Passenger ship

disappearance of natural habitat. Moreover the spilling of oil caused by ships cause damages to the marine and terrestrial habitat. It leads to pollution that cannot be easily cleaned as most of the spillages occur in the remote areas (Castellani and Sala (2009). This puts marine mammals and fish into a big risk. The effect is devastating to the local communities, which depend on the use of water and oceanic fishing. Ships and speedboats cause disturbances to ocean fish and mammals. Cruise…

This map is officially titled “Moore-McCormack Lines Pictorial Map of South America,” It was painter by Ernest Dudley Chase in 1942 and Published by Rand McNally in Chicago. Ernest Dudley Chase, a graphic artist, lived from 1878 to 1966 and was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. From there he attended the Lowell Textile School and later the Vesper George Art School of Boston. When he was around 22 years old, Chase joined the Butterfield Printing Company and in 1906 switched to the W. T. Sheehan…

This work is a commentary on society today, and shares ideas with many books we have read this year. Books like Siddhartha show the world’s current obsession with material wealth and material things hen Siddhartha tries life as a merchant. Or Faustus, the character who sold his soul to the devil for promises of infinite amounts of material wealth. Or in As I Lay dying, the character Anse is obsessed with obtaining his new dentures even after all the trouble his family went through. Oscar Wilde…

Don Benito Cereno and his ship, the San Dominick, receive a disturbing introduction in Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno. When Captain Amasa Delano recognizes that San Dominick is a ship in distress, he sets his mind to aid the captain and crew. However, aboard the ship, he fails to see that the lack of provisions is not the cause of the ship’s and Don Cereno’s troubles. On the San Dominick, Captain Delano recognizes that there is a constant change in sound. Although Delano recognizes that the…

crowded. Of course since the area was small but held a lot of passengers, the heat in their living quarters was terrible. In his story, “The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano” Olaudah Equiano explains, “The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us.” Obviously, the living conditions on the ships through the Middle Passage were extremely unsanitary.…

starboard" (which turned the ship to port -- left). He also ordered the engine room to put the engines in inverse. If he didn’t order that, maybe they had a little chance to prevent the disaster. The Titanic did bank left, but it wasn't quite sufficient. 3.The Titanic's Newspaper The Titanic seemed to have everything on bead, including its own print. The Atlantic Daily Bulletin was pressed every day on board the Titanic containing news, advertisements, stock prices, horse-racing results,…

The arrival of ships into Africa was new to some of the Africans. For the slave traders, seeing the ships meant more money in their pockets. From the point the slaves were captured, put onto the ship, and transported to a different location, they were to be treated as prisoners or goods rather than human beings. The voyage on the slave ships from Africa to the Western world was an extensive, horrendous, and deadly trip that millions of people were forced upon. The slave ships were…

lives lost and the death of the largest and most magnificent aircraft ever constructed. The Hindenburg, a Nazi propaganda mission, was constructed from 1931-1936 in Germany. It completed hundreds of successful missions without failure. The entire ship, excluding the cabin for people, was filled with highly flammable hydrogen. On the particular flight that it crashed, it was heading from Germany, across the Atlantic Ocean, to Lakehurst, New Jersey. It took off for this mission…

was the dominant immigration station in the United States since the late 1800s and into the 1900s. The New York State government founded the island in 1855. On January 1, 1892, the Ellis Island immigration station was officially open. Three large ships carrying 700 immigrants passed through the Ellis Island portal that day. Many came from eastern and southern Europe to the United States. Most immigrants left their homes because of war, poverty, and drought. Throughout the 60 years the station…

the construction of the Hindenburg. It was designed to carry 50 passengers in a luxury and comfort never before seen in Airship Travel. It was to be one of Nazi Germany's finest airships. The Hindenburg was supposed to represent the greatness of Germany and its leader, Adolf Hitler. Because of this the Hindenburg was emblazoned with large swastikas on it’s vertical fins. The Hindenburg would soon enter service-carrying passengers across Europe and North and South America. The Hindenburg…