He said he promised and wouldn’t lead them the wrong way. The next day comes and he leads them the wrong way again. Some of the people almost got really hurt. The whole group gets half way and reads a sign that says “Storm King Peak is infamous for its extreme weather exposed and rotten rock three have died here, think before you add your name to the list.” Seven of them refused to go further. Troy was the only one that wanted to go further.
He was blamed after they found out that many men died because there were not enough lifeboats. As he was the owner of the ship, he was one of the first ones to get a seat with the women on the lifeboat because he knew that there werent enough. Many men were dragged off the lifeboats as they tried to get on with their wives but he had managed to get on it without getting dragged back. Many reports have indicated Bruce Ismay bribing Thomas Andrews ,the ships designer, to decrease the watertight compartment so that there would be more first class seats.The main reason why people were agitated with him was because he survived the tragedy. Survivors of the Titanic were furious with him because there were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers on board.
SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON The crew have their hair cut aboard Endurance. McNish is on the left shaving Greenstreet's head. Endurance trapped in pack ice. McNish's work prevented it flooding, but he could do nothing to stop it being crushed. McNish, at 40, was one of the oldest members of the crew of the Endurance (Shackleton though was seven months older).
Upon entering the bay in early August of 1610, the ship spent the next three months examining and mapping the eastern shore of the bay, but found no passageway to Asia. During the ship's explorations, it eventually became stuck in ice in early November and forced the crew ashore. During the rough winter, supplies and provisions were scarce, and discontent became rife amongst crew members. Once the ice melted and the ship was free, Hudson planned to continue his voyage to further explore the Hudson Bay in search of a passage but the majority of the crew adamantly
Had he survived, he would have been court marshaled as more than 1400 of the ships’ passengers drowned or were killed. So some people we can see at the time chose to lay the blame there, but while it was likely Smith had been reckless, going at 22 knots through an ice field, we know from later evidence that he had been pressurized by White Star Line official Bruce Ismay, attempting to win the Blue Riband award for his new steam liner. The Titanic’s journey was however supposed to be Captain Smith’s last before his retirement and consider that with the fact that we know he moved his ship further south into uncharted ocean. Because of this, I think that the possibility of Smith moving south to shorten the time of the journey, and the fact that the iceberg warnings were ignored are poor pieces of evidence, when it could be argued Smith moved south in direct response to those warnings. Thomas Andrews designed the Titanic, and so we can assume he knew everything there was to know about the
“We’ll never get there” (Evans) p22. Despite the fact that nobody made it back, the belief that they could make it and the spirit of the others allowed them to continue much further than the pessimistic, mentally weak Evans. When Evans’s condition began to deteriorate, instead of attempt to carry on or take the blame himself as Oates might have done, he cursed his surroundings: “It’s not my fault if I fall.
However, the descriptions of scenery are added in by Hemingway to suggest detriment in the future of our two lovers, Nick and Marjorie. Therein lies a message in Hemingway's descriptions when he writes, "Then one year there were no more logs to make lumber….. All the piles of lumber were carried away." The tall schooners headed back out to sea after the fortune of a few prosperous times, carrying away years of Hortons Bay tradition under a tight canvas. Also, the fact that "Ten years later there was nothing of the mill except the broken white limestone" may suggest predictable broken emotions between Nick and Marjorie. The most prevalent symbol in "The End of Something" is the destroyed lumber mill, which represents Nick and Marjorie's soon-to-be destroyed relationship.
It starts out with the mariners on a ship sailing south until an Albatross came along guiding them through the foggy weather in Antarctica and for no reason at all, the Ancient Mariner shot the Albatross, a bird of good omen, with his crossbow. At first, the mariners were irate with the Ancient Mariner but later accepted him after the weather improved. Negative consequences occur because of the Ancient Mariner’s actions. Only when he begins to see nature differently, and find nature beautiful, does the curse upon him lift. Now the Ancient Mariner learns that he must tell his tale to relieve his eternal guilt.
The Titanic had been warned enough times and the captain is responsible for the deaths. The captain, Edward John Smith, made a wrong decision and resulted in a disaster. Ever since the Titanic sank the disaster has fascinated people; they've sent expeditions down to explore the wreck, they've written books, they've made documentaries, movies, and money out of all this. The shipbuilders Harland and Wolff insist that the Titanic was never advertised as an unsinkable ship. They claim that the 'unsinkable' myth was the result of people's interpretations of articles in magazines and newspapers.
For example, Okonkwo a once respected and influential man ended up hanging himself. This is ironic due to the fact that in the beginning of the novel Okonkwo said, “Since I survived that year, I shall survive anything.” (talking about the year of bad crops). Obviously he was wrong about that considering he ended his own life at the end of the novel showing that in fact he could not survive anything, including the falling of the Ibo clan and his realization of being alone in his wish for war with the white missionaries and government. Likewise, Okonkwo never wanting to replicate his father, which he spent his whole life trying to prove, ended up being buried in the Evil Forest, the exact place his father was sent when he died. When things became rough for Okonkwo he decided to give up on life, which is something his father may have done.