Essays on Sail

Thesis Statement: The film illustrated how greed and blood lust of the people can lead to a bitter end after several African Americans became victims of exploited labor force which is in the simplest form of slavery employed by the Native Americans, who took advantage of their ignorance during the 18th century. 1.) The block quotation that was chosen and was compressed in the film which and should have been more highlighted is the line, “As the price of whale oil continued to rise, while the economy of the other countries continued to suffer due to economic depression, Nantucket ...

Introduction

Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A Museum) is a Non-Departmental Public Body managed by the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport. The museum is funded by the central government and also receives Grant and Aids (a major portion of funding) from the Government of the United Kingdom. A significant part of the funding (approximately 60%) is received from the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport. The museum is the world’s biggest and leading museum containing a wide collection of art and design of more than 4.5 million objects. The objects present in the museum have a history of more ...

I was born in 1830, in a small village called Londontowne, which sits on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay about a few miles from Annapolis. I was the third of my parents five children. My parents, who had immigrated from northern Europe in the 1820s, did the best that they could for us but my early life could be best described a s humble. My father worker as a fisherman for one of the many boating companies that fished the bay for crabs and oysters. His dream was always to one day have enough money to have his ...

INTRODUCTION

World exploration and explorers are always hailed in history books and classes as significant events and people because they have opened doors to new eras of trade, knowledge and information, technology and cultural consolidation. The names Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama and Ferdinand Magellan are some of the greatest names in exploration. Countries that have often been associated with historical explorations are Spain, Portugal, Great Britain – in other words, Western countries. A closer scrutiny, however, of historical explorations showed that ancient China conducted explorations and voyages even before these Western countries did in the 15th century. The voyages occurred ...

Impact of Benjamin Franklin's Charts of the Golf Stream on the Shipping Industry

The Gulf Stream is a gigantic current that flows from the Mexican Gulf, past the Florida Peninsula, U.S. East Coast and up to Cape Hatteras. The current then flows across the Atlantic towards Iceland, British Isles, and to Norway. Viewed from the Straits of Florida, the stream has a width of approximately forty miles. Its speed can go as high as five miles per hour (4.3 nautical knots). As the current flows into North Atlantic, the width widens and can increase to up to hundreds of miles at some points (Richardson 51). The amount of water carried by the ...

Overall score on the OTELA: _____90________

Reading Passage chosen: _____Where The Wild Things Are______________________ Literal Questions: 1) What grew in Marx’s room? 2) What hung from his bedroom ceiling? 3) What did Marx sail on in his private boat?

Interpretive Questions: 1) Why did Max give up being king of where the wild things are?

2) How did he tame such wild things? 3) What can be inferred from the story? Purpose statement: What do you plan to say for the Introduction of the passage? (This should give the student an idea of what the passage is about and give a general purpose for reading. Be careful not to give away too much information. For example, for the passage on “ ...

Original Cruise Inc. Big Money on the high seas

CNBC aired in 2009 a special program about the business of the cruises industry. The industry is concentrated in three big players: Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian. The Report (CNBC) was using the study case of Norwegian with the collaboration of the Chief Financial Officer of Norwegian. The first goal of the cruise company's managers is to fill up the ship before set sail. According to the interview, the most important part of the business is not by the ticket selling of cabins before the ship set sail but after the ship set sail. There are related businesses with ...

Introduction

The landscape has often been used as a descriptive element and to create an atmospheric perspective in art work by different artists since ancient times. Beautiful landscapes are believed to detoxify the spirit and mind, and carry a healing power as stated by Andrews (1999, p.53). They are an effort by the artist to capture the fleeting moment of nature in time on the canvas.Thesis “The Shore at Trouville Sunset Effect” by Courbet, who is known to initiate the Realist movement in 19th-century that bridged the Romantic Movement and the Impressionists (The Shore at Trouville Sunset Effect, 2016). The ...

Christopher Columbus was quite sure that it was possible to sail to East Asia and India by heading to the west from Europe. His convictions were based not on obscure and legendary news of the discovery of Finland by the Normans, but on the considerations of Columbus' genius. The warm voyage from the Gulf of Mexico to the western shore of Europe evidenced of the existence of a great land in the west. Vincent, the Portuguese skipper, caught a piece of wood in the sea near the Azores (Eckhart 88-89). which depicted figures carved on it. The carving was ...

Overall score on the OTELA: _____90________

Reading Passage chosen: _____Where The Wild Things Are______________________ Literal Questions: 1) What grew in Marx’s room? 2) What hung from his bedroom ceiling? 3) What did Marx sail on in his private boat?

