Captain Research Papers Samples For Students

Introduction 2

Capitan Vere’s Struggle 4
Capitan Vere’s Just Action 6
Capitan Vere’s Biblical Implications: Sacrifice to Save Many 9
Capitan Vere’s Biblical Implications: Actions and Consequences 9
Conclusion 10
Works Cited 12
Captain Vere’s Choice
In Herman Melville’s exceptional novel Billy Bud, Captain Vere is forced to execute the charismatic Billy Bud, a character who accidentally kills a naval officer that accuses him of mutiny. Many readers hold that Captain Vere is unjust in this action towards Billy, as the evil naval officer, Claggart, provoked him. This latter character untruthfully accuses Billy Bud of ...

On August 14, 2013 UPS Flight 1354 crashed short of runway about 0447 hours during a non precision approach to runway 18 at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM), Birmingham, Alabama . The official NTSB reports suggests a combination of errors from both man and machine as the cause for the terrible accident that left two pilots dead and hundreds of dollars worth equipments destroyed. But the primary focus was on the errors in judgment of the captain who was the pilot and the first officer who was his copilot as the root cause of this failure. When all the dusts of ...

In the movie “captain Philips” is starred by Tom Hanks as Captain Richard Philips. Mr. Phillips is the captain of the MV Maersk Alabama container ship. The movie is based on a real incident that happened in 2009 in the east coast waters. While Captain Richard was traveling through international waters, his container ship is boarded by Somali pirates. The movie is about Somali pirates hijacking a commercial freighter (Phillips, Richard, and Stephan,22) Taking over the ship, the Somali pirates hold the Captain and a few of his men who were his crew. Many of the pirates look like they are ...

List of Figures

Figure 1 Torrey canyon supertanker and surrounded with oil spills 6
Figure 2 A-Geographical location of the disaster. B-Route at the time of accident 9
Figure 3Torrey Canyon and Air strike: World’s first ever environmental disaster 11
Figure 4 :The Renown Torrey quarry 11
Figure 5: Dead bird in Torrey Canyon query 12
Figure 6Plumes emitting from burning Torrey Canyon 13

Abstract

On 18th March 1967, the ship Torrey Canyon, carrying a load of 120000 tons of crude oil dashed against Pollard's Rock of the reef of Seven Stones near Cornwall, England. The resultant oil ...

The Titanic may have been swallowed by the vast seas that fateful night, but the story forever lives on for the survivors and the spectators. We take lessons from that forever tale and still look to the events of the day for guidance and support. One of the areas worth admiring, despite the disaster and the havoc aboard the giant, was the ratio of women and children who managed to walk away from the wreckage. Research shows that 20% of the men while 75 percent of the women were the survivors of the incident. Of the total 109 children ...

Abstract

Among the remarkable flight accidents, Saudia Flight 163 case holds a special place, both due to the death toll and due to the fact that it did not involve a crash at all. The disaster that took away lives of all passengers and crew members at the turn of 1980s was thoroughly investigated and recognized as the second deadliest aircraft accident (at that time) after Ermenonville air disaster involving Turkish Airlines flight 891 (Witkin, 1981). While the deadly incident happened after the safe emergency landing of the plane, the main reason of Flight 163 tragedy is human factor. The ...

Introduction

Since the sinking of one of White Stars Line’s most famous luxury ship, 100 years ago, there have been many films, books, speculations and myths about the Titanic’s tragic maiden voyage which cost the lives of over 1,500 people including women and children. The reasons of why the infamous ship sank is varies, some being factual accurate, others hypothesis that made sense and some that are just plain stories that have no place in history or science. These stories are what this paper will look at; claims that cannot be supported by scientific evidence, myths propagated ...

Abstract

Accidents are an inevitable element of the air carriage industry; however, a good number of these could have been avoided given proper human resource management efforts. The task of these specialists is to recruit, to train, and to evaluate industry employees like pilots. Instead, they often overlook health issues and psychological disorders leaving the wellbeing and lives of passengers exposed to mortal threat. Owing to HR specialists’ miscalculations, pilots with insufficient qualification, those willing to ignore the guidelines of dispatchers and act carelessly received their coveted positions. The liberalization of workplace regulations did the industry an ill favor allowing individuals ...

