Titanic Persuasive Essay

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The Titanic was a ship that was said to have been hit by an iceberg. There are many theories that make you think twice about the Titanic. Makes you doubt if the Titanic was actually hit by an iceberg or if it was just made up. Suddenly, on the morning of April 15, 1915, the Titanic had crashed into an iceberg. During their voyage to New York. 1,503 people died from this tragic event. The Titanic wasn’t the ship that sunk, it was the Olympic. The Olympic looked exactly like the Titanic in almost every way. The portholes were slightly different, but the size was almost identical to the Titanic.There was one big difference though, the Olympic used grey paint and the Titanic used black. Over time, the paint could’ve faded away and looked grey …show more content…

Captain Edward J smith never once saw the iceberg, some people said that he wasn’t paying attention. Or in all facts that the binoculars had been left in a safe that no one could get into so there was no use for them. The captain could have been wanting to murder someone on the ship. It's not that likely that the captain could have missed an iceberg without even the slightest idea of it being there. Someone on the ship could have told him about it, but he was in the process of killing someone for insurance money so it meant nothing to him but to kill many people on the ship including himself. The Titanic had a lot of insurance money towards it, sinking the ship would have given M.P. a whole lot of money. M.P could have been the one to want to destroy the Titanic. He wasn't on the ship himself that is a little suspicious. Cancelling last minute to ride the biggest ship of all time, let alone his creation, that just does not seem correct. Many high class people cancelled last minute, could he have warned them about going on the ship that it was going to sink because he had a plan? Could he have known that there was an iceberg there somehow, or got a bad feeling of going on the

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