J. Bruce Ismay

headlines for being the most spectacular ship ever made. This man did get his headlines, but for all the wrong reasons. Bruce Ismay was heavily at fault for the sinking of Titanic, but instead of trying to make things right and saving other, he saved himself in a boat of women and children. However, there are many people at fault for this catastrophe, but who is most responsible? Bruce Ismay had many bad ideas that triggered the sinking of Titanic. Bruce Ismay was the owner of The White Star Line company. He was incredibly proud of Titanic and wanted her to make headlines, and she did, but not for the reasons he wanted. Titanic sank in the middle of the Atlantic because of mistakes made by Bruce Ismay. One of his immense mistakes was deciding not…

Many survivors have had to make tough decisions. A survivor has to be selfish. A survivor has to know when they can help others, and when they need to help themselves first. Making the selfish decision will not be easy, but it is necessary. The following texts, A Long Way Gone, “Is survival selfish”, and “night”, provide examples of survivors who had to make tough decisions. In a long way gone by Ishmael Beah, on page 30, Ishmael steals corn from a five year old boy. Regardless of Ishmael…

in the bridge that night. With no captain to give them orders, they sped along, going faster and faster. It was the only order Captain Smith gave them, until they hit the massive iceberg. One moment, total silence. The next, complete chaos. Therefore, Captain Edward J. Smith is responsible for the sinking of Titanic. If he was on the bridge, the 1,502 people that lost their lives could’ve had a chance to live. We can conclude this because they received many iceberg warnings, but he ignored them…

David. “The Unsinkable Titanic.” Snopes.com, 6 Nov. 2017, www.snopes.com/history/titanic/unsinkable.asp). People believed that they could defy the forces of nature by making an “unsinkable” ship. They went above and beyond by saying that even God could not sink it. Passengers, crew members, and people who built the ship were arrogant in believing that they had created an object out of the reach of God's hands. It is important to believe in things you do, but putting too much trust into a machine…

the line. However, by cutting the line, Yates was able to save himself and Simpson miraculously survived a 100 foot fall. If you were in this situation you would just wait there and not do anything, right? Just wait for the rope to break so you didn't have to feel the guilt of saving yourself? (Sarcasm) Saving yourself does not mean that you did not try or want to help others, it means that you have accepted the fact that it is the best option in order to survive. For example, “When the ocean…

It belonged to the company White Star Line, which was a British business owned by J. Bruce Ismay. At the time, White Star Line’s main rival was a company named Cunard, Ismay decided that his company needed to create a ship that was larger and more luxurious than anything Cunard could create. He used his resources to build a ship that cost seven and a half million dollars to build. In today’s money that equals four hundred million dollars. This ship became The Titanic; it took over three years to…

When: The building of the Titanic started in the early months of 1909 and the construction lasted three years. On April 10th, 1912, the “unsinkable” ship departed from Europe. No more than four days later, the Titanic hit an iceberg around 11:30 p.m. and sank 2:20 a.m. Where: The Titanic embarked on it’s maiden voyage from the ports of Southhampton, England to New York City, New York. Before traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, the Titanic stopped in Queenstown, Ireland, which is now known as…

juxtapose the occupants of the East and West Eggs. As described by Nick Carraway, the observant narrator of the novel, the guest list for one of Gatsby’s parties included, “from the East Egg, then, came...a man named Bunsen, whom I knew at Yale, and Doctor Webster Civet...And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires” (62). Fitzgerald signifies the “old” wealth of the East Egg through his choice of such names and character depictions. The prestige of Yale and the cost to attend such a college is…

International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) was established, and it still governs maritime safety. Wireless regulations and communications were also established which could have saved the lives of more passengers (IMO). On September 1, 1985 an explorer by the name of Robert Ballard located the debris of the Titanic’s remains (History of the Titanic). The RMS Titanic had received warnings throughout the day from other ships via wireless telegrams regarding the heavy ice in the…

The Titanic was a world-renowned ship and is perhaps the most well-known disaster ever in human history. The Titanic was a behemoth of a ship, being the biggest in the world at its time and still regarded as massive by today's standards. The cruel fate that awaited this ship, however, is not with perfect documentation as this event happened in 1912 and very few trusted primary sources are out there. Luckily, thanks to historians, artifacts, survivors, and a deep-sea search for the Titanic, we…