Boat people

Musicals “And I said to myself sit down, sit down you’re rocking the boat” ~Guys and Dolls Musicals. When you hear the word, you might think of Broadway or New York City, big performances with a standing ovation. This is all true but let me take you behind the curtain to learn about how a Broadway Musical comes to be. The first thing when making a Broadway Musical is writing. The writer, composer, and lyricist usually work together, usually the writer makes a rough draft of the story and then…

Readers are taken on an extraordinary journey at the sea with no land in sight. The vessel aboard the open water symbolizes Coleridge’s train of imagination far away from the realisms of life. The albatross was initially considered a good luck charm because he once led the ship to safety from the icy antarctic water. So after the mariner kills the albatross, the crew is scared as they are convinced the crime will solely result in penalty by the power of the sea. The crew is clearly proven…

Unrestricted submarine warfare was one of the most important reasons on why the United States joined war. Unrestricted submarine warfare is an approach where submarines sink merchant ships without warning. February of 1915, Germany created U-boats. U-boats would sink enemy ships without any kind of warning. International law…

happened to him and the National Geographic team on their expeditions. He finds humor in the sometimes distressing occurrences and also describes local cuisines and cultural misunderstandings from his travels all around the world. Bennett has piloted boats for film expeditions for National Geographic for the past 20 years and currently assists Flip Nicklin. He also owns Small Planet Adventures, a tour and sightseeing company based in Lake Stevens, Washington and is past president of Whale Watch…

reality that the forces of nature offer no pity to find themselves at its mercy. There are four men stranded on a small insignificant boat, which is easily overturned because of even the slightest movements. This small dismal boat is their only chance of survival as it floats along utterly defenseless atop the vast and cruel ocean. Gulls fly around their little boat without a care in the world, obviously unfazed by the extremely dire situation of these poor men, one…

Dudley and Edwin Stephen's situation, I am one who says they did what they must to survive. At that time, society thought of those men as monsters not realizing that they were doing what they had to do get on that lifeboat. As the story reads, that the boat was drifting on the ocean, and was probably more than 1000 miles from land; that on the eighteenth day, when they had been seven days without food and five without water, D. proposed to S. that lots should be cast who should be put to death…

The weapon used the nuclear fission of uranium 235, to release energy equivalent to 16 kilotons of TNT. The bomb used in Hiroshima would kill 140,000 people in 5 months, not taking into account the long-term illnesses that claimed many more lives. No one truly knows how much the radiation has affected the lives of survivors and their families. It’s clear to see that there is a need to ban nuclear weapons…

In the boat stealing scene, readers see the alienation and exploration of the natural world previously discussed. “I went alone into a Shepherd’s boat,” says Wordsworth, establishing his solitude before any other aspect of the experience (1.82). In this scene, Wordsworth is closest to the “blessed babe” state. For this reason, he has little windows during which he comes close to encountering the Real. “Leaving behind her [the boat] still on either side / Small circles glittering idly in the moon…

1915. The sinking of the Lusitania had a big impact on America and the rest of the world during WWI. This attack on The Lusitania was one of the main causes of the United States entering WWI. On May 7, 1915, German U-Boat U-20 attacked the British oceanliner the Lusitania. 1198 people were killed, including 128 Americans. The ship sunk in only 18 minutes off of the coast of Ireland. The German’s released reports warning all ships in a designated area. “In early May 1915, several New York…

This exhibition features paintings of people straining to complete arduous tasks as part of their professions. Despite immense physical separation, these works share similar emotions of despair yet hope despite grueling circumstances. An initial impression of Winslow Homer’s oil painting The Herring Net evokes extreme empathy and despair for the two sailors in a rowboat who are straining to haul in their ample catch of herring during rough chop and gloomy weather, cramped in a rowboat, in the…