Endurance Essays

Throughout Endurance, Charlie J. Green was comparable to an alarm clock, Charlie created a structure within the day that the crew could depend on. Because the sun was in the sky for irregular lengths of time, Charlie’s call for meals was often the only thing that the crew could rely on to determine the passage of time “One looks forward to meals, not for what one will get, but as definite breaks in the day” (149). In addition to creating order for the crew, Charlie would always be prepared with a

‘Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage’ is a book about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and the survival of 25 of the men who beat the odds of death after facing ice that was crashing and freezing up onto the sides of their ship, having to abandon the “Endurance” when she couldn’t handle the pressure from the ice floes and later sunk into the ocean and surviving the below zero temperatures with only what the crew could salvage from the ship and what they could gather from the nature around

The story can be analyzed in a scientific and an entrepreneurial venture. The scientific endeavor consisted of crossing Antarctica which was an astounding feat for the time as well as crossing the Antarctic pictures were taken for scientific purposes. This expedition was also an entrepreneurial venture. The expedition was carefully planned and he was able to raise the appropriate funds. I think in both terms it was a success. The scientific side can also be used to show how we use Shackleton as a

A hero is someone that saves the day, or makes a person better. A twisted hero does the same thing, however, their heroic actions are not as obvious. Om from Our Twisted Hero could be considered a twisted hero. Throughout the novel, Om was depicted as a vicious dictator that nobody had ever challenged. When Han moved to this school, however, he was keen to notice all of Om’s flaws, and was the first one to challenge his rule. Om taught them to stand up for themselves, to endure things when they get

I chose to write my Response Essay on the story "Sonny's Blues" written by James Baldwin. In Sonny's Blues, the storyteller recounts the tale of his association with his sibling, Sonny. Sonny is a performer not able to get away from the ghetto. Disheartened by his sibling's suffering , the storyteller connects with him, yet discovers that Sonny's hurt powers his music. The narrator is a teacher in Harlem that has changed his life and got out of the ghetto where he grew up. He sees African American

I am writing to convince you that Mahtab Ahmady is the ideal candidate for UNESCO’s World Citizenship Award She endures great hardship constantly throughout a period of her life, Mahtab’s response to the persistent hardship she endured whilst living under Taliban rule in her homeland, Afghanistan. During the decision and journey of leaving Afghanistan to make the journey for a safer life in Australia, and the continuum of difficulties Mahtab faces once she arrives in Australia, as a refugee seeking

Kiss of the Fur Queen Perhaps the most formidable quality of humans is their ability to persevere through any difficulties they might face. No matter how indomitable a challenge might seem, humanity finds a way to continue on their evolutionary path. A man with a goal in mind is an unstoppable force that cannot be dissuaded. Such is the condition of Abraham Okimasis in Tomson Highway’s novel Kiss of the Fur Queen, chronicling Okimasis’ experience racing in a dog sledding competition. Tomson’s writing

There were many important aspects of the Endurance Expedition, but were they all completed successfully? After a great deal of time spent in the South Pole, success was hardly thought of. However, in the end, the expedition was ultimately notorious for the grand accomplishments to come out of it. The original goal of the Endurance Expedition was to complete the first ever crossing of the Antarctic continent. Ernest Shackleton, alongside twenty-seven crew members, planned to set sail to the South

Muscular Endurance- Muscular endurance is your muscles ability to withstand some sort of weight/force/pressure over a long period of time. Muscular endurance could be considered aerobic due to the time taken but muscular endurance can be improved despite training in the anaerobic energy system (weightlifting requires 15+ reps to train which won’t take longer than 2 minutes, you can also work for hours and hours on muscular endurance whilst doing cardio as well, hence why marathon runners have very

The men and crew of the Endurance were a strange picking out of hundreds, if you ask me. A motley crew of twenty-seven men, a wide mix of artisans, scientists, and seamen. Their leader, Sir Ernest Shackleton, was the only man keeping them from death. It isn’t flattery when people say that without The Boss, it is very possible that not all of the men would have made it back to England alive. The lack of casualties is astounding. The Irishman was an explorer at heart, a man whose soul seemed to be

