Roald Amundsen

multiple times to accomplish his dreams, but failed. Later, after a tragic accident, he decided to become a journalist. Before he died, he set sail for one last attempt at being the first person to ever cross the whole Antarctic. When Ernest Shackleton was younger, he had gone and “joined the merchant navy at the age of 16” (BBC). After his adventure with the leading Naval Officer and explorer, Robert Falcon Scott, he wanted to be the first man to step foot on the Antarctic. Shackleton had become sick while on his first expedition to the South Pole. He returned home, became a journalist, and decided to go back and attempt twice more at being the first to step foot on the South Pole. His dreams got crushed when the “Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached” the South Pole/Antarctic first (Biography.com). Once his dreams came crashing down, he made a new goal to accomplish: being the first to ever cross the whole Antarctic. Because of “unfulfilled ambitions and failed business,” Shackleton had to leave “his men unpaid and his family with debts” (Shackleton). “On August 1, 1914, the same day Germany declared war on Russia, Shackleton departed London on the ship Endurance for his third trip to the South Pole. By late fall the crew had reached South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic. On December 5, the team departed the island, the last time Shackleton and his men would touch land for an astonishing 497 days” (Biography.com). By January 1915, the ship had become…

• In what context should the Endurance expedition be analyzed? As a scientific endeavor? An entrepreneurial venture? An exercise in imperial opportunity? By what criteria should the expedition be evaluated? Given your answer to the preceding question, was it a success or a failure? The Endurance expedition fits in all three contexts of imperial, scientific and entrepreneurial. Ernest Shackleton used his journalist contacts in order to promote the expedition. Shackleton was not able to…

Glory & Honor is a historical drama that focuses on Robert Peary (Henry Czerny) and his assistant Matthew Henson (Delroy Lindo). Robert Peary was born in Cresson, Pennsylvania on May 6, 1856, but moved to Portland, Maine where he grew up and went to Bodowin College in Brunswick, Maine. He then became a civil engineer for the United States Navy who was held in the highest regard due to his “exceptional talents” (Robinson 118). It was these talents that would lead him to be the first man to claim…

Journeys for Fame Competitiveness is like a wild animal. Once aroused, it can’t be controlled. In the year 1911, Roald Amundsen, a figure in polar exploration, began his long journey to the South Pole, in Antarctica. He became the first person to ever succeed this dangerous objective. Only 16 years later, in 1927, a pilot named Charles Lindbergh prepared to fly from New York all the way to Paris. A $25,000 award was set up by a hotel owner in New York City for whoever could accomplish this…

Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Wales on September 13 in 1916. Roald got her first name from the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen, a national hero, who was very popular at the time. Roald's parents were Norwegian. Roald went to Norway on vacation every summer. He has actually written a book about his childhood in his autobiographical book called "Boy". Many family members of Roald died when he was young. In 1920, when Roald was three years old, his seven year old sister, Astrid, died…

Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916 in Llandaff, Wales. His parents named him Roald after Roald Amundsen, because he was a Norwegian who had been the first man to reach the South Pole. Sofie Magdalene Dahl and Harald Dahl are Roald’s parents. They met in the United Kingdom. Later both, of them emigrated to Sarpsborg in Norway and later got married in 1880. Roald has a total of six siblings. Astri, Alfhild, Asta, Else, Louis, and Asta. Louis Dahl is the oldest out of seven children. Around…

Roald Dahl is a famous author who had written many works throughout his life. He did not have an easy life despite how successful his career was. Death was a recurrence in his life; however, his children stories reflected a more cheerful atmosphere. He also wrote screenplays and horror stories; he even the script for the movies based on his books. Roald Dahl is more than just an author of children's books; he became a highly revered author that will not be forgotten. Roald Dahl was born in…

him network to socialize with famous authors(Middleton). One day, an influential journalist named C.S. Forester asked Roald Dahl to write his point of view about the war that happened recently for a newsletter titled, Saturday Evening Post. He eventually wrote his feelings and experience when becoming a fighter pilot. Ten days after he submitted his entrée to the newsletter, Forester wrote back to him, “Did you know you were a writer? I haven’t changed a word.”. Since that day, he has gotten his…

Regrets There are few moments in my life I truly regret. Few moments where I wish I could turn back the ever-moving hands of time and change the outcome of a series of events. When I was very young, about seven or eight, my parents sat me down and told me how they no longer loved each other, how I should not think of this as any fault of my own, and how they would always love me no matter what happens to them. I knew they were lying though, and it wasn’t until I was ten that anyone could have…

“Lamb to the Slaughter”, a short story written by the celebrated author Roald Dahl, is a story that follows Mary Maloney, a pregnant housewife who had recently found out her husband, a chief detective, was going to leave her. Out of desperation, Mary murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then concealing her wrongdoing and discarding the murder weapon by encouraging the policemen who were investigating the murder to eat it. The most salient idea the author explores is the betrayal;…