Lifeboat

What is the good life? The good life is a term for the life that one would like to live.The kanye West song “Good Life” is about living life drama and worry free “Do your thing” be thankful for what you have , and take full advantage of everything you do have while still improving on your situation. The good life should consist of being healthy , having fun, and “living life to the fullest. living life to the fullest is the concept being as we have only one life, we should therefore make the…

to New York there was 2,240 passengers and crew. Also the 3 million dollar boat only had 20 lifeboats each of them could carry up to 40 people. This means that only 1,178 people out of the 2,240 could survive, but they only filled each lifeboat with 28 people some even with 10 to 15 people on the each…

because they didn’t have enough lifeboats for everyone on board, they didn’t fill the lifeboats to maximum capacity, and the ship's crew ignored six ice warnings. The White Star Line should be held responsible for the Titanic catastrophe. The crew knowingly set sail without enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship. This was a major mistake because even before the Titanic finished sinking, people were already condemned to death at sea. Another issue was the lifeboats weren’t being filled to full…

Titanic Final April 14, 1912, the day I survived the crash of the Titanic. Perhaps it could've been the last day of my life, my chances of living were over 2,000 souls and only 20 lifeboats. It all began as I found myself in the Cigar Room, I noticed people running in panic and the screams of fear. Although, I eased myself down, thinking what was going on. “Get on deck now and get a life belt, or you’ll all drown with the ship!” an officer shouted. It was from this point on that I knew my life…

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…

adapt becomes so much more important when their survival is put on the line. Pi loses some of his compassion. He adapts to become more focused on survival than other moral values that he previously held. He also realizes that the Bengal Tiger in his lifeboat and himself need to learn to coexist as peacefully as possible. To do so, Pi adopts some animal characteristics such as marking his territory: “I splashed my urine on the tarpaulin and over the locker lid to stake my claim” (172). By way of…

Titanic Disaster The Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England on April 10, 1912. It was on its way to New York City. There were 2,224 passengers. The sinking of the Titanic resulted in many people not having lifeboats. Therefore they either sank or died from hypothermia. They would've died from hypothermia due to the water being so cold. (Connolly, 46-47) There were three calls to the Titanic, but Captain Smith only got one. He couldn’t turn the boat…

Pi had a list of chores to complete on the lifeboat as well as his raft each day. During the middle of Pi stay on the lifeboat, Pi considered another reason he was able to survive, was because he “kept [himself] busy. That was on key to [his] survival” (Martel 239). Pi kept a routine to keep his mind off the fact that he was alone. In…

Faith. Small word, big meaning What is faith? According to the dictionary, the definition of faith is a strong belief either in yourself or in the doctrines of a religion, but every person has his or her personal definition of faith. Not many things could effect and change one’s faith, but it is proven that in cases of life danger, people’s faith tends to change. In fact, under tough and dangerous circumstances, when there is an immense need for survival, people’s personalities and perspective…

So one is stranded in the middle of the ocean on a lifeboat with a vicious Bengal tiger. Does one jump off the boat, kill the tiger, or try to create peace? One doesn’t have much time. It is a tough question because all of the options are life threatening. Has one decided yet? Act fast! Many people would try to kill the tiger, but one doesn’t have any weapons. Jump off the boat, then one would drown. Piscine Patel evaluated all of these options in the novel, Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Pi, short…