Hook: The world of morality does not always operate in shades of black and white, more often than not it ventures into realms of different hues of gray. Thesis: The propriety of a decision is not always easily distinguishable. Background Info: In the short story, “Gentlemen, Your Verdict,” by Michael Bruce, a submarine on a trial cruise runs into a stray mine, crippling it. Lieutenant-Commander Oram is told that the tender overseeing the submarine’s trial cruise had been stranded on some rocks, leaving it, “burning like a torch” and inoperable (page 23). Rescue would not come within five days, and that the submarine only has enough air to last less than two days.
In my opinion, dramatic irony was added because Creon is slightly arrogant character. I predicted that he would be disappointed in him and that he will get what he deserves for being so evil to the people of his country. Another example is when Creon finds out that Antigone disobeyed his law. King Creon got so angry when the Choragus said, “I have been wondering, King: can it be that the gods have done this” (1077). The Choragus provides
Grandpa Bobby tells his story: some people offered him a job smuggling emeralds from South America, but later double-crossed him, tried to kill him, and stole his beloved fishing boat. Ever since then, he's been trying to track them down and get back his boat. It hurt to think that everyone thought he was dead, but it was necessary. First, he didn't want the guys he was looking for to know he was still alive; second, he also knew that if his son found out, he would, true to form, drop everything and rush down to South America without another thought. Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV.
But in the end Philip II will go down in the Books as a Catholic Zealot who was reckless with money, and the loser of the Spanish armada. “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”- John Kenneth
Since they were short of supplies John White goes back to London to get more supplies but gets caught up in a war for about 3 years. In those 3 years of fighting no one was checking up on the people at Roanoke, White had forgot about them and so did the king. After those 3 years White remembers about the people and tells the king about the whole situation so they send recue ships but it was a little too late. When they got back to Roanoke no one was alive it seemed as if they had disappeared into the
The Do family fled to Australia as refugees in 1980 In his 2010 autobiography, The Happiest Refugee, Anh tells of how his family survived five days in a leaky fishing boat nine and a half metres long and two metres wide and packed with 40 Vietnamese refugees fleeing across the Indian Ocean. “We were crammed in like sardines,” he said. He was sick from dehydration and his desperate mother could not do anything to help him. He almost didn’t make it to Australia and everyone came close to losing their lives on the sea as they were escaping in the crowded and small boat.They were attacked by pirates twice. His brother, Khoa Do, was held dangling over the edge by the pirates, but fortunately, his life was spared for an unknown reason.
He got to the state where his pay from the monkey mine could not support his expensive drinking habits and started drinking the cheap alcohol made from Fish waste coming in from China. His liver eventually failed and he had to receive surgery, putting him in debt. He eventually had to get a job at the monkey waste company, where he worked 20 hour shifts 7 days a week and still made less money than his job and the monkey mine, where he had worked 10 hour shifts 5 days a week. Ming asked John why he had not returned to monkey mine and John said that he was to embarrassed to go back. Ming convinced John to come back and when John returned he was welcomed warmly.
He could find a big piece of wood where he had little naps and he tells that he only ate coconuts that were swimming in the water. After 15 days a container ship found him 75 miles away from the nearest coast and over 100 miles away from the Indonesian island Sumatra, where he lived. There are many of survival stories, so I don’t believe they are all true, but this one seems reliable because there was a picture of Ari lying in the hospital. This information is useful to write about someone who experienced the
He commissioned his first vessel, a tiny schooner, “Hannah” on September 5, 1775. Captain Nicholas Broughton and his crew of fisherman and novice sailors were the first crew of George Washington's Navy. Much to the demise of Washington, the Hannah and her crew failed to capture any royal navy ships. Not wanting to rely on ground troops alone Washington commissioned over a two year time span seven lightly armed vessels, that captured 55 ships from the royal navy. John Manly, a rough Boston ship master who had served in the Royal Navy was Washington's most successful captain.
On Friday January 4th the attempt to rescue began. Approximately a week ago on Fryer Creek inn Sonoma, California someone took a blow dart and shot a mallard duck in the head. They did not kill the duck but caused severe pain. The duck had evaded rescue several times, and some animal rescue agencies simply gave up. But one person would not give up.