Interpretive Questions: 1) Why did Max give up being king of where the wild things are?

2) How did he tame such wild things? 3) What can be inferred from the story? Purpose statement: What do you plan to say for the Introduction of the passage? (This should give the student an idea of what the passage is about and give a general purpose for reading. Be careful not to give away too much information. For example, for the passage on “ ...

Impact of Liu and Ning experiences as a result of the historical events and changes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries The historical events and changes that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century influenced many people in China. By using Liu as the protagonist, Henrietta Harrison, in her book The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village highlights that the Confucianism ideals, education system, and Boxer Uprising had a great impact on Chinese people. Similarly, in her book, Ida Pruitt observes that the challenges women went through during the ...

Roanoke is the name of English colony established at similarly named island in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh whose purpose was to create a first regular settlement in North America, but colony’s existence did not last long as all of its settlers disappeared under mysterious circumstances and left almost no traces. The history of colony disappearance for centuries has been staying in the focus of attention of sailors, historians, archeologists and mystery fans, but the answer is still not found. For this reason Roanoke went down in history as the “Lost Colony”; its image later served as a ...

Iberian Expansion

In the fifteenth century, there was a rapid expansion in the Europe continents that affected almost all parts of the world. This was as a part of the world tendency toward the difficulties in the human being society. The rising states on the Europe fringe were the matching empires of the West Africa and the empires of the Aztecs, who were the rapid rising states in the Eurasian fringes. The countries involved in Europe included; England, Portugal, France and Spain. The navigation and development of trade in the Europe were encouraged by the development of the navigation technology by the Arab ...

Film Studies

Setting: The incident took place four hundred years ago in Radian, a bustling town in West Asia. Most of the people in this town were either traders, or agriculturists. Since this town was on the shipping route connecting Asia with Europe, and America, it was also a place where ships docked for trading and to rest. The town was also known to attract people of other towns and cities from far away, as it was also a center of arts and science. It is believed that Alexander the Great, on his way to conquer Asia, spent a month here. It was perhaps the ...

ABSTRACT

There are a number of important benefits that can be gleaned for humanity as a whole if production processes could be moved to space. This is a holistic investigation of the different benefits of moving manufacturing processes to space, and of the current processes that are capable of being carried out in space or in orbit. Full-scale production of space vehicles is the final end goal of the process, but a focus on small-scale production via 3-D printing technologies is also examined over the course of the study. A literature review and meta-analysis was conducted to determine the effects of manufacturing in Microgravity ...

The Holy Crusades were a series of nine major military campaigns led by Roman Catholic Church to take back Jerusalem from Muslims. Religion played a much larger part of everyday life in the time of the crusades, so it is difficult for modern people to truly understand the motives of people involved in the crusades. While the crusades did seem to be fought generally in the name of God, it appears many people involved in the crusades fought more out of self-interest rather than some deep religious devotion. The Holy Crusades were not very holy. Evidence suggests that one of ...

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 ...

Introduction

A lot of things can happen to a ship after it has departed from a seaport and left to travel against the waves of the ocean on its own. This is where the purpose of maritime safety and risk management comes in. Its purpose is to educate officers and crew members of a ship on how to react to certain risks, or in the worst case scenario a certain crisis. In general, the objective of a maritime safety and risk management is to ensure that the current maritime risk does not escalate into a crisis, and if it already did, mitigate the probable effects of ...

In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed in the Senate. The legislation was then taken to the states for approval. The National Woman’s Political Party proposed the amendment as they advocated for legal equality of both sexes. The amendment aimed at prohibiting the discrimination based on sex. In 1960s, the issue of feminism reemerged. The U.S. Representative Bella Abzug of New York and feminists Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem took it to the senate, and it successfully received support from more than two-thirds of the votes casted. By 1972, the amendment was forwarded to the states by ...

Greek mythology as it exists today was a culmination of oral tradition that was part of the early Greek civilization. Different regions of the Greek empire had different heroes with their own traditions and thus Greek mythology was firmly tied to it geographical location. Geography and physical places/ space helped shape Greek mythology to a large extent. Homer’s Odyssey, Iliad and Hesiod’s Theogony are examples of Greek mythology where the myth is tied with the geographical space. With the mention of places these poets also driven by a certain ‘Panhellenic’ impulse-a desire to appeal to as many city states as ...

