The story of The Titanic was a great tragedy. This tragedy round the “unsinkable ship", wandering the grim Atlantic waters, is now history and the component of pop culture.
The Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, during its voyage from the United Kingdom to New York City. The ship encountered a collision with an iceberg, endangering the lives of 2,224 passengers and crew. This event resulted in death counts of more than 1,500 people; therefore, causing The Titanic sinking to become one of the "deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in modern history".
Math gives further understanding to Titanic in numerous ways . For example, understanding the nationalities aboard,
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survival numbers, the affects density played on the sinking of the Titanic, and so much more. My findings of the many different nationalist aboard The Titanic were simply based on mathematics. The ship's passengers consists of the wealthiest people in the world, along with countless numbers of immigrants from areas throughout Europe in search for better lives in the North. By ethnic groupings , majority of the passengers were Americans, British, Irish, Swede, and Swiss, while the least were the Uruguayans, Mexican, Japanese, Dutch and Australian. Dividing them into class , the first class consists, mainly, of people from the United States and European cities. First class, in those days, meant members of the wealthy social set. They were the main event on the ship, anything involving class would be surrounding them. A first class ticket ranged anywhere from thirty pounds to 870 pounds. In today’s money you could expect to pay an average of $70,000 per first class ticket. The second class was made up of many of the same nationalist as the first, but this class included the only black family on board, traveling from Paris to Haiti. Third class immigrants made up the majority of the steerage passengers. Many of the steerage passengers fell in the ethnic groups of the British, Finnish, Syrian, and Swedish. The Titanic advanced in safety features, but declined where it was most important. For example, watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, but a lack in lifeboats due to outdated maritime safety regulations: having only enough lifeboats for 1,178 people (which is one-third the ship's total capacity). In addition to the lack of lifeboats , 17 of them departed from the ship not filled to capacity. Mathematical findings show 62.1% of the first class , 41.4% of the second class, and 25.2% of the third class had survived this great tragedy. Out of the 62.1% of the first class 20% were women and children. First class women and children had the highest chance of survival. First Class suites, berths, and social rooms were located in the center of the ship on the higher decks, which means there was immediate access to the boat deck and seat on a lifeboat. Steerage passengers had the least chance of surviving. Steerage passengers had rooms on lower decks and no direct or immediate access the boat deck. Many steerage passengers who survived did so only by reaching the last of the lifeboats that were launched, while few men survived only by being plucked from the sea. Dividing it into ethnics groups , only five had a high percentage of surviving: the Americans, Chinese, Swiss, Spanish and the Japanese. The five ethnic groups with the lowest percentage of survivors were Uruguayan, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, and Mexican. Despite orders to put all women and children in lifeboats first, maybe this explains why survival rates were highest in first class. It would appear that the higher the class you were in , the better the survival rate . More than half of the first class and a little under half of the second class survived, While a measly 25.2 percent in the third class. I believe this a source of saving the high rank. While arranging the lifeboat passengers , was the object of money in mind ? Was it that the rest of these passengers ineligible for the option of life , due to their lack of money? " Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M " lyrics born years too late. The main priority might have been to save the rich. The rich women and children first , and then we we load up their men, is what they really should have been yelling. Based off of these statistics, the value of life viewed so worthless if you weren’t in the best class. The theory of this master ship breaking in two , is no longer .
Theories are contemplative and rational types of abstract or generalizing thinkings. For the ship breaking into two is know common knowledge . The Titanic was designed to , in case of flooding, electronically lock down the compartment where these waters were . This would enable the ship to continue on sail , for the waters would not spread throughout the ship . But this strategy was faulty. On 14 April 1912, nearly 375 miles (600 km) south of Newfoundland, The Tiatanic hit an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. ship's time. Colliding with the iceberg caused the hull plates to collapse, then penetrating the starboard side and opened five of watertight compartments; causing the ship to fill with water. After time the air inside the trapped areas reduced the ship's density than the surrounding water. Culminating the bow of the ship to get heavier than the stern and the sinking began...“In the middle of the ship the stress of bearing the heavy weight of the water filled front compartments overwhelmed the steel structure. As the bow dipped under water, the keel began to raise high out of the water and the steel plates holding this portion of the ship together started buckling under the pressure.” By 2:20 a.m., The Titanic had broken in two and was completely submerged in water. More than one thousand people were still on board the ship as it sank. Two hours after the sinking, the Cunard liner RMS Carpathia arrived and aborted an estimate 705 survivors, afloat in the grim Atlantic
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"We are all going to die!" That is what 1500 people were thinking when the Titanic was going down, and they were right. The Titanic was the biggest ship in the world at the time. The Titanic hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912, and over 1500 lives were lost to the deep Atlantic. The person responsible was J. Bruce Ismay. Ismay left the ship with woman and children still on board when he could of saved other people, he ultimately decided for the Titanic to only have 20 lifeboats, and Ismay owned the company that made and designed the Titanic and all of its flaws.
