Sailing

Castaway is a movie starring Tom Hanks as the main character, Chuck. Throughout the movie, Chuck shows again and again how important communication is to him. It starts out with him delivering packages and such for FedEx, but as a plane he had boarded crashes, he begins to face some difficult challenges. He floated to an island, survived for a long period of time, and constructed a raft to transport him across a vast amount of water to a ship where he was rescued. Four major things in Castaway…

Arash Derakhshan 7/22/15 English 12B Unit 17 Essay Rough Draft Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" and Auden’s "Musée des Beaux Arts" both describe a spring’s scene. Serenity, and the calmness of spring, feature in both painting and poem; nature is also a central element. In addition, both depict a spring morning which awaits the “fall of Icarus. Nevertheless, while both may have these elements in common, these similarities appear to serve only as a point of departure for poet and…

Due to my working hours, l can’t be there when my son’s come home from school, so my wife will have them call me at work shortly after they arrive. When my son’s and I converse generally we talk about the events of their day. recently my oldest son (13) calls and tells me of a bully who has called him names and my son is asking what he should do, how should he respond? It was during this conversation that the words of Jesus from John 15 ran through my mind: 18 “If the world hates you, [e]you…

Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis has many quotes from a boy named Jack Thayer, who at the time was 17, and sailing on the Titanic. The exact quotes from Jack really made the story more believable and made me feel like I was really there. Furthermore, it can be confusing why the author added in the quotes, as some have profound meanings. And even though they they are nicely hidden, they help the article in unthinkable ways. Jack Thayer stated on April 14, 1912, “It was the kind of night that…

Strategic Sealift Officer Career Management Strategic Sealift Officers (SSO) are commissioned officers in the U.S Navy Reserve serving to maintain the U.S. Navy Reserve organization of Merchant Marine officers, composed of actively sailing members who operate merchant ships, and a shore side members assigned to maintain Naval strategic sealift readiness. Fulfilling requirements and program expectations is one’s own responsibility, not the Program Office. The program office is fundamentally the…

world was flat. He was curious, and wanted to find out for himself. Christopher Columbus was a strong Christian, who loved the LORD and put Him first. It was his faith in God and his deeply held belief that the earth was indeed round that kept him sailing and discovering even when everyone around him doubted his abilities. Christopher Columbus was a strong Christian. Christianity was evident through his journal entries. He once said; “I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the…

the fifteenth century needs to be celebrated for the success of his explorations. The sailing skills and economic developments improved unbelievably fast during that period. The advanced culture of China spread very fast following this explorer. The Ming Dynasty official Zheng He was this explorer and should be celebrated for his three major accomplishments. Firstly, Zheng he’s expedition stimulated the sailing development. The sizes of his ships were incredibly big. The area was as big as a…

and set in the mid-17th-century, revolves around the protagonist Robinson Crusoe, an unassuming middle-class man from York, England, who’s heart desires the rush of sailing the great sea. Though the idea of sailing is opposed by his family, behind their back he travels with his friend to London from Humber in September 1651. While sailing, a storm forms, causing the ship to nearly founder. While the vessel is saved, Crusoe is shaken. However, even with the storm’s treat, he still goes on a…

taking things for granted.” Aldous L. Huxley, an English writer, novelist, and philosopher wrote this quote. After this day, I learned to never take anything or anyone for granted again. Two summers ago, I was training for the Junior Olympics in sailing. The teams coaches, Alex and Anika towed us out to the ocean to sail downwind. It was a perfect day at Del Rey Yacht Club with no clouds in the sky. You could even see all the way to the Santa Monica Pier! The breeze was around 14 miles per…

where they sailed. To solve this they had a Traverse Board an early “computer” for logging the ship’s velocity, which is it’s speed and direction. This affected Transoceanic exploration (T.O.E) because it would help sailors find shorter routes for sailing, kept track of where they went to prevent getting lost, and helped with making maps.…