- Otto I The Great: Otto I was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He was considered to be one of the most powerful European rulers. His name goes down in the history for establishing a strong state of Germany. Under his reign, papal politics saw significant advances, making his rule the true beginning of the Holy Roman Empire. - Cluniac movement: was one of the most important movements of the medieval ages. Founded at the French Monastery of Cluny in 910, it was a movement aimed at the reformation of the Catholic churches. People adopted the old monastic ways ...

When the theme of hospitality is talked about in Odyssey, it shows different sides of the people that are visiting them. The strangers that arrive might be either harmless or at the same time very dangerous. Due to the unknown nature of the strangers then the native people should stay prepared for trouble from these strangers. They must also treat them appropriately as they might also be bringing the native people good news on things that they have been seeking. Hospitality in Odyssey is, therefore, magnificent at the same time being very cautious to strangers who visit. Most ...

International Transport Management

International Transport Management

Marine news is a magazine that gives information on the North American inland, offshore and coastal maritime community. It focuses on giving people information they should know about the industry. The information spans a variety of related fields that entail different expertise and appeal to a variety of interests. One of their top stories were on the right to a bon voyage. According to Haun (2014) who is a reporter for the magazine, this has been one of the issues in the priority list for National Transportation Safety Board. It came about after an accident by the commuter ferry Seastreak in ...

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 ...

Introduction

The story of the voyages that Christopher Columbus made is well-documented in various books and websites. Arguably, he was the greatest voyager to ever live in the world. These sources reveal the motives behind such voyages and what he achieved by these voyages. The last voyage of Columbus is a book written by Martin Dugard explaining the events that unfolded during Columbus’ fourth voyage. The author argues that the voyage’s purpose was to discover a new route to Orient (Dugard, 21). Under normal circumstances, this book is treated as a novel instead of history. Dugard manages to give an insight of ...

The Columbian Exchange, coined by Alfred Crosby in 1986, refers to the massive movement from the Old World to the New World and back, of crops, animals, and diseases after the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492 (Grennes 2007, p. 91). The meeting of the Old and the New World drastically changed the fortunes not only of the natives inhabiting the newly discovered continents, but also of the European settlers and Europe as a whole. New species of animals were introduced to the Americas that helped in farming and transportation. On the other hand, new species ...

Robinsonade literature is literature in the tradition of marooned sailors. It gets its name from the literary work, which sparked the tradition, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. This essay establishes criteria for evaluating whether or not a piece of literature belongs in the Rubinsonade genre. It looks at an accounted of a shipwrecked Japanese sailor. The account, Nankai Kibun translates from Japanese to Sothern Ocean. It is an account of a Japanese sailor who was the only one of his crew to survive and one-day return to Japan. While the Japanese sailor's account is interesting, there are several reasons why it should ...

Speech about Omaha City in Nebraska, USA

Specific Purpose: After my speech, the audience will know how to make a trip to Omaha City in Nebraska more interesting.

Intended Audience: Introduction - Attention Getting Device: "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware, (Hobo Traveler)" even in the City of Omaha in the State of Nebraska. Most people come to Omaha for its many sports events to experience the rush, the excitement, and energy of cheering and jeering fans in one of its large stadiums. Nevertheless, not everyone would stay longer to go around and get a feel of the city, which boasts ...

Analysis of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The novel Heart of Darkness develops its storyline around Charles Marlow describing his experience as an ivory dealer. He transports ivory using the Congo River located from Central Africa. The events in the novel happen between two societies that are completely different, the civilized and uncivilized communities. As such, imperialism and colonialism take charge of the story filled with evil. The characters, setting, events and storyline revolve around developing the events of imperialism and colonialism in the novel. This analytical essay looks into the above elements of the story. The story develops the themes of hypocrisy of imperialism ...

Introduction

Managers play a pertinent role in making the delivery of health care services effective and efficient. In fact, nurse managers are influential in the modern healthcare sector because of their immediate impacts on the services and care provided to patients of families across the entire healthcare sector. Essentially, as managers, nurses are required to spearhead the changes in health care just as they should fulfil their daily duties.

Personal and professional accountability

The maintenance of ongoing professional achievement and competence as a nurse is enshrined under the personal and professional accountability section in the code of ethics. Essentially, professional accountability and personal growth in nursing ...

This proposal suggests the integration of domed shapes and sensor fabrics to construct multi-domed mazes with senor fabrics for children. Mazes are often a part of playground equipment for children but they are conventionally built as closed spaces with 90◦ C angles. Each space within the maze consists therefore is square or rectangular. A maze laid out with all corners the same angle can be boring as well as claustrophobic. Another disadvantage is that the person caring for the child may not fit in the maze but does not what is happening inside the maze with the child. This ...

