Boat

time at Electric Boat, I served as the lead engineer assigned to develop a component refurbishment program. Given the long life expectancy of submarines, inevitably some manufacturers either go out of business or no longer support a certain product or component. Once that obsolescence is identified, a replacement solution is required unless there is a sufficient inventory of repair parts. Understanding that such circumstances could create additional business for Electric Boat, I worked to…

Between 1978 and 1979, the largest group of refugees coming to America were the Vietnamese boat people. The term “Vietnamese boat people” refers to those refugees that fled Vietnam by means of boats and ships after the Vietnam War. This migration brought roughly 800,000 Vietnamese refugees. Communism started because of Viet Cong and the uprising of the Vietnam War. I Love Yous Are For White People, written by Lac Su, is a story of an ordinary family living under extraordinary circumstances after…

of retaliation from the new communist government. Many refugees called “boat people”, made their routes by sailing through the ocean, and they had to risk their lives for a new haven. It is estimated that half of refugees could not made their ways, and ocean was their graves. In 2008, Director Duc Nguyen released his documentary film Bolinao 52, a movie about Vietnamese refugees on a fatal boat, which reveals the plight of boat people and the ordeals they had to fight for their survival.…

Self reliance is the ability to depend on oneself to meet human needs to survive. In the book, the boys in The Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Joe Rantz began relying on himself from the day his family abandoned him at a very young age. He learned how to keep himself fed and clean. At the same time, manage to keep his grades up and partake in his school's rowing crew. Joe is a responsible, self reliant, and hard working boy who overcame many hardships in his life. Joe Rantz was forced to become…

During my reading of the previous National Bestseller, The Boys in the Boat, I was reminded of our country's powerful history, and the gut, grit and determination of our citizens, and what the American Dream we so often talk about actually means. When I was able to see the strenuously demanding tasks that so many went through just to survive in the midst of The Great Depression, and furthermore the innate ability that Americans have to persevere, my life was changed. I realized that so much of…

is henceforward possible only in minor matters.” (Lovecraft, 38) He prepares his diving suit, writes his manuscript, and goes off into the abyss of Atlantis and knowingly walks to his death. 6. The story takes place during World War I in a German U Boat Submarine in the Atlantic Ocean disabled on the ocean. 7. The two main characters that are followed in the book “The Temple” by H.P. Lovecraft are Karl Heinrich Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein and Lieutenant Klienze. There are other characters…

the ocean as the sun began the set and saw a strange man on a small fishing boat. Puzzled Juana called out to the strange man, “ Sir, it is getting late! The ocean tends to be rough at night!” The strange man looked at her and said, “ I am a professional everything will be fine!” Juana knew how the seas were at night and wanted to warn the man of the danger he is getting himself into. Juana saw that the paste of the boat was slow and she noticed as the waves began to pick up. “ Sir, you have to…

A fishing trip turns into a terrifying test of survival after Salvador Alvarenga becomes one man against the sea. Salvador Alvarenga loved the simple lines of the fiberglass craft. No cabin or roof. Just a 25-foot-long narrow, canoe-shaped boat designed to carve up the waves like a huge surfboard, agile and fast, with the engine mounted on the back. Alvarenga was a 37-year-old Salvadoran fisherman living and working in Mexico. A heavy drinker quick to pick up the tab, he had no family tying…

Hungary were called the central powers. During this world war many battles took place on land, but they also took place at sea. Germany had new weapons at the time called the U-boats, which was an underwater submarine that was able to sneak up on the enemy without being seen. So one year into war on May 1915 a German U-boat sank the British luxury ocean liner called the Lusitania. This killed 1,198 people and 128 americans lost their lives. This caused much debate in whether Germany was…

“Show Boat was the show that allowed drama to come back to Broadway as it had a completely integrated score and book that was all based on dramatic themes.” (The History). If Show Boat did not achieve the success, then operettas could have hindered and been set back. Another one of my top examples is Victor Herbert’s work. He was one of the first…