Krishawn Wilson
Professor Zerda
PSC 201
1 October 2017
Captain Phillips Captain Phillips is a movie about the true story of the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking. Richard Phillips was the captain of the container ship and was ordered to to sail through the Gulf of Aden to Mombasa, Kenya. Aware of the pirate activity off the coast of the Horn of Africa, he and First Officer Shane Murphy order strict security precautions on the vessel and carry out practice drills. During one of their drills, they are chased by Somali pirates inside of two small boats. The pirates soon are able to board the boat and take control over it. In command of the pirates is a man named Abduwali Muse. While on the ship, Phillips tells his crew to hide in the engine room and allows himself to be captured. He offers Muse $30,000 that was stored in the ship's safe, but Muse's orders was strictly to ransom the ship and crew in exchange for millions of dollars of insurance money from the shipping company. The crew was soon able to take control back over the ship but the pirates
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Constitution, Art. I Sec. 8 cl. 10. The article states, “ To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations. Piracy laws have been put into effect due to similar situations when pirates try to hijack a ship. However these laws are not that strong. The American Government should do a better job at making sure that we have protection for any of our vessels that are traveling in international waters. The vessels should be protected and monitored at all times. For example, If the United States has a ship out in international waters, they should have them within miles of a navy ship, this way if something goes wrong, members of the navy can come and save them. The ship should give a location update every thirty to forty minutes by the Captain of the ship. In order to make sure
On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, the most expensive hurricane in American history, made landfall in Louisiana with winds of one hundred and twenty-seven miles per hour (“Hurricane Katrina Statistics Fast Facts”). The sheer magnitude of the amount of lives and property lost was enormous, and it was triggered simply by warm ocean waters near the Bahamas ("How Hurricane Katrina Formed"). Nature was indifferent to whether the raging winds and rain would die off in the ocean or wipe out cities; it only follows the rules of physics. A multitude of American authors has attempted to give accounts and interpretations of their encounters with the disinterested machine that is nature. Two authors, Stephen Crane and Henry David Thoreau, had rather contrasting and conflicting interpretations of their own interactions with nature. Crane’s work, “The Open Boat,” is story based on his experience as a survivor
Don’t tread on me. Four simple words. Those four words helped build the strongest country in the world. The land of the free did not rise to the top easily, it took blood sweat and tears. Millions of lives were lost in the process. America would not be the world police if we did not have the strongest military. America’s military is a spear. It has many parts, from the handle to the tip. Without the whole spear, it could not kill. But what part of the spear goes in for the kill first? The tip. The tip of the spear is represented by America’s Navy Seals.
Livesey devises the crafty plan of stalling the pirates by sending Ben Gunn to give the imitations of their dead leader, Captain Flint. He also comes up with the plan of sending the pirates on the chase to find the treasure. Livesey is not afraid of some action and bravely fires at the pirates at the site where the treasure is burried. He is willing to do the honorable thing, like providing medical attention to the wounded pirates, who are his enemies. He speaks tenderly to them and seems genuinely to care for their health. More than Captain Smollett or the naïve Squire Trelawney, Livesey represents the best of the civilized world of men. Despite his great achievements in the journey, however, Dr. Livesey is not very charismatic toward anyone. He does what is reasonable, practical, and ethical, in thought, but never acts spontaneously, as the pirates and Jim do constantly. Livesey thinks up the ingenious plans for the group, but only puts them into action if they are safe and foolproof. He gives the pirates the treasure map only when he knows it is useless to them. On the whole journey, Livesey never risks anything major, and therefore Jim sees him as a good and respectable
In his text, Rediker follows the evolution of the merchant seaman, from a wage laborer looking for work, to an employee of a brutal and often times unfair labor system, to a pirate, striking out against the establishment that hired him, in an effort to gain fair compensation for work performed. In the seafaring world of the 17th and 18th centuries, many changes were taking place in the economy. The form of labor changed from a share system to a wage system. Trade shifted from luxury goods to bulk goods, such as tobacco and sugar. (Rediker 112) And the scope and authority of the trading community widened and organized itself into a well oiled profit based international business. In all of these changes, the merchant seaman was a cog, caught
There are many intriguing and fascinating lessons and thoughts that can be extracted from Richard Adams’s Watership Down when inspected under a “magnifying glass.” From those many issues, the one that is the most influential to ourselves is the issue regarding anti-segregation, portrayed ingeniously by Richard Adams through Hazel within many different cases in the novel. Out of those many instances, this essay will discuss two of them, explain how they display the issue of anti-segregation, and compare them to a famous historical and political figure.
