Nimrod Expedition

South Pole, Shackleton and his crew set off unified in their goal. Two years later they returned home unsuccessful in their endeavor. In May of 1912, Shackleton received news that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team had become the first expedition to reach the South Pole (Koehn, 2013, 2010, p. 5). The race was over, and a winner declared. Shackleton missed out on his opportunity to be the first, the exploration had been done. A goal that is big, hairy and audacious, could not be accurately

I choose to write my critical essay on renowned Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton and his book, South: The story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition. The story of Shackleton’s leadership and perseverance against impossible odds in leading his men to safety after becoming stranded in the Antarctic pack ice has always held great interest for me. Shackleton’s example of leadership is so extraordinary that today, over 100 years later, it is still pointed to as one of the finest examples of

Shackleton and the Epic Voyage of the Endurance 3/10/2014 aFriendInNeed Situation Overview: Shackleton sailed with 27 men from South Georgia Island on a British Polar expedition into South Atlantic aboard the ship called Endurance. The south pole had been recently reached in 1911. The goal of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was to become the first explorers to land on the Antarctic continent as well as cross it. The original plan was to sail Endurance through the Weddell Sea and then use

It is a heavy snowstorm, for what is left for a group of five explorers who wish to make a permanent settlement for others to reach and expand further across the land. The expedition group slowly becomes smaller after every exhausting step in the brutal, everlasting cold leads the group to what seems to be an endless void of frost. The group started with twenty people who packed with a small supply of food, thick clothing, and the items required for warmth. The group became smaller due to accidents

Survivor or The Amazing Race? Reality television is well known for its exhibition in unscripted dramatic and often humorous events that portrays real life people as opposed to professional actors. Reality television is mostly associated with the years after 2000. Television’s popular, long-running reality series Survivor, and The Amazing Race both have similar goals and outcomes, despite their themes, challenges, and ingenuity. Survivor is far more entertaining than The Amazing Race with its use

Death comes easily. Death comes with diseases spread by people living in close quarters. Death comes with a lack of nutrients from insufficient food. Death comes with a misstep that leads to a plunge into rough, frigid ocean waters. These statements are especially true on board a ship at sea during the time prior to the 20th century. When people know that death is very likely in a certain situation but still agree to participate in the situation anyway, they posses a characteristic known as courage

Bourgmont set out on his expedition, sending a party of seventeen French and five Canadian men by river with the larger supplies that couldn’t easily be taken by land and the goods for trade to the Kansa village. Bourgmont’s land crew followed a well-established trail on the north side beside the Missouri River. Bourgmont and his party made it to the Kansa village, but the boats with the goods and big supplies weren’t there yet and should have been. The expedition couldn’t continue without the

Alcibiades was a highly motivated individual with a drive to gain power by any means necessary. Alcibiades’ upbringing conditioned him, one might say entitled him, to power and influence, and his self-serving actions had the sole objectives of surpassing his predecessors and achieving glory. To understand the motivation of Alcibiades, we must look to his upbringing and character to examine his sense of entitlement. Alcibiades was born into an aristocratic Athenian family so he would have been

The others also disagreed with the governor, but had different opinions of what the next step should be. The governor’s ignorance of their advice led the expedition to move inland from where they were, and further toward the dangers and misfortunes that laid ahead. This decision of the governor was the turning point of the conquest, yet Cabeza de Vaca does not know it yet. Cabeza de Vaca’s suggestion to aboard

The uncertainty of where the burden of responsibility begins and ends within the consumer and manufacturer relationship has continued to fuel many moral controversies. In a free enterprise system, where government regulation is limited, it is critical to examine this issue as billions of transactions are occurring daily and in some extreme cases become deadly. An instance of this can be illustrated in the Ford Explorer Rollover lawsuit. Although there have been several theories to explain this