Panama Canal Essay

Austin Roush

Mrs. Pruitt

English I

19 February 2018

The Panama Canal

5,609 people died building the amazing project known as the Panama Canal, which now transports 14,000 ships a year. Many people gave their lives while building the Panama Canal due to sickness and construction accidents. Those lives that were given for this project played an important role in completing this Canal and saving billions and billions of dollars in gas and oil currency. The Panama Canal was built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean’s, there was much controversy during the process. Many complications happened during the construction as well as conflict between countries and people.

Back in the 19th century there wise German scientist that went by the name

After these doctors and researchers terminated yellow fever another great problem was malaria, because after a while you can grow immune to yellow fever but it’s impossible to grow immune to malaria.

After malaria became a even more epidemic than yellow fever the research now focused on malaria. They needed to clear out more vegetation in the area so they cleared out 200 yard-wide areas around housing in the area and it was al filled in with concrete to make sure the vegetation cannot grow back. When sickness was greatly reduced during the time of the Panama Canal construction it greatly reduced the deaths in this area.

Throughout the years the Panama Canal continued to be built with less problems and in 1914 the canal was finally finished and opened on the same year. Tens of thousands of people gathered around the canal on June 26 to witness the first vessel known as the Neopanamax vessel for Cosco

"A Widened Gaze at the Panama Canal." Industrial Engineer: IE, vol. 48, no. 5, May 2016, p. 28. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,cookie,cpid&custid=nebstlib&db=f6h&AN=114678549. In Burke 's and Raetz book, they mentioned the expansion of the Panama Canal and how many ships travel through the Canal yearly. This is a primary source and it helped explain about how the canal was expanded and how many ships travel through the canal every year.

KHALIFA, DAISY R. "Game Changer?." Sea Power, vol. 59, no. 6, Jul/Aug2016, p. 46. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,cookie,cpid&custid=nebstlib&db=f6h&AN=117003773. In Khalifa and Daisy R. 's book, they mentioned how the Panama Canal was going to change history itself and how many miles they were going to save.This is a secondary source. The article from this website helped explain how this impacted our world then and now.

Mink, Randy. "Panama Canal Transits." Cruise Travel, vol. 36, no. 1, Jul/Aug2014, p. 20. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,cookie,cpid&custid=nebstlib&db=f6h&AN=96990693. In Mink, and Randy 's article they talked about the trip through the canal and what the Canal workers do to help get the ship through the Canal. This is a primary source. This article helped explain how the people help get these major ships through this canal and how often they have to do