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    Lillian Gertrud Asplund was a survivor of the Titanic. She plays a big part in the titanic’s history because she was the last person in history to remember the terrible night of the Titanic's doom state. Even though there were two more people alive after her that survived, they were only one at the time and don’t recall a single thing. Lillians birthday was October 21, 1906 and Lillian had four brother’s before the Titanic sank. Their names were, Filip Oscar, Clarence Gustaf, Hugo Edvin Rojj Felix

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    Diversity In Life Of Pi

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    animals eat. In Yann Martel’s novel Life Of Pi, Pi Patel is contrasted with the experienced sailor Deborah Kiley by entrusting faith, the use of his knowledge, and adaptation to the situation to overcome obstacles beyond his control. Clinging onto lifeboats in the ocean, Deborah and Pi experience similar tragedies. The Patel family decides to sell their zoo in Pondicherry and immigrate to Canada on a cargo ship named

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    archetype of water to show isolation and dangers of the sea by writing a story about Pi and his journey alone on a lifeboat. Martel describes Pi’s loneliness and isolation when writing “All about me was flatness and infinity, an endless panorama of blue” (160). He uses the descriptive words of “flatness” and “Infinity” to show how open the sea is. To prove how small Pi and his lifeboat were compared to the endless ocean around him. He uses “endless” to describe how vast the sea is. He feels isolated

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    Some people like to go on vacation downtown where there's alot of good restaurants and others rather go to a place where it is very sunny with the ocean. It's always hard to decide where do we want to go. That's one of the reasons why we invented cruise, because it is a mix of luxury with good food and ocean, because you are on the ocean! But wich cruise choose? In this text, I will compare the Titanic and the Oasis of the Sea, the two top cruise at their time. In 1912, the Titanic was 269

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    Life Of Pi Movie Vs Book

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    Imagine being stranded in the middle of an ocean for a year , with only food to eat for a short amount of time. No friends , family , phone. Any type of civilization. The name of the movie and text is “ Life Of Pi ”. The author of the book is Yann Martel and the director of the movie is Ang Lee. Life Of Pi book and the movie had many similarities and differences. In the beginning of the movie their are a lot of differences than similarities. In the middle of the movie their are a lot of similarities

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    Life Of Pi By Yann Martel

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    fear. It is an unavoidable part of life. People do not usually address all of their fears at one time, but occasionally, unlikely situations occur. In Life Of Pi, by Yann Martel, Piscine (Pi) Patel overcomes many fears, in a slight 227 days aboard a lifeboat, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. He and his family are in the process of moving, when the Tsimtsum, the boat they are boarding, mysteriously sinks. Pi is the only survivor, along with an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena, and a Bengal tiger. Although

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    was one of the most innovative ship built in the world. Over the course of two and a half hours the ship ripped in two places and sunk. The Titanic carried two thousand two hundred and twenty four people, only seven hundred and ten escaped in the lifeboats, and one thousand five hundred and seventeen people died in the icy water that night. Over ninety percent of the second class men perished that night. The captain of the ship, Edward J. Smith, had a background that makes you wonder if he should have

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    Hello, friends today I am going to tell you about my life’s most dangerous, horrible, adventurous and emotional story. This story related to my trip to Madrid “yes it is the capital of Span” by ship. So first I am told you that how a plan of the trip was made. It was the story of 2 years ago. When I was in 6th. I and my family (father, mother, and brother) go to a restaurant for celebrating New Year. Where we were the 100th family to enter in the restaurant so because of this we won the lucky draw

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    Captain Philips

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    Cody Crawford Globalization Film Essay s Captain Philips March 28, 2016 Challenging Globalization One of the most important challenges facing the world today is globalization (Lewis, Martin and others, 4). In the film, Captain Philips, globalization is tested, and pushed past its limits. The film is a great example of how a situation can take a turn for the worst if globalization is not allowed. The movie has little number of symbols, but they are significant. In the film, globalization can be

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    the effects of loneliness. “The lower you are, the higher your mind will soar.” This quote is important because when Pi is at his lowest point, he reaches for his only remaining sources of salvation, which is his faith and imagination. “Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The element couldn’t be more simple, or the stake higher.” The quote significance is that the few that survive the ship are force to face each other in a strategic battle

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