The United States and Soviet Union have always seen themselves together in the same sentence because they have always tried to one up the other. This scenario is one that is very real with regards the conquest of outer space. For some reason America seemed to be playing catch up as she was a step behind with regards exploring outer space and putting a man in space Project Mercury is a program by NASA with an aim to launching the first Americans into space. During the duration of Project Mercury six flights were made by astronauts. Of that six, two came ...

Introduction

The formative years of the United States were characterised by slave labour and unequal treatment of workers who mostly worked in farms. In different parts of the United States people were settling and finding arable land. This necessitated the acquisition of labour to till the land which bred the necessity for skilled complementary jobs such as masonry, carpentry, weaving, and shoemaking among others. The labour demand in the US varied from one part to another and so was the treatment of skilled and unskilled labourers though in most cases the latter used to be treated in better way. ...

Question 1

China is one of the leading nations when it comes to study of nature beginning from the first, before birth of Christ until 15th century. The ten useful inventions made in China include; - Papermaking, China invented paper in around 105A.C. This invention later spread to parts of Asia and later to Europe before heading to Africa. - Movable type of printing was invented around 960 and 1279 AD. In those ancient times, movable type piece could be glued and detached from the iron plate when necessary. Characters were then assembled for printing and later distributed after ...

The history of Atlantic is an area of expertise in which the Atlantic World in the early contemporary era is studied. This field is based on the view that, after the development of sustained 16th century’s European close interaction with the New World, the continents that surrounded the Atlantic Ocean including the Europe, Americas, as well as Africa established a common sphere or regional system of cultural and economic exchange that may be examined as entirety. There exist a number of aspects of the Atlantic history. This paper seeks to explore the aspect of colonialism of Atlantic history. Colonialism ...

Introduction

Christopher Columbus was an Italian Spain sailor who lived between the year 1451 and 1506. He was a son to a middle-class wool weaver family of Domenico and Susanna Fontanarossa who lived in Genoa Italy. His life as child is not well known and there is no comprehensive information on how he spent his youthful life. However it is said that he got well educated and that he could speak several language fluently. Some of the most important skills he acquired in his early days include the interpretation of classical literature, the work of Marinus, Ptolemy and many others. Columbus ...

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 ...

The discovery of America is credited by most literatures to Columbus, the great adventurer whose roots is associated with Genoa, having sailed out from Spain on the consent of the King Ferdinand who was persuaded by his Queen Isabella to support the adventure, after releasing a great chunk of her treasure for the discovery to be made. However, latest revelations in the last decades give the credit to Icelandic Norsemen1 who is believed to have discovered America in 1000 AD. The Norsemen of Iceland has not been regarded as the first discoverers of the New World, as America is ...

Source: http://www.travelweekly.com/Cruise-Travel/World-cruise-means-prestige-for-lines-profitability-for-agents/?a=cruiseTitle of the article: World cruise Means Prestige For Lines, Profitability For AgentsDate of the article: January 15, 2013

As reported by Tom Stieghorst in travel weekly, Ace cruise lines have assorted sentiments for world cruises that sail for months. Prestige cruise lines’ vice president surmises that three to six months jaunt is not conventional for all cruise lines. He feels that such long cruise is boon for travelers and travel agents but curse for cruise lines with limited number of ships. Howbeit, once the cruise line has eight-nine ships, one of them can certainly go for the ...

This 1997 film was based on the true story of the slave ship Amistad that was captured off the cost of Cuba in 1839 after a rebellion by the Africans, who attempted to sail it back home. Instead, they were tricked by the surviving Spanish crew members and the ship ended up being captured off the coast of New York. After a lengthy legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the fifty-four slaves were freed and returned to Africa in 1842. Since the U.S. had banned the slave trade in 1808, even though it continued covertly, ...

The wet foot dry foot policy refers to the amendment of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. The amendment, passed by Congress in 1995, was intended to provide a solution to the immigration issues between Cuba and the United States of America. Previously, the old legislation enabled express qualification for full citizenship to Cubans migrating into the United States. In order to contain escalation of immigrants from Cuba to United States of America, the piece of law was amended so that Cubans intercepted enroot to America could be returned to Cuba. However, immigrants who succeed in their journey to America ...