The football team

American football is the most popular and the most lucrative sport in the United States. Every state has dozens of football teams which play in the NFL’s championship, college football, youth football or high school championships. The Super Bowl is the most prestigious American Football event that takes place annually between the winners of the Eastern and the Western conference.
I have been to the USA for two years now and I have enjoyed every bit of it. It’s a great country with wonderful people who have great passion in what they are involved in their daily ...

INDUSTRY REVIEW AND ANALYSIS

Executive Summary3

Bargaining Power of Suppliers4
Bargaining Power of Buyers 5
Threats of Substitutions5
Threat to New Entrants5
Economic Factors 7
Captains of Industry 9

References11

Executive Summary
The automotive industry produces cars and trucks in the world with the giants of GM, Chrysler and General Motors and Ford being the leaders. Historically, it has been the largest and the most successful of all industries. All of the auto makers have built the most famous and classic family and luxury cars in the world. The vehicles offer affordable options for family vehicles and for first car while the luxury market ...

There are various motivational strategies which Captain Strong could consider adopting. The first strategy she could consider adopting would be empowerment. Empowering the patrol division officers would entail giving them the trust, authority, autonomy and encouragement to complete a task. This will be an important strategy given the fact that among the complaints of the officers is the fact that they hardly ever get to complete their tasks due to the many orders they receive. In short, they lack the necessary autonomy and encouragement to complete their tasks.

Captain Strong could also consider the implementation of an effective reward systemcommensurate ...

Introduction

The strategic prominence of sports cannot be over emphasized. From the inception of the Olympics and sports event such as the FIFA world cup, it is a testimony that sports have played a major role in bringing people together. Through the different sports events all around the world, special gatherings have been a witness. Individuals either directly or indirectly take part in ensuring that the sports events are a success. However, it should be noted that while sports has played a major part in bringing people together, it has not been short of controversies. A number of controversial issues have been reported either involving ...

Jules Verne is arguably one of the most prescient science-fiction authors in history – his works are remembered for their vast imagination and endlessly prescient views into the future of science and the exciting nature of their adventures. One of his most well known works, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, is on its surface a fantastical tale of a group of men who stumble upon the secret submarine Nautilus, commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. However, closer examination of the novel itself reveals Verne’s penchant for social commentary and intricate political subtext, as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea becomes a ...

The purpose of Naturalism as a literary movement is to bring about the accurate reproduction of a story’s characters inside the spheres of genetics, environment, fate, instinct as well as the current social context of the time period in which the author wrote the work. Within the American literary tradition, Naturalism has close connections with Realism, and it takes much of its influence from Determinism, the belief that the actions a person undertakes are motivated by both environment and heredity. In “The Open Boat” and “To Build a Fire,” Stephen Crane and Jack London attempt to use the actions and thoughts of ...

Self-inflicted Detriment of Early Jamestown

The discovery of Jamestown for the second time was by the English colonists on May 13, 1607. This land had already been discovered by the Native American Indians who had been to the town before. This is one of the reasons why for the tensions that made the Jamestown the historical icon it is today. This research paper will consider the discovery of this town and the days after. It will also consider the critical thinking questions to help enhance our understanding of the self-inflicted detriment of early Jamestown. We will look at this topic from the colonialist’s ...

Group dynamics is defined as the behavioral and attitudinal characteristics of a group (Levi, 2007). Therefore, this paper is concerned with the analysis of the group dynamics of the group in Apollo 13. Basically, it highlights the effectiveness of the group, its leadership, the communication and how decisions were made. The paper is also devoted to the analysis of how the group handled conflict and controversies that were encountered in the course of pursuing the group goals and objectives. Similarly, the role of creativity in the overall group process of the group in Apollo 13 is illustrated.
According to ...

Introduction

The New York police department exists to ensure that the constitutional rights of all residents in New York are guaranteed by preserving a safe environment that reduces fear, ensures that laws are protected and that peace is observed in the city (Stanislas 22). Regardless of their ranking, all officers are obligated to protect life and property. The New York police department conducts patrols, collects evidence, testifies in court, arrests suspects, enforces laws, completes paperwork, issues citations, and collects evidence (Crank and John 21). The objective of this paper is to detail the process that is followed to become a ...

