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    had done once before and failed). Aboard this time was his brother and a more dear crew members. They drifted along the edge of florida. Until they ended up the Caribbean sea. The crew spotted an island far off and decided it seemed vacant and varied in plants and animal life and went to explore it. It was nothing too great but seemed to have the supplies they longed for on this trip so Verrazzano and a few crew members went by themselves to explore quickly as the others stay behind. As they…

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    with Polyphemus, he warned the crew to not steal and directed some to stay off shore. On the Isle of the Sun, he tried to stay awake after warning his crew members to not slaughter the cows, to keep an eye on them, and even prayed for their safety. He was not a perfect leader, however. Sometimes, he would keep secrets or misinform his crew, resulting in catastrophe. With the bag of winds blowing the whole ship back to where they began and the backlash from the crew as the result of him hiding…

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    Philbrick, Nathanel. Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. U.S. Viking Penguin 2003. The author wrote in detail about the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition of 1838 (U.S. Ex.Ex.), an unprecedented naval operation for a nation with a navy less than half the size of Great Britain’s, and consisted of six sailing vessels and 346 men, making it one of the largest voyages of discovery in the history of Western exploration. The Ex.Ex.’s ships…

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    visit new places, like St Marteen or St-Thomas. Secondly, Oasis is a big crew ship. More then 5 000 passengers can be attended on. Passengers have the opportunity to meet knew people. This is also good for the…

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    After he and his crew are caught in the Cyclops’s cave, Odysseus says, “He lunged out with his hands toward my men… he knocked them dead like pups… and ripping them limb from limb to fix his meal, he bolted them down like a mountain-lion, devoured entrails, flesh and bones” (9.324-330). In this epic simile, the crew members being eaten by the Cyclops are being compared to pups, and the Cyclops itself is being compared to the lion. This father-child comparison shows that the crew members are…

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    In “The Open Boat”, it is instantly recognizable that the men aboard the dinghy have no control over every aspect their situation. The crew steer the boat and row the oars, however as the men squeeze inside this tiny boat, they fall victim to naturalism. Naturalism says, mother nature is truly in control of the vessel, having no feelings of compassion or hatred towards it. Nature’s divine and uncharismatic power, is seen as nature hurls wave after wave toward the dinghy, sinks the captain’s ship…

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    Captain Ahab

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    As Ahab spotted Moby Dick, he and some of his crew got into several small chasing boats, harpoons in hand, to kill the whale. Almost immediately, sharks targeted Ahab’s boat, leaving the other boats alone. This didn’t faze Ahab, however. He was dead set on hunting the whale. The narrator also described…

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    auditions. This made me very agitated. I was looking forward to the musical all year. I asked the coordinator of there was any other alternatives. She said yes, stage crew. I took the idea of stage crew into consideration. I figured, it is better than not being apart of the musical at all. You don't need to audition for stage crew, you sign up. I went to the sign up along with around twenty other…

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    recession in 20000. Right Then when the greeks came out night to fight The trojans the money and credit might still requested a rumour to payback for the there nation. Ben goes onto a ship to return to him home. He leaves with 12 ships and amount of his crew travel…

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    defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.’’ In both the 1956 film Forbidden Planet and Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, the loss of free will/individuality does happen in a fatal and tragic mannerism. In Forbidden Planet, a space crew from Earth is sent to the planet Altair IV to investigate the whereabouts of the missing first expedition that has been unheard from in 20 years. Captain Adams, the main protagonist of the film, comes across a multitude of questions for this…

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