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    Should the Titanic be presevered in a museam? I think the Titanic should be. It was a part of history. It would bring tourism. The good outwiegh the bad. I think it should be presevered because the Titanic is an important aspect of world history. People have looked for it for several years. They looked for it because, no one knew where or what had become of it. In 1912, it was the biggest and fastest ship. Also, it has influnced many other ship designs because of the damage the iceberg caused

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    According to uniquely Northern Ireland (2008), and Belfast visitor guide (2011), Belfast is the capital and the largest city of the Northern Ireland. The climate is mild as a result of Atlantic Ocean breezes and the Gulf Stream, with comfortable summers and temperate winters, snow is uncommon, and however rainfall is heavy. Belfast has warmth and hospitality quite unlike anywhere else. Belfast is situated at the mouth of the River Lagan on the borders of County Antrim and down in the province of

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    passions that shaped political life in the North during the 1980’s”, is misleading. The statement suggest that Dr. Dodds and Conroy’s outsider status automatically gives them the ability to use critical distance, however both John Conroy, in his book Belfast Diary, and Dr Dodds, in Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City, fail to use critical distance in their analysis of what is happening in Northern Ireland. Critical distance is defined as the introduction of a stranger into a society that is able to

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    Is there a specific image which can be attributed to the Troubles in Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and 1970s? The poet Seamus Heaney answers that there is one particular image and it is the image of a ‘bog’. In this essay, it shall examine as to why Seamus Heaney has used the imagery of the bog as a symbol so that it can illustrate the political and also the religious troubles of Northern Ireland during the late 1960s and 1970s. In addition, it shall employ the use of four of Seamus Heaney’s

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    Introduction The locality I have based my community profile on is Ardoyne. I feel that Ardoyne is familiar enough for me to carry out my research as I have lived here all my life. Although my project is based in Belfast city centre, we work with many groups and young people from the Ardoyne area. this would prove beneficial to myself as I would sometimes have already developed a relationship with the young people through community life. I will firstly explore the community I have chosen by

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    OUTLINE Thesis: The collapsing of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge could have been prevented. I. The questionable break up of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. LEE 1. On November 7, 1940, the unthinkable happened to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It collapsed at Puget Sound in Washington (state), only four months after its completion and after more than fifty years of insusceptibility from suspension bridge failure. The bridge was by far the most flexible among its contemporaries. Under moderate winds

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    The Royal Mail Ship Titanic was a very luxurious British passenger ship that was created by the White Star Line. The RMS Titanic was designed to out shine the White Star Line’s competition, Cunard Line, another passenger ship business (Turner). Cunard Line had just launched two new state of the art passenger ships that were faster than any ship made by the White Star Line (Turner). This sparked a fire in the White Star Line, so they decided to create a state of the art passenger ship, like Cunard

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    My professor, Dr. Haddock, once said, “Failure is not an Option… It’s a Requirement”. Throughout the history of mankind there has been evidence of this. In life there will always be failures that will come one’s way; although, from those failures one can learn and prevent it from ever happening again. Even when one’s plan seems full proof, there will always be a chance of the plan going haywire. There was once a so called, “unsinkable” vessel that set off upon a voyage to be an ideal ship; although

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    I'm a journalist and I am trying to write about the titanic. My two disasters outlets are history History Channel and Nat Geo magazines. Today my disaster is the titanic and if you didn’t know the titanic was a huge ship that hit an iceberg. The ship killed 2,200 people and was a fatality. The ship hit in the North Atlantic Ocean. It sank from 4/14/17-4/15/19. I choose these web sites because they are both very used resources. The titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. They both give the same

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    The Holverson Family

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    The Holverson family auctioned off a piece of their family history that turned out to be from one of the world's greatest heartbreaks. NBC News reports a letter that was discovered after the Titanic went down, still covered in stains from the Atlantic, was sold for the record setting amount of $166,000 at an auction. The note was written on Titanic "on-board" stationary from first-class passenger Alexander Oskar Holverson, to his mother the day before the the world's largest ocean liner at that

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