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    the Ancient Mariner and his shipmates. Even before the sailors die‚ their punishment is extensive; they become delirious from a debilitating state of thirst‚ their lips bake black in the sun‚ and they must endure the torment of seeing water all around them while being unable to drink it for its saltiness. Eventually the sailors all die‚ their souls flying either to heaven or hell. There are at least two ways to interpret the fact that the sailors suffer with the Ancient Mariner although they themselves

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    image of the gorian knot. The image of the knot refers to the sailors who needed knots for security. It is compulsory in a boat to naviguate correctly and calculate the speed. But here specifically it refers to a legend associated with Alexander the Great who was the one who undid the knot by cutting the cord with his sword. It is used as a metaphor for a problem difficult to solve but solved by using a brutal solution‚ so the old sailor has an intuition and he is knotting for someone else to undo

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    sailing advances and desires led to European Exploration. The sailing advances in technology include the caravel‚ this design of triangular sails helped sailors to sail effectively against the wind. More advancements include the astrolabe‚ which helped sailors to better determine their location at sea‚ the magnetic compass‚ which allowed sailors to more accurately track direction‚ and cartography‚ the science of making maps. Additionally‚ the desire for money‚ more land‚ and spreading Christianity

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    involved 12 sailors who were infected with scurvy (Lind‚ 2016). Lind was born to an Edinburgh merchant‚ whose wife had medical connections (Milne I‚ 2012). In 1731 he began his medical studies as an apprentice of George Langlands which was a fellow of the Incorporation of Surgeons. By 1747 he had become surgeon of HMS Salisbury in the Channel Fleet and started conducting his experiment on scurvy as the ship was patrolling the Bay of Biscay (Lind‚ 2016).

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    There are three central ideas in the Anglo-Saxon poem "The Seafarer." The hardships of being at sea‚ eternal salvation‚ and the idea that nothing is permanent. It is the monologue of an old sailor. The beginning of this poem tells of the old sailor hardships at sea. He experiences he bitter cold of the winter‚ being alone and isolated at sea‚ and hunger. In a thousand ports‚ and in me. It tells of smashing surf when I sweated in the cold of an anxious watch‚ perched in the bow as it dashed

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    forth and threw him over board. He urgently grabbed a rope. Luckily‚ some sailors who were walking by were astonished to see him hanging from a rope. How luck he was! So the sailors used a boat hook to save John‚ who was desperately hanging on the rope for his dear life. When they finally pulled John back up on board he was terrified and grateful that his life had been saved. So Goodman John Howland thanked the sailors and gratefully went back below deck. The Pilgrims were overjoyed to find that

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    princess of the Valley of the Wind. She is one of the members in the kingdom. In Laputa‚ Sheeta is an ordinary girl as well. The classic shojo‚ however‚ usually are action heroes or extremely but secretly different with others. Many of them‚ like in Sailor Moon‚ are girls with magic. Same instances include Cardcaptor Sakura and Mysterious Thief Saint Tail. Their behavior consists of various forms of violent retribution toward

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    harmonious atmosphere. It’s as if a scene from a movie was being filmed. The day seemed to be brighter than all others‚ the birds were chirping‚ and the sun glistened off of the leaves on the trees. The scenery was perfect for the awaited news. Snap! Sailors soon started appearing among the crowd‚ and the cheers get louder when citizens started to notice them. Nurses were coming from left and right

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    that he will be recruiting sailors to help him on the voyage. My brothers volunteered for job; with the long years of experience Martín became the captain of the Pinta‚ and Vicente captained the Niña. These two ships is out of three ships and my brothers had the honor to captain them; the last ship is the Santa María who was captained by Columbus. I am the youngest of my family since I am fifteen right now; I have no experience but since I came from a family of sailors‚ it has been my dream to be

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    an uncharted region of the earth‚ Odysseus felt that he and his crew were very alienated. If Odysseus had not expelled his crew‚ this apathetic temptation‚ which was induced by the fruit‚ would have bound his sailors to remain exiled on this lethargic island. This exile alienates the sailors because it convinces them that this island‚ not Ithaca‚ is where they truly belong. Because the voyage was brought upon our Ithacan by divine beings‚ the will of Odysseus must be as headstrong as the gods’ and

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