The story behind the Titanic is controversial, some people have seen the movie but they do not know the real facts behind it. This essay is going to talk about the main factors behind the Titanic’s failure, the design, the manufacturer, materials, the crew, survivors, cost of building the ship, the engine, as well as human errors, and the cause from different point of view. The ship's captain was Edward Smith. The Titanic was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the spring of 1909, for transatlantic passenger and mail services, it was recorded that 15,000 workers helped in the building of the Titanic, on 14/04/1912 it departed from Southampton, England, heading to New York across the Atlantic Ocean but it went through freezing weather conditions with many icebergs owing to human and mechanical errors, along it’s sail, the ship did not succeed in crossing the Atlantic Ocean
This British ocean liner was one of the biggest cruise ships ever made. The ship began its maiden voyage in the early morning of April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England to New York City. Mainly the ships 2,200 passengers were of deathly upper-class families looking for a good time in the city, while a smaller amount was people going to the city to find work. Many thought that when they board the ship, they were in for the trip of a lifetime. Well, that trip soon ended in tragedy. The Titanic sank early in the morning on the 15th when the ship hit an iceberg. Captain Edward J. Smith had the ship sailing full speed ahead despite the concerns about several icebergs. The ship received multiple warnings about dangerous ice fields in the North over the telegraph. General Corfield who was in charge of warning the captain of any obstacles along the way, said he failed to pass the warning along by senior radio operator, Jack Phillips. The “unsinkable” was actually built with very sinkable cheap material. It was built with low-grade iron rivets instead of the more expensive higher-grade material rivets. These small details easily could have been avoided (history.com
Soon after the Titanic took off, it sunk. It took 3 hours to sink and there were only enough lifeboats for less than half of the people on the ship. The Titanic sunk in the Atlantic Ocean on April 14th and 15th, 1912.
The Titanic claimed to be the ship of its time; one that would never sink. However, what the Titanic claimed to be was not the case because on April 15, 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg, broke in half, and sunk to the bottom of the ocean. There has been debate ever since that fateful day as to how this happened to the Titanic. Some conspiracy theorist believe the ship never even sank -- regardless of the ships remains at the bottom of the ocean. Other conspiracy theorists believe the Titanic was actually switched with the RMS Olympic because of an insurance scam. Ever since that day, many scientists, engineers, and physicists have tried to analyze the problems of the Titanic; the reasons why it sank.
The ship, R.M.S Titanic, has been popular several different times in a little over 100 years. The first time in April 1912 when it first sailed for North America. This great ship was said to be unsinkable. Many errors led to the major tragedy of the Titanic, including the life boats were not all there or filled as much as they should have been, the ship tried to go full speed to break the iceberg, and the Californian ship did not respond the Carpathia had saved the rest.
When you hear Titanic, what comes to mind? For many it is the love story of Jack and Rose. For others, it is the tragedy, that actually occurred, where thousands of men, women, and children lost their lives. The submergence of the ship, the story of an actual passenger on board, and why that passenger did or did not survive is all something that will become knowledge of the reader today. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most remembered events in history, and there are few people still alive to tell their story.
The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City ,the sinking of the Titanic caused the deaths of more than 1,500 people. Amongst the research into the Titanic besides the shipwreck itself, was to see the social classes that were present on the Titanic. Before the shipwreck itself there isn’t much to go off of to see the socio-economics of the people who were boarded on this ship so Cameron and a team of researchers went on an expedition. “He developed and piloted a new class of nimble, fiber-spooling robots that brought back never before images...
