The movie “Sully” is about the “Miracle on the Hudson” and Captain Sully’s experience after it happened. During the movie you go inside Captain C. “Sully” Sullenberger’s mind and you live through the crash or “forced landing” on the Hudson River multiple times throughout the movie. The Miracle on the Hudson was event where Captain Sully had to attempt a water landing with a jet plane in 2009. The plane had 155 people on it including passengers,flight crew, Sully, and his First Officer Jeff Skiles. The plane had no water landing gear what-so-ever like some of today's modern planes that have water flotation poles on the bottom. The plane had the rubber dingy slides though and every seat had a life vest. During the flight the plane engine was hit by birds. There was a dual engine failure and they tried to go …show more content…
He landed and in 24 minutes the scuba cops, cops in helicopters, ambulances, the Red Cross, and the New York/New Jersey ferries came together and saved everyone from the icy cold waters. There were no casualties. During the movie it is all about the National Transportation Safety Board(NTSB), and how they are unhappy with Sully. They are unhappy with him because of the insurance company. The insurance company is mad because of how much they are going to have to pay for the plane. They have to pay for the plane because it got demolished in the Hudson River during the water landing. The problem is that they think they can prove that Sully could have made it safely back to the Laguardia airport in New York or Teterboro airport in New Jersey. They have to run tests and prove how he could have made it back. Meanwhile Sully is overwhelmed and second guesses himself when they show him the results. He finally comes back to his senses and with Jeff Skiles’ help he sticks to his idea that he did the right thing. The outcome of
Hundreds of boats came together to help the city, helping in any way they could. The boat captains in the documentary explained that they never seen so many boats at one time in the same location. Each boat would take as many people that they could fit on their boat it was the largest sea evacuation in history. Five hundred thousand people were evacuated in 9 hours more that the evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II where three hundred thousand people were saved over nine
January 15, 2003 he was flying a passenger plane and suddenly hit a flock of geese. Hitting the flock of geese made the plane go haywire and start malfunctioning. Sully and his team, knowing that there were 155 people aboard, had to land the plane safely. They decided that they would try to land it in the Hudson River. This courageous act saved the lives of many people. For his and his team’s bravery they were ranked The Top 100 Most Influential Heros and Icons in 2009 and were also awarded the French Legion of
The movie, Loving, directed by Jeff Nichols is based on a true story about Richard, and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple fighting for their rights to stay married, and be able to raise their family in the state of Virginia where in the 1950’s it was illegal to be married to a race other than your own. Richard Loving grew up in a small town called Caroline County in the state of Virginia, where he met Mildred and knew that he would do anything to be able to call Mildred his wife. Richard proposed to Mildred on an estate of land he bought for them to raise a family on one day. Mildred agrees to marry him, but unfortunately, they are aware that in the state of Virginia it is illegal for them to get married because of their anti-miscegenation law. They agree that they will go to Washington, D.C., where they will be able to become legally married. In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving became legally married in Washington, D.C. When they return home to the State of Virginia they are harassed by the Caroline County police and thrown into jail because they got married outside of the state that they reside in, which is illegal in Virginia. Richard is set out on bail, but Mildred is forced to stay in jail for several more days. Richard and Mildred’s case was presented before a judge to decide the ramifications of their actions.
the most courageous in the eventful two and half hours it took for the ship to
Because he suffered extensive burns in the action, McMahon was unable to swim. The machinist mate first class was kept afloat for about four hours by Kennedy, who swam three miles to a small island with McMahon’s life jacket between his teeth. My stepfather often told m...
