Lifeboat

today's moral environment. Provide one other reference in addition to our text. The Ethics of Emergencies describes how some people base their ethical principles on emergency situations. The classic example is the lifeboat scenario. The scenario is that what if you are stuck on a lifeboat with some other people, and there's not enough water for everyone to survive the trip to shore. In order to live, you have to sacrifice someone else. The lesson of the scenario is that you have to choose between your

survivor in a tough situation, you are required to have some strong characteristics within you. The last characteristic that a survivor needs to have is calmness. We see the character Violet Jessop show the characteristic calmness in the story Into the lifeboat when the author writes “I counted the decks”. There are

Imagine being hungry, tired, sunburnt and dehydrated, alone on the the sea in a cramped lifeboat; this is what the main character Pi feels for over 200 days alone at sea. After the cargo ship that was carrying him and his family sinks Pi is the sole survivor. In the book “Life Of Pi” Pi has to survive on his own he survives because he has the need for companionship with God and Richard Parker the tiger, also he has to adapt to survive. In the beginning of Life of Pi we find out that Pi, who is

leaving Richard Parker, (the Bengal tiger), Pi, a hyena, a zebra and Orange Juice the orangutan alive on one lifeboat. Three of the animals were killed within a few days, leaving Pi and Richard Parker alone, "I had a chance so long as he did not sense me, if he did he would kill me right away. Could he burst the tarpaulin, I wondered." Pi continued to inform us of his journey, "Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more

Fossil fuels well that’s a thing that I have always taken for granted until I saw the documentary of Crude Impact. Well I did know that the population is increasing abundantly but what I didn 't know is when the consumers increase in such a vast number so does the production. Now imagine this just one person has 30,000 items that relates to fossil fuels and multiply by the seven billion on our world population. That’s a great quantity of items that relates to fossil fuels in our daily lives. People

throughout his life and the novel, Hinduism, Christianity, and Islam. He finds a common spirit behind each of these religions and they come together to guide Pi through his journey and his life. Pi is faced with the challenge of staying alive on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for months on end. He uses his faith and religion to guide him and keep him alive as well as carrying this belief to his adulthood. Pi is born as a Hindu, and it is the first of the three religions he comes to know and practice

My head felt as if it was too explode, blood was dripping down from my forehead, and a throbbing pain was coming from my leg. At first I had no idea where I was or what was happening. In the distance I could hear a scream, although it was fading and my eyesight was blurry. I tried to stand up as I remember but I was not able too. I kept wondering to myself if this was a dream, but I felt pain. Terrible pain. How could I feel this much pain if it was a dream. Then all at once it came back to me. The

French naval frigate that boasted 40 guns and fought in the Napoleonic Wars of the early 19th century. Remarkably, the ship survived these maritime battles only to crash on a sandbank in 1816 during an attempt to colonize Senegal. A shortage of lifeboats sent sailors scrambling to build a raft. Only 10 of approximately 150 people who boarded the raft lived through this catastrophe. Shortly thereafter, Géricault drew his inspiration from the accounts of two survivors.” ( Kristy Puchko ,Mental Floss

Life of Pi, Piscine “Pi” Patel goes on a journey that tests him in unimaginable ways. As Pi tells the story of his life, the reader is shown the battle that Pi faces and the settings they take place in. Martel specifically uses the setting of the lifeboat, island and Pi’s home to reflect Pi’s inner self. As Pi floats adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, he faces many struggles which present itself within the confinement of his boat. While the hyena is killing the zebra, sharks come looking

February 8th 2011 Mrs.Por ENG 2D1 World Religions In Life of Pi In the book Life of Pi the author Yann Martel wrote about a young boy named Pi Patel surviving on a lifeboat by himself. Throughout the entire book Pi was very close to religion and in the end his religions were the main reason he had survived. At the start of the book Yann Martel introduces three religions, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism. There are three main points that aided