One of the most famous ideas, person, etc., God, was said he could not force this ship to fail. So, the man who painted the sky, presented Earth with oceans, and built mountains couldn’t sink a ship? If the people of the world had not been so gullible and intrigued to the false, could the ship have survived? It is something to be discussed, but theoretically, yes. If the general public had not pushed the idea of an invincible ship to the Captain of the Titanic, Captain Edward Smith, by default he would have been significantly more cautious when directing and handling the massive craft. The Titanic was revolutionary to modern luxury liners, but society had to ruin its magnificent potential. Overall the conflict between society and the Titanic was slightly indirect. The antagonists all thought they were up talking the ship, and describing it as if it were a messiah. But, the protagonist vessel really couldn’t meet the bar of these expectations. While the antagonists were not “mean” or “cruel” per say, they did contribute to the infamous sinking of the most famous ship of the 20th
We have all heard about the Titanic. Either we have watched the romance movie or done our research in a different way. No matter where we get our information from we know the biggest parts of the tragedy. The ship Titanic crashed into an iceberg on a cold April night on the Atlantic Ocean while sailing its first trip. But haven’t you ever wanted to know more details about? Maybe how the people who were on it and survived? How could the situation be prevented? Couldn’t they have saved more people? Well in the book “A Night to Remember” it has details on the Titanic you have probably never thought of knowing. While reading the first chapter some parts really caught my attention. One was when people felt the jolt from the collision with the ice berg people didn’t suspect what tragedy was to come. A girl named Marguerite Frolicher, who was accompanying her father on a business trip, woke up with a jump since she was half asleep she was thinking about ‘little white lake ferries’ landing sloppily which made her laugh and thought to herself “Isn’t it funny…we’re landing!”. They really did...
April 10, 1912 the Titanic nearly collided with the ocean liner New York, while departing docks. This...
The Titanic set voyage on April 1912 to New York. The Titanic and its sister ships, Olympia and Britannic were said to be virtually unsinkable by a magazine article, not the White Star Line. The Titanic was the second ship to set sail on its maiden voyage out of the three sister ships. The Titanic had been built a lot differently than most of the ships back then. For example, a normal ship was built with three funnels but the Titanic had four. The fourth funnel did not serve the same purpose like the other three; its use was for steam to be released from the kitchen. Another example was that the Titanic was the biggest ship at the time. The ship had received ice warnings at least six different times from ships but Captain Smith had ignored
The Titanic, one of the biggest well known tragedies in history. The horrific accident was a catastrophe that impacted the world. Devastating news that this colossal ship everyone thought was indestructible had sunk from a collision with an iceberg. But the question is, could the terrible tragedy have been stopped? Why did the Titanic give so easily following the hit?
Within the context of film industry, the film Titanic by James Cameron belongs to epic romance/ disaster genre. The film, released in 1997, was a global box office hit because the director provided equal importance to history, fiction and romance. To be specific, one can see that the film’s plot is based upon the history of RMS Titanic. On the other side, the main characters including the protagonist and the heroine (Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater/Dawson) are fictional characters. Besides, the element of romance between the main characters (Jack and Rose) is the film’s main attraction. Thesis statement: The critical analysis of the film Titanic proves that the innovative mode of storytelling (flash back and other techniques), Acting, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Style and Directing (equal importance to fictional and historical characters), Societal Impact, and Genre (epic romance/disaster) are the most important factors behind the film’s success as a historical/fictional masterpiece (special references specific shots, scenes, characters, stylistic devices and/or themes).
The Titanic is known as one of the most remarkable films of the 20th century and won Best Picture of the Year in 1998. This film was based on a real event that made headlines all across the world including in the New York Times. This tragedy was not supposed to have happened. The ship was built to be indestructible. So the event was certainly unexpected and tragic. The New York Times ran a headline stating The phrase “TITANIC SINKS” was part of the headline for the Boston Daily Globe, the London Herald, the Baltimore American, the Globe (of Toronto), and, of course, The New York Times after the historic wreck of 1912 [Here’s what the article (sans headline) looked like in The New York Times, courtesy of the Times Machine. –D.A.]” (Amlen, p.1).