With Phil, the pilot, injured, Louie accepted responsibility for himself and two other people without hope of rescue or food. Sitting in the scorching heat for many days makes Phil and the other crew members do something “...almost suicidal” (158). Phil waits for the sharks to wander off a bit, then plunges himself into the water. Taking his precious time in the water, they pull Phil out just before the sharks reach him. Louie and Mac, the other two passengers, “...thought it worth a try, and took their turns in the water”(159).…
Book 9.5- The Psithyrismos Falaina’s Attack “We were still escaping from the wrath of our discouraged adversary, the Cyclops, and our ship drifted on the sea after being showered by a massive amount of boulders. When we had been sailing for about a week, not knowing where our voyage would be taking us, an incredible storm crashed down on the ocean. Our ship tumbled and turned in the massive waves that slapped us, and bits of the sides of the ship chipped off from the powerful strength of the water. I know that this storm was a message to us from the gods as a punishment for what I had done to the Cyclops.…
One day in May 1943, he and his crew went searching for a missing plane. On their quest their plane went down. The plane crashed over the ocean and eleven people in his crew died. Mac, Phil, and Louie were the 3 survivors(3). On the first day Mac ate all their food so Louie had to start killing sharks with his bare hands.…
In the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Trumbo uses repetition, excessive description, and diction, to develop the theme of helplessness. In the novel, Joe has gone through a series from flashbacks of his childhood days. In these recollections, helplessness is commonly seen within Joe, and the people who appear in them.…
My husband Juan is a man who is proud to serve his country in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Aircrewman. He became a rescue swimmer in 2006 and has accomplished five rescues. While currently being stationed in Key West, his last rescue was a few months ago that involved eight people on a green refugee boat who had been out in the ocean for weeks. The woman on the boat needed serious medical assistance. The Coast Guard called the Naval Air Station Key West, Search and Rescue aircrew because none of the coast guards on duty were able to speak Spanish.…
The story behind the song The marten hartwell story, stompin tom Marten Hartwell was a Canadian bush pilot in the Canadian Arctic. On november 8 1972 Marten Hartwell was on a Canadian medical mission flying from Cambridge Bay to Yellowknife N.W.T. On the way to Yellowknife the plane Hartwell was flying ran into some turbulence and then into a major storm. The plane that Hartwell was flying soon crashed with its 3 passengers near Hottah Lake. This project will explain to readers what happened on that fateful day, On November 8 1972 the day Hartwells plane crashed it crashed with three passengers on board, a nurse named Judy Hill and 2 patients, 14 year old David Kootook and his pregnant mother Neemee Nulliayok.…
Johnny Cade, a greaser and a hero, died yesterday at the age of 16. Johnny Cade was lost puppy that has been kicked too many times. His parents abuse him physically and verbally, he didn’t know what love and affection are. Unit Dally told him he was proud of him because he saved others. His father thrash him up and his mother was too selfish and didn’t care about him.…
Professor Dietz English 112 Collin Habib Inquiry Three Creative Non-Fiction Narrative June 6, 1944 Dog-Green Sector, Omaha Beach The Atlantic waves rolled into us from all sides and angles, knocking us around in our rectangular, metal boat like…
His friend is scared and helpful at the same time. The shark is hungry and angry. Watson is hopeless and nervous. The water is wavy enough to throw Watson in the sea.…
At its core, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, Jaws, is a horror movie. Though the shark may seem like the primary antagonist of the film from this, as it literally eats people, such a claim would ignore the role of Amity Island’s Mayor Vaughn, as portrayed by Murray Hamilton. In the first half of the movie, Vaughn is constantly at odds with Chief Brody, wanting to push his own agenda of making money from tourism during the summer. In seeing Vaughn as another antagonist, another conflict that’s not just the one between the shark and the town emerges. In order to be able to kill the shark, Brody must first be able to “defeat” the powerful Vaughn.…
On a very crisp morning, the clock read 5:50 a.m. Dew fresh and coffee brewed. Jack’s mom was worrying about her husband yet again. He was a soldier in the United Stated Army, and before he left he told stories about how the guns worked and how people give up their lives to save us Americans who don't go and fight. He said were lucky that we can live with a roof over our heads and were lucky that it doesn't get blown up in a matter of hours.…
The water is overflowing out and killing sixty nine percent of the people on the boat. Jessica my noble friend has been injured the water shoved her against the boat wall. Jessica blacks out for a long time we make sure she is okay and bring…
On that great Thursday morning of May 25th, 2021, something terrible happened. It was the worst event to ever happen. Everyone in New York City celebrated this great day of Thursday the 25th for captain pasternak's (also known as just Pastrnak) birthday. What they didn’t know, but they would soon learn is that this event was going to turn into the worst fight that had ever happened between Spike and Captain Pastrňák.…
the great white was waiting for Vansant to bleed to death" (Capuzzo 33). Helpless, he slowly bled to death on the beach. This was the first ever shark related death to be recorded in US history. The next recorded attack was upshore from Beach Haven.…
I was left behind after the rapture I was doing one of my Church services, when I saw that my colleagues and most people who attended my services weren’t there. I then noticed people, like my friends and family had disappear, which I though was strange. I tried to contact them or even look for them but they were nowhere to be found. Then I realized that I have been left behind in the rapture. Why me, I’m a born again Christian, a Pastor.…