April 14th‚ 1912‚ is a day everyone will remember‚ it’ll go down in history as a day when disaster struck. Not too far from New York. The Titanic hit an iceberg which as a result made it sink in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays we look back and remember this was an important event because so many people died when the ship sank‚ partly because of the lack of lifeboats. After the sinking no ship was allowed to set sail unless there were enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship. It took nearly 3
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Introducción El Titanic era el barco más grande jamás construido. Estaba cerca de 900 pies de largo‚ con 25 pisos de altura‚ y pesaba 46.000 toneladas‚ este era considerado un barco insumergible. El 14 de abril de 1912‚ el RMS Titanic colisionó con un iceberg y se hundió en menos de tres horas. Más de 2200 pasajeros y la tripulación estaban a bordo del Titanic con rumbo a los Estados Unidos. Sólo sobrevivieron 705. De acuerdo con los constructores del Titanic‚ incluso en el peor accidente posible en el
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In the year of 1912 in the fifthteenth day of april a ship that had been thought to be indestructible‚ sank from an iceberg that had been said to be larger than the ship itself. That ship was called the Titanic. The Titanic was said to be a beauty and some might’ve said it was the largest ship they ever seen.The Titanic had about over 2‚000 passengers when it sailed in 1912 and had only 705 people saved by the ship Carpathia when it sunk. What some didn’t know was that Carpathia was the only ship
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question remains… Who or what is responsible for the sinking of the ‘unsinkable ship’? The Titanic set sail on April 10‚ 1912 carrying 2200 passengers and 1300 crew. She hit an iceberg on April 14‚ 1912 at 11:45 p.m. At first the captain thought that the ship had merely scraped the iceberg. The damage was much worse... The iceberg scraped the hull so bad the rivets used to hold the ship together popped out. The gash in the hull let water come into the ship at 10 tons per second! Of the 2200 passengers
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It all started by the Titanic hitting an iceberg ripping open six compartments on the ship. Water started gushing in the boat‚ rapidly flooding it. In a matter of 160 minutes (2 hours and 40 minutes)‚ the Titanic had sank‚ bringing many people down with her. As a consequence of the iceberg and more small reasons‚ the Titanic sank‚ causing many casualties and changes in maritime regulations (Fahey 22-23). The Titanic sinking was essentially the iceberg but other reasons could have led to the speedy
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the emotion and attitude‚ as opposed to only reading and acknowledging it. Furthermore‚ "Prepared a sinister mate for her-so gaily great- a shape of ice‚ for the time far and dissociate" creates a separate image from the Titanic of the malicious iceberg. The quotation also illustrates the speaker’s emotion‚ allowing the reader can picture this calm serene scene and feel the speaker’s empathy for the ship’s inevitable downfall‚ and the attitude of acceptance and amazement of the tragedy. The speaker’s
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to look out for icebergs that night‚ yet nobody was at the control panel that fateful night (McPherson 6). The Titanic was thought to be unsinkable when it was built in 1911. “More than 2‚200 people were now aboard the Titanic including 1‚300 passengers” (Senan 16). The location the Titanic deported from was Great Britain and it was headed to New York. After three long days of sailing on the North Atlantic‚ they stopped in Ireland. A few days later‚ the ship crashed into an iceberg that had made it’s
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Shunned and shut out because of her pride‚ Medusa ’s tale can assuredly be compared to the captain of the Titanic‚ Edward John Smith. Medusa was a very beautiful mortal‚ who had many suitors‚ although‚ she was very prideful about her appearance. Later on‚ Medusa got turned into a hideous monster by Athena‚ the goddess of wisdom and war. Her story ended in a great deal of tragedy and she was full of regret. The story of Medusa can be compared to the captain of the Titanic‚ Edward John Smith for many
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titanic event that revealed many reasons behind its sinking. The essay will then focus on the main factors that lead to the Titanic disaster. These include claims that the Titanic sank because its crew were sailing too fast and failed to see the iceberg before it was too late. Others argue that the Titanic disaster was caused by the poor design of the ship according to (http://writing.engr.psu.edu/uer/bassett.html ). There are also claims that argue that the failure of the Titanic lies heavily on
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have been prevented or at least lessened. On the night of April 14‚ 1912‚ as Titanic was crossing the Mid-Atlantic‚ Titanic struck an iceberg on its starboard side. Crews tried to avoid the iceberg but there was just not enough reaction time. Passengers aboard the ship said that it felt like the engines started‚ they had no idea the ship had struck an iceberg.[ii] The
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