Sailing

Do you know the similarities between Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh? Do you even know who they are? Well if you don't then I am about to tell you all about it. I will even take you across to different journeys across the Atlantic. Charles Lindbergh and Christopher Columbus have many things in common. For example, they were both devoted to accomplishing their journeys. Just think they had to be devoted or they couldn't with take all the stress that must of been involved during…

“I am not the man I once was. I do not want to back in time, to be the second son the second man.” (Vasco da Gama) Vasco da Gama was a navigator who made history when he founded the first route to India. He was awarded two different important titles. Vasco da Gama was one of the most successful and important explorers to the Renaissance time period. Vasco da Gama was born into a noble family around 1460 in Sines Portugal. He was the son of Estêvão da Gama. When he was old enough he joined the…

My journey throughout high school was nonetheless not a smooth sailing ride. I started out freshman year with minimal A's and B's and had a mostly a C grade or below. I struggled throughout my freshman and sophomore year mainly due to previous brain trauma that I have experienced when I was twelve years old. I got into a bike accident and then re-injured it when I was a sophomore by getting into a car accident. This took a huge toll on my ability to perform at my highest potential because I lost…

has poor education he turns into a intellectual man. He learns math, physics, history; also develops survival skills such as how to see in the dark, how to construct weapons and tools, and how to build physical strength. He knows a great deal about sailing and the sea, but nothing else. He only spoke French fluently, but yet he had a limited knowledge of Greek and Italian. But Dantes learns how to speak Spanish, English, German,…

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and traveled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.” (Homer, The Odyssey). Imagine standing in front of a one-eyed, ten-foot tall Cyclops, or turning into a pig, or even traveling to the underworld after being away from home for twenty years. What a crazy thought! Odysseus experienced difficult adventures like so, in the book The Odyssey, by Homer. Throughout our lives, we withstand many struggles and distractions. This results in straying off…

a series of natural forces. The painting is a Fresco, which is a technique in art where the paint is applied on plaster that has not dried yet. There are many speculations of what the painting is portraying. From a commemoration celebrating a new sailing period, military ships, or a transit from Akrotiri to Crete. This painting is treated as one of the most beneficial resources in the discovery of what life was like on the island obscured in volcanic ash (Strasser, 2010: 2). Because Minoans had…

computer, whose name I never got to know, but deep inside of me, I was eager to decipher, prompted me: Look around and deep inside you, and suddenly… Now I was an Aztec conqueror sailing the Danube on a caravel, along me, several pale-skinned savages—Spaniards, as they called themselves—, whom some…

People have wondered what the Bermuda Triangle, or the “Devil's Triangle” , really is for years and years. People have twisted, tweaked and bent the legends of the mysterious Bermuda Triangle in so many ways, that people don’t know what to believe anymore. Maybe it’s a whirlpool that suck you in, or, better yet, it’s some kind of gravitational pull that pulls the ships and planes down to the bottom of the ocean. Everything that scientists have come up with are reasonable, all except for one…

do. He was an excellent and a brave surfer who surfed the mountain-like wave on Hawai’i. His life showed how he surfed with affection and he surfed like he is one with the ocean. He accepts challenges that goes on his life. Eddie Aikau dreamed in sailing on the Hokule’a and to share his culture and its history to the world. According to the article on Eddie Aikau Foundation, “He took on the responsibility, not only of helping to make the beaches safer, but of willingly sharing his knowledge of…

and seem to not keep track of time while the young waiter is always impatient and does not acknowledge how he has more time than his counterparts. The old man and waiter seem to speed up their own time by spending it idly while the narrator from “Sailing to Byzantium” recognizes this and instead battles against time to cheat death. This might be due to the speaker’s feeling of not achieving much throughout his life as he wants the sages to appear and take him from his body into an existence…