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America has been through many different tragedies in its lifetime. Three of the biggest disaster that occurred in early American history were the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, the sinking of the Titanic, and the flu epidemic. Many citizens have lost their lives for things like doing a job to make ends meet, being on a vacation, or even just living an everyday lifestyle, which is why these disasters had such a high impact on the American Population. It may seem like people don’t care about…

J.B Priestley had set his play ‘An Inspector Calls’ in 1912 although it was written in 1945. But why did he do that? 1912 was an era that was very different from the time that he had written the play in. 1912 was the Edwardian era. This is significant as there were a lot of changes happening during that time period as this was the time of the Russian revolution, the “unsinkable” Titanic sinking after colliding with an iceberg, two horrific world wars, and the Holocaust. Priestley tries to make…

Have you heard the story of Pearl Harbor? The Harbor that was bombed by the Japanese over 70 years ago?The 8 ships at the harbor were either sunk or damaged. Now people are exploring new ways to find information and explore the wrecks of the ships, like the SS Arizona. People are using ROVs, also known as Remotely Operated Vehicles, to explore the SS Arizona and other ships at Pearl Harbor. I definitely think that ROVs are critical for underwater research. In a different theory, people think…

I t was the year 1937 the day was May 6th . this was going to be the farthest anything this big would fly The Hindenburg was to fly across the Atlantic ocean. The Hindenburg was going to make a huge difference It had been made in Germany and after 30 years of travel on commercial zeppelins Germany had decided to make a leap in air travel. The huge travel in flight was a huge deal that everyone wanted to see. This made Germany an amazing place that was about to lead the Way in air travel. The…

n 1970, engineers from Fraoli-Blum-Yesselman Associates began a project to design the proposed Hartford Civic Center Arena. The engineers came up with a unique roof frame design they called a space roof. The 300 by 360 ft. roof frame consisted of top and bottom square grids with joints 30 feet on center, connected by diagonal bars that caused staggered nodes on the top and bottom grid bars, resembling pyramid trusses when they were finished. This non-standard design was intended to save on costs…

T he Hindenburg Disaster occurred 79 years ago today. On May 6,1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey the world’s largest aircraft ever built caught fire and burned to the ground in seconds. The Hindenburg was a zeppelin aircraft. Zeppelins were made of helium but for some odd reason the Hindenburg was made of hydrogen, a very flammable gas. The Hindenburg was over eight-hundred feet long and carried over 2656 people across the Atlantic between Germany and New York and Rio de Janerio before the…

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “death” as the cause or the occasion of loss of life. Since the beginning of motion pictures and the rise of gothic literature, people since have been infatuated with the ideal of death. From the grotesque movies that center around characters dying or with authors centering books around the theme, death has been increasingly popular in the arts. Death is portrayed through simulated worlds and real-life scenarios, both are attracted by those who want a…

Before you put your boat up for sale or look for a boat brokerage firm to sell your boat for you, you are going to need to make sure that your boat is ready to sell. Ideally, you want to make sure that your boat is ready to go and impress any potential buyer who expresses internet in it. #1 Remove Your Personal Items From Your Boat The first thing you need to do is remove your all of your personal items from your boat. You want to declutter your boat just like you declutter your home before you…

A total of 2,701 deaths. Two incidents. One accidental, one targeted. The Titanic and the Lusitania. Around 1,503 people died from the sinking of the Titanic while around 1,198 people died on the Lusitania. These incidents were three years apart but what happened to both vessels are in no way similar. One hit an iceberg and sank in almost 3 hours. One was shot by the Germans and sank in 18 minutes. The Titanic sank, holding 2,208 people, and 1,530 died at the end of the night, meaning 678…

In the 1997 film Titanic, the director James Cameron exerts to act the historic disaster of the damned ship. In the scenes of the ship's sinking, Cameron shoots the camera at a distance several times in order to show the mass scale of the disaster. He provides a viewpoint of the lifeboat survivors’ from their distance of the ship. He also thrives on capturing a visual in a bird's eye view of the incident during its occurrence. This view would provide the viewer with a sense of how isolated the…