Race to the Sea

Little did he know, this was where his grand journey would begin. A Navy lieutenant by the name of Robert Peary was shopping there, and Henson stuck his interest. After talking to the young black man so filled with energy, Peary was impressed by his sea credentials and asked Henson to be his personal valet for an expedition to Nicaragua (Editors). At first Henson refused; he didn’t want to be anyone’s servant. But the idea of traveling to Nicaragua grasped his heart, and in the end, he agreed.…

desires glory for the accomplishments he makes of defeating the monsters “They have seen my strength for themselves, Have watched me raise from the darkness of war, dripping with my enemies blood. I drove five great giants into chains, chased all of that race from the earth”. (151-155). Beowulf wants to be portrayed better than anyone as he is able to take down any task in front of him. He does not want anyone to think less of him because he thinks his expression of himself being a hero is the…

it all. This book shows the man vs nature aspect very well. The book also provides how much the human race has excelled since that time. We believed that nothing could bring our beautiful cities down; not even a deadly storm. The story is focused on Isaac Cline,…

courage is seen time and time again. One story was told about Beowulf and how he swam across oceans in competition with a man named Breca. Breca and Beowulf had been neck and neck the entire race, but when Beowulf was attacked by sea monsters he had to fight back. Beowulf had to be courageous when he fought the sea monsters. He knew he needed to kill them,…

Reading a play is like appreciating the sea; the most exhilarating scene of the sea is the moment when the seawater is roaringly lifted by fierce windstorms. The seawater is the plot, and the windstorm is the conflicts. Othello, written by Shakespeare, consists of three chief types of conflicts, which are the characters versus characters, characters versus themselves and characters versus the social background in Venice. Each conflict sharpens the contradictions between two characters, molds the…

Refugees: debunking the myths of the European Refugee Crisis. In 2015 Europe received as many as 1 Million refugees escaped war-torn nations by sea to reach Europe and this is only those that came across the Mediterranean Sea. Germany took in 1.1 million refugees in 2015, in one year Germanys population increased my 1.1 million people. This means millions more people in need of a home, food, water and access to their basic rights. This means that European countries are trying to accommodate for…

In the Declaration of Independence they included the statement "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretending offenses" . The policy was so unpleasant to the Americans that the first Continental Congress on October 21, 1774, adopted a resolution declaring "That the seizing, or attempting to seize, any person in America, in order to transport such person beyond the sea, for trail of offenses, committed within the body of a country in America, being against law, will justify…

Darfur genocide is a brilliantly dark and horrifyingly realistic representation of what can happen when the human mind becomes corrupted. Sudan, Africa. Located in the Northeastern region of Africa, near Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, and right across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia, Sudan is home to nearly forty million people (data.worldbank.org). Darfur, in Western Sudan, is home to roughly six million people (unicef.org), of which nearly five million are still affected by the conflict that happened…

Past Hollywood, the Space Race influenced other forms of popular culture in the 50s and 60s, ranging from music to cartoons to architectural design and fashion. Directly created from the Space Age was the introduction of Space Age Pop, also known as Bachelor Pad Music . Rather than fear and mistrust present during this era, Space Age Pop communicated a more optimist point-of-view of the time period, using the post-war economic and technologic boom and humanity’s ventures into space as fuel to…

I swam in the blackness of night, hunting monsters Out of the ocean.”(154) The fact that he battled giants and sea monsters, and won, shows how ambitious he really is. This aids in the emphasis of heroism as heroes need to have ambition.They need to have the desire and determination to stop evil, no matter how it manifests itself, in this case, as giants and seamonsters…