Essays on Sailing

There is a lot of material about what it means to be a leader, what qualities leaders should have, and the different leadership styles that exist. I was always interested in leadership because since I was in my childhood, I found myself in leadership positions quite often. I began to play hockey when I was seven years old, and I was the team captain for all my primary and high school years. At school, I was also a 'prefect' student and a House-Captain. I developed many of my leadership skills I believe through sports. In my recent years, I ...

Three poems, which have been chosen for this paper: “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg, and “Sailing to Byzantium” by W. B. Yeats, are all very different and belong to different literary trends. However, they all are focused on the subject of death, which they depict from different standpoints, systems of beliefs, and values. In the first poem, “Because I could not stop for Death”, Emily Dickinson describes death using the image of a gentleman, who takes her into his carriage: “He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage” ( ...

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 ...

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

The Gulf Stream is a gigantic river that flows inside ocean from the Mexican Gulf, passing through Florida Peninsula, the East Coast and to Cape Hatteras. The current flows into the 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. 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 Gulf Stream is more than ...

My friends Jeremy, Amy, Ann, George and I had gone for a vacation in Asia. Jeremy, who is one of my friends, got the idea that sailing around would be a bit fun since we could even fish on the water. Amy was the only one who was against the idea, but we managed to convince her to go sailing with us. We went looked for a boat that we could rent, rented it and started our journey. After sailing for a couple of minutes, George insisted we explore the other side of the lake. On reaching the other ...

Intermodal Containers

Introduction The intermodal container is one of the most common sights in ports, harbors and docks. It is so common that its importance and significance to modern logistics is often overlooked. But despite the seemingly simple design of intermodal containers, its universal usefulness in transporting goods could not be undermined that it can be considered as one of the most important development in the field of transportation and logistics. Despite its importance in commerce and logistics, the intermodal container is also at risk of being utilized by the lawless elements of society. Without proper security, containers can be used ...

The language of Early Modern English is the language of W. Shakespeare, C. Marlowe, B. Jonson and many other talented playwrights and poets (Vaught 73-75). This period in the development of English can be rightfully called the highest bloom of English literature. The 15th century, however, was poorly productive in terms of literary achievement, but was rather a period of crucial and productive linguistic changes regarding both form of words and the structure of a sentence. With the loss of the flexion, the word order acquired a larger significance that it had in Old and Middle English (Jespersen, McCawley ...

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 ...

Artist: Ella FitzgeraldTitle: “Smooth Sailing”Recorded: New York, June 26, 1951Performed by: Ella Fitzgerald (vocals), Hank Jones (piano), Everett Barksdale (guitar), Arnold Fishkin (bass), Bill Doggett (organ), Johnny Blowers (drums), and the Ray Charles Singers. Composed by Arnett Cobb.

Ella Fitzgerald, the celebrated jazz singer, is known for many things. One of the most important vocalists to emerge from the big band era, her command over her voice and sunny, lighthearted style characterize many of her pieces. From soulful ballads to the fast-paced bebop, Fitzgerald’s voice is renowned as one of the most virtuoso instruments of jazz. ...

Introduction

“Sailing the Wine Dark-Sea: why the Greeks Matter” is the fourth volume of exploration by the great author Thomas Cahill. The author uses his unfathomable skill in literature and historical experience to take his readers to another world of both entertainment and extreme coverage of historical knowledge. In this book, he tags a wide range of historical unassailable features of the Greek by clearly holding an in-depth narration of the journey covered through the landmarks of art and intense bloodshed that lay the Greek culture in a historical legacy in an estimated period of nearly three millennia ago.

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Before the 1400’s the European had not gained much interest in exploring the world. However, there was an explosion of exploration by the Europeans beginning in the 1400s towards the early 1600s. There exist a number of reasons for this new movement, ranging from economic reasons to technological advances. This paper aims at exploring the motives that inspired the European to explore and the factors that explained their success during that period in history. There are four main motives that inspired European exploration, which include the search for wealth, the discovery of trade roots, a desire to spread Christianity, and ...

The book In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton gives an insight overview of the events that transpired on July 29, 1945 when a heavy cruiser Indianapolis was sank by a submarine I-58 killing over 900 sailors. The American ship had just delivered the weapons that were to be used to bomb Hiroshima but as it was sailing back across the Pacific Ocean, Japanese submarines intervened and bombed the ship. The book gives a painful ordeal of what the sailors went through before the rescuing team arrived at the scene to save the few remaining survivors. The book majorly focuses on the ...

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 ...

Thames Tunnel: Travelling under the river

Recognized as engineering virtuoso, Isambard Kingdom Brunel is also acknowledged for his audacious plans and colossal structures that are critical parts in even today’s times. Brunel amalgamated innovation and immeasurable boldness of foresight in constructing his oft contentious “trophies.” Born to French and English parents, Brunel began his internship with his father on the building of London’s Thames Tunnel. Soon after, Brunel was designated as the projects’ resident engineer; aside from being the lead engineer, Brunel was also able to gain considerable knowledge and exposure on cement and brick structures that would serve him in his future ...