DEDICATION In life one should never give up and should always keep on pushing for what they want, no matter where one comes from or what stands in one's way. The people and dogs in the Jamaican dog sled team did precisely that. The book “One Mush Jamaica’s Dogsled team” by John Firth is a non-fiction novel describing the story of how the Jamaican dog sled team was formed and of the races they participated in. The main topic of the story though is a man named Marshall Newton, black and from Jamaica

Threatening situations test even the strongest of friendships. The five teenage kids in Surviving Antarctica realize that if they want to survive on the frigid continent, they must work together. Only their bonds can help them overcome the disasters and empower them to the finish line.In Surviving Antarctica, Andrea White demonstrates that friendship is more important than survival through Andrew’s bravery, Polly’s fearlessness, and Billy’s sacrifice. First, Andrea White shows how friendship is more

The Effects of Suffering on a 12 year Old Boy “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars” - Khalil Gibran. Throughout Night, Elie Wiesel copes with the agony of the Holocaust first hand. Suffering by definition is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. In Wiesel’s Night, suffering forces people to make inhumane decisions, shatters hope, and destroys self identity. Suffering forces people to be put in bad places where they

What would’ve happened if Louie Zamperini never was an Olympic athlete? How would that affect his experience as a POW? Louie had an immense amount of aid with being a POW due to his prior Olympic participation. He was already in good shape, both mentally and physically from his Olympic training. He trained for hours every day. He had to push himself everyday to go to the Olympics and break records. When Louie had to push himself very hard he was able to. Louie had to push his body further than he

Hydration for endurance athletes We’ve all heard that you should drink 8 glasses of water a day, but how much should you drink if you are exercising? Better yet, how much should an endurance athlete drink? First, let’s define what an endurance athlete is. Athletes that compete in 100 miles of running (ultra-marathons), or 140.6 miles of swimming, biking and running such as Ironman, or perhaps the Boston marathon are all considered endurance events. Some say that an endurance athlete is simply

Courage in “Seven Samurai”, by Kurosawa In the film “Seven Samurai”, Akira Kurosawa the director portrays courage through the characters such as the samurais but and the peasants. The story is set in the Sengoku period, which meant that Japan was undergoing numerous civil wars, and bandits were raiding a starving small village where Kambei and the 6 other samurais decide to protect later on in the film. In this essay, I will discuss the ways in which Kurosawa shows courage firstly in Kambei and between

Asia Ihsan Section 5 Professor: Alex Poppe 11/6/2015 Gilead Republic is Successful in Reeducating Women Margaret Atwood, in her novel The Handmaid's Tale describes a futuristic, dystopian society called Gilead republic in which the system imposes Christianity religion as the main source for their laws. At the root of the laws is Patriarchy by which roles of the women only condensed to the roles that are assigned to them in Old Testament. All of the events that happening in the Republic of Gilead

In the book, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, Shackleton and 27 other men are on a sailboat to cross the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. They run into ice trouble and the boat crashes leaving them with all they could take and the three escape boats, the Caird, the Docker, and the Wills. They travel to Elephant Island where from there Wild, one of Shackleton’s second hand men, and 21 other 0men stay on the island living off animals they could catch or kill. Shackleton and 5 men sail for South Georgia Island

Endurance exercise refers to a type of exercise that consists of regular, repetitive, and constant movements that involve same large muscle groups with minimum of 10 minutes such as walking, bicycling, jogging, continuous swimming, water aerobics, and many more with the aim of improving cardiorespiratory fitness which can be achieved if the exercise is being performed regularly at adequate intensity and frequency (Sigal, Kenny, Wasserman, Casteneda-Sceppa, 2010). When performing this exercise, the

Human Endurance and Its Shatterable Civilization The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a warning to all about human’s natural instincts and the flimsy idea of society’s civilization. After the schoolboys’ airplane crashed on the island with no surviving adults, it was up to them to create a system or government of some sort to prevent absolute chaos. In the beginning of the novel all the boys’ had their sense of civilization still intact. As the reader can see throughout the book, Jack