Many hoped to get wealthy. But little did they know that for the most, this adventurous trip would come to a sad end. By 1611, out of the 500 settlers that came here to make a new life, 400 were dead. The tragedy of Jamestown could not have been prevented because of the rigorous climate and lack of fresh food and water. The tough climate made it very difficult for the colonists to survive.
In 1981 my family attempted to escape from Vietnam. It has been estimated that over half the persons who tried to escape Vietnam by boat died at sea, more than a million persons. But even though it was dangerous we were willing to risk our life because the communist hated my family so bad that we could not survive in Vietnam. There were nine persons in my immediate family when we tried to escape by boat from Thuan An Beach in Hue. My Father, my mother, me, and four brothers, and two sisters tried to escape from Vietnam.
There were many people in the same boat who were just as excited as I was. The journey across the ocean was very hard and it was extremely difficult to stay in the ship with so many people. The ship was kind of over crowded which made it hard for me to even breath. There were not arrangements to assure every single passenger could sleep properly. I spent 2 days just sleeping on the stairs of the ship that made my body extremely sore and my eyes were extremely tired and then came a thought in my mind if I will get out of this ship safely and if was ever going to make to America.
The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleboats, succumbing to weather, hunger, disease, and ultimately turning to drastic measures in the fight for survival. Nathaniel Philbrick uses little known documents including a long lost account written by the ship's cabin boy and penetrating
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.
As Odysseus is sailing away he yells his true name back to the island and Polyphemus prays to his father Poseidon to take a vengeance on Odysseus. Odysseus brought hardship upon himself when he yelled his name back to Polyphemus. Because Odysseus angered Poseidon and brought the gods wrath down upon himself and his men, he lost all of his remaining soldiers who were traveling home to Ithaka with him. This was a total of twelve ships full of men. Many of whom would have survived the trip if not for the choices that Odysseus made.
Survivors of the Titanic were furious with him because there were not enough lifeboats for all the passengers on board. The Titanic was to be equipped with 32 lifeboats but only 20 was available that night. Bruce Ismay had the lifeboats taken out to make place for more seats for the first class passengers. In total, 1,307 men died on that unfateful night. Ismay wanted to prove that Titanic was the most luxurious and fastest ship, compared to the rival shipping company Cunard Line.
Lights went out immediately, but there was no announcement as to what had happened. It was pitch dark with no visibility. Everyone nearby started to scream, and a few minutes into the ordeal the emergency lights came on, and we observed that the ship is now listing on the port side. This is when the first announcement came on telling us it was nothing but an electrical failure, and that everything is under control." There were 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members aboard the Costa Concordia when it set sail January 13.
Also another reason why they felt this rush is because people knew once they got on the first ride they probably felt kind of scared and had that Feeling in their stomach but also had this rush of excitement and couldn’t wait. People just couldn’t wait to get into the amusement park to ride all these exciting
Thanks to the help of my girlfriend, I was one hot young lady. I wore a cute blue dress with capris and flip flops. Throughout the week, you could see the small town of Crandon covered in toilet paper from top to bottom as a joke between friends that happen annually. The cops are never too happy about it, but no one ever cares since it's always fun to run from them. If your done toilet papering by 11 o'clock then your good to go.