Flying boat

showcase length over height (Ramzy 146). These magnificent structures began to arise in France around the 12th century and continued to grow in popularity until the 16th century (Prina 1). A highly recognizable feature of gothic cathedrals are the use of flying buttresses - exterior structural support with connecting arches. Gothic Cathedral architecture was used to connect the “mathematical nature of the universe” (Ramzy 135) to the divine heavens. Three excellent examples of this include the…

“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…

Comparative Essay Imagine a strange man, different from any other, happens to show up on your town, brought by the sea. How would you and the other people meet to his sudden appearance? In both “ A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, two villages receive a strange visitor from the sea. However, each village is quite different in the ways they treat the men. In “ A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, a man with decrepit wings crashed into a small…

We’re Safe Kee, Theo, and the baby are on a boat in the middle of the ocean. There is a grey fog, light light, the only light is made to seem like it is coming from a buoy out in the middle of the ocean that they are rowing towards. The characters clothing are very dark and natural and blinds with the scenery. There pants,tops, and coats in dark grey, blues, blacks, and browns. The only bold color in the scene is the fake blood covering the bottom of the boat coming from Theo’s wound that he…

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…

Success can be seen so differently based on perspective. Can it be fair to give a mission a percent of success? When multiple people come together with a shared goal the exact parameters may differ from person to person. Within Stephen Crane's, The Open Boat, each man may have only had the goal of themselves getting to shore alive, which would make Billie the only failure. That's a 75% success rate. If the general goal of the men in Mark Twain's, “The Private History of a Campaign that Failed”…

What makes a submarine so interesting?Submarines were invented in 1775. In the passage Dave Bushnell created a submarine to fighgt British forces. Bushnell tested the submarine for a while and got a hang of it. Bushnell got sick and wasnt able to ride the submarine and they used it to complete several missions. Many missions were completed by submarine and the first mission was a fail. The mission was not completed but the message got threw to their enimies and they succeeded with…

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane is told from a third-person perspective. The only mind through out the book the narrator has insight to is the correspondent. The narrator suggests all four men are thinking and feeling the same things. Throughout the book the oiler is the only character given a name. The oiler (Billy) has not eaten or slept in days like the others, right before the ship sank he worked double-watch in the engine-room, still he continues rowing. Any time the correspondent tries to…

In early 1915, Germany had a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare which meant they could torpedo and sink armed merchant ships but not passenger ships. They broke this policy on march 24th 1916 by attacking a French cross-channel passenger ferry called the Sussex. 50 people died and even though no US citizens were killed, the attack caused president Woodrow Wilson to declare that if Germany continued with this behavior, the US would break diplomatic relations with them. In 1915, the first…

deep sea divers who discover a U-boat, a World War 2 era German submarine, sunken in the deep waters off the coast of New Jersey. The sea divers eventually find out that there are no official records listing a sunken sub at that location and later set out to determine the lost identity of the mysterious U-boat. Kurston focuses on the two main divers who obsessed over the U-boat, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, who first meet each other while exploring the U-boat. Chatterton is a former…