Southampton

Emigration means leaving one country and moving to another. And i’m going to write about the Swedish emigration to the US. The immigration to the United States started in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 1.3 million swedes emigrated to the united states. Iit was mixed with women and men who was young and healthy, they emigrated due to the economic and social circumstances in sweden and moving provided the swedish emigrants with economic opportunity that they didn't have in the…

As it seems the massive liner was doomed to infamy from the very beginning. At on Wednesday April 10, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic started to depart from Southampton on its way to New York City. Just as titanic left port a dangerous suction started and pulled another ship the New York into a crash course with the immense ship and it wasn’t until the last possible minute that a huge surge of water pushed the New York out of harms way. Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major…

then (“Titanic Survivor’s Eyewitness Account”).” Have you ever wondered what really happened to the Titanic? There are numerous theses of the calamitous event, but no one knows what actually transpired. All we know is that the Titanic departed Southampton and had already visited Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before heading towards New York City, where it supposedly hit an iceberg near the end of its voyage and sank with over half the passengers. So, how did it sink? Wasn’t it…

Could a pill offer the same benefits as exercise? In Honor Whiteman’s article, “Could a pill offer the same benefits as exercise,” he covers a study from Cell Press News, conducted by two university professors, Ismail Laher of University of British Columbia and Shunchang Li of Beijing Sport University in China. The professors investigate on experimental “exercise pills” that are currently in development, the “AICAR,” “GW501516,” and “compound 14,” to find out if these pills will have the same…

Summary: As passengers walk through a door and step into a tube, the door closes behind them and a gush of wind sends them flying and floating in mid air. This skydiving simulator is one of many activities that many passengers can enjoy on the world's most technologically advanced cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's new Quantum of the Seas. Activities and features on the Quantum of the Seas include skydiving, bumper cars, robotic bartenders, and many more. If people get a room without an ocean view…

“Nat Turner is asked, “Do you not find yourself mistaken now?” and he answered “Was not Christ crucified.” This excerpt is from The Confessions of Nat Turner. Being interviewed by Thomas R. Gray, Nat Turner reveals the nature of the rebellion. Turner was captured on October 30, 1831, after eluding capture for two months after leading one of the deadliest revolts in American history during the morning of August 31, 1831. The rebellion was suppressed in one day but remains iconic. What makes it…

Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Va,” details the slave uprising that occurred in August 1831 that left more than 50 whites dead and more than 60 slaves put to trial. The pamphlet was the basis of the best-selling, Pulitzer-winning novel by William Styron. It is described as an “authentic account of the whole insurrection” by Thomas R. Gray who elicited the confession from Turner. Although Gray, a wealthy Southampton lawyer and slave owner during the 1830s,…

African- American enslaved in Southampton County, Virginia, who lead the bloodiest, most effective slave rebellion in American history. Nat Turner lead one of the most important slave rebellions in U.S. History. The insurrection frightened many southern slave owners by the thought of their own slaves rebelling against them. This caused many heavier, more strict laws on slaves in order to prevent the slaves from rebelling. Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia…

This location serves the purpose of providing a backdrop that closely resembles the reality of the time period thus enhancing the story's believability. But it also symbolizes the state of the country and the irony in America's moral values. America was founded on the moral ideas of the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all men, and demanded and fought for those rights for mankind. Many of these revolutionary men have hailed of Virginia, " She has been…

The Nat Turner Rebellion of 1831 led first to shock and horror at the events that had happened, realization of the slaves’ ability and willingness to revolt, and finally a crackdown on the rights of slaves in the hope of preventing another massacre. As shown through document A, a lithograph illustration printed in 1831 of a slave revolt, the whites were absolutely horrified by the violence of the Nat Turner Rebellion. For example, the lithograph depicts a mother shielding her child from a slave…