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On the Andrea Doria, Capt. Calamai reported that right before the collision he saw the Stockholm’s red sidelight and forward masthead light swing to the left of the higher aft masthead light (Halpern, 2008). This indicated to Capt. Calamai that the Stockholm was turning into them. In response, Capt. Calami ordered hard left rudder and signaled on the whistle his turn to port (Halpern, 2008). However, his attempts failed as well. The Andrea Doria’s starboard side was no giant crater, and the…

Conspiracy Theory On September 11, 2001 a catastrophic event occurred in New York. The twin towers were struck by two aircrafts and they collapsed in just minutes. This horrific event ended in about 3,000 people killed or severely injured. After this there was a lot of controversy about the event and many scientists and authors started putting out conspiracy theories about the event. Some of these conspiracy theories are completely irrelevant and some are believable, which caused me to go into…

September 11th is a day that every American citizen knows as a day of remembrance for those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks against our truly great nation. Even today, people still visit the memorial that was built to to honor the victims of that fateful day. Although September 11th is not only a day to remember victims, it is also a day to remember heroes. It is a day to remember those who gave their lives to save others. It is day to remember people who stood up for freedom and…

to crash into the twin towers would change American history forever. Not only would this change the lives of the individual citizens, who were now becoming more patriotic, but foreign and domestic policies would change the way trade and business was conducted in the world as well. The beginnings of terrorism when America is considered or even terror as a whole as it seeps through…

On September 11, 2001, The United States changed forever. On that morning four planes were hijacked and flown into three of the United States largest and important buildings. Two of the planes had flown into the Twin Towers, the stars of New York City. The other plane hit the Pentagon in Washington DC, with the last plane crashing into a field were the passengers did not allow the plane to get hijacked which was heading for The White House. The Twin Towers had around 17,000 people in them when…

Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge is a nonfiction book about the bombings that took place during the Boston Marathon in 2013. Authors, Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, interviewed first responders, witnesses, survivors, family members of those who lost their loved ones, and public officials when writing Boston Strong as a way for them to have more realistic and personalized stories. Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy includes many Boston-based…

The painting itself is an “11 ½ x 25 ½ foot mural commissioned by the Spanish Republican government for the 1937 Paris World’s Fair” as stated in Reading the World (Austin). Each inch of this magnificent painting has a symbolic meaning intended to show the pain of the people of Guernica. Beginning at the left, one can see a woman holding a baby and crying. Including women and children shows how these were innocent…

In the play, Much Ado About Nothing, miscommunication and deceit surrounds every plot point. This is ironic because another version of the title is Much Ado About Noting, which implies that the play is about getting information, eavesdropping, and writing things down. Because everything that happens is misunderstood or interpreted incorrectly, most of the characters end up over-reacting or behaving rashly, causing even more problems than there were in the first place. This still happens today in…

Mount St. Helens, located in Skamania County Washington State, had an eruption which caused the death of fifty-seven people on May 18, 1980. A cloud full of ash rose into the sky, turned everything dark, and made any given time of day appear as black as midnight across many of the north-western states. It was recommended that people not leave their homes and they were told to wear gauze masks to keep the ash from entering their lungs. The eruption also caused about one thousand miles of roads to…

The crash of the United Airlines Flight 232 is a devastating event and is considered an engineering disaster for two main reasons. The failure of a fan disk in the engine which caused the plane to crash, and the high number of human fatalities due to the crash of the airplane on the runway. The United Airlines Flight 232 took off from Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado, and was scheduled to land in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a layover in Chicago, Illinois. It was a passenger…