In the Book 10 Odysseus faced quite a number of exciting adventures, some of which brought him within an inch of death. The variety of challenging circumstances which the main character had to struggle in this part of the poem was sure to reveal a lot about the Odysseus’s personality. One may make some conclusions on the matter of Odysseus’s character after having come across the very first challenge to which the author has subjected Odysseus and his mates. The circumstances were the following: the main character and his crew came to the island of Aeolus, who was ...

BUSINESS LAW

Part A: Question 1 Using the four-step process, discuss the element of agreement required for the formation of an enforceable contract. Have Sensational Sails and EquipU reached an agreement regarding the sale of the Italian machinery?

Identifying the Legal Issue

Bill and Ben are best mates and love to sail together. They want to turn their sporting interest into a business. They decide to start their own company called Sensational Sails Pty Ltd (Sensational Sails). Bill and Ben design and manufacture sails for all size yachts and supply wholesale to retail outlets. Their company becomes highly successful and soon they need more sophisticated ...

Introduction

The redistricting process borrows from a rich political history on the political systems and the democratisation of the state. Politics of redistricting and reapportionment have for a long time occupied the minds of scholars and critics. In his analysis of the political effects of redistricting, Engstrom (36) argues that one of the seminal effects of the redistricting process is the gerrymandering on the political platform. There are also other effects bound to occur. For instance, the process leads to new leaders assuming power with new leadership styles and collaboration among the new faces of leadership unlike the old regimes and also ...

Chronologic order of series of events in huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn’s fictional story begins with Huckleberry who will be referred thereof as Huck and Tom Sawyer getting a lump sum of money from a cave some robbers had hid the money. Huck is under the watchful eye of a widow called Douglas. Miss. Douglas and Miss. Watson are trying their best to have Huck be civilized which really pisses him off (Pauline & Twain, 2006). When Huck asks whether he can smoke, Miss Douglas discourages him telling him that smoking is a dirty and mean project despite her taking some snuff. Huck later escapes this confinement with the help of tom who ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was one of the most prominent Presidents of the United States to have ever lived. He served as President between1933–1945 and was then a key figure in political unveilings in the world. It is remembered that during his time as President of The United States, the world experienced the horrific World War II. Roosevelt oversaw the great changes that describe the United States of America we see today. This was demonstrated by the constitutional amendment that allowed Roosevelt to operate as the only American President to serve or be in office for than two terms (Holocaust ...

When considering our actions now, it is important to consider our future actions as well. Many young people go through high school without giving their future much thought until their final years but that is a foolish approach to achievement. Preparation is important to our progress as young people- we must have a destination in mind if we are hoping to get there safely and successfully. Imagine, if you will, how a similar approach could result if the captain of a ship did not plan his journey thoroughly beforehand: he must check the projected weather forecast, the path his ship will need to ...

When considering our actions now, it is important to consider our future actions as well. Many young people go through high school without giving their future much thought until their final years but that is a foolish approach to achievement. Preparation is important to our progress as young people – we must have a destination in mind if we are hoping to get there safely and successfully. Imagine, if you will, how a similar approach could result if the captain of a ship did not plan his journey thoroughly beforehand: he must check the projected weather forecast, the path his ship will need to ...

Summary 1

People all over the universe do have different alienations culturally. Different cultures do have varying works of art associated with them. The works of art of the different groups of people try to identify people with their respective cultures. For the case of the metis, the assumption that each culture had its own corresponding art was hard to validate (Levy, pg72). This was because many of the works found in this region could not be proved to be of metis origin. Two scholars however, found that the metis had work of art which could be identified as their own. ...

In W.S. Merwin’s poem “Odysseus,” we hear about Odysseus’ point of view, as he journeys out into the sea and thinks of home. Odysseus is weary from his journeys, and feels like he is not getting anywhere “but older.” No matter where he goes, what he does, his situation remains the same, and so he opines on the futility of his life and journey. He also seemingly has a great deal of trouble remembering what happened in the past, as he does not know the difference anymore between the “one who wished on his departure / Perils that he ...

The Odyssey the Greek hero and his return journey after the Trojan War. Odysseus’s Voyage covers extensively the Greek world. All the way through the adventures of Odyssey, gods play an immensely significant role, with many of the gods liking him. His whole journey filled with arguments amongst gods. This story is said to be historically accurate and exceptionally significant to the ancient Greeks. Ulysses is illustrated to be a skilled warrior, athlete, masterful, articulate and courageous. In his trial to return home, he meets numerous adventures like the one-eyed Cyclops and the furious; god Poseidon who try to ...