Into The Dark Water By Lauren Tarshis

Have you ever heard about the first African-American man to command a life-saving station? His name was Etheridge, Captain Richard Etheridge. This is a documentary about the life and accomplishments of Captain Richard Etheridge.

The Titanic, most definitely man’s greatest accomplishment, is made in Belfast, Ireland, where it is then set off into the open ocean, and set for Southampton, England. From there, on April 11, 1912, 2:00 p.m., the Titanic sets sail for New York. All seems well, and it looks for the first time, that man has built the “unsinkable ship.” However, the hopes, lives, ship and all are cut down by an iceberg and now rest at the bottom of the Atlantic. This horrendous fact was shown in both the book and the movie, “A Night to Remember,” along with many other facts and stories. Despite the many similarities between the two types of media, there were also many differences. As one can see, the novel written by Walter Lord and the screenplay directed by Roy Ward Baker has some very striking similarities and some very

Death is inevitable. This is a well know fact. The tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis is no

Anne Fadiman’s “Under Water” strikingly relates a particularly morbid, yet surreal experience: the death of a teen, Gary, in a freak canoeing accident. From writing about this particular incident, Fadiman reflects her own development and maturation as a person, from an “impatient” person to one who is “no longer in a hurry.” However, in a more general sense, the essay also deals with how people react to death. In the seventh paragraph of “Under Water,” Fadiman’s use of personification and the use of a metaphor describing the body of Gary highlights how individuals insistently attempt to detach themselves from death, refusing to accept the truth of the situation, ultimately damaging themselves in the process.

Every Once and awhile, tragedy strikes, and the whole country sits still. On January 13th, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90 crashed. An event such as this one, though tragic, is sadly fairly common. Although, on January 13th, every soul in the united states had their eyes glued on the news channels, following the crash. There are many speculations about why this crash, in particular influenced the public so dramatically. On this day, a multitude of innocent people fell victim to the catastrophe, while some became heroes in the process. One man, known as the man in the water, had a particular pull on the hearts of the country. The man in the water showed a great deal of courage, strength, and selflessness in a time of disparity. The article, The Man in The Water, by Roger Rosenblatt, follows a central theme of heroism.

In eighteen minutes nearly 1,200 people lost their lives due to U-20 boat captain, Walther Schwieger. A new form of war technology allowed for this to happen without a single hand of human on human contact. Throughout Erik Larson’s Dead Wake, you will be completely captivated by the way he manages to turn a historical event into a storyline that will have you instantly hooked. Larson manages to switch from New York, Washington, Berlin, London, and the vast seas throughout the chapters. The fearless acts, new technology, and the specific time in war all played a part in the demise of what everyone thought to be the undestructable boat, The Lusitania. The main theme that reoccured in Larson’s story of the last crossing of the Lusitania is courage and how indivduals adapted in a time of fear.

Courage is defined as the ability to do something that frightens one. All children dream of finding themselves in dangerous situations and rising above everyone else in the situation to become a hero. Heroes can be defined a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities. In 1982, Roger Rosenblatt, an award-winning journalist, wrote an article for Time Magazine about a man who risked his life in order to save his fellow passengers from the icy waters of the Potomac River. In the end, this man lost his own life in the process of saving others. This man was deemed a national hero after his involvement in the famous crash of Air Florida Flight 90. Rosenblatt’s article, “The Man in the Water,” uses a variety of literary techniques to describe several major themes throughout the text. These literary devices include similes, metaphors,

In the article by Roger Rosenblatt, a man risked his life to save the other passengers in the freezing cold water of the Potomac River. In Time Magazine, the article summarizes the plane crash and the reason behind its significance. In 1982, Air Florida flight 90 crashed directly into a bridge located in Washington D.C. The plane then sunk into the Potomac River, leaving passengers fighting for their lives. Only six of the seventy four passengers survived and one of the passengers lived to tell the story of the man who risked his own life while fighting to save everyone else’s. In the article “The Man in the Water,” by Roger Rosenblatt, the theme is heroism.

