Individual Report This boat project was a very fun one and it was really enjoyable. There were times that it was frustrating and other times where it was good fun but in the end the project got completed. In this project report the steps to completing this project will be discussed. The topics that will be discussed include brainstorming, design, construction, testing, and the best run. The boat brainstorming session started with the thought that a canoe would be the best design for the boat. After discussing the pros and cons of having a canoe the group decided that the canoe would be too unstable, and had the possibility of tilting too far to one side and capsizing. Then it was brought up that if there were two pieces of Styrofoam, equal …show more content…
This was only possible because of the testing that was performed prior to the final run. During the earlier stages of testing the boat it was discovered that when there was a flagpole, which was a kabob stick with a square of paper taped to the top of it, the boat was a second slower. The group was trying to go for the fastest time possible and so the flag pole was eliminated. The boat had fins, which were Popsicle sticks that were hot glued parallel to the bottom of the boat, and those helped the boat to go a full three seconds faster than when the boat was tested with no fins on it at all. The boat going three seconds faster made the fins a permanent addition to the boat. The propeller on the boat could spin two different ways and therefore propel the boat in two different directions. The group tested the propeller being in the front of the boat and connected the wires so that the boat had the propeller in the front of the boat blowing air towards the rear of the boat. This gave the boat a time of eighteen seconds which was thought to be way too long of a time. The boat was then remodeled and the propeller was placed in the back of the boat blowing air away from the front end of the boat. This arrangement gave the boat a time of six seconds and so the boat stayed as is. All of these tests are what gave us the best time for the boat so the changes were made to the boat and that is how the boat was left from then
Not many know about Dragging Canoe and the battle he fought during the American Revolutionary War. The Native American’s role in the Revolutionary War was very important, but not well known. As a result, the Revolutionary War can come across as one-sided. Dragging Canoe fought for the Native American’s existence in the colonies. First, he was strongly opposed to Henderson’s Purchase or also called the Transylvania Purchase. Secondly, Dragging Canoe’s raid at “Battle of the Bluffs” became an issue for the colonists. And lastly, there was negotiating done between the British and Colonists would somehow effect Dragging Canoe, his warriors, and the future for the Native Americans.
The Jamestown Project discusses the monumental landmark, the colony of Jamestown, was in Atlantic History. The story of Jamestown is told in a much more authentic, elaborate style than our textbooks has presented. As Kupperman points out, Jamestown was not only important to United State’s history but also to British history. From the motivations to the lasting effects, she gives an accurate account of all components involved in Jamestown. Also, there is a chapter devoted to the Native American experience, which shows a non-Western view of events. The book is written in a format that is easily read but also compacted with information. More importantly she puts Jamestown in its right place in United State’s and British history, as the foundation of colonial United States and the British Empire.
This passage defines the character of the narrators’ father as an intelligent man who wants a better life for his children, as well as establishes the narrators’ mothers’ stubbornness and strong opposition to change as key elements of the plot.
Two important, mighty Asian empires in history are the Ottoman Empire and the Ming China. These two empires are in totally different areas of Asia – the Ottomans were in the very west, the Chinese were in the oriental east. Therefore, these two empires, naturally, formed completely different cultures. However, surprisingly, these empires had many parts in common as well. The Ottoman Empire and the Ming Dynasty had both many different and distinct parts, as well as many similarities.
In the end, this experiment should have taught you how the different shapes of boat hulls effect how well your boat will be stable out on the water. The results from the experiment also have shown you that certain boat hull styles can support more weight than others. Another important finding was how weight distribution was a major factor because it can mean the difference between keeping your boat afloat or tipping over and capsizing. Now you know how a boat’s hull style affects how it floats.
Building upon the insights of Gerstenberger, Kent and others, l hope to show bow the structure of "The Open Boat" creates an epistemological dilemma, moving the reader from a position of epistemological indifference to a state of epistemological anxiety. Four key moments in the story create this shift from indifference to anxiety: first, in Section 1, the opening sentence...
