Essays Tagged: "Titanic"

The Titanic

The titanic, a wonderful, beautiful, big unsinkable way to America. Astory of triumph and tradgedy. On A ... il. it was owned by the White Star Line and was built at Harlandand Wolff Shipbuilding company. The Titanic was 882 ft. long and weighed45,000 tons. It could hold 3200 passengers, but it only hadenoug ... it's maiden voyage. On the boat there were 28 stateroooms and suitesfor the first class passnegers (Titanic, p.2). Special staterooms located on decksB and C of the shop were designed with different m ...

(4 pages) 123 1 3.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers

A film review of blockbuster Pearl Harbor and its social consequences.

vie critics have hailed Pearl Harbor as the summer blockbuster of the year and the second coming of Titanic. Pearl Harbor, a movie about the 1941 surprise aerial attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet, is s ...

(3 pages) 115 0 4.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

persuasive essay regarding the titanic and what should be done with the remains.

I believe that the titanic should be left where it is because it would be disrespectful to all of the different culture ... disrespectful to all of the different cultures and people who were on the ship. If we did bring the Titanic up would the whole ship be in museums in England and the United States. The ship is a memori ... tries involved and disrespecting the other people from different cultural back grounds who died.The Titanic is a graveyard for more than 1500 people and should stay where it is on the bottom of the oc ...

(2 pages) 77 2 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

How successful was the marketing Campaign of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone?

one of the most profitable franchises of all time and the film is the second highest grosser after Titanic. The marketing campaign has helped the franchise to develop. This essay will examine the suc ...

(12 pages) 160 1 2.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

"Titanic" and "The Beach".

Titanic:The subjects within the frame are a boat (The Titanic), and in the whole shot you can see th ... ment is the title of the film, it is in big letters and a font style that would be recognised as a "Titanic Font" so if anyone was to see that word in that font again it would immediately remind them ... r back to the poster.All the prior information has been included with the photo; the picture of the Titanic is pointing up towards the sky and the text has been included on the front of the boat.At th ...

(5 pages) 46 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Sir Lord Byron's use of the byronic hero.

lf-respect, and hypersensitivity, the Byronic hero is "larger than life," and "with the loss of his titanic passions, his pride, and his certainty of self-identity, he loses also his status as a tradi ...

(2 pages) 85 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Haunted by Memories.

tragic night as if it were yesterday, and to think that I had been so eager to embark on the mighty Titanic. At the time, she was the biggest and most luxurious ship to set sail and this was going to ... ve, but my family was lucky, because we had won three first-class tickets for a cruise on board the Titanic in a lottery. However, our luck and that of many other people was soon about to run out.It a ...

(6 pages) 25 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The realities of "Historical Movies" and how they are not truly historical or "love triangles."

have to work with and the easier it is to fictionalize the event. While the movies Pearl Harbor and Titanic were fairly true to history, Gladiator, Braveheart, and The Patriot wandered closer to works ... kept Cornwallis from moving north gave Mel Gibson's character a reason to be named a hero.The movie Titanic is a love story set on the doomed luxury liner. The Titanic was the largest cruise ship ever ...

(6 pages) 112 0 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

A Comparative Essay on the Effect of the Demise of the Empress of Ireland and the Titanic.

rnally Lost at Sea:A Comparative Essay on the Effect of the Demise ofthe Empress of Ireland and the TitanicEveryone knows of the tragedy that occurred on April 15, 1912. The most famous ocean liner ev ... c Ocean, not to be seen by human eyes again for seventy-three years. But why is the disaster of the Titanic so widely known? Not more than two years later, in late May of 1914, another ship set sail f ...

(6 pages) 61 0 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

World War I

n God, and hope in the future all died in the trenches of Europe.World War I was so terrible and so titanic a struggle that its memory haunts us still, even in the 21st century. No previous conflict h ...

(3 pages) 79 0 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

World War I (the last one wasnt finished, this one is the one that is finished)

n God, and hope in the future all died in the trenches of Europe.World War I was so terrible and so titanic a struggle that its memory haunts us still, even in the 21st century. No previous conflict h ...

