Sailing

Yeats’ Sailing to Byzantium and D.H. Lawrence’s Snake. In both of these works the chief characters struggle with a perceived alien existence, but these…

It is easy to find yourself sitting at a cozy summer job, and not have to worry about doing anything too hard or responsible at all. However, when it came to my job at the Clearwater Sailing Center, I was immediately fascinated by the amazing opportunities that came my way. Nothing is more satisfying than helping someone overcome an obstacle that they have been longing to get past. It is a place to people come to, to overcome their adversity and learn something they will love. With the most…

If you are planning to take a cruise boat set in the Caribbean Sea, then, it is not sufficient that you scream for joy. It is best to set your feet in the immaculate white sands of Aruba. This place was acknowledged to be a spot for honeymooners. However, this is not the case any longer as it can be a place for the family. You can see the place offering a romantic setting for pairs. There are also diverse zones that showcase quaint view. If you think that Aruba is just drenched in the sun, you…

Make a Grand (and splashy!) Entrance: Your Guide to “Boating to Dinner” in the Caribbean Ever considered actually sailing off into the sunset? It’s no secret that the Caribbean offers some of the most beautiful vacation destinations in the world. With at least 28 island nations and more than 7,000 individual islands, the problem quickly becomes deciding where to go. To complicate matters further, each of the islands offers a variety of local flavors—like a preference for cumin in Cuba, or curry…

what he did to me earlier that morning. It was the X boat WYA on Lac Labelle, we were just getting ready to go out sailing on that cold morning. The wind was light and frisky, and all of us sailors knew that they would have to get a good start to give themselves a chance at winning the race. I was just getting onto my coach-boat, so that I could raise my sails and go out sailing. Robby was right next to me, and he thought it would be funny to shove me into the cold morning water, I hit the…

black ship; most historians agree that he was on one of the warships he used to travel to Troy. After a victorious war, Odysseus struggles to sail back home to Ithaca. But was sailing the best way to travel? Transportation is an important aspect of any kind of civilization. While the Greeks were very advanced in sailing technologies, they were not as good with other methods of transportation. Thus, it was wise for Odysseus to sail to Ithaca, but warships were not the best method. Books about…

religion. They wanted to defeat Muslins and convert non-Christians around the world. Before the 1400s Europeans had very little interest for exploring the world, but when they gained the ability to travel that changed. New inventions made advances in sailing technology such as the caravel, the magnetic compass, the astrolabe, and cartography. Important factor that drove the age of exploration were wealth. Christianity, and new inventions. Several…

had covered the distance”. In these lines the speaker is using the word “like” to compare the ship to a bird. Using similes helps make the reader visualize what is being said in the story. Consider the ship sailing through the sea like a bird, it puts a image in your mind that the ship is sailing effortlessly across the waves like a bird would in the…

The sailing and carrying out the planning process of Christopher Columbus’s voyages from 1476-1502, better known as the (sixteenth and seventeenth century). Have changed greatly to benefit sailors and sailing now days using the more advanced technology over the years up to modern day time (twenty-sixteen). However, If Christopher Columbus would have used these technologies such as a engine boat for higher speed instead of his cargo ship known as the Santa Maria and the two other ships (Pinta…

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet” by Jack London. He establishes the meaning of how he would much rather live an adventurous fun life than a average dull meaningless one. I agree with this quote, I believe to live your long life out, you need to take risks and make choices you are not 100% sure on. For example, the saying YOLO, “you only live once”, is expressing how you have one life and the goal is to live it to the…