Jack has been falsely accused of stealing a very expensive diamond necklace and is handcuffed to a pipe in the bottom of the ship. Rose, instead of going on a lifeboat to safty, goes to rescue Jack. Something sad and supperising happens in the end of the movie though. Btw, the sinking of the Titanic is real. It happened on April 14, 1912 which is why the movie is comming out in 3d in honor of the 100th anniversary of the ship's sinking.
From these ships, the plague spread throughout Europe. By 1400, twenty million to thirty million people died because of the plague. Anyone who dared venture out upon the streets of Florence in the summer of 1348
The purpose of the news report from the BBC was to inform the people of Princess Dianna’s death. BBC explained that Princess Dianna, Dodi Al Fayed, and their driver were killed in an accident under the Place de I ‘Alma while being chased by several photographers. “Mr. Al Fayed and the chauffer died at the scene but the princess…was rushed to the hospital” where she died “in the early hours of Sunday morning... at 0300 BST.” BBC also mentioned that “the French authorities… begun a criminal investigation and are questioning seven photographers.” This Logos confirmed Princess Diana’s death and that actions were going to be taken against the photographers involved. BBC
On a cold December 30, 1903, parents and children were headed to the Iroquois Theater in downtown Chicago to see Mr. Bluebeard. The theater had just opened that day and was said to be “absolutely fireproof;” in the end, the exact opposite was true. The tragedy begun when an arc light shortened and ignited a drop curtain. When that happened audience member’s panicked and began scrambling to escape but due to the over-packed crowd there was no way to escape thorough the small main doorway. (Sauberman) Ultimately, due to misjudgments and mistakes the Iroquois Theater burned down, killing a total of 602 people; because of this, stricter theater fire codes were passed.
An Analysis of Logistical Alternatives for Centralia No. 5 Dr. Timothy Smith PAD 500 28 October 2012 An Analysis of Logistical Alternatives for Centralia No. 5 As the end of the shift approaches for the miners in Centralia Coal Co’s Mine No. 5, coal dust exploded deep inside killing 111 men. This explosion forced public officials on the state and federal levels to revise how protocols are implemented.
September 11, 2001: Disasters Strike America September 11, 2001 was a tragic day in the United States. Al Qaeda suicide hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 11 and 175 into the World Trade Centers in New York. Two other groups of hijackers crashed Flight 77 into The Pentagon and Flight 93 into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The 19hijackers killed approximately 2,998 people, including themselves. Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Time, and 17 minutes later, Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower.
Jean De Venette A Chronicle of the Black Death In the 1300’s the world was struck by a deadly disease called the Black Death. The Black Death was a horrific event that happened in past history. The people of Europe and all across the continent never knew what hit them. They suddenly became ill after witnesses a bright star appear out of nowhere into the night sky. One the star disintegrated the people of Florence Italy became violently ill.
The Black Death A fierce plague swept through Europe in 1348, indiscriminately killing most people who came into contact with it, irrespective of age or social status. This pandemic, which remains perhaps the single greatest human tragedy in history, is known as the Black Death. The earliest known visitation of the plague to Europe may have occurred in Athens in 430 B.C., but it is unclear if the disease that afflicated Athens was caused by Yersina pestis. A disastrous epidemic occurred in the Mediterranean during the time of the Roman emperor Justinian; an estimated 25% to 50% of the population is reported to have succumbed. The most widespread epidemic began in Constantinople in 1334, spread throughout Europe (returning Crusaders were
Though the reasons for this were not understood, the very beginning of the studies of medical geography. Another major turning point in this field was the major outbreak of cholera in the mid 1800s in London, when Doctor John Snow plotted the distribution of deaths from cholera throughout London on a map. A major point in medical geography is the spreading of diseases, which was the main storyline in the movie Contagion. The highly contagious unfamiliar, unnamed disease, which killed people at unbelievably high rates, started from one person, Beth Emhoff who made contact with many people in Chicago, and later spread to her son, who went to his school and spread it to people there, before he died from it. This is known as an epidemic, meaning a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time, with the exception that this outbreak was taking place almost worldwide.
One Life after Another – Into the Dangers of Texting While Driving “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” This is a famous quote from the American musician Jimi Hendrix, however on September 12, 2008 the train conductor of a rush hour Metro link commuter train in San Fernando Valley northwest of downtown Los Angeles had different plans when he ran red a light and collided head-on with a union pacific freight train, killing 25 people and injuring more than 130 others. It was the deadliest train accident in Metro link’s history and the worst in the nation since 1993 (Steinhauer). Investigators discovered that the commuter train’s engineer failed to break before the accident and that he had been sending text messages on his cell phone moments before the collision. While majority of Americans perceive texting while driving to be resourceful it also serves as a means to put in danger the lives of innocent citizens. To begin with, some argue that under some circumstances texting can be regarded as safe and helpful.