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It's always right to follow your own heart, whether other agrees with you or not. The novel Our Only May Amelia introduces us May Amelia, a female with a unique, independent character. May Amelia is born as a girl, but being a female doesn't restrain her from doing what she wants. Unlike most of the girl, May Amelia is a "no proper young lady" who acts like a boy. May Amelia is always seeking for fun, never act like a polite lady, casually getting into trouble, and always trying to prove to…

The Mary Celeste set out on its journey to the Azores but was found abandoned 400 miles east of it. The crew men's belongings were left in their quarters and the ship’s charts had been tossed about. The only lifeboat on the ship was missing and one of the two pumps had been disassembled, and three and a half feet of water was found in the bottom of the ship. The cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol was still intact, and a six month supply of food and water was left (Blumberg). The…

Would one liter of water falling from high altitude knock you dead? Everyone knows the people are hit by falling object from high altitude is very dangerous. But if the object is one liter of water, will it dangerous? The answer is “No”. The reason of this answer is even if a large volume of water polo in the process of falling from a height, it is subjected to the action of the air resistance, which makes it split into numerous small droplets. Droplets quickly arrival "terminal velocity"…

1945, five U.S. Navy Torpedo Bombers took off for a routine training mission. A couple of hours into the mission, the leader of the squadron, United States Navy Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, reported that his compasses were malfunctioning. He radioed, “Have gas for 75 minutes more. Can’t tell whether over the…

I was born in Derby, England on the eighth of July 1998. I lived in a small town called Ambergate for the first four years of my life. After those four years I moved to another smaller and very remote town, Shipley. In Shipley I entered kindergarten and started school. However after a mere year we moved back to our old house in Ambergate where I lived until the biggest move of my life. Within the rest of my time in Ambergate I went to school, to my father’s house, and occasionally visited my…

significant role in providing a comprehensive understanding about our past, furthermore it also assists in dealing with current issues. For instance, in 2002 Elizabeth Kolbert wrote an article to substantiate the many questionings on Columbus and she states that the, “notion of discovery, was being reevaluated” (206). The history and the philosophy that has been taught on Christopher Columbus’s exploration of the sea that led to the discovery of America. Contrary to what has been demonstrated in…

Starting with the Viking trade of cod and then continuing with fisheries in Europe, Lofoten, Italy, Spain, India, and eventually the United States. Fisheries produce about 88 million tons of fish per year. In the United States, commercial and recreational fisheries employ nearly 2 million workers. This is a big industry for the coast of the U.S. as well as other coastal countries whose economy relies heavily on this industry. Fishing…

One place you should go to is Grand Cayman. In September 2016, I went on a cruise on the Carnival Breeze. The Carnival Breeze left from Galveston, Texas. It was a seven-day cruise that stopped at three ports. The three ports were Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. We had four sea days and three port days. The days at sea were very different than the days at port. My favorite day out of all seven days was the fourth day. The fourth day we stopped at Grand Cayman. Grand Cayman was beautiful.…

Introduction: It is estimated that around 706 million gallons(2.6 Billion liters) of oil is polluted into the ocean each year(4). Majority of the oil pollution oil comes from ashore from waste disposal, land drainage and improper disposal of used motor oil(4). In recent times it has been discovered that a possible solution for oil pollution is the “Oleo Sponge”(as seen in figure 1(11)), an oleophilic and hydrophobic sponge that collects oil and rejects water housing up to ninety times its own…

Earle states, “Water from the sea forms clouds that return to the land and the seas as rain, sleet, and snow, and provides home for about ninety-seven percent of the life in the world, maybe in the universe.” If it was not for the sea forming clouds, we would…