Should the owners of the Titanic have paid compensation to all passengers/ or their families? RMS Titanic run by the Olympic Class Ocean Liner, Construction began on 16th December 1908 and finished soon after 31st March 1909. The ship was the industrial marvels of their age and Titanic was said to be the biggest, fastest and most luxurious ship yet during the time. The Ship was ready to be set from Southampton to New York in search for a better life in the United States. How Come a Magnificent Ship was able to sink?
Is also known as unsinkable, and it was unsinkable on its departure on April 10th, 1912. And on its epic journey, a poor artist named Jack Dawson and a rich girl Rose DeWitt Bukater fall in love, until one night, their fairy tale love for one another turns into a struggle for survival on a ship about to founder to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Rose leaves her fiancé Caledon Hockley for this poor artist, but when the Titanic collides with the iceberg on April 14th, 1912, and then when the ship sinks on April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning, Jack dies and Rose survives and 84 years later Rose tells the story about her life on Titanic to her granddaughter and friends on the Keldysh and explains the first sight of Jack that falls into love, then into a fight for survival. When Rose gets saved by one lifeboat that comes back, they take her to the Carpathia with the six saved with Rose and the 700 people saved in the lifeboats. The Carpathia immigration officer asks Rose what her name is and she loved Jack so much she says her name is not Rose DeWitt Bukater, but her name is Rose Dawson.
On the 2nd April 1912 the Titanic set off on its great voyage to America it was on the water for 4 days before hitting an iceberg and sinking 2hours and 40 minutes later. The Titanic was remarkable because, for its time, it was the biggest man-made ship. It had the biggest capacity and the most elaborate cabin areas, surpassing those before it and even its twin sister. It was claimed to be unsinkable, the first ship to ever be able to say this but unfortunately it sunk. It was an important event because so many people died when the ship sank, partly because of the lack of lifeboats, after the sinking no ship was allowed to set sail unless there were enough lifeboats for everyone on the ship.
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While on the ship, we learn Rose adores art, it takes man power to run the ship, and is full of high class people. While out to dinner one night, Rose runs away in tears and makes a break for the railing. She climbs over it and is barely holding on when Jack approaches her. He tells her not to do it because he believes she won’t and so Rose listens to Jack and he saves her life. Act 2: After learning about his fiancés rescue, Cal invites Jack to
There were many rich and influential millionaires on board who loved to travel in style.However there were also many European and Middle Eastern immigrants who wished to improve their lives by joining the better economy and social freedom of the Americas. On April 10, 1912, the Titanic sailed from Southampton, England with hundreds of onlookers waving farewell to their family members and, some, the ship itself.It soon made a stop aCherbourg, Francefollowed by a third stop in Queenstown, Ireland before setting off into open waters on its way to New York. At this time a total of 2,224 passengers on board including the crew. As the passengers enjoyed the beautiful luxuries of being the most appraised ship in the world, no one but the crew had any knowledge of the issue facing the number of lifeboats. The Titanic had been designed to carry a total of forty two lifeboats however, when she set sail only twenty of these boats were onboard.
It does, of course, which leads to the tragic demise of Lennie. This lays to rest the elaborate plan that George and Lennie, and later Candy, had of a better life. What little hope they had of achieving their comfortable little cottage and living off ‘the fatta’ the lan’’ is crushed the moment Lennie breaks Curley’s wife’s neck. This is, of course, a premature demise for Lennie, as well as Curley’s wife. It condemns George to living the life of every other hired hand, which is working for a month for fifty bucks, then just blowing it on whiskey and a whore, then repeating the process.
When the stocks fell many people that became speculators and got rich were broke and penny less with just the end of a business day on Wall Street. The fall of wall street make a major impact on America, it kicked the united states into a major depression. Thousands of men and women were out of jobs, no food to eat and now real shelter to call their own. The country was reduced to almost nothing. With the help of president hover and his power to speak to a country about not giving up and to keep pushing for the mark of becoming a great country with his plan of a
In the film Titanic, it becomes obvious that the first class passengers are the priority and other passengers are not. “Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat.” (Marx and Engels 2). On the RMS Titanic, people in the first class occupied the spacious cabins on the upper levels of the ship with ocean views and extravagant décor. On the other hand, lower class people occupied the lower level of the ship in a small cabin.
On April 10, 1912, the ocean liner sunk with some of the richest people aboard to people even deprived of their basic rights as they are devastated with poverty in everyday life. These deprived people were travelling in hope of a better life. Little did they know of the fate that lay before them! I refer to this to emphasise how big a part social class does affect people’s life chances because coming from a sociologists point of view when looking at the deaths of these innocent people the majority of people who died were 3rd class citizens. The 1st class aboard were on the upper levels on the boat and therefore heard the alarm 1st and had the closest access to the boats in comparison to the lower class of who were living in cramped conditions well below the deck.