There are many types of pollution that drove the World to be in critical situation. Not only the developed countries are responsible about this issue, but also the developing countries are more pinpointed since they have low standards and criteria to keep the environment healthier. One of these types is seas pollution. Often the ability of water to cleanse itself is already inadequate to cope with the ever increasing number of pollution. “A great deal of water pollution happens not from one single source but from many different scattered sources” (Woodford). Fields of pollution generated mainly in the coastal ...

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 film Aguirre, The wrath of God, is a 1972 German film. It is an adventure art film that was directed by Werner Herzog. The central character in the film is Klaus Kinski. The film gives the tale of a Spanish soldier who guides a team of conquistadores along the Orinoco and Amazon River in South America looking for a mythical city of gold. Through the use of a simple story and conversation, the film builds an image of madness and folly, counterpointed by the luxuriant but harsh Amazon jungle. The film brings out a number of themes that depict the main issues affecting ...

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 ...

Gods and goddesses play a huge part in The Odyssey, which retells the story of a ten-year journey of Ulysses from Troy to Ithaca. The story of Ulysses’ voyage has a lot of intercession from the gods and goddesses, which either aided or hindered the men of Ulysses in going back to their home. There is a great deal of interaction between the gods and the mortals in this well-known epic. It also showed some human characteristics that may have been reflected by the gods. Gods are there to assist or to deter the mission of the people in the story. Homer ...

Inquiry 1

Growing up in a traditional Chinese family, I am the single child who is living with my parents. In conventional Chinese culture, parents are supposed to take care of their children to such age until the children get married. In some cases, children are receiving family economic support even having their own babies. On one hand, Chinese children are exposed to less social stress with the help of their parents. On the other hand, the parenting style brews a mindset that children should conform to their parents’ requests unconditionally. My family is from one of these traditional families. My parents are ...

Procedures.

Warm Up (5 minutes). The teacher asks students about differents kind of sports they know: - what kind of sports do you like? - have you tried all those sports? - do you enjoy watching championships? - do you know some kind of weird sports from other countries? - are there some kinds of sports you would like to try? - why haven't you tried it yet?

Development.

The teachers tells about national sports of different countries. A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be ...

Fluid Mechanics is a branch of engineering study and it deals with various properties of fluids. In our daily life we use various types of fluids. Most of the fluids are readily available and have some excellent properties. Significance of Fluid mechanics is to know how the fluids and its various properties can be used in our daily life. This part of engineering is integral part of main stream engineering like Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering as well as Chemical Engineering as these brunches of engineering often deals with fluid. In this essay various aspects of fluid mechanics and its application ...

Sailing to Byzantium is one of the most famous poems of the stalwart literary artist, William Butler Yeats. The poem is one of the quintessential pieces in the history of English literature, and it lives on in the hearts of the avid readers transcending the effect of time. The poet utilizes his aesthetic excellence to reach out to the gazillion readers across the globe through this immortal work of literature. There are vivid imagery and other literary devices in the poem that bring out the central idea with clarity and quintessence. The poem is a vehement statement of the ...

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 ...

Introduction

The above quote alludes to the pliability and the malleability of plastic. Plastic is defined by the online version of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as a synthetic material which is comprised of a variety of organic polymers which can be moulded into a shape while soft, and then set into a rigid, yet slightly flexible form. Glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) is plastic which has been reinforced or strengthened by the use of glass fibres. This composite material has been used in the construction of large-scale items such as luxury boats, missiles, and tanks, and small-scale items, such as tubs, fans, hoods and scrubbers [ ...

There has been historical contradiction on the role Columbus played in the dominance of Europe of the world. Even though textbooks have different accounts of events, the role played by Columbus was a fundamental one. He was the first explorer and sailor to discover America, and the possibilities it presented. Through the discovery, the process of conquering began. Columbus was crucial to forming history, even though it is hardly recognized in many of the history books after 1482. He was not the first sailor to discover Americas, but he was the last upon whom paths were opened from a world ...

Communication-Comparing Two Events

Introduction Whether it is international or local business, sports or cultural festivals, hosting events provides a country with numerous benefits including provision of employment opportunities to the residents of that particular country. Events and festivals are the building blocks of tourism attraction that forms a significant percentage of gross domestic products. There is a positive correlation between the number of tourists’ attraction and economic growth of a given country. Countries endowed with numerous tourists’ attraction both domestic and international earn relatively high foreign exchange (Ricky, 2010). In addition festivals and events boost national pride as well as encouraging international collaboration. Citizens have ...

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 ...

“Our Lonely Home in Nature” by Alan Lightman

“The New York Times”, May 2, 2014 A critical review of : “ Our Lonely Home in Nature” We will carry out a critical review of the article “Our Lonely Home in Nature” written by Alan Lightman who is a physicist and teaches humanities at the M.I.T. This article was published in the New York Times, opinion pages on 2 May 2014 and is scheduled for republishing in today (May 23, 2014) edition too. In the article, Lightman starts with a seemingly innocuous statement of the tornadoes in the South and the Midwest. He describes how the sea (or symbolically ...

