Iceberg

The Costa Concordia disaster is the biggest cruise line catastrophe since the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago. In the aftermath of the incident, many efforts have been made and are continuing to be made to salvage what is left of the disaster. These salvage efforts range from the search and rescue of passengers and crew to even the extracting of over a half million gallons of oil from the ship since it listed 137 meters off the coast of Giglio Island, Italy on January 13, 2012. From…

Silence was heard about the sea. Twenty lifeboats floated around in the quiet, moonless night. The Titanic had sunk. This was a tragic turn of events, for the RMS Titanic was the height of advancement and technology in the 1900s. Not only was she the largest ship in the world, but “she was safe. The Titanic, as everyone knew, was practically unsinkable” (Hopkinson 2). White Star Lines assured people that there was no ship safer than her. Such technology certainly could not be defeated by the…

Example Scenario Synopsis You have been asked to represent the owner of the yacht 'Arctic Tern.' The yacht was on route to Lisbon from Southampton when it was lost during heavy weather in the Bay of Biscay. The yacht had 12 people onboard at the time of the distress. They sent a distress message once the mast had become unusable and they could no longer raise sail. The vessel M/V 'Real Star' answered the distress call. When the owner and crew of the yacht were onboard the Real Star, the owner…

n 1970, engineers from Fraoli-Blum-Yesselman Associates began a project to design the proposed Hartford Civic Center Arena. The engineers came up with a unique roof frame design they called a space roof. The 300 by 360 ft. roof frame consisted of top and bottom square grids with joints 30 feet on center, connected by diagonal bars that caused staggered nodes on the top and bottom grid bars, resembling pyramid trusses when they were finished. This non-standard design was intended to save on costs…

T he Hindenburg Disaster occurred 79 years ago today. On May 6,1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey the world’s largest aircraft ever built caught fire and burned to the ground in seconds. The Hindenburg was a zeppelin aircraft. Zeppelins were made of helium but for some odd reason the Hindenburg was made of hydrogen, a very flammable gas. The Hindenburg was over eight-hundred feet long and carried over 2656 people across the Atlantic between Germany and New York and Rio de Janerio before the…

In “Our Iceberg Is Melting”, Kotter’s steps 5-8 are presented in different stages of the story. Step 5 of Empowering employees for broad-based action by enabling actions by removing barriers; and removing barriers such as inefficient processes and hierarchies provides the freedom necessary to work across silos and generate real impact, was used by Louis (Head Penguin). When Louis (Head Penguin) acknowledged there was legitimacy to Fred's worries about the iceberg their home was on, he started…

1. “Our Iceberg is melting” is a book that describes the story of a state of penguins confronting a dilemma; however after a progression of extraordinary teamwork, these penguins settle the crisis together by displaying their own particular strength and trademark. It epitomizes capable messages that can help an expansive crowd. It covers every one of the means to achievement in a changing world, from finding the generous issues, aligning with an intense champion, outlining the course, getting…

between impulse and restraint.” (Myers & DeWall 2014 pg. 313). That’s the view Freud held but he described it better with his classic iceberg metaphor. See the mind is split into three categories; the id, the ego, and the super ego. Similar to an iceberg in that both have only certain sections that are visible on the surface. The ego is visible tip of the iceberg, but we will return to explaining the ego after we first explain the id which is not visible. The id is the storage unit for…

Never Worn” (Wood). This story epitomizes a writing technique that Hemingway called The Iceberg Principle. “An iceberg floats in the Arctic with only one‐eighth of its mass above water while the greater, more potentially devastating portion hides beneath the surface and attracts our concern precisely because it is hidden,” he noted (Wood). The six words that Hemingway wrote on the napkin are the tip of the iceberg floating above the water, and they are carefully selected to allow…

canvas that grasps the attention of the entire room. American painter, Fredric Edwin Church, created “The Icebergs” in 1861. The glowing painting is exceptionally large, measuring in at 85 x 133 x 5 inches framed. The painting itself is 64 ½ x 112 ½ inches. “The Icebergs” is a landscape painting, which depicts multiple icebergs floating in the ocean under a beautiful, slightly cloudy sky. One iceberg is far away in the background, one is in the middle ground, and one is in the foreground. There…