Tugboat

imperative technologies of this generation and protect the population as a whole. There are people who do not value the effectiveness, reliability, and safety of vaccines despite countless continuing research. According to Willian Foege, “Vaccines are the tugboats of preventative health”. Be one of the herd, do not miss the push, and promote mandated childhood…

On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320, took off from La Guardia with 150 passengers and 5 crew members, bound for Charlotte, NC. Three minutes into flight it struck a flock of Canada geese and lost power in both engines. Air controllers tried to divert the US Airways plane back to La Guardia or a nearby airport in New Jersey. Captain Chesley "Sully'' Sullenberger decided he did could not safely land the plane in either of the airports, and glided the plane into the Hudson.…

After putting an end to the rule of the military dictator, Fulgencio Batista; Fidel Castro established a dictatorship in Cuba and created the first Communist county in the Western part of the world (Suchlicki). After being made the ruler of Cuba, Castro started implementing a communist rule in the country and made the Soviet Union an ally, hurting Cuba's relationship with the United States from that point onward (Biography.com). Fidel Castro promoted autocracy in Cuba by jailing his political…

peaceful protest against the French Nuclear testing going on in the Moruroa Atoll. The crew had moored their boat and were preparing for bed when a sudden explosion left them in shock, at first they believed that they had been hit by something like a tugboat, but after a following second explosion they realised they were under attack and fled the boat. Only to realise once they were safe that they were missing one crew member, Portuguese born photographer Fernando Pereira. It was later…

CHAPTER 2 INCIDENT CHRONOLOGY The Chronology of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Incident The timeline of this incident will be based on the ‘National Transportation Safety Board Marine Accident Report’. In the year of 1989 of March 22 (11.35pm), the Exxon Valdez arrived at the berth 5, Aleyska Marine Terminal to load a cargo of Alaska North Slope crude oil. Figure 2.1: The Exxon Valdez (Shigenake, G. 2014) The total load of 1.3 Million barrels of oil took approximately a day to complete filling…

William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth, exudes multiple lessons and represents many leaders in today’s society. His play shows the result of what happens when an overly ambitious leader gets stuck in way too deep. In many ways Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, resembles Shakespearean character, Macbeth. Fidel is widely known for bringing a communist government to Cuba, his use of guerilla warfare tactics, and the Bay of Pigs invasion. His way of running Cuba shaped the country into the power force it…

The quote of this essay title argues that the genre sitcom is incorrectly regarded as simplistic, and comparisons to other genres will uncover hidden complexity (Mills 2005:25-29). However, while there is truth in the claim that sitcoms are complex, it should be understood why this is the case, and what the relevance of other genres is as a point of comparison. It should instead be argued that the banality and trivialities of everyday life generally represented in sitcom may seem on the surface…

Fear, hope and genetics play key roles in our lives and are important elements in survival. Surviving, despite the suffering you may have been through, is what gives people hope., and hope It is what keeps people alive. Many people would say that human beings will not always strive to survive. For example, during the Holocaust the Jewish people would rather die than suffer in the concentration camps, but the fact that people from those camps dealt with the beatings and malnourishment is proof…

All was well and she traveled to Japan as soon as she could. The journey to Japan was very frightening. As the ship came up on the shore, they were stuck in a typhoon and ultimately were transferred to a smaller tugboat to get to dry land. Amy enjoyed it in Japan but the language was challenging to learn and the different missionary societies fought about different things. Sadly, after about fifteen months in Japan, Amy became sick with “Japanese head” and the only…

hour prior to them boarding the tanker. When a person fails this test, they are not allowed to captain the ship nor board. Laws also passed requiring that two pilots must be on the bridge of the tankers till the tanker passes Bligh Reef, and two tugboats must escort any tanker while in the Prince William Sound. Months after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, another tanker by the name of Antigun Pass was prevented from colliding with Bligh Reef and an oil spill was prevented with these new requirements…