On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, the most expensive hurricane in American history, made landfall in Louisiana with winds of one hundred and twenty-seven miles per hour (“Hurricane Katrina Statistics Fast Facts”). The sheer magnitude of the amount of lives and property lost was enormous, and it was triggered simply by warm ocean waters near the Bahamas ("How Hurricane Katrina Formed"). Nature was indifferent to whether the raging winds and rain would die off in the ocean or wipe out cities; it only follows the rules of physics. A multitude of American authors has attempted to give accounts and interpretations of their encounters with the disinterested machine that is nature. Two authors, Stephen Crane and Henry David Thoreau, had rather contrasting and conflicting interpretations of their own interactions with nature. Crane’s work, “The Open Boat,” is story based on his experience as a survivor
These are examples within the essay that do not get much explanation and leaves some readers confused for a bit. When he speaks of the safety factor of the boat and explains how if the space goes unused from others than they can use it as storage space or other things, what are those other items going to be? Are there other resources in the boat? If so, would that not take up room for those other ten people to get in? We know what the carrying capacity is as far as people for the lifeboat, but is there a weight factor to it also? Everyone on that boat is not the same age. Some would die soon because of several different reasons (age, food, resources, etc.). As far as other parties boarding the boat it should be the ones left in the water, “…we shall have to be constantly on guard against other boarding parties” (291). If the other boarding parties are from other boats, they should not have a reason to join other boats unless they are after more resources because they ran through theirs so
There are many aid projects across the world who claim to help millions of people, but because these aid projects claim to help millions of people, that does not always mean that is the case There are many different aid types, and there can be aid for almost anything an area needs help with. One aid project that not many people know about is called the Polaris Project. After being exposed to a story of six South Korean women being forced to work in a brothel, Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman were inspired to do something about modern-day slavery (“Katherine Chon and Derek Ellerman: Fighting Human Trafficking" 3). Fast-forward 13 years and the Polaris Project is the world’s leading non-profit human trafficking aid organization in the country. The Polaris Project is the only aid organization to fight against all forms of human trafficking. Human trafficking occurs when a person is forced against his or her own will to engage in sexual acts. Human trafficking can happen to men, women and children; however, it mainly happens to women 18 years and older (“Sex Trafficking in the U.S.” 1). However, a deeper look needs to be taken into this organization to observe if Polaris Project is working effectively at what the organization claims to do.
No Bricks and No Temples: Coping with Crisis in “The Open Boat” Stephen Crane’s story “The Open Boat” concerns four people who are trying to reach land after surviving a shipwreck off the Florida coast. During the course of the story, they face dangers that are real physical threats, but they also have to deal with trying to make sense of their situation. The characters in this story cope with their struggles in two ways: individually, they each imagine that Nature, or Fate, or God, is behind their experiences, which allows them to blame some outside force for their struggle, and together, they form a bond of friendship that helps them keep their spirits up. . In “Becoming Interpreters: The Importance of Tone in ‘The Open Boat,’” Gregory Schirmer states that “‘The Open Boat has at its center two quite different views of man: as a helpless and insignificant being adrift in a universe that is wholly indifferent to him and his ambitions, and on the other hand, as part of a brotherhood that binds man to man in the face of that indifferent universe” (222).
Bjorn Ericksen and his team have embarked on a long and expensive project designed to help them win the next Whitbread World Sailboat Race. Using the above proposed plan, the team should be well prepared to design, build and sail their vessel to victory. Although they are certain to experience setbacks, problems and delays, having a priority matrix, a project network, and a Gantt chart will provide a solid plan that will easily keep their project on track. Once they have finished the race and reviewed their performance, defending their championship will become next year's objective.
Though the invention was useful for navigation, the design has many flaws that are non-correctable. “Graduation error… are caused by imperfections in machining the arc, cutting the gears, or marking the scale of the arc or micrometer drum” ((The Marine Sextant (Correctable and Non-Correctable Errors)). Another non-correctable error is the prismatic, which “is caused by the planes of a mirror not being parallel” ((The Marine Sextant (Correctable and Non-Correctable Errors)). The last non-correctable error is centering which occurs “when the index arm is not pivoted at the exact center of curvature of the arc” ((The Marine Sextant (Correctable and Non-Correctable Errors)). Another set of errors the sextant has is correctable ones. One of the correctable errors is the index error caused when “the horizon glass not being parallel to the index mirror when the sextant is set on zero” ((The Marine Sextant (Correctable and Non-Correctable Errors)). Error of perpendicularity is the “results from the index mirror not being perpendicular to the sextant frame” ((The Marine Sextant (Correctable and Non-Correctable Errors)). Similar to the error of perpendicularity, side error is caused when “the horizon glass not being perpendicular to the frame of the sextant” ((The Marine Sextant (Correctable and Non-Correctable Errors)). The design of the sextant is inconvenient due its size which took a proportion of space on boats. There are
waves. The waves at the front of the boat are compressed and are shorter than the longer, spread out waves at the back of the boat.
Lavery, Brian. (1984) The Ship of the Line, Volume 2: Design, Construction and Fittings. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press.
"People either love it, or they hate it," Fred proclaimed again, for the umpteenth time. His reddish face almost glowed against the gray sky. The combination of giddy grin, round cheeks, and fine, yellow, tousled hair yielded a face far too boyish for a man in his mid-fifties. But the always-present twinkle in Fred's eye was ever so slightly diminished today, and I knew why: he feared that his intuition might be mistaken and that I might not, after all, take to today's activity. His concern was compounded by weather; it was far from ideal for this, my first sail. Why was it so important to him that I like sailing anyway?