Literature

In Chapter 9, as Kendal sails through the Indian Ocean and later the Bay of Bengal, George turns her attention to the wild life under water. She talks about the face-to-face encounters that were reported by sailors with whales in different parts of the world, and how environmentalists and wildlife agencies had restricted the speed of ships crossing whale inhabited areas to protect them from being sliced. Her attention then shifts from conservancy to deaths and removal of decaying carcass to prevent spread of epidemics harmful to human beings. She narrates some unfortunate incidents that took place in various ...

Difference between Matchbox 20 Albums and Rob Thomas

Thesis Rob Thomas, a lead singer and songwriter of Matchbox 20, sang a few solo songs of which, one was rated among the Top 10 hits and, his effort was recognized when he was ranked No.5 among a cluster of celebrity singers on Billboard’s Top 20 list of Hot 100 songwriters between 2010-2011. Was Rob the reason for Matchbox 20 becoming so successful in the 2000s, or was it Matchbox 20 that helped push Rob Thomas’ popularity as an exceptional music talent? “It’s been 10 years since the multi-platinum selling band Matchbox Twenty which included Rob Thomas, Paul ...

This is a short story written in 1897 by an American author known as Stephen Crane. The story is based on the experience of Crane on his survival in a shipwreck while travelling to c Cuba for work. He was a newspapers correspondent. They were stranded for thirty hours in the sea when the ship he was in sank. Crane’s book in a dramatic story of his real life experience, sailing to Cuba and almost sunk with his friend. He was a newspaper corresponded in one of the medias in America. The incident happens when he was on his way to write ...

Background

In the early years of the 20th century, owning a car is a status symbol. Vehicle models became essential in shaping the materialistic culture of human. Driving a motor car is a technology that requires the unity of the mind and body (i.e. feet and hand). Such unity facilitates the necessary adjustments needed which is equated to perception—a translation of intentions. The late 20th century marks the link between cars and driving to society and sociality that makes society at the current historical moment. That cars are essential in the transportation is unquestionable. Cars offer privacy as a venue for people to express themselves ...

Presentation and Analysis of two poems – ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ by William Wordsworth and ‘Sailing’ by the writer of this essay – Reflections on the nature, tradition and reception of poetry as formed upon the readings of William Wordsworth’s ‘Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads’ and T.S. Elliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ - Comparison and contrast of the two poems of the essay in terms of the extent to which the preceding one has imposed its effect on the most recent one [The author’s name]

Abstract

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Movie review

The paper seeks to review the movie strangers on a train directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The movie shows two strangers Bruno and Guy who meet when travelling their different ways. On his side, the author uses cinematic terminology and methodology through the plot. The paper discusses the plot of the movie in brief but from the start to the end. The paper explains the nature of the movie as a both work of art and entertainment. The paper discusses how the author uses different patterns, techniques, themes and meanings to make the movie successful.

The movie starts by showing two strangers ...

Compare the attempt to escape the miseries of the world in Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium."

Introduction

The different faces through which a person goes through makes them have a number of experiences. This is largely caused by internal and external expectations which could be contrary to what a person can deliver. It reaches a time when an individual feels lonely despite the numerous people they could be around them. After being in a world of their own and realizing that nobody seems to understand to understand their plight, people tend to find ways through which they can escape from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wind Energy: Advantages, Disadvantages and Solutions

Harnessing the power of the wind is nothing new. For centuries, it has powered sailing ships, provided energy for windmills and pumped water. Nowadays, with the help of turbines, wind provides us with electricity.

Introduction

I am proud to be a member of the LM Wind Power Group in their blade manufacturing division. Within 30 years of operations, LM Wind Power has produced around 150,000 blades. As such, wind energy is an important subject for me. As an energy source that is renewable and more environmentally friendly than traditional electricity generating technologies, I consider wind energy to be a viable alternative ...

Ted Turner

Ted Turner is one of the wealthiest individuals in earth, a media mogul, and a UN philanthropist from the United States. Born Edward Robert “Ted” Turner III on 19 November 1938 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ted Turner has lived to be an influential person who has transformed the telecommunications industry all over the world (Auletta, 2004). Ted Turner’s family moved to Savannah, Georgia when he was aged nine years. He began his schooling at Georgia Military academy and, he proceeded to McCallie Boys Preparatory School in Tennessee for his high school (Auletta, 2004). Ted Turner began his University education at Brown ...

The Battle is also referred to as the Battle of Brooklyn Heights or simply the Battle of Brooklyn. The battle was the earliest and the largest battle in the American Revolutionary War after the declaration of independence of the United States. The United States army was under the command of General George Washington, and they were defeated in the battle. The size of the army that Washington had in one way or the other had some impact on the defeat over the Long Island battle. This thesis talks about how the size of General Washington’s army leads to ...