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vessel, which sank near the coast of Punta Leona. The vessel is owned by Global Crust Firm S.A. According to the report of an online news site, The Tico Times, the ship left Herradura Bay on 8th of January and on its way across the Gulf of Nicoya. During the departure, the sea was calm but within 30 minutes after, at about 2040H, the ship had called for a distress call but it rapidly sank due to strong winds and rough sea. The vessel was said to be on an all-inclusive day adventure to Tortuga…

The Bahamas is a nation that is highly dependent on tourism. Hence, the government of the Bahamas has undertaken extensive marketing to attract visitors, to its warm climate, the beauty of the beaches, followed by the diversity of hotel facilities. According to Dean W. Collinwood, "Since the end of world War II, tourism has become the unchallenged engine of the Bahamian economy." (Dean) Ramesh Ramsaran has gone so far as to assert that the industry has "affected every faucet of economic life in…

in history when America acquired the highest number of immigrants. Millions of settlers from southern and eastern European countries migrated to the United States. Most newcomers entered the country legally by sailing across the Atlantic Ocean on ships or boats. Several migrants arrived to America illegally due to costly expenses or impatience for the immigration process to be completed. They lacked jobs in their countries, so they traveled to the land of opportunity to work and hopefully…

How did the titanic impact the world as we know it? It’s a question that has been asked many times throughout the years since the incident happened. So many different interpretations on the answers given freely by survivors of the ship, there was a movie based on it and a documentary but there are still so many questions that are left with no explanations. One thing we do know for sure, it was the first global disaster for mankind. Victims from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia…

rough life we would have if we had a slavery. Long time ago, there was a severe slavery and slave trade. In The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano was kidnaped and lived his life as a slave. While he was moving through the ship, he was suffering from horrible smells, flog, and the desire of escape. Also, he had a hard life after he became a slave. He could have lived in nice and graceful life if he hadn’t been caught and become a slave. Slavery and slave trade are…

disease and starvation were rampant and many passengers died. Beloved describes a dead man on her face, “men without skin” who are likely their white captors, and “sea-colored” bread that is a reference to the inedible provisions on board the slave ship. The “hot thing” that she describes could be interpreted…

In A Night to Remember, the Titanic was a massive ship by the White Star Line. The ship was intended to carry its 1,316 passengers and 891 crew members to New York. However, at 11:40 the Titanic struck an iceberg and began to sink. By the next morning over 1,500 people had died. The incident is considered to be a huge disaster. The White Star Line is at fault for the Titanic disaster because they didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone on board, they didn’t fill the lifeboats to maximum…

“Even God could not sink her,” it was bragged. The Titanic was the fastest and the biggest ship in the world. It was also considered to be the most beautiful and unsinkable. Then on April 14, 1912, occurred the most remarkable ship catastrophe of the historical 100 years. The Titanic, on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, collided with an iceberg and sank with a loss of 1500 people. The Titanic’s captain, Captain Edward J. Smith, played a bewildering role in this catastrophe.…

The institution of slavery has affected the lives of both white and black women. Women in slavery experienced hardships and effects that men in slavery never experienced. One of the primary roles that a slave woman had was motherhood. After the child was old enough for labor, the slave mother was trained to labor in a domestic setting or work in the fields. Young enslaved women were expected to be maids, cleaners and some were employed as wet nurses and even breastfed the children of the slave…

Since they did not have enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship, a lot of people drowned or died from hypothermia. The water was about 28 degrees Fahrenheit. The way that water can do below freezing without being frozen is salt. Salt doesn’t make the water colder, but it allows the water to be colder without being…