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    unsinkable" became an oxymoron‚ people still don’t know who should be the blame of it till present day. There’s been many suspects on the list such as: Thomas Andrews (architect of the titanic)‚ Captain Lord(captain of the Californian ship)‚ Harland and Wolff (shipbuilders) and Bruce Ismay(director of white star line). However‚ the chosen suspect that I personally found was most guilty was Captain Smith‚ the captain of the Titanic. Overall‚ he was the person that controlled the ship. When Edward John

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    and her Olympic class sisters‚ Olympic and the then upcoming Gigantic‚ were intended to be the largest‚ most luxurious ships ever to operate (The planned name Gigantic was changed to Britannic after the disaster). Titanic was designed by Harland and Wolff chairman William Pirrie‚ head of Harland and Wolff’s design department Thomas Andrews and general manager Alexander Carlisle‚ with the plans regularly sent to the White Star Line’s managing director J. Bruce Ismay for suggestions and approval. Construction

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    Critques in Don Quixote

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    Over the past century‚ critics have been discussing some of the major flaws that are found in Cervantes’s classic novel Don Quixote. Even though the novel is seen as one of the best works of literature ever written‚ many people have found several problems in the book. Although there are several‚ difficult translation is the most common critique that has been made over the past hundred years. Critic Martin Amis claims‚ "While clearly an impregnable masterpiece‚ Don Quixote suffers from one fairly

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    Facts About The Titanic

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    I. There has been evidence collected that the Titanic was not the ship that allegedly hit an iceberg and killed hundreds of passengers and crew members. Physical evidence on the boat has been observed. Research has shown cancellations of people who may have known about the organized plan of the switch and that the switch was part of an insurance scam. a. It is said that the Titanic was switched out with its sister ship‚ the RMS Olympic before its departure on April 14‚ 1912. Being sister ships

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    continues to haunt our imaginations since that tragic night of 12th April 1912. It is possibly the most famous shipwreck of all time. The Titanic was built in Belfast by renowned shipbuilders Harland & Wolff. They built her sister ships ‘The Britannic’ and ‘The Olympic’. It took 11‚300 Harland & Wolff shipyard workers 26 months to build the titanic. The Titanic was famous for its size‚ its luxury‚ its famous passengers and for being ‘unsinkable’.

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    Troy Wolff: Exchange Year

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    Cherry Liu (Meng Ting Liu) Eng101 10:30-11:20 Assignment essay 1 01/21‚ 2013 Troy Wolff Exchange Year “Being an exchange student is awesome”‚ “I had the best year of my life”‚ “ I learned so much about myself”. These are what people‚ who had already been abroad‚ told me about their past experiences two years ago. They told me about how wonderful it was‚ how the exchange experiences have changed them forever‚ and what they had learned from it. I was truly inspired by their energy and passion

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    Sweeney Todd Analysis

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    Sweeney Todd Analysis Benjamin Barker‚ a skilled barber‚ is falsely charged and sentenced to a life of hard labor in Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin‚ who lusts after Barker’s wife Lucy. Now under the assumed name "Sweeney Todd"‚ Barker returns to London with sailor Anthony Hope. At his old Fleet Street lodgings above Mrs. Nellie Lovett’s pie shop‚ he is led to believe that Lucy‚ having been raped by Turpin‚ has poisoned herself‚ and his teenage daughter Johanna is now Turpin’s ward‚ and like

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    Why Did The Titanic Sink

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    Nearly 1‚500 people were working on the Olympic and her sister ship the Titanic. However‚ they were the largest moving objects to be constructed. The Titanic was built by the Harland and Wolff shipyards which were the best builders in Ireland. They also were both worked on at the same time. They were both put in the water to set off at the same time. But it took approximately 3 years to build. Next‚ the Titanic might have had several causes to sink. It definitely hit the iceberg and sunk. It might

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    Titanic Tragedy

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     at  fault.     Harland  and  Wolff   Harland  and  Wolff  had  difficulty  finding  enough  workers‚  and  in  an  effort  to  save  money  employed   poor  riveters  from  small  forges;  the  work  needed  was  very  skilled  and  each  rivet  was  hand  crafted.   In  the  British  inquiry  Harland  and  Wolff  were  accused  of  importing  less

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    “Powder” By Tobias Wolf‚ is about a young lad that Who goes on a nice little ski trip with his father that separated from his mother. This trip seem to be one of those father son bonding trips. Well on their last day on what I think was christmas eve as they finished up going down the slopes it starts to snow. on their way home the snow starts to worsen. the police have barricaded the road so the two stop at a diner nearby.As they waited at the dinner the father tries talking to the son. Finally

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