Why did the Titanic sink? On 14th April 1912, RMS Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage. Being the largest ship afloat, the ‘unsinkable’ titanic was struck a deadly iceberg, resulting to 1,517 deaths, and a legend torn apart. But many ask, why did the titanic sink. A simple question with a mysterious answer behind it.
The discovery of the sea urchins’ genetics might open up a new era or medications and treatments. Scientist need to focus on finding the DNA map to solve the cure for cancer and the other diseases. In this article I learned that sea urchins are one of the few invertebrates that share thousands of te same genes as humans. I also learned that sea urchins have 7,000 of the same gens humans have. Sea urchins and humans share more than 7,000 genes, and biologists are now using these sea creatures to unlock the mysteries of human diseases.
Ocean waves peaked at 100 feet, the height of 10-story buildings. Waves 30 feet high battered the New England coast, destroying 200 homes. Nine people died, including the six-man crew of a swordfish boat from Gloucester, Massachusetts. (CNN.com) Not only was a book wrote about this event, they later made a movie about too. But in spite of such amazing events in history caused by
She took out five submarines and many planes. Although she sustained heavy damage, after nearly six months of repair in San Francisco, she was ready to fight again. She received orders to go to Tinian, carrying a huge amount of uranium. Uranium is a rare metal that is used in nuclear weapons and bombs. The uranium was for one of the first nuclear bombs, called “Little Boy”, which was to be dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
Taylor McDowell Titanic Approximately 100 years ago, one of the world’s greatest ships sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. During the maiden voyage, the British RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in off the coast of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean. Titanic is a true inspirational movie because it shows what happened before, during, and after it hit the ice berg. The ship of dreams, Titanic, sunk on April 14th, 1912. The film Titanic is based off of a true story; it shows the actual storyline of how the titanic sunk.
The next and last journey of the space shuttle was on January 28, 1986 when the US Space Challenger broke apart seventy-three seconds after lift off. The shuttle was approximately nine miles above the Kennedy space center at Cape Canaveral, in Orlando, Florida (Memorial will mark Challenger Disaster n.p.). This riveting event left America in shock. Evaluation concluded the rear and fuselage was
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning. Written by Anthony Pereyra <hypersonic91@yahoo.com> After winning
The design, which took a full decade to select and build, features two huge pools in the shape of the Trade Center towers, lined by waterfalls and descending into the site. Victims' names are etched in bronze around the edge of the pools. The Flight 93 Memorial, still incomplete, features a memorial wall along the edge of the crash site engraved with the names of the flight's 40 crewmembers and passengers. A gate allows family members to visit the "sacred ground" of the crash site. The memorials' opening brought a symbolic end to a decade-long debate over how to physically commemorate 9/11, and brought obvious comfort to many of the bereaved.
You can hear the passengers taking the plane back while they were on the phone with their families. Following the 9/11 attacks President George W. Bush was taken to Omaha to Offutt air force base. He wanted to declare war on Al Qaeda, but it took 3 weeks to get the yes that he was looking for from congress. In early 2002 we sent troops out to Afghanistan, and in 2003 we invaded Iraq in search for Osama Bin Laden. Over 4400 Soldiers died in Iraq and 2000 killed in Afghanistan during a ten year war to end terrorism and the Al Qaeda network.
The title of the documentary forecasts what is going to be discussed throughout the length of the film, The 11th hour is the last hour of change before the actions of mankind demolishes all the natural resources available, and destroys the earth. The film illustrates how planet earth has been trying to adapt to the industrial age, as a result environmental disasters are born around the world from extreme droughts to floods and hurricanes. Ongoing dialogues from