Section

Introduction
Hawaii is located nearest the state of California. It is a state of the United States of America and is found East of Japan. It is made of various and numerous islands scattered throughout a slanted pattern .
Hawaii is largely volcanic, having been formed due to eruptions which spanned hundreds and even thousands of years. The first island to have been formed is Kauai on the Northern region, whereas the youngest among them are the Hawaiian Islands, located on the Southern most part of the region .

Source: Google 2016

This American state has a total of 132 islands; most of it ...

Abstract

Mermaids have remained the creatures of mythology for quite some time now, and they are also being featured in many of the present day movies and TV shows apart from the children’s cartoons. That is all well for we know that these media are a work of fiction, but shockingly enough, the subject has very recently come up but this time, the classification has not remained in the genre of fiction. Today people are asking if mermaids could actually exist or if the myths had come out of a few very overactive imaginations. The controversial issue has become ...

“Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” is a heartbreaking, but a truthful account of the war that was triggered off by Americans against the Natives. In this book, the readers get to know what the wars on the Natives really looked like. It is known that Native Americans had lived here long before the new people from the distant lands stepped on the continent. It is believed that when Europeans first arrived, they were greeted by the Natives with warmth and provided with all the essential goods that were needed. But the newcomers didn’t manage to answer in ...

Joseph Conrad (his real name was Jozef Korzeniowski) is a classic of English literature of the twentieth century. He was born in the Russian Empire into a family of Polish patriots, who took part in anti-government protests. In 1874 he fled to Marseilles to become a cabin boy on a French merchant ship and three years later, while sailing in the Pacific Ocean, began to learn English. Over time, he became captain in the British passenger fleet. The marine experience gave Conrad the material for his literary works. After retiring, he devoted himself wholly to literature and in the mid-nineties began to publish ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Book: The count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is a novel written by Alexandre Dumas and was first published in the year 1844. The plot of the story was expanded by Dumas in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. Along with the ‘Three Musketeers’, this novel is one of the most anthologized works of Dumas, and as critics opine the novel has become a permanent fixture of Western literature.
Dumas was a French novelist and dramatist, and during his lifetime he produced a number of literary outputs like dramas, novels, memoirs, travelogues and historical studies. Mostly self-educated, Dumas actively ...

Struggles of the New World

In 1606, a group of settlers boarded three ships, ‘The Susan Constant’, ‘The Godspeed’, and ‘The Discovery’, financed by the King of England, King James, and they headed toward what they had deemed, ‘The New World’ (“Britain in the New World”), supposedly filled with prosperous land to farm on and most importantly, gold. These settlers were ordered by the King to sail to North America and create a new colony in the name of England. The settlers sailed to what is today, Virginia, and settled on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay. The settlers were also instructed by the King to ...

Prior the Revolutionary War of between 1775 and 1783, Britain was in control of its American colony, much to the chagrin of the latter. With the colonization came laws of governance imposed on the Americans as a form of dominance by the British forces. With the forced management and the increasing need for independence among the colonized nation, the resulting tense relations were inevitable if not expected. Boston city was no different as its people continued to repel the presence of the Britons in its society. Consequently, on March 5, 1770, a confrontation between people from both sides, in Boston Massachusetts, ...

Introduction

The Hindenburg disaster is recorded in history as a spaceship that was involved in a crash marking the end of their use in air travel. This scientific design had marked one of the largest space travel aircraft. No such a large aircraft had been used for space travel before. This involved building a craft that was lighter than air and one that used hydrogen gas for propulsion. However, the crash of this aircraft created controversy including marking the end of their use in air travel. May, 1937 marked the day of the accident in which the Hindenburg aircraft arrived at the air station ...

BATTLE OF ALAMO

Introduction
The battle of Alamo was a thirteen day fight of February 23 to march 6, 1836. This war was between the Mexican army and the Texas rebellious people. This battle was very influential in the Texas revolution. There is believed that there are many myths of what led to the battle but according to most American writers the war was started by the Mexicans (Peña, 2012). The Chicano writers have a different opinion because they believe that the war was started by the Americans. Alamo was in Mexico a mission at the town of San Antonio de Bexar. The battle ...

