Gunfire at sea 1. Summary events and developments: Before 1898: the gun pointer estimated the range of the target and elevated the gun barrel (loop) to a height so that the shell could reach the target at the estimated range‚ done by a small wheel on the gun mount (bevestiging). When the pointer wanted to fire‚ he had to wait until the right moment of the roll and fire a bit earlier to compensate for his firing interval. In 1898 Admiral Sir Percy Scott introduced continuous firing‚ after
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In the novella‚ “The Old Man and the Sea”‚ Ernest Hemingway connects Joe DiMaggio’s life with Santiago’s. DiMaggio’s father‚ like generations of DiMaggio’s before him‚ was a fisherman‚ and he enthusiastically wished for his sons to join him. While Joe DiMaggio never had any interest in fishing‚ his upbringings as the son of a poor immigrant fisherman helped form his popular image as the personification of the American Dream. Santiago‚ much like DiMaggio’s father‚ was a fisherman. One day when
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories “What makes the story moving is the idea of the father’s redemption by his own child.” (Michael Billington) Discuss! Haroun’s father is called Rashid Khalifa. His family break apart because bot his son and his wife accuse him of telling meaningless and useless stories and not being rational at all. His wife leaves him‚ but his son suddenly relizes that Rashid his ability of telling stories dried up‚ so he thinks it’s all his fault and wants to do something because
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If anyone asked me about my opinion in "The Old Man and the Sea" I would say ’the most thing that attracted me is its theme between the old man and nature’ . I liked it for it shows us the real hope ‚patience and life that we can learn from this old man. "He was two feet longer than the skiff" maybe Santiago depended on the appearance of the fish which terrified him. It is a lesson that we should not depend on appearances and to look at the inside. It was only a fish that had a weak heart ‚it does
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Caitlin Couch Period 4 Old Man and the Sea 1. Symbols a. The Marlin is a major symbol in the novella. It stands for Santiago’s ideal opponent; his worthy challenger. He feels lucky to be able to fight this challenger‚ as it is his equal. Having bested your equal is much more satisfactory than whipping some amateur’s butt. I think that he feels that by facing the Marlin‚ he is giving the best of himself to his cause. He’s going full throttle‚ and by facing his Marlin‚ he is enhancing
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Old Man and The Sea - Rough Draft Human beings need to live in a group where everyone respects them and treats them equally. No human being can live alone isolated from other people because one hand can not clap by itself. In The Old Man and The Sea‚ the author uses setting‚ character and symbolism to show that people who society perceives as different are usually isolated. Once one is able to discover the reason of their existence‚ they are able to accept themselves in order to fulfill their
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Sea Port in India India has a long coastline‚ spanning 7516.6 kilometres‚ forming one of the biggest peninsulas in the world. It is serviced by 13 major ports (12 government and 1 corporate) and 187 notified minor and intermediate ports.[1] The latest addition to major ports is Port Blair on June 2010‚ the 13th port in the country.[2] Major ports handled over 74% of all cargo traffic in 2007. . Cargo handling is projected to grow at 7.7% until 2013-14.[3] Some 60% of India’s container traffic
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In the eye-opening excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ by Rachel Carson‚ we are regaled with a tale of an ideal‚ albeit fictional‚ flourishing town that blossomed with vitality. Through descriptive passages and an abundance of detail the author uses the setting and mood to take us on a journey through time as we learn about a prospering town that succumbs to a doomed fate that can only be instated through humans careless actions. The author immediately plunged into descriptive detail in this short
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In the book In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick ‚ the men face the decision between starvation or cannibalism‚ are forced to resort to murder and cannibalism‚ all while the irony of this decision looms over their heads. Consequently‚ the events that lead to this horrific action are as tragic as horrendous as the act of cannibalism itself. On a seemingly regular whaling expedition‚ they are attacked by a sperm whale. The Essex is sunk‚ and they are forced to sail help on the remaining
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In the first five stories of Krik Krak‚ one of the themes that those stories have in common is that people all suffer from their lives. In “Children of the Sea”‚ both the female narrator and the pregnant women suffer from the experiences of their lives. The female narrator experiences the sufferings because she is separated from her boyfriend who is on a boat to America. This separation is painful for her‚ since when she thinks that his boyfriend is sent away by her father she wishes “those macoutes
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