Geoffrey Wolff

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.…

Armor and weaponry The U.S.S. Monitor was armed with two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores located in a 20 foot in diameter iron turret that could spin 360 degrees. The turret, which was covered in eight inches of iron plates was rotated by a vertical shaft that was connected to a 25 horsepower steam engine through a gear system. The rotation of the turret was controlled by one man under the deck. Over all the turret was nine feet high and weighed 120 tons. The cannons fired through oval gunports…

It Can Only Get Better From Here On April 14, 2017, 1,503 people died due to one tragic accident and authors made thousands of dollar by writing about it. This accident happened when the Titanic crashed into an iceberg. Deborah Hopkinson was one of those authors. She wrote the book Titanic Voices From the Disaster, but it wasn’t very fascinating. It would’ve been better if she included more details about the lifeboats. She also could’ve said more about how cold the water was when the Titanic…

Many people believe the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg, however; the iceberg was really only part of the problem. Ignorance is the other reason for the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic had enough lifeboats for over 50% of people to get off the Titanic, but due to confusion and unpreparedness most lifeboats were not even filled to maximum capacity. Yet, that was not the only reason for the loss of life. Many deaths were those of the third class, mostly immigrants, while those of the first…

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short story also demonstrates what it is like for a mother to go through having a 10 year old boy begging for a gun along with Roy, her ex-husband also whining about Wolff not getting his Winchester .22. The suspense of Wolff and Roy illustrates the power a man and/or a kid can have just because they got what they wanted. Tobias Wolff description of Roy that he is stingy, slow to take a hint, normally quiet, and a relentless whiner when he doesn't get what he wants. Roy, a "handsome" man…

The word brother is a blood related male sibling that was born of the same mother, but that does not mean this is the only meaning for the word. Two sons are known as being brothers of each other. Even though these two people will fight with each other, they are still brother. This is the literal meaning for the word brother, but there is connotation that makes this word much more meaningful. Some believe the word brother also stands for a someone who will fight for you. This can be seen when a…

Even though the news about the titanic crashing was known all over the world not many people knew exactly how. This resulted in newspaper companies reporting false information and starting various rumors about the titanic. Some of these rumors included the ship hitting an iceberg, a hole in the bottom of the ship, and the ship collapsing. It turns out just about all of these rumors were actually true. The government immediately after the crash conducted two separate investigations on why the…

"So there I sat—Erik Fisher's younger brother, Eclipse Boy, visually impaired and totally incapable of following in his brother's footsteps." In Edward Bloor's young adult novel, Tangerine the Fisher family is torn apart as family secrets are revealed. Paul adapts to obstacles in his new life while working up the courage to face his biggest fear, his brother Erik. The Fisher family is a perfect example of how an unhealthy sibling relationship can lead to many problems such as distrust, fear and…