A human being develops and grows throughout their life through many challenges and sometimes it takes an event in one’s life to change a person. In the novel “The Caine Mutiny” by Herman Wouk, is a novel about Willie Keith, a chubby and well educated son from an upper class family who joins the Navy. Willie goes into the Columbia University School of Journalism, which has been converted for the war effort. He is almost rejected because of his physical reasons of not being fit, but his Princeton background saves him from being rejected. As soon as he stepped in this navy life and went through a long journey with the navy crew , Willie became more independent, responsible and courageous.
Some of the problems when studying history are the texts and documents that have been discovered are only from perspective. Furthermore, on occasion that one perspective is all there may be for historians to study. A good example of this textual imbalance can be found from the texts about the discovery of the New World; more specifically, the letters of Christopher Columbus and Pêro Vaz de Caminha during their voyages to the New World. Plenty of the text from this time is written from the perspective of the Europeans, as the Indigenous population did not have any written text. What this means is that it provided only one perspective, which can drastically hinder how history is interpreted. Columbus’s letter of his first voyage to the Caribbean
Before the most famous historic voyage to the Americas Christopher Columbus had no support to go on his expedition. Christopher Columbus tried to get support from the King of Portugal John II, but he was turned down. Spain finally agreed to sponsor his voyage in 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean. By agreeing to sponsor Christopher Columbus voyage they believed they would have gained leverage in what they were trying to do in Spain. The Reconquista made the Spaniards very powerful. By Christopher Columbus finding new land with people and gold it convinced King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to continue to support his voyages. Even though the king and queen believed that allowing him to go on the voyages benefited them it actually allowed Christopher
Modern piracy has touched nearly every corner of the globe and has increased with globalization. The tentacles of piracy now extend from South America to the South China Sea. The greatest numbers of piracy incidents occur along maritime commercial trade routes. Since China dominates the world’s container shipping industry, the South China Sea has become a hotspot for piracy (Kraska 2011). The prominence of cargo activity increases opportunity for pirates and indisputably triggered the sixty- nine incidents of piracy that were reported in 2009 in the South China Sea (Kraska 2011).
I don’t recall if Gutman said it in the movie about the Falcon being coated by lacquer to obfuscate that it’s really made of gold and jewels. I think it was implied that nothing is what they really seem to be. This is what I believe Dashiell Hammett was trying to communicate through his novel, ‘The Maltese Falcon.’ In this paper I will write about why I believe what is Hammett trying to convey through his cast of characters. These characters are unlike the image and stereotype cast upon their roles.
Millions of people have heard about the massive ship that claimed to be ¨unsinkable¨ (Callery 14). The ship exploded with excitement and hope for the passengers. Travelers from various different lifestyles and incomes came together for one purpose, to glide across the ocean one wave at a time. Passengers onboard the Titanic had no idea what they would encounter or the fame that would come out of this already famous ship. No one expected the tragedy that would take place in the middle of the ocean. The structure, passengers, and the sinking of the Titanic made it one of the most famous ships of the twentieth century.
Titanic is an epic romance-disaster movie written and directed by James Cameron, and it is one of the highest box movie in the history of film industry. The movie depicts a love story of Jack and Rose. Jack was a talented, poor artist who wandered around the world and painted his pictures, and his ticket to Titanic was actually won by gambling at the bar 5 minutes before Titanic’s departure. Rose, an upper class miss, was 17 years old when she had an engagement with Cal and was actually heading to New York to finish her marriage with Cal. However, she was very upset with her situation since that her marriage did not depend on her willingness, but aimed at changing the economic status of Rose’s family. She was portrayed to felt numb
The book “In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex” by Nathaniel Philbrick is tragic, eyes widening and heart wrenching where all the morals and ethics are gravely subjected to situation and questioned when it comes to survival. What they must do for survival? How man love their lives and no matter what strikes upon them, holler from behind, ambush their morale, yet they want to keep going just for the sake of living. The book is epitome of such a situation that encounters survival over morality. However, in the thrust of knowledge and oceans of secrets locked inside the chambers of this world, there is a heavy price men have to pay in the ordeal of yearning for knowledge.
From an adolescence age, the desire to service my country is that of great immensity within myself. I learned from my Mother’s philosophical mindset that an individual’s country comes first and foremost. Witnessing the ferocity, the terrorism, the ghastly acts committed upon humanity and the United States has only invigorated my unbending aspiration to serve.
Altogether, 705 passengers survived the crash, while 1,517 died. The first class children all survived, but only 97% of women and 32% of men were saved. In second class, all of the children were saved again, but only 86% of women and 8% of men were saved. In third class, 34% of children were saved, while 46% of women and 16% of men were saved. 62% of the first class passengers were saved, 41% of the second class was saved, and only 25% of the third class survived. “The overall survival rate for men was 20%. For women, it was 74%, and for children, 52%” (Encyclopedia Titanica | RMS Titanic Passengers and Crew Research).