The Open Boat

natural disasters like hurricane Harvey can damage a person’s mental health, especially children as they are at a high risk of developing PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). The Harvey resiliency and recovery program in the children's hospital will open to help care and provide counselling for those affected by the abolishing storm. Not only children but adults may develop anxiety and have panic attacks caused hurricane Harvey, people may even get phobias of water. During previous hurricanes,…

in which he is being mentored to learn to control and pilot a steamboat. The mentor, Mr. Bixby, shows Twain just how difficult piloting a boat really is when he barely escapes wrecking the boat through murky waters. Stephen Crane shows the hardships in nature in his story “The Open Boat” when the remaining crew of a shipwreck battle rough waters in a tiny boat. The oiler, correspondent, cook, and injured captain battle rough waters, travel alongside a shark, and fight their anxieties at anger at…

didn't answer her cries became more urgent. She couldn't lose him. She shook him by the shoulders, calling out his name. The captain bent down next to her and whispered. “Tommy, It's time to wake up.” Tommy stirred and then his eyes fluttered open. Samantha looked at him…

generation. I grew up as an American, so I quickly found out that I had no knowledge of the Vietnamese culture, language, or history. It came to the point where I realized, I couldn’t truly know myself before I knew where I came from. My parents were boat people. Most people come to America for a better life, this was also the case with my parents. However, because of the poor quality of life i Vietnam after the car, they were left…

Odysseus and his crew, cleverly fight off and get past the horrendous cyclops Polyphemus, Odysseus bravely taunts the beast to make sure he knows never to attack him or his crew again. In fury, Polyphemus pounds out to Odysseus’s boat, forcing Odysseus to get the “longest boat hook out” and begin “fending off” his crew (95-96). This act of fearlessness shows Odysseus’s crew that he’s willing to protect them for the future, even if that means sacrificing his own safety. Any other person would’ve…

gathered about North Vietnam to South Vietnam. The destroyer was highly equipped in relays and espionage equipment as well as defenses. Not long into entering the Gulf of Tonkin the USS Maddox was under heavy attack by multiple enemy torpedo patrol boats. This distress information was relayed to the United States who responded ordering them to exit the gulf immediately. This was on August 2nd of 1964. Only two days later the Maddox returned into the gulf. The ship relayed information to the…

the family decided to move to Canada for more opportunities. However, on the way there, the boat that had the family and all of the animals, sank. That resulted in Pi being stuck on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days until he landed ashore in Mexico. The story is about his life back home, and his journey…

Stephen Crane and William Wordsworth are two authors who base many works of theirs on the idea of Naturalism. Naturalism is a literary movement in the nineteenth century that suggests the environment shapes human character. Wordsworth’s and Crane’s literary works contrast to prove that an individual’s viewpoint on the natural world depends on their own experiences with naturalism. Wordsworth sustains an optimistic tone within the compilation of his poems he has written. Two primary examples of…

There are some cottages by the beach with their owners standing by them. They were preparing for a big storm. They know of the storm because a magic ring had told them that the storm was coming. It was 1980 in the South Atlantic Ocean, there was a storm that had been growing for 6 hours. A medical researcher named James Smith and his crew of 7 were out on the ocean that day transporting a herd of elephants. The elephants were going crazy destroying almost everything they could and some were…

I go to Breezing Up, Vineyard Vines, and other pop ups shops that are open in the summer. I buy new summer clothes for the season and take advantage of the sales. I usually work in the summers at Juice Press, a juice bar in town, to make money and drink my favorite juice. I go to the movie theaters at night and get dinner…