passion‚ an illustrious warrior. Admired greatly for his achievements and strength. In ancient greece‚ they believed the gods favored men like odysseus‚ the heros. One way Odysseus shows he is (NOT in my view) in fact a hero in how he leads his crew to death then becomes the hero. Odysseus had a bad feeling about the cave‚ therefor; he shouldn’t of took his men there. Instead of listening to his gut he allowes his men to be tortured and trapped until they tried
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was his desire that he and his crew set sail there. Bjarni was an optimist because even though he had never seen or sailed to Greenland he firmly believed that he and his crew were capable. He once said “Our journey will be thought an ill-considered one‚ since none of us has sailed the Greenland Sea” (The Vinland Sagas‚ 4). This shows that although everyone will think their journey is one they should not make‚ Bjarni does not care because he believes that he and his crew are fully capable of making
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earned him fame for the rest of his life. Yet‚ now in retrospect‚ I no longer consider him to be the great adventurer that I saw him as in my childhood. On his seven voyages‚ Sinbad encountered every obstacle one could possibly think of. He and his crew met up with: a fish so large‚ many mistook it for an island‚ an island where rocs (enormous birds (their eggs were often mistaken for buildings)) still lived‚ cannibals‚ giants‚ and even herds of angry elephants. On each and everyone one of his famed
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Antarctic continent in 1914 and the struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew for almost two years. The book’s title is actually the name of the ship Shackleton used for the expedition‚ the Endurance. The ship was being pushed together by two large massive floes (flat land masses of floating ice) and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. In all the crew drifted on the ice for over a year. They were able to launch their boats and somehow
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possibilities of man’s future in space. The crew of the Ares III on their 18-sol of 31-sol expedition was in a mission on the mars faced an unexpectedly strong storm which forced them to leave the planet for their safety‚ but during the evacuation‚ astronaut ‘’Mark Watney’’ is struck and
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shows how brave the crew of a huey was and how tough the huey was. On September 16‚ 2011‚ a stunt pilot flying his P-51 mustang crashed in a spectator area at the Reno Air Races in Nevada. At the time‚ hueys were on display along with the crew that flew them and the hueys were immediately pushed up hill for refueling. The crew flew the injured to the nearest hospital and landed across the street in the park. The crew received the Golden Hour Reward. On that day the huey and its crew had transported
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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster INTRODUCTION: The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28‚ 1986‚ when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight‚ leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean‚ off the coast of central Florida‚ United States‚ at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The
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statistic? Abrashoff believes that running a ship is very similar to running any business; it takes motivating a crew to perform at the best of their abilities to achieve optimal efficiency and completion of tasks. He successfully takes his experiences from leading a Naval crew and teaches the audience how to apply it to their organizations. Along with highlighting every winning moment he and his crew experienced on the USS Benfold‚ Captain Abrashoff also shows failing moments the team had to endure. Those
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The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28‚ 1986‚ when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight‚ leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean‚ off the coast of central Florida‚ United States‚ at 11:39 a.m. EST (16:39 UTC). Disintegration of the entire vehicle began after an O-ring seal in its right solid rocket booster (SRB) failed at liftoff. The O-ring failure caused a breach in the SRB joint it sealed
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book 10 of the Odyssey‚ Homer uses character choices such as interaction between characters‚ dialogue of characters‚ and action of Odysseus to prove that Odysseus cares a lot about his men in his crew. In the beginning of Book 10‚ Odysseus divides up his crew to explore the island of Aeolia‚ but his crew encountered an evil goddess name Circe. One of Odysseus’s men‚ Eurylochus‚ came to inform Odysseus about the situation and how many of his men were turned into pigs. “’Don’t force me to go back there
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