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    titanic sinking. Three hours before the Titanic sunk, the captain ignored at least 14 warnings of hazardous ice fields, six of which were received on the day of the disaster. The engineers of the titanic were also responsible, they equipped only 20 lifeboats and with 1,523 passengers and crew lost their life while still on board. The manufacturers could be responsible, the excess oxygen can form precipitates that can embrittle the steel and will also raise transition temperature which weakened the steel

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    book, Life of Pi, Pi suffers the loss of his father and brother in the sinking of the Tsimtsum, and surviving the majority of 227 days. During his time on the lifeboat, Pi created the better story to dissociate from the trauma he experienced, the immediate loss of his mother, and the effects of solitude on his mind. While in the lifeboat with the others, a dynamic was formed. The chef was the Expert, the one who knew how to cook, fish, and survive on the boat. The sailor with his broken leg became

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    Canada, with their zoo animals on the ship, Pi's father wanted to bring them to a foreign country to sell a good price. But the zoo chief went through a shipwreck like a Titanic, except for Pi, all of whom were killed. Pi survived on the cover of the lifeboat, there was also a hyena, a broken zebra, a female orangutan, and an adult Bengal tiger "Richard Parker".

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    characters in the story Life of Pi are a boy named Piscine Molitor Patel also known as Pi, a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and a boat. The story is about a young man who survived a shipwreck of the Tsimtsum but, lost his family. He was put into a lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, a Bengal tiger, and an orangutan. He makes it alive off the boat with the Bengal tiger, both however severely ill in two hundred and twenty-seven days. Pi made it to a hospital and was interviewed by two Japanese men who were

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    is repeatedly shifted from the self-actualization phase on the pyramid back down to the physical, and safety level. When Pi is transferred from phase to phase it forces him to look at his life in different perspectives. When Pi is stranded on the lifeboat the necessities for survival he requires are: food, shelter and water, which are the physical

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    Have you ever heard about the Titanic? Well, chances are that if you have, you probably heard of the altercation about who is responsible for the sinking of the titanic. The Titanic was one of the greasiest disasters ever. There were numerous safety rules have been made because of the Titanic. I think Captain Smith is responsible for the sinking of the Titanic because he didn’t take proper safety precautions, ignored multiple iceberg warnings, and left the wheel knowing that there were icebergs

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    Life of Pi Data Sheet

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    AP English: Literature and Composition Name: Major Works Data Sheet: Do not cut/paste from a website, which is a form of plagiarism. |Title: Life of Pi |Biographical information about the author: | |Author: Yann Martel |Yann Martel was born in 1963 and lives in the Canadian prairie providence | |

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    Titanic Research Paper

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    The RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Titanic was the middle child in a series of three ships: the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Britannic. These unprecedentedly large ships were built in Belfast, Ireland, in the shipyard of Harold and Wolff for the White Star Line company. The Titanic and her sister ships were built 269.1 meters long, 28.2 meters wide, 53 meters from the keel to the top of the funnels, and weighing in at a whopping 46,000 tons (Felkins, Leighly Jr., Jankovic, 1998). On April 2, 1912, The Titanic

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    While on the road to nowhere, Pi starts to acquire water from the rain and obtains food to stock up while he’s worrying about the 400 pound tiger that’s on the lifeboat while Pi is on a small raft. When Pi starts to tame Richard Parker he can finally call him a friend and now has a purpose. As a Hindu, Pi does not eat meat but that went out of the window when he catches a fish and eats it raw to stay alive. When

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    personal values, are vicious, or are wicked. Pi, a human; a hyena, and a blind man all fight to survive in a variety of ways that are examples of this thesis. Pi quits his vegetarian diet and also chooses to live on a raft next to a bengal tiger on a lifeboat, which are both unusual and unconventional choices for him. He satisfies his hunger by quitting being a vegetarian and eating fish. Pi knows that “A lifetime of peaceful vegetarianism [stands] between [him] and the willful beheading of a fish” (Martel

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