RMS Titanic

On the deep blue ocean there is a gigantic boat, named Titanic, up on it, there is a handsome man that holds a slim waist of a beautiful women spreading her arms to the sea at the large deck. This man was one of the most famous male actor in the 90s, Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio is a man who is in his 40s that has a long beard, brown hair, and blue eyes. When he was the most famous actor in the Box Office, he was very handsome, tall, and simply the man that all female loved to watch.…

the war. The ship that is unfortunately caught in this patrol was the RMS Lusitania. John Joseph Protasio, from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Ohio, earned a Bachelor’s of Art in History at Lycoming College, and a Master’s of Art in History at Arkansas State University. He also wrote To the Bottom of the Sea, a survey of maritime disasters, and two others: “On a Cold April Night, a tale about the Titanic disaster, and Reflections on the Lusitania, a book focusing more on…

Lusitania Disaster. Setting sail from New York harbor on May 1, 1915, the R.M.S. Lusitania began a voyage to Liverpool, England. This voyage would be her last; and the last for over 1,000 of her passengers. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children aboard, only 761 passengers would survive the voyage. While on the seas, word made it to the ship that the seas would be increasingly inhabited with German submarines the closer they got to England, so to better prepare the passengers they readied the…

The ability to overcome tough obstacles in an individual's life is known as human resilience. The book “Boys in the boat”, written by Daniel James Brown, is about a young man named Joe Rantz, who is on the rowing team for the University of Washington. He had to overcome many challenges regarding his past, but it didn’t stop him from gaining a spot on the United States Olympic crew team. He helped lead his team to victory, despite the hardships of living alone as a teenager. The second story…

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The lusitania was indeed a fascinating ship. However there were some aspects in which bunked down that magnifency. Winston Churchill explains how that is come to affect many people boarding that ship. One, the sinking of the Lusitania was not completely unexpected, two, information was already there to prevent the sinking of the ship, and the deceased plus survivors. In the American newspaper, there was cautionary advice by germans saying that passengers traveling on british ships that they…

Lusitania and American Opinion Although the United States was a neutral country in 1914, when German U-boats sank the British passenger ship the Lusitania, the American public began to increasingly disapprove of German actions and began to sympathize with the British and her Allies. The United States’ isolated history with Europe prior to World War I encouraged the country to remain neutral during most of the war. Although World War I started in July 1914 when Serbian nationalists assassinated…

Although one may argue that Germany played was not to blame for causing World War I because tensions between European nations made war inevitable, to a great extent Germany should be blamed for the war because Germany was responsible for initiating tangled alliance systems in Europe, German militarism started the European arms race by creating a large army during peacetime, and Germany was responsible for several nations, including Great Britain and the United States, entering the war.…

Many Americans died as a result of the German attack on British ocean liner, the Lusitania in 1915. The sinking of the Lusitania had a big impact on America and the rest of the world during WWI. This attack on The Lusitania was one of the main causes of the United States entering WWI. On May 7, 1915, German U-Boat U-20 attacked the British oceanliner the Lusitania. 1198 people were killed, including 128 Americans. The ship sunk in only 18 minutes off of the coast of Ireland. The German’s…

Throughout Woodrow Wilson’s political career, he kept a firm neutral stance towards war. When he ran for reelection in 1916, his campaign slogan was, “He kept us out of war.” It was his promise to the people to keep the safe and alive that won him the election. However, not even a month after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson petitioned to congress to declare war on Germany. Wilson’s change of heart was due to valuing the rights and voices of people worldwide over peace. He valued democracy over…