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Sewol: Tragedy at Sea On the morning of April 16th, 2014, the Sewol a South Korea Ferry took off from Incheon traveling to Jeju island. On board, over 476 people 325 of whom were students from a school in the capital city of Seoul. As the ship would begin to sink the captain would fail to give on order to evacuate. The captain and several crew members would instead disembark the ship saving themselves as hundreds of people were left to die. Many factors would contribute to the loss of life…

1. Spiral Jetty was created by Robert Smithson in Great Salt Lake, Utah, 1970 from earthwork. 2. The Spiral Jetty is arranged into a spiral shape along the water of the Great Salt Lake. The emphasis of the earthwork draws the viewer into the center of the shape along the spiral, as this part is larger and more filled. The work is arranged in a unified pattern, especially as the textures and colors are all the same throughout the shape. The core of the spiral, as the largest part of the work, has…

Short-term effects are things that happen admittedly following a major event. Hurricane Otto was the seventh major hurricane of 2016 located in the Atlantic Ocean. (Morgan, 2016). People from the countries affected were quickly misplaced and suddenly homeless because of severe damage to homes and other structures. Another short term effect are floods and damage from heavy rains. According to Leigh Morgan…

Blue Heart: How the Ocean is Quickly Dying It has long since been advertised by profiting companies that the ocean is so vast that it is impossible for us to destroy it. This claim has been repeated so many times that it has become part of the general public’s core beliefs. However, this incorrect assumption is being pushed forwards by the agenda of corporations that wish to make use of the ocean and all its resources without thinking about the consequences. Corporations want us to believe the…

The Ocean "The Ocean" written by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published in 1833. This poem describes the ocean and the symbolism that the ocean has. Being written over a century ago, this poem still describes the ocean as it stands today. The ocean is a very difficult place to conquer. It is always changing and is never the same. Hawthorne demonstrates these attributes to the ocean throughout his poem while giving in to a deeper meaning. Nathaniel Hawthorne is a very well-known author. One of…

Is it possible to be 16 years old, stranded at sea for 227 days on the same boat as a tiger and come out alive? The answer to this question will most likely be "that's impossible". But Yann Martel wrote a book giving similar instructions on how to do just that. In Yann Martel's novel, Life of Pi, readers follow Pi, a 16-year-old boy, throughout his journey of being stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a tiger for 227 days. Throughout the book, the most definitive theme is survival.…

The article Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit appeared in the January 1965 Readers Digest pages 136 through 140 condensed from The Rotarian. This interesting article about the mysterious treasure hunt carried out in the island of Oak since 1795 was written by David MacDonald. Oak Island is a 57-hectare island in Lunenburg County on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Canada. Oak Island is noted as the location of the so-called Money Pit and the site of over 200 years of treasure hunting.…

change in the economic and social fabric of the nation. A complete mental madness appears to have seized almost every number of the community. There has been a universal rush to the diggings. 3. 1849 The Gold Rush Gold was discovered in Australia in the mid-1800s. This has attached now immigrants. Australia population rose from 373000 in 1849 to more than two million in 1878. 4. In 1852 alone, 370000 immigrants arrived in Australia and the economy of the nation boomed. The rush was well and…

Loggerhead Sea Turtle The Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta Caretta) is an endangered species of turtle that lives and nests on the beaches of Georgia’s barrier islands. The Loggerhead Sea Turtles was listed on the threatened species list on July 28, 1978. There are 7 species of sea turtles, and the Loggerhead turtle is one of five found on the Georgia barrier islands. The Loggerhead turtle is the only one of those that nests regularly on the barrier islands. This species of turtle lives in oceans…

Tanveer Talokder E1 What is explanation for the Bermuda Triangle Electronic Fog? The Bermuda Triangle is a region of the north-western Atlantic Ocean, which is also known as the Devil’s Triangle. Its three vertices are located at Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, according to Gaddis, V. (1964). A number of aircrafts and ships have disappeared mysteriously in this region. A lot of theories have been suggested, in order to solve those mysterious disappearances. One famous incident involving the…