Together they created a plan to lower a chamber down to Squalus, latch onto it, and transport sailors back to the surface. Temporary communications over an anchor took place: men inside Squalus took hammers to pound out Morse code through the water, which transmitted to ships above. Anxious families waited for news of loved ones, which did not arrive for several days. Within the submarine, concerns were rising as temperatures were rapidly dropping to arctic levels. Oxygen was running low. Divers were sent down to monitor the rescue chamber, which successfully brought three groups of men to safety, to the surface, and to great relief. However, the fourth and last trip of the rescue chamber was not nearly so successful. Steel cords snapped until one was left. The ten men aboard managed to slowly, over the course of four hours, travel upwards by carefully balancing internal air pressure with water pressure, air pressure with water pressure, until at last they reached the surface. Overjoyed families reunited with their loved ones, almost forty hours after the dive of
Throughout life individuals face many challenges testing their values and personality one situation at a time. In the evocative novel The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton themes of growing up and innocence are shown. Ponyboy is not your average 14 year old he is part of a gang known to many as the Greasers. He encounters many situations testing his values and beliefs. Having lost both his parents recently he and his brothers stick together like a true family but this relationship is tested when Darry hits Ponyboy. He also experiences the loss several close friends in a very short period of time. Throughout this novel, Ponyboy encounters many life changing experiences that prove he is a dynamic character.
fighting kept him alive on the water. Later, the Japanese seized him and forced him to
Characters. The characters dynamics also helped the movie to become a success. For Phoenix and Spartan, they can be considered the perfect representation of the different end of "law enforcement": one is disrespecting the law (Phoenix) and the one who respects the law (Spartan). In the movie, we saw the impact of abusing the use of law to the point that it's not good for the subordinates anymore, and we also saw the impact of not following the law that harmed a lot of innocent people.
The Carpathia was twisting through the ice field to the rescue; other ships were “coming hard” the Californian was dead to the opportunity. No one heard about the Titanic’s ship sinking for about two hours. Carpathia first saw the green light from boat 2, the Carpathia picked up the first lifeboat at 4:10. Seven people died that the Carpathia tried to save
Augustus Waters always used to say, “The world is not a wish granting factory” (Green 214). In The Fault in Our Stars, both Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace Lancaster are dealt a far-from ideal situation for life. At the young age of thirteen, Hazel was diagnosed with nearly incurable stage four thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs. By some miracle, she survived; but, she does not thrive at all. In fact, she struggles severely, carrying around an oxygen tank wherever she goes, and even still she has to get fluid drained out of her lungs every so often. Gus, on the other hand, was diagnosed with 85% curable osteosarcoma and had to get his leg amputated. This ended his promising basketball career, and even still the cancer ended up taking more of his life; in fact the whole thing. Though Augustus and Hazel would have both wished for easier lives, sometimes what is real is not ideal; and in their case, what was real wasn’t even close to being ideal. As Augustus’s life came to an end, he always spoke about it being his personal dream to be remembered and not dying in vain. He needed to feel like his life had a purpose, which all individuals search for along with hope and truth. Augustus died and left the “sequel” to An Imperial
Dr. Seuss once said “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.” This perfectly sums up Mel Gibson’s “thinks.” He is an amazing actor, producer, and director of movies. Mel Gibson’s manic depression and alcoholism has affected him professionally and creatively by keeping him from working, causing fans to turn away, and creating family conflict.
On the other hand, the determination of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to have success in making Sully look bad, contributed to the stress that Sully already had. Proving Sully guilty would save the NTSB insurance company money that would have to have paid otherwise. During the first NTSB investigation, they inform Sully and Jeff that the human performance investigation was to begin. They questioned him on why he didn’t fly back to LaGuardia, and Sully responds that there was not enough altitude and that the Hudson was the only place smooth enough and wide enough to land a commercial plane safely. Soon after, they told Sully that aviation engineers calculated that Sully had enough energy to make it back to the airport runway
Another theory is that the pilot, Jason Dahl might have purposefully crashed the plane to prevent the hijackers from taking it over. Or perhaps that Dahl had cut off the planes fuel with out the hijackers being aware. It was said that the plane looked like it went straight down; and that the plane had almost completely disintegrated on impact leaving a hole several feet deep.
Shylock, in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, epitomizes emotion unrestricted by moral character or intellectual rationality. Shylocks' conversation at the beginning of act four, scene one clearly demonstrates this as the Duke and Antonio urge Shylock to use both his empathetic and rational abilities. Shylock’s humanity, a trait which would normally allow him to feel empathy, is doubted by Antonio who describes Shylock as. By calling him "stony" and "inhuman" and "empty," Antonio draws attention to Shylock’s clear lack of empathy and humanity, and furthermore, suggests that Shylock is deeply and inherently evil, describing him as something monstrous or animalistic.