Cruise ship pollution

polluted. The book Oceans a Visual Guide defined pollution as “The introduction of substance, material or unwanted heat energy from human activities that adversely affect an ecosystem” (Hutchinson and Hawkins 210). Sylvia Earle, an American marine biologist, explore, and author has a Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy, mentioned that some people don’t know or care about the changes that the ocean is going through because of the pollution. People don’t understand that without the ocean…

The End of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Slavery had become an extremely controversial issue among not only the religious group the Quakers, but also among political forces toward the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. Before the American Revolution, slavery was widely used and accepted throughout the developed world, but afterward, people began to acknowledge the negative side of slavery. The abolition the slave trade of the United Kingdom in 1806 and 1807 paved…

example of a typical component with varying experiences is the middle passage and conditions upon slave ships during this journey. The middle passage is the voyage from West Africa to the new world and slave ships were a pivotal part of this voyage in its entirety. The survival rate of Africans was often indicative of conditions aboard. These conditions could be affected in part by the captain of the ship. Some captains are slightly concerned…

Rebellions on board ship consisted of starving oneself to death, in this event the slave was force fed or tortured using different means to make them eat. Another way to rebel was to commit suicide; some slaves would throw themselves overboard. Violent rebellions were dealt with harshly by the captain and crew. Many rebellions may have gone undocumented since slaves did not write and the only records were those from surviving ships journals.(Prince, 2008) The Middle Passage…

In chart 1 from the article The Middle Passage and Slave Ships, the different arrows shows the different goods that were going to the different countries because of this slave trade. The New World was experiencing a great economic advantage with having the slaves imported to the Americas to be able to work on…

introduction of institutionalized racism towards African Americans in the western hemisphere, and through every stage of the process, Africans were mentally and physically abused. The slave trade first began in 1442 when the captains of a Portuguese ship captured twelve Africans off the coast of Africa. The prisoners were brought back to Lisbon to become the slaves of Prince Henry the Navigator (Meltzer). After this first incident, the slave…

glory, disaster and sacrifice. It was popularly called as the "Unsinkable ship" with the tagline "Not even God can sink this ship". Unfortunately, this gigantic ship was engulfed by the ocean on her maiden voyage killing 1,517 people. With the movie Titanic, made in 1997, James Cameroon was extolled for his great depiction of the facts. Later investigations contradicted Cameroon in many aspects. What happened to this Unsinkable ship? Let us move to the true bottom. The three sisters White Star…

RMS Titanic holds the dubious honor of being the most famous shipwreck of all time. Enhanced by the fact that “TITANIC was the largest ship ever built at the time, 46,328 tons, 883 by 93 by 104 feet,9 decks…” (Rasor 48) the ship's sinking has lived on in the imaginations of people for generations after the disaster. On Sunday, April 14th, 1912 at 11:40 pm (Lord 3) RMS Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland carrying “a crew of about 892 hands all told, and about 1,316 passengers”…

where most people start. “RMS Titanic was a British passenger ship that sank after hitting an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton (United Kingdom) to New York City, in April 1912. Titanic was at the time the largest ship ever built and was considered to be unsinkable. The tragedy claimed the lives of over 1,500 people. Many factors contributed to the catastrophe: removing half the amount of lifeboats originally planned for the ship, and cruising in high speed in an iceberg-prone…

several people over the years have delved into the mystery of what sank the ship God himself could not. Most believe it to be the one accomplishment of a lone iceberg what most do not know is that there was a fire burning in one of the worst areas a fire could have burned. This is no theory for many eyewitness accounts and logs prove this, there are even photos of where the fire had taken place on the starboard side of the ship. All of which will be elaborated on in the later. Some quick…