BUSINESS

Several airplane crashes have become a part of aviation history but this one that took place about four decades ago is still regarded as one of the most horrifying air plane crash in which more than six hundred people lost their lives. The crash took place at the Tenerife airport which is located in the region of Atlantic. It has never been a popular place before this plane crash of history. Tenerife is governed by the Spanish government and it is situated some hundred or more miles from the Moroccan coast. The airport is a small one and is ...

There are different periods in the history of countries that play more or less significance roles. No doubt that First and Second World Wars immensely influenced the life and political situations almost in every country. These were the most disastrous event and their aftermaths were often disastrous too. In spite of these tremendous periods in the world’s history there were no less and maybe, according to some views, more important period in the history of America in the twentieth century. The period of the 60s is treated now as the time of innovations in culture, science, music and ...

Richard welch was born in 14th December, the year 1929, in Hartford, Connecticut. He later joined Harvard University to study Classics. At the age of 22, Welch graduated from the university, top in his class. At this point, Welch took the challenge of working with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The first position Welch got in the CIA was of the case officer. His duties involved walking all over the world to follow various cases relating to the agency. At the age of 55, Welch rose in the ranks to become a CIA station chief. In 1974, Welch was ...

African resistance to colonial powers has an extensive history that dates before the nineteenth century. The responses to colonial rule varied by location, religion, and resources that included both violent and nonviolent tactics. It is important to note that most rebellions were complex and strategically planned in the rising intolerance of colonial rule on the continent of Africa. Although Europeans aimed to divide and conquer, they did not always successfully change relationships among African communities who worked together in resistance.
Nonetheless, foreign colonial powers were successful in recruiting tribes to assist in conquering other tribes who were in conflict. ...

The book ‘Frankenstein’ written by Mary Shelley and published in the year 1818 is one of the famous literary works in the genre of gothic horror fiction. In the book, the author discusses about the ethical issues of technological advancements and researches the relationship of man with its creator . Frankenstein is the story of Victor, a man who possesses health, wealth, friends and family. Victor has a deep interest in science and a burning desire for knowledge and research. Victor’s passion in science drives him to make a demon, which he later realizes to be a blunder. The demon kills Victor’s family ...

Introduction

During the American Revolution, many women took active part in both the American and British armies. Apart from direct participation, many women also contributed to the revolution indirectly. In the 18th century America, women’s role in the society was limited to the boundary of home as child bearer and home maker. Politics, military activities and even social activities were almost 100% an all-male affair (Brooks 2013). Therefore, it was not easy for women in that era to directly participate in the American Revolution. Still, thousands of women participated.
The American Revolution started when England put in place ...

The British Empire is one of the most extensive empires in the world history. The empire is said to have ruled a population of between four hundred and seventy to five hundred and seventy million people by 1921, which is equivalent to a third of the world population. The development of the British Empire can be dated back to the activities of King Henry VII who reined in a period dated 1485 to 1509. King Henry had a strong drive to improve the British economy through trade and development of factories within and outside Britain. As a way of promoting trade, he established a modernized merchant ...

Annotated Bibliography

Cline, Duane A. Navigation in the Age of Discovery: An Introduction. Rogers, AR: Montfleury, 1990.
This book provides an analysis of the tools used by navigators during the early days of the discovery age. These includes the challenges faced by the early navigators in their attempt to understand the rough waters and overcome the challenges of a rough and dangerous voyage..
Koeman, C. Flemish and Dutch Contributions to the Art of Navigations in the XVIth Century. Lisboa: Instituto De Investigação Científica Tropical, 1988.
This book provides some of the major contributions of the Dutch to ...

How the Bahamas was able to prove to Britain that it will able to sustain itself if independence from Britain was granted?
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Dr. Robert Nash & Sydnee Viray
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Introduction:

The Bahamas officially known as the Commonwealth of Bahamas is an island country consisting of more than 700 islets, cays and islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It lies to the north of Cuba and Hispaniola (The Dominican Republic and Haiti). It is North West to Turks and Caicos Islands. To its South East lies the U.S. State of Florida and to the East ...

