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    Kudos In Caught Inside

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    to believe they have kudos to be able to dictate others‚ have themselves on a pedestal and become over protective over what they think is theirs‚ but it isn’t fair to anyone else and are solutions to share the vast ocean and its attributes. In Caught Inside‚ Duane‚ introduces a character names Apollo. The first interaction Duane has with Apollo includes Apollo calling Duane a “kook”‚ a derogatory term for a rookie surfer. Apollo clearly showing

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    Clipper Ships.

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    Clipper Ships The name Clipper is applied to a ship to indicate that it is a very fast sailer. The term‚ probably derived from the verb clip (to move quickly)‚ was first used in the United States soon after the War of 1812 and was applied to the type of vessel formerly described as Virginia built or of pilot boat construction. After the 1830s the term clipper was adopted to mean any fast ship. The Clipper Ship By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing‚ although

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    The Slave Ship, 1817

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    Martine Belamour THE SLAVE SHIP OF 1840 BY J.M.W. TURNER The painting is of a slave ship that got caught up in a bad storm. A mass of dark clouds fill the sky with a fiery sunset in the middle. The water is troublesome announcing a Typhon is coming. For the slavers to save themselves and the ship; they start throwing overboard the dead and dying before the Typhon sweeps their decks. In those days the ship carrying the slaves kept them on the bottom of the ship chained up‚ and malnourished

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    Solas: Ships

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    passenger travel by sea: there were no aircraft‚ and emigration‚ from Europe to the Americas and other parts of the world‚ was still taking place on a massive scale. Passenger ships were therefore much more common than they are today and accidents frequently led to heavy casualties. The annual loss of life from British ships alone averaged between 700 and 800 during this period. The incident which led to the convening of the 1914 international SOLAS conference was the sinking of the White Star liner

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    Ship of Theseus

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    classical story of the ship of Theseus. Change and identity becomes complex and the definition of objects change. An object is a thing that exists in time and space and has many properties or aspects such as size and colour. As these properties change‚ so do the object and the object’s identity‚ so therefore objects are always changing with time. The story of the ship of Theseus has had philosophers puzzled for centuries. The classical story is told by Plutarch (46-120 AD)‚ ‘The ship wherein Theseus

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    ship breaking

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    are increase/decrease in product and process innovations. Just like every other industry‚ the ship-breaking industry has the following phases – 1. Introduction phase of the industry life cycle: Emerging industries are new or reformed industries that originate from technological innovation‚ changing the relationship between relative costs‚ new customer needs or other economic and social changes. Ship breaking industry is no exception to this. From early 60’s to till now there has been lots of technological

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    "Saplings in the Storm"

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    essay “Saplings In the Storm‚” Mary Pipher discusses the changes girls face once they hit adolescence. Through figurative language and tone her essay successfully expresses what the young women go through. In her “Sapplings in the Storm” essay‚ Mary Pipher brings attention to the struggles‚ changes‚ and hardships young girls experience when they reach the age of adolescence. She uses similes‚ allusions‚ and metaphors to pull her reads into her reflections. “Just as… ships disappear…into the Bermuda

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    Horrors of a Slave Ship

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    Jill Knierim The Horrors of a Slave Ship History 1301-Villarreal Due Date: 3/8/13 The article‚ The Horrors of a Slave Ship‚ is first person point of view account of the capturing of Olaudah Equiano. He tells the story of how he was captured from his home while his parents were away to be used as a slave. The article starts off with Olaudah and his sister being captured while their parents were away. They were taken into the woods‚ tied up‚ and forced to travel bound without food. After

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    Storm surge

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    The storm will probably continue slowly northward and its effects will be felt as far as the lower portion of the middle Atlantic coast by Friday night." (Page 113)"My family pleaded with me to remain at home‚ said A.R. Wolfram‚ a Galveston shopkeeper‚ but I was determined to go to town. I tried to reassure them and promised that at the first signs of the storm’s approach‚ I would return home. He did go home‚ for lunch‚ but left again to return to work‚ despite the tearful pleadings of my wife and

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    The Ship Breaker

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    The Ship Breaker By: Paolo Bacigalupi 1- Sadna pursed her lips. “Sometimes people have more will to live. Or you don’t hit them right and they don’t lose their blood fast enough. Sometimes they just don’t stop the way you want them to” (Page 174). My observations in this quote are you can’t just kill anyone; you have to kill them in their own certain way. You can’t just stop their life the way you want to and some people don’t lose their blood fast enough. My reactions in this quote

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