U-boat

The short story “The Open Boat” by author Stephen Crane, tells the tale of four unlucky men that become stranded at sea in a small lifeboat after they are forced to abandon their steamship. The survivors were composed of an oiler, a cook, a captain and a correspondent. At first the men focus on keeping the lifeboat afloat as they wait for someone to come and rescue them. However, soon the gravity of the situation hits the men and they realize that they are on their own, so the four men then…

Online Performance #1 Although all three videos showed the same song being performed, the environment of each performance definitely had an influence on how it was sung and performed. In each rendition of “If I Loved You”, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, there was differences in the way the message of the song was being conveyed. There are probably things in each rendition that can be improved on, such as posture or in having more facial expressions. Each performance had its own…

course. It has been represented with danger, emotions and instinct. To begin, In Stephan Cranes, The Open Boat, the men are stranded at sea with no one to help except for their abilities as humans, who have no power to defeat the natural world. From the beginning of the short story the tone of the men showed despair and helplessness. At first the men attempted to use their tools to row the boat away from the waves abut soon found out that, “after successfully surmounting one wave you discover…

The Open Boat is a story about four men who were sea-wrecked on the coast of Florida and try to get to land using a lifeboat. The crew consists of a correspondent, a captain, a cook, and an oiler named Billy. They sail in their lifeboat and try to find land. They talk about things such as food and rescue stations, but they don't really talk about what they really feel in their mind, surviving. When the crew finally finds land, they cannot row because the strong current would probably tip the…

The main story start with three guys who are on their way to a wedding stopped by an old mariner. This mariner is extremely good at engaging his audience when he tells stories. He starts telling a story about a journey he took that impacted the rest of his life. Even though the wedding guests were eager to attend the party he was able to hold them back to tell his story. The Mariner begins his story. The mariner and his crew were set in the middle of the ocean. The ship had detoured towards…

Picture yourself stranded on a sinking boat in the middle of the ocean. Would you attempt to save yourself and everyone on board or completely give up on the idea of escaping this tragedy? Would you expect help to come for you or step up and try to lead everyone to safety yourself? Luckily, in the short story “The Open Boat” written by Stephen Crane, he answers these questions in his writing that is about four crew members on a boat that have found themselves faced with this exact dilemma. This…

Retell: In the film Apocalypse Now, scenes focus on the use of reconciling two opposing views of the same reality. In the scene, Willard aboard the navy patrol boat crosses paths with a Vietnamese sampan. At the moment, Willard is asking the men on the navy boat to ignore the sampan and continue on their journey. But, according to the protocol the Chief makes Chef search the sampan to look for any evidence of trafficking of supplies. A Vietnamese woman on board runs towards a basket which…

As part of the exposition in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the narrator vividly describes the setting. He explains that he is in a boat with five men, one of which being the storyteller, Marlow. The narrator then goes on to create a descriptive image of his surroundings in the boat on the river. Throughout this description, Conrad uses foreshadowing, imagery, connotative words, symbolism, and personification, creating a shift in tone, in order to illustrate that Marlow’s journey up the…

London’s “What Life Means to Me” and Stephen Crane’s “The Open Boat.” Utilizing these two stories in light of the fact that both Jack London and Stephen Crane are legitimate naturalist essayists who show the thought of naturalism in two exceptionally unfavorable strategies. Naturalism portrays the extremely restricted control that people have over their own destiny in correlation to the powers of the regular world. In "The Open Boat", the men stranded on the vessel are absolutely helpless…

Hughes H-4 Hercules, commonly known as the “Flying Boat” or “spruce goose” was, and still is, the largest wooden aircraft ever designed and flown5. It holds the record for having the biggest wing with a span of 320 feet, which could cover an entire football field2. Henry Fraiser was the man who first proposed the idea of the enormous flying boat based on the demand for a transport plane to support the activities of the US military during World War 24. Frasier approached the famous aircraft…