(16 pages) 110 0 2.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

A essay to study the text 'An Inspector Calls' by J. B. Priestly

h Empire was at it's peak. Britain was on the brink of World War one, then called the Great War.The titanic was about to be launched which was supposed to be, as Birling said "unsinkable".The Russian ... cter. He talks about war,"Nobody wants war""I say, there isn't a chance of war"He talk's about the 'Titanic'"Every luxury - and unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable"Ironically, he talks about the 1940's, ...

(8 pages) 32 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Building of the Titanic

The Building of the TitanicThe Titanic was a passenger ship that made its first voyage in 1912. This would also be its l ... s famous ship encountered. Few people know about the background and building of the huge vessel.The Titanic began as an idea conceived at a dinner party. In 1907 a dinner party was held at Lord Pirrie ... plans to build three huge and elaborate passenger ships. The first would be the Olympic, second the Titanic, and third the Gigantic (Brewster).The plan for the Titanic was for it to be the largest and ...

(6 pages) 59 1 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Sinking of the Titanic

Carlisle built the Titanic (Baldwin, 484), a great passenger liner, for eight million dollars. Its crew claimed, "God H ... "God Himself could not sink this ship;" they believed it was unsinkable. On her maiden voyage, the Titanic carried 2,207 people-many of whom were important names at the time, and 706 of whom were imm ... ime, and 706 of whom were immigrants-and $420,000 worth of cargo (Baldwin, 485).Before it sank, the Titanic received six separate ice warnings, all of which the crew let by paying minimal attention to ...

(2 pages) 38 0 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Annabelle, short story

infallibility. The most monumental decision of her life, would she go through with it or would the titanic pressure and binding nerves get the better of her? The wait was unbearable; one hour ...

(3 pages) 24 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Technology and Science in the 1910's

es. Albert Einstein and Marie Curie helped make the American Dream possible while the Panama Canal, Titanic, Automobiles and Movie theaters made the Dream more accessible and luxurious in the 1910's.A ...

(2 pages) 32 0 4.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Opiniative response to essay entitle: "9.11.01: The Skyscraper and the Airplane" by adam goodheart

Adam Goodheart compares the attack on the Twin Towers to the tragedy of thefatal decent of the Titanic. He firmly questions the attack was just as foreseeable as theblind voyage of the Titanic th ... rmore, he seems to believe it wasgaudiness or simply ignorance that made these events possible. The Titanic, yes itsostentatious construction and oblivious route are very well the reasons it sank to t ...

(1 pages) 35 0 4.6 Jan/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestly - How does Priestly convey his concerns about society in his book "An Inspector Calls"

e. Between the years of 1912 and 1946, the audience would have seen both World Wars, the unsinkable Titanic sink, the general strike, the labour government resigning due to a terrible financial crisis ... n Birling makes comments about the future. He is convinced there will never be a war and thinks the Titanic will be a huge success. "There isn't a chance of war... The Titanic - she sails next week... ...

(12 pages) 31 0 4.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Histoty of the RMS Olympic

hite Star Line constructed to compete with Cunard's Lusitania and Mauretania.While her sister ships Titanic and Britannic went to the bottom, Olympic prospered and even served her country in war time ... ter obstruction and dropped a propellor. She was returned to Harland & Wolff again where one of Titanic's blades was removed and fitted on Olympic. This was the last time the two sisters would eve ...

(4 pages) 16 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Titanic

TitanicI am Kevin Grant a third class survivor on the Titanic. I went onto my train at Waterloo Stat ... nto my train at Waterloo Station. It was a bumpy ride to South Hampton, England. I was going on the Titanic because of a coal strike I was originally scheduled on the Adriatic. I was going on the grea ... great ship so that I could start my shoe-making business in New York. When I finally got to see the Titanic I noticed it was the largest ship I've ever seen. I couldn't wait to get aboard the ship. I ...

(2 pages) 23 1 2.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers