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The origin of the words “Bastille” comes from the Latin word bastions, which stands for fortress or tower. Bastille is a word that can refer to any smaller fortress. The Bastille is a fortress in Paris that was destroyed in the French Revolution. The formal name for The Bastille is The Bastille Saint­Antoine, which comes from the area it is built in. It was used as an arsenal and prison. The defenses of The Bastille includes eight towers, each tower seventy­three feet tall and six thick, armed with

Annotated Bibliography Thesis: The Titanic sank because the route was not changed in time of the hit, the cold water mirage, and man’s error. Baldwin, Hanson W. "R.M.S. Titanic." Elements of Literature. Virginia ed. Vol. Fourth Course. N.p.: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2005. 328-46. Print. The Short Story : “R.M.S. Titanic” In this short story about the Titanic, several warnings of icebergs were sent out to the ship, but the captain disregarded them. The passengers of the ship continued to go

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

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

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

Introduction A nonfiction book “A Night to Remember” was wrote in 1955 by Walter Lord that consist of ten chapters of a true minute-by-minute story sinking of the most glamorous ship in the world. It is the legendary tragedy of the world biggest-ever ship of the White Star Line called Titanic. The every moment happened of her maiden voyage that night are summed-up below. Summary During 11:40 P.M. on Sunday, the 14th day of April, 1912, the New White Star Liner Titanic hit an iceberg in the North

“The first unsinkable ship” The RMS Titanic was called many things, the ship of dreams, grandest ship, and unsinkable. It was said that God himself could not sink her. It sailed off for its first and last voyage. From the tragic disaster of the movie the sinking Titanic remains one of the most famous tragedies in history. The purpose for the Titanic for it to be one of the biggest ships ever built but also a luxury ship. It was in competition among rival shipping lines, to be the most sophisticated

The Titanic Sinking By: kamri young In this text i am going to be telling you about who/ what is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic. The sinking of the Titanic was an accident but it could have been prevented. In this next paragraph i am going to be telling you who i think was responsible for it. I believe that the captain was responsible for the Titanic sinking. When the ship got messages about the iceberg the captain did not care he just want them to ignore the messages. They

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

Who was responsible for the sinking of the Titanic? The Titanic was a horrific accident, and could’ve been prevented if J. Bruce Ismay wasn’t there. The disaster has affected us today, one example is by ships having way more lifeboats. In my opinion, J. Bruce Ismay is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic because he wanted to get to his destination and told Captain Smith to go into an ice field, which is illustrated by him rushing to his destination and telling Captain Smith to go as fast as