Andrea Gail

Fear shows our weaknesses while faced in a terrifying situation. Written by Chinua Achebe, African story Things fall apart. True American story Perfect storm. Science fiction movie Thor. Written by Sophlices Greek play Oedipus. Fear is normal to have but hard to overcome. Failure is refusing to move toward a specific goal. When Okonkwo would think about his unsuccessful father he would purposely remove the thought with his own strength and success. He would also deal with anything that wouldn’t…

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night There is no better way to add mystery and tension to a scene, than weather. Any reader can think of at least one story that uses weather as a motif. A great example of this motif would be in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, where the weather becomes a crucial indicator of misfortune. An example of this motif would be the bad weather that occurred when Duncan was murdered in the story of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The reader can see this motif in the following scene:…

Sebastian Junger’s book, The Prefect Storm, is a tragic and intense journey of six crew members setting out to go sword fishing and bring back some for profit; however, they get caught and later died in a “perfect storm”, which means two storms colliding and turning into a small hurricane and later evolving into a powerful cyclone. Analyzing The Perfect Storm, Junger filled his book with his input and ideas of what happened to the sailors at the end of their lives, how he believes they acted and…

called fate. Many pieces of literature raise questions on the idea of fate and if it exists. Critic Roland Barthes has said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” In The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger, six-crew members on board the Andrea Gail from Gloucester, Massachusetts in hope of swordfish along Nova Scotia find themselves in many weather phenomenas colliding and an ensuing massive storm. The novel hints the question of if fate exists and the reader is given an answer. The…

Recently we have seen the constant debate of whether or not sexual media has and is affecting us as a society go into this major uproar. Not just by the parents concerned with the fact that the oversexualization of role models such as Miley Cyrus have influenced their children on how they act and what they wear. But it is also prevalent in the recent feminist movement known as, third wave feminism. The main goal of the third wave of feminism is to redefine the structure of the male dominated…

• A cat rescue in Prescott AZ., contacted us because they are interested in building something similar to the cat cubbies that hang on the walls in the cat's rooms and want so know if they could get the dimensions and some pictures. I reached out to Butch who provided me with the dimension and I sent some picture I have on file. • While it has slowed down a little bit, I am still receiving quite a few emails from folks who were having a difficult time finding their online memorials posted for…

Sales, which included T-shirts and denim jeans, reached $78 million, 98 percent of which came from the domestic market. With 1,000 stores in Italy alone, Benetton realized that the home market was saturated, and launched a major export campaign. Benetton targeted the rest of Europe and made plans to enter U.S. and Japanese markets. In 1979 the first store was opened in North America. By 1981, Benetton, operating under the name Invep S.p.A., had become the world leader in the field of knitwear,…