Introduction

John Hunt Morgan was a popular Confederate general and cavalry officer during the Civil War. He is most remembered for his Morgan’s Raid wherein he led several hundred men on a more-than thousand mile journey from the South into Kentucky and as far as southern Ohio, which is the farthest point reached by any Confederate group in the north during this war (Dupuy, Johnson and Bongard, 1992, 525). He sowed terror and fear in the hearts of ordinary people from Indiana and Ohio (Boyer, 1912, 164-165). This short paper will examine General Morgan’s escape from the Ohio Penitentiary in ...

Introduction

Born on 25th April1599 in Huntingdon, Olive Cromwell was a son to Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth Steward on of the wealthiest and influential family. He attended a free school sponsored by St. John hospital. In 1616, he joined Sidney college-Cambridge but his career terminated at the death of his father in 1617(Cromwell 15). Cromwell returned home to take care of his widowed mother and siblings while managing the family inheritance. He married Elizabeth Bouurchier in 1598 and blessed with nine children. Before 1640, his major source of income was from rents collection and farming activities.

Political life

In 1628, Cromwell connection with ...

Introduction

The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, a social or political issue, seems to be in question. The opponents to the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes stick to the same argument of social and at times religious effects. The support of the movement seems to be basing all evidence in the far-reaching uses of cannabis beyond medical application. With Washington and Colorado both recently legalizing marijuana for recreational use, it reopens the debate about whether or not marijuana should be legal for medicinal purposes in the United States. A look at the current research, an analyzing the argument of ...

It is a testament to the power of propaganda that the events of March 5, 1770 were widely accepted as a massacre which remained the very symbol of British tyranny for 200 years. The skillful manipulation of facts is a hallmark of propaganda, and the men who exploited the circumstances surrounding the killing of five Americans created an atrocity that has resonated throughout American history down to the present day. As the hotbed of revolutionary fervor in the colonies, Boston was perhaps the only place where such propaganda could have taken hold; the only city from which it could have spread so ...

John Leonard Orr was born in April 26, 1949. He was an investigator and worked for the Glendale Fire Department in Sothern California. He also worked as a fire captain. Orr had a passion of being a police officer ever since he was a young person. His dreams did not come true after he failed the entrance exam. He decided to become a dedicated fire investigator and he committed himself to further his fire career. The work of a firefighter investigator is to do investigation in the causes of fire. The firefighters reported the cause and origin of the fire. The job of the firefighters ...

Attack at Mers-el-Kébir
The Second World War can be considered one of the deadliest wars in history especially in its early years as both the Allied and Axis Powers tried to subdue each other despite the losses it may incur due to the crossfire from both parties. Despite recovering from the first World War, the Europeans fought the growing fellow European state Germany with the United States while its allies Japan and Italy were also making their own attacks against the Allied Powers. While some of the most notable confrontations had paved the way to the end ...

In the epic novel “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville, the idea of revenge plays a major role throughout the story. The theme of revenge runs throughout the entire piece and impacts nearly all the characters and events that take place. This obsession held by Captain Ahab, motivates him to go to extraordinary lengths to kill the great white whale, Moby Dick.
The whale, Moby Dick, had taken Ahab’s leg in a previous encounter, the story begins with Ahab’s desire to take revenge against this animal. As the story progresses, Ahab becomes even more obsessive about this idea. Eventually ...

The interaction between people and work has been an intriguing variable of personality since the beginning of time. There have long been people who are industrious out of sheer nature, while others seem to be fine with malingering to the point of starvation. In his establishment of the colony, Captain John Smith had to institute a rule that anyone who was unwilling to work would not receive food (Olsen-Smith 50). Given the extreme difficulty of making a settlement in an inhospitable, inconvenient land, and given that most people setting out to live in a new country would have taken that difficulty into ...

Australian Aboriginal Groups

The Aboriginal groups of Australia have long endured a painful struggle to maintain their ways of life since the arrival of The First Fleet. The Aboriginal (a word meaning first) people of Australia may well be the world’s first people as tools discovered in South Wales in 1971 proved that humans appeared in Australia at least twelve thousand years before similar human artifacts have been found in Europe. It can then be estimated that before the First Fleet arrived in Australia there were 18, 500 generations of Aboriginal people. These people are believed to have evolved into a way of living ...