Harland and Wolff

The Titanic, a huge cruise ship built by man. The Titanic was believed to be indestructible and unsinkable. They said not even God can sink the Titanic; the name says it all. This ship was very luxurious and the largest of all ships. It was set for voyage April 10, 1912 after being built for three years. This Luxurious Giant was filled with many of the world’s wealthiest and famous people setting sail across the North Atlantic all the way to New York (Well, at least that was their intention).…

The sinking of the Titanic was a tragic event. Everyone was devastated because of the most advanced ship of the time sunk, About the Titanic, the sinking, and about the survivors are in the following paragraphs. The Titanic was a tragic event that isn’t uncovered all the way yet. (history.com) If you have ever wondered about the Titanic you won’t have to anymore. The Titanic was 269.1 meters long making it the largest ship of its time. It had cost $7500000 to build it. It carried 2223 people…

The passengers aboard the RMS Titanic were about 2,223 people who sailed on the maiden voyage. They sailed from Southampton to New York City. With many great deaths that occurred on this “unsinkable ship”, many authors used this event as a background for a great story, but were the details of the event accurately portrayed? When writing Dangerous Waters, it is clear that Gregory Mone did his research and showed the event accurately. The book Dangerous Waters by Gregory Mone was a heart…

Survivors and Deaths The Spedden Story One Survival story, was about Douglas that was the only child of Frederic and Daisy Spedden when they boarded the Titanic. An hour after the shuddering collision, Douglas, his mother, Daisy, and two servants went into lifeboat 3. The dad was also allowed to get into a lifeboat when they let men get into lifeboats early on. They had all fortunately survived! Sadly Douglas’s life was cut short on August 6, 1915, two years after the Titanic crashed.…

Isador Strauss was born on February 6, 1845 and was the co-owner of Macy's department store with Nathan, his brother. He was born into a Jewish family, and had 5 other siblings. He was educated at the Collinsworth Institute in Talbotton, GA. In 1871, he married Rosalie Ida Blun. He eventually moved to New York he became involved with Macy and C.O. He and his wife traveled back to Europe on the “Amerika” for one last time before going back to New York for good. To get back to New York, Strauss…

In “Time Machine (1912): Wreck of the White Star Liner Titanic” Newsela reports that In the long list of sea disaster there is not one to compare with the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic sank on Sunday, April 14, 1912 on her first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. The sinking of the Titanic left the world with many unanswered questions. The Titanic was the largest ship ever built. The Titanic was supposed to be the safest. The Titanic was built in a shipyard in Great Britain, and had every…

You probably have heard of the Titanic. If you haven't then let me tell you about the Titanic. My article is about the Titanic: the building of the Titanic, the journey, iceberg/crash, and survivors. Like you heard earlier the building of the Titanic started on March 31, 1909 by Hard & Wolf. Titanic’s sister Olympic, had set sail three months before the Titanic. The Titanic had 15,000 workers working on her. About three million iron and steel rivets were used. It was 822 feet long and eleven…

As it seems the massive liner was doomed to infamy from the very beginning. At on Wednesday April 10, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic started to depart from Southampton on its way to New York City. Just as titanic left port a dangerous suction started and pulled another ship the New York into a crash course with the immense ship and it wasn’t until the last possible minute that a huge surge of water pushed the New York out of harms way. Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major…

Julius Lester’s poem, “Parents” reveals how quickly life can go wrong. A girl kills herself instead of her dog when forced to shoot it by her parents. This plot twist is similar to that in “That Room” by Tobias Wolff because people can’t plan everything and unexpected events will occur regardless of a person’s will. The article doesn’t hold this deeper meaning. However, Lester does and finds art in it. Art is perceived differently for every individual. Lester makes changes to the article to make…

Deception and Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, but only through examination of the two. The main protagonist, for the sake of this essay they will be labeled that way, in each memoir is the father figure. For Geoffrey Wolff it is his biological father, The Duke, and for Tobias Wolff it is his step father, Dwight. Both Memoir’s focus…