Black Sea

Dunkirk Sometimes an event is called miraculous when there is no way anyone could survive under those circumstances that Dunkirk was. Let alone a very large amount of people like at Dunkirk and those seamen in The Finest Hours. Dunkirk was a piece of hell. It will be mentioned that survival was enough at one point in the movie. That fact was agreed with by the British citizens and even the newspapers. One of the British citizens, a man, who took a boat out to help like many others were…

The essay “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White is about how he takes a trip back to the lake where his family spent their summers. He decides to take his son back with him. On the way to the lake the father starts to wonder if anything has changed at the lake. When him and his son get to the lake he starts to remember the time he spent at the lake when he was younger. The main idea of the essay is that there are always memories that will give you the illusion that you are in the past but no…

in Kansas City. Hemingway wrote many different novels, including his most famous works: “The Old Man and the Sea”, “To Have and Have Not”, and “The Sun Also Rises”. Earnest Hemingway was an important part to American Literature because of his unique writing style about very unique ideas. An example of some of his unique work is “The Old Man and the Sea”. In the book “The Old Man and the Sea”, Hemingway wrote about his experiences about attempting to defend his reputation as a great writer, based…

Admiral Mitscher and the Battle of the Philippine Sea As World War II, came to a close in Europe, the war in the Pacific for the United States against Japan continued to escalate with the Battle of the Philippine Sea. Also known as the Battle of the Marianas, Admiral Marc Mitscher led an entire armada with four air craft carriers. After his rise through the ranks as a naval officer, his accumulation of war and aviation experience gave him the ability to influence United States air power and…

“A view from the bridge.” A short story that sheds a bit of hope even within the most unsympathetic person. Cherokee Paul McDonald, the writer of this story was given that light and hope. Within a confident stride, he comes up to a bridge and while passing by a kid yells “Hey, mister? Would you help me, please?” Although this little boy shattered his “jogger’s concentration,” peculiarly enough he stopped. This implies that the author felt the notion to pause, meaning a significant impact waiting…

Throughout the essay “The Library as Survival”, author Alberto Manguel liberally uses exemplification in order to share with his readers the idea of his own personal library as a mirror for humanity. Like humanity, Manguel believes that books portray the injustice, loss, hope, and passage of time that human beings go through. The catalyst for his thoughts on the subject matter is the well-worn prayer book that he recovers and describes using humanlike words, but that is not where it stops.…

This go around proved to be far more interesting than his first job as a cabin boy. After quite some time at sea Melville fled the ship only to be met with islanders from Marquesas, who were cannibals. Fortunately, he was treated well and was not harmed, yet he still choose to get off the island at the first opportunity he had. After a few months of being on…

Herman Melville was quite the hero to stand up against a big crowd that were participating in flogging and saving the lives that could had been lost due to this awful tradition. Also without the interest in human and civilization that came from the sea voyages due to the debts , flogging could…

A Single Person Can Change Society “Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.” Barbara Mikulski said that once, and what she said goes perfectly with the story, The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Coming together to make a change is the theme of this story. In the story, the women adored Esteban. Esteban was a magnificent man who drowned. The women wanted to clean him, dress him, and shave him. They changed their village, completely, to…

Was there ever a time you were stuck and had to make a quick decision on what was the right or wrong thing to do? How about trying to decide between life or death for the sake of others because it's what you thought was right? Well in the short story Man in the water an ordinary man is set upon a bunch of strangers in a crash and uses what he think is moral courage to help him. In the story Roger Rosenblatt uses Conflict and P.o.v to develop the theme of moral courage throughout this inspiring…