keeping your faith was a critical theme in the story. No matter how downtrodden Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his crew were‚ they continued to keep their faith. Despite the fact that most of the crew was either dead of near death‚ de Vaca and his navigator continued to try to find a place to land the ship throughout the night. Even after landing on the shores of Galveston Island‚ the crew had to rely on the Indians for nourishment. Though they were almost certainly dead‚ they kept the faith that the
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Conclusions of the sub questions: Sub question 1 What could have inspired Briggs to abandon the perfectly sound vessel‚ passing his wife‚ child and crew into a small boat in heavy seas? There are a couple of things that were very unlikely to happen. Sea monsters are easy to dismiss‚ because why were the lifeboat‚ navigational tabled and the sextant gone? Secondly‚ piracy. If it were to be pirates‚ they would take some stuff with them‚ wouldn’t they? Any valuables that the ship might have held were
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Physical Science I have learned from my twenty years of service in the U.S. Air Force‚ significant background knowledge of the history of the space shuttle. In September 1969‚ two months after the first manned lunar landing‚ a Space Task Group appointed by the President of the United States to study the future course of U.S. space research and exploration made the recommendation that "…the United States accept the basic goal of a balanced manned and unmanned space program. To achieve this goal‚
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The crew saw mud and gas pouring onto the floor of the rig. All the members of the crew instantly attempted to close the valve in the Blowout Preventer‚ which was intended to shut off the flow of high-pressure oil and gas from the well‚ but failed to seal the well because the drill pipe buckled for reasons that are still unknown. The crew could have redirected the flow of the mud and gas away from Deepwater Horizon and
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using Cinematography and Mise-en-Scene. One of the many tense moments in this scene is when we see a tilt angle in which the crew are sitting silent in their quarters. The tilt angle emphasizes the fact that the boat is rocking dangerously and makes the audience worry that the boat will capsize. This creates tension because it makes the audience fear for the lives of the crew. Another tense part of the scene is at the beginning when we see the small boat struggling against the gigantic waves. The
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Grade: 10/13 Gentlemen‚ your Verdict This is a story about decisions. The result of this decision was the death of fifteen crew members. A decision made by one person to end the lives of fifteen men to save five. What would you do if you were the lieutenant of a submarine and you had to decide the fate of your crew? I don’t think that I could make the same decision that Lieutenant-Commander Oram made. After the submarine rested on a sandbank‚ about thirty fathoms down‚ it was time to assess the
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is not the actual boat that disappeared but in fact just its’ crew. On December 5th‚ 1872‚ The Mary Celeste was found adrift at sea(The events leading up to the mystery. (n.d.). The 100 ft long 282 ton Canadian ship began its’ voyage on November 7‚ 1872 from New York’s harbor(The events leading up to the mystery. (n.d.). With a total of ten crew members‚ including; Captain Briggs‚ his wife‚ his two-year old daughter sarah and seven crew members. (Blumberg‚ 2007 ). So on December 5th‚ 1872‚ 400 miles
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time. For the crew of the whale ships‚ harvesting whales was a tough assignment; when a whale was spotted‚ the crew would approach it‚ harpoon it‚ and then try to kill it. Once a whale was killed‚ its blubber was peeled from the corpse and then boiled for the high quality oil. On this particular journey the crew faced even more difficulties than just the killing of the whales. As sperm whales can reach upwards of sixty tons [1]‚ they had the potential to destroy a whaling boat‚ as the crew of the Essex
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solely based on a sperm whale attack on a crew at sea. Moby Dick is about Captain Ahab’s revenge for Moby Dick and Ishmael narrating. While In the Heart of the Sea is about a crew’s regular voyage gone wrong and narrated by the author. They are both fascinating books with very different plot twists. Moby Dick and In the Heart of the Sea have many different themes. But‚ both do share one important similar theme; man vs. nature. In both books‚ the crew is faced with a sperm whale that threatens/
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A big part of being a hero‚ is leadership. When Odysseus and his crew show up on the island of the lotus eaters‚ Odysseus sent his crew out. They found the lotus eaters‚people who eat lotuses which makes them forget all of their goals and worries. When the crew is offered some they to forget what their goals and worries are. Odysseus soon finds out what is going on and went to investigate. When he saw what had happened to the crew he tried to get them off the island. In this moment Odysseus dragged
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