It’s Your Ship A Book Review Shanita Kitts Averett University Table of Contents Book Information……………………………………………………………………………...... 3 Content………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 Reviewer’s Evaluation………………………………………………………………………….. 13 Reviewer’s Information………………………………………………………………………… 14 References……………………………………………………………………………………… 14 Book Information Title: It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy Author: Captain D. Michael Abrashoff Publisher’s Name: Warner Books
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Every author has their own style of writing‚ they each express them self with different elements. For instance many authors use literary elements to show the theme or tone. In short story “like two ships” Chris Macy uses literary elements to provide disheartening tone. He uses setting‚ characterization which turn out insecurities that cause a missed opportunity. As the reader we know that they both are interested in each other ‚but the characters do not know. Setting is used to place them in
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involved. They represented our nation valiantly and deserve to be remembered. Therefore several of these ships have been preserved to teach our younger generations of the great history of our nation. Two of these noble ships are the USS Constitution and the USS Brig Niagara. Both ships saw action in the War of 1812 and were instrumental in protecting our rights against British oppression. These ships have long since been surpassed by more technologically advanced warships‚ however their historical significance
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Titanic “The Unsinkable ship” The Titanic was known as "the unsinkable ship". She was the largest ship afloat at the time of her maiden voyage in April of 1912‚ during which she collided with an iceberg. She was the second of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by the White Star Line. A numerous amount of people believe that the collision that occurred on April 15‚ 1912 was The Titanic’s sister ship The Olympic‚ and that the wreckage was premeditated and was used to commit insurance fraud
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“The Horrors of a Slave Ship‚” describes in detail‚ the tragic experiences of Olaudah Equiano as a captive slave. Equiano suffered many sleepless nights; he was flogged and kidnapped multiple times. In the article‚ the author is trying to give the reader the feeling by giving details of the brutally floggings and desperation as many slaves suffocated to death as they were placed in an overcrowded deck. Overall‚ the author tries to give readers their point across of the difficulties in being a captive
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PUNCTUALITY Can I ask you a riddle? What is it that ………once it is lost…… you can never recover it? What is it that…………keeps on marching ahead……….. and you can never stop it even if you want to? What is it that ………which comes free……… but you can never buy more ………even if you have all the money in the world? What is it that ………..you always think you have enough and more of……..but always run short of. Do you have the answer……….????? It is TIME. Time is very precious. We always think
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Defining a general cargo ship The term “general (multipurpose) cargo ships” covers many different ship designs that do not fi t into other more specialised cargo ship types. Thus‚ general cargo ships are not specialised for transport of only dry bulks‚ only containers or only heavy-lift cargoes‚ but they have flexibility to carry any of these cargo types. General cargo ships are the world’s most numerous ship types‚ excepting fishing vessels. Thus‚ in the year 2002 their share in the overall world
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1. How should Smooth Sailings’ mana gement perform the recoverability test for the cruise ship as of December 31‚ 2010? FASB ASC paragraph 360-10-35-23 states that for measuring an impairment loss‚ long-lived assets should be group with other assets and liabilities at the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities 2. What assets and liabilities should be included in the “asset group” as defined by ASC 360- 10
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Summary on Ships in the Desert In the story Ships in the Desert‚author Al Gore presents the idea that because of human’s behaviors‚the relationship between humankind and the earth has been transformed. In other words‚human civilization is now affecting or destroying the entire global environment. When the author was traveling around the world to examine and study the destruction‚he found that the Aral sea‚which used to be the fourth largest inland sea in the world‚is disappearing
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“This ship is the Kaliningrad. The Americans call it the OMEGA. The last letter of the Greek alphabet. The end-all‚ the ultimate” (DiMercurio 35). This quote is describing the Kaliningrad‚ which is a Russian submarine. This submarine is literally invincible because the submarine takes advantage of water and uses it as a type of armor. The water is a meter or two from the actual body of the submarine‚ so the sub can take several hits without dying. The book takes place basically during the Cold War
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