Lifeboat

In an instance where an individual decides to take another’s life in order to preserve their own life might be under the assumption that their action is just based on necessity. However, the assumption would be false, a fact that has been proven in a number of court cases throughout history. In the case of Her Majesty the Queen v. Thomas Dudley & Edward Stephens (1884), Jeremy Bentham’s principal of utility presents a valid defense for the reasons that led to Crown choosing a guilty verdict. The…

The large number of people trying to escape into West Berlin created societal conflicts for both East and West Berlin. Many people who lived in East Berlin would try to escape into West Berlin for many reasons. Some wanted better jobs, better food, more material goods, and some just missed their families, causing them to want to escape into the West. From 1945-1959, an average of 700 people everyday made it to freedom from the East before they secured the Berlin Wall. During 1959, the 700 people…

An Impossible Mission Only the third intended mission to the moon and it wouldn’t quite make it. On April 13, 1970 two days after flight Apollo 13 lifted off something went wrong. The three men, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise trained as any other astronaut would, but what happened was unpredictable. The three men had just finished a broadcast to the citizens back home without many people joined watching. It was 56 hours into the mission where a cryo-stir had occurred this caused…

Life of Pi is a fictional novel about a boy from India who, after a shipwreck, is lost at sea with a tiger. Dictionary.com defines a motif as “a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.” Three motifs found within the text of Life of Pi are the themes of coexistence, overcoming fear, and religion. The book by Yann Martel has a main idea of coincidence, predominantly between the beliefs of science and religion. One of the first settings of the book…

Originally published in September 2001, Life of Pi by Yann Martel is a brilliant story of survival to the most extreme, eloquently written by Yann Martel. As stated in the preface, Life of Pi is Martel’s fourth book – the second and third of which were failures. Life of Pi is a comeback novel for Martel – his first appreciated novel, and justly so. Life of Pi is a fictional story which incorporates non-fiction in order to blend the lines between the two genres. The book is most interested in…

to produce a story that grasped the audience’s attention. Ang Lee’s and Yann Martel’s version of The Life of Pi captives the reader’s or viewer’s mind by introducing a young man who admires religion, survives a traumatic shipwreck, and sails in a lifeboat for numerous months with a tiger known as Richard Parker. Even though both men achieve the same story a few differences lie within the film. Ang Lee’s adaption of The Life of Pi departs from its source material in several ways, but it does…

Captain Phillips is based on a true story of Captain Richard Phillips, and based around the hijacking of his boat the Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia. The movie is based on the book, A Captains Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, which was written by Richard Phillips and Stephan Talty. This Sony Pictures film is produced by Michael De Luca, Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, and Michael Luca. The movie was under the direction of Paul Greengrass. The release date was on…

HITCHCOCK’S FASHIONABLE WOMEN: A SIGN OF OPPRESSION OR ARTISTIC EXPRESSION? Female characters play important roles in the films of Alfred Hitchcock. His films also show that he was conscious of the visual and symbolic impact of women’s fashions. His lead actresses are always well dressed and their outfits reflect various stereotypical images of women. This might be seen as an example of how cinematic depictions of fashion contribute to gender-based oppression in society. On the other hand…

the teacups at the fair, I would not recommend Drake’s Passage as your first travel choice. However if you are still interested in learning what Drake’s passage is, some of the many dangers, and why Sir Ernest Shackleton braved this passage in a lifeboat to save his crew than this is a good read for you. Drakes Passage, A Cramped piece of ocean only 800 km wide. “The gap between the tip of South America and the end [islands] of the Antarctic Peninsula.” (82) The shortest passage to any islands…

Gil Netter, and David Womark. The film's storyline revolves around an Indian man named Piscine "Pi" Patel as he tells a novelist about his life experiences, and how at age 16 he survived a shipwreck that killed his family and left him stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The Life of Pi is a magnificent film. As people who have read--or tried to read--the source material would know, turning a tedious piece such as Martell's 400-page…