The tragedy at sea that was the USS Indianapolis has greatly changed how the US Navy

The Titanic was a ship going to New York, from Britain, but it crashed into icebergs and sank. The Titanic was thought to be ¨the unsinkable ship.¨ Thomas Andrews was the man who inspired the creation of the Titanic. Mr. Andrews dropped out of school when he was sixteen years old because he wanted to design and build ships. On April 10, 1912, the Titanic took off for New York, USA. The ship could carry sixty-four lifeboats, but only took twenty lifeboats because the Titanic was said to be “unsinkable”. Before the Titanic was hit, the captain, however Edward J. Smith had received six warnings of an iceberg but did nothing about it. Once the Titanic hit the iceberg, Thomas Andrews was only concerned of other’s lives, not his own. He tried getting all the children to safety. He was last found throwing chairs and other items into the Atlantic Ocean so people could stay above water. There were 1,500 lives lost on April 15, 1912, by the sinking of the Titanic. 3,300 people were on board. What if the Titanic had crossed the Atlantic and made it safely to America? Would the Titanic still be working today? This was a disastrous tragedy and a mystery in America. This was a huge loss for America because a lot of the smart wealthy people were on that ship. Also a lot of riches were on the

Imagine your brother sacrificing his life only to be denied honor. Author, Michael Burke, writes “No Fireman at Ground Zero This 9/11?”based on Mayor Bloomberg’s decision of not honoring the first responders. Burke uses several techniques to catch the eyes of voters, the city of New York, and those who publish in the Wall Street Journal. Burke persuades the audience that the first responders deserve to be honored based on the techniques of pathos, inversion, diction, and anaphoras.

In order to survive this world, people sometimes take risks to aid other people in a chaotic event. Sometimes, it won’t work out the way it did. People don’t really save everyone’s lives all the time, but that’s okay. In addition, people have to face horrible and painful events in their life that might be an effect on them forever. In the memoir “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, many Jews struggle to survive in Auschwitz during the holocaust, careless to save others. Moreover, in the nonfiction article, “Is Survival Selfish”, by Lane Wallace people have to survive a plane crash when they can’t react to it. Finally, the poem “The End and the Beginning”, by Wislawa Szymborska, it emphasizes the interminable and unfair drudgery of the reconstruction of

How does changing sentence structure from long to short and choppy help build suspense? What emotions do you feel as you read?

One of the several themes that Priestley has introduced to the play is ‘Time,’ and this theme not only interlinks with some others like ‘Age and Youth’ and ‘Social Responsibility,’ but also introduces a very important drama technique into the play for the audience called the dramatic irony.

It is also taken away from the people on the nameless blue boat. The narrator describes when the pirates kidnap the women on board saying," Everyone fell silent, except those being dragged away, screaming and crying"(15). In this scene, the living are becoming the dead. Those left to live, fall silent, they are the people who live but do not tell their story. This is a moment where the living become the dead, because they start living a life of silence. Like ghost these silenced stories are forced to wander through their minds but never be confronted. The author also experiences this state of living dead, and this is only brought to her attention when her brother says, "You died too you just don't know it"(17). It is only when the ghost brings attention to this lack of consciousness that the narrator is forced to face her silence. She realizes that her silence has been slowly killing her saying, "I wept…for all the words never spoken between my mother, my father, and me"(17). By not sharing their story, whether it be to one another or a third party, that she has taken away value from her life. Hiding away this experience has only hindered her life and caused her to loss her sense of identity. The narrator speaks to this saying, "Most of all I cried for those other girls who had vanished and never come back, including myself"(18). She is bringing attention to both the voices that screamed that night and those who were overcome with a deafening silence. This is the moment of clarity within the story that if you deny yourself the privilege of human consciousness that you are denying yourself the true experience of life. This one experience changed the lives of all those on the ship that night, but this moment of realization presents the author with hope for the