Seasickness

This is a viewpoint about the capsizing of Pura Vida Princess, a 100 foot catamaran vessel, which sank near the coast of Punta Leona. The vessel is owned by Global Crust Firm S.A. According to the report of an online news site, The Tico Times, the ship left Herradura Bay on 8th of January and on its way across the Gulf of Nicoya. During the departure, the sea was calm but within 30 minutes after, at about 2040H, the ship had called for a distress call but it rapidly sank due to strong winds and…

As men and women made the long, harrowing journey across the Atlantic to the unknown, unwelcoming lands of the New World, religion to many of these pioneers was the only means to find comfort and hope amid battering waves and wicked cases of seasickness. William Bradford and John Smith were no different: religion was their guiding light, both consciously and subconsciously, in their settling of the New World. Despite the differences in Bradford and Smith’s approaches to recounting their…

After the unfortunate sinking of the Tsimtsum, Pi associates the color orange with survival and hope. Pi thinks of Orange Juice, the orangutan, fondly recalling “Orange Juice had not only cheered me up; she had also taken on both our feelings of seasickness. I was feeling fine now” (153). To Pi, Orange Juice represents a protective motherly figure and he associates her with safety and survival. To an extent, Orange Juice symbolizes the potential reincarnation of Pi’s mother serving as a renewal…

What is fiction? “[I]sn’t it, the selective transforming of reality?” (viii). Or what about “the twisting of it to bring out its essence?” (viii). In Life of Pi by Yann Martel, the boundaries of fiction are pushed to the limits. Piscine Molitor Patel, a devoutly religious Indian boy, falls victim to a shipwreck and is stuck for two hundred and twenty seven days on a lifeboat. Through starvation, storms, trauma and several near death experiences, Pi chooses to depict his lengthy story first with…

Most war movies fall into the category of heroic tales of glory or different trends such as glamorizing or condemning the war. Saving Private Ryan veers away from the both of those downfalls. Instead of Saving Private Ryan falling into heroic tale of glory, it’s brought along courage and sacrifice. Yet, there is no one hero, and the men come together as one cohesive team. The characteristics were essential for their survival during the war and their quest to find Private Ryan. The D-Day…

life doing so. Orange Juice is a lot like Gita, she functions as the moral center of the lifeboat. Orange Juice was seasick, like Pi in the life boat and according to shmoop “It 's almost as if Orange Juice takes on the burden of their collective seasickness, and bears that load.” (Shmoop Editorial Team) Although Orange Juice shows courage and strength when she tried to fight the hyena, she is not ruthless and her fear prevented her from killing the spotted hyena. Orange…

America, at one point in history, was a slave owning country. Slavery in America blossomed when the first African slaves were brought through the Slave Trade to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia 1619. The Slave Trade helped build a world economy however; most European colonial economies in the Americas from the sixteenth century were dependent on enslaved African labor for survival. European officials concluded that the land they discovered in the Americas was useless without…

The film “Saving Private Ryan” is widely considered to be of Steven Spielberg’s best work. Set in World War 2 the film tells the tale of Captain John Miller whom is given the responsibility to find Private James Ryan, whom is missing in action and his three brothers have been killed in combat. The story follows Captain James Miller’s journey through war torn France. Many film experts have said that this movie is one of the most realistic war movies of all time. World War 2 veterans as well have…

structures like that of wind turbines contribute to more bird deaths and bird population decline than any other factor known (Drewitt, Langston 2008). What these underwater wind farms would do is that they would almost eliminate all bird strikes and bird deaths due to wind turbine towers, with the only exception being birds that dive deep into water to get food. Even though these underwater wind turbines use the current of the ocean rather than wind, the same technology that the above ground…

1. a) One of the telepathic characters in the novel was named Michael. Unlike many others, Michael’s parents chose to send him to a real school. By doing this, all of the other kids are able to learn with him, through telepathy. As the children began to learn with Michael their lives became more complicated. The children learned that their special gift was thought to be the same level of deviation as Sophie’s six toes. From this discovery, the kids learned that they had to keep that area of…