priestley presents strong attitudes is through the characters in the play. The majority of them are given strong opinions. Although, the author himself may disagree with them he has used dichotomy to differentiate between the different classes: lower and upper and the different

person can take a heavy responsibility on his or her shoulders, making her bend but not break. “No Greater Love” is a historical fiction that touches the theme of love, loyalty and how a person’s life can change in a night, the novel is also partly of Titanic disaster which happened in 1912. Many writers addressed this theme and many had gained success. But Danielle Steel, the author of “No Greater Love” could reveal the deepest feelings hidden in one’s soul. This novel portrays us the life that is very

Working in an industry such as engineering, failures are inevitable. “literature often refers to unexpected events as low probability, high impact situations. Yet, this does not necessarily mean that the event is purely unforeseeable or unknown” (the titanic sunk, so what?) There are always high risk management factors of anything in engineering. Furthermore, every time engineers put a new project into the world, they are risking much more than a failure of a project; they risk their reputation, their

the entire world, therefore there is no captain of the spaceship. “But does everyone on earth have an equal right to an equal share of its resources?” (Hardin 1). Many are familiar with the story of the “indestructible” passenger liner ship, the Titanic, that sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. When the ship was sinking into the water, the passengers were frantically in search of some form of way to save their lives. Aboard the ship, there were estimated 2,500 passengers, with a very limited

Convergence of the Twain The Titanic, born from human greed and wed to fate’s punishment, is a modern icon of decadence. However, Hardy re-imagines this icon in his poem The Convergence of the Twain. Instead of an explicit critique of the ship’s ostentatious vanity, Hardy sees The Titanic’s sinking as the judgment for its “vaingloriousness” and a product of the ship’s conception, development, and wedding to fate. The poem’s organization emphasizes a contrast between different states of the ship’s

Thomas Hardy’s poem, “The Convergence of the Twain”, the speaker displays a peaceful and nonviolent interpretation towards the tragedy of the sinking of the grand ship known as the Titanic. By using immense amounts of irony, personification, and irony, Hardy is able to strengthen his claim that sinking of the Titanic was destined to occur due to both vanity of humans and mother nature. The first section of “The Convergence of the Twain” illustrates how humans are the cause of the sinking of the

soon as they heard the boom. If the helper’s weren't so young maybe they could've got the word out fast more people could be saved. They could’ve saved more babies and elderly etc. If the driver didn’t take his headset off they could've been saved. Titanic was a disaster because the man was to stuck up about him having one of the biggest ships. It was also an disaster because it was so many people on there and not as many lifeboats. It was a lot of younger people on the boat than older. They shouldn’t

The article Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis is about when the most massive, high in technology, indestructible ship sunk. The Titanic of course. Also when passenger and survivor Jack Thayer shared his journey, through his writing with author Lauren Tarshis. It makes the article more intriguing to use quotes because it makes you feel as if you are on the ship on that night. The quote “It was the kind of night, that made one be glad to be alive” that quote that Jack said tells you that it was

sea and science while encountering new creatures and natural resources as he explored and exchanged new ideas of using technology and incorporating it into his discoveries. Ballard is known for two of his most famous findings: the shipwreck of the Titanic and the Bismarck. The ideas of using technology to assist with his findings helped him create his own equipment with his team to find out more about the deep sea. The idea came from previous discoveries where he saw the Earth’s curst crack and how