Crew College Essays Samples For Students

The book In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton gives an insight overview of the events that transpired on July 29, 1945 when a heavy cruiser Indianapolis was sank by a submarine I-58 killing over 900 sailors. The American ship had just delivered the weapons that were to be used to bomb Hiroshima but as it was sailing back across the Pacific Ocean, Japanese submarines intervened and bombed the ship. The book gives a painful ordeal of what the sailors went through before the rescuing team arrived at the scene to save the few remaining survivors. The book majorly focuses on the ...

Introduction

Many people are affected by maritime safety. A safe and efficient shipping network determines a significant part of the global population safety. The international management code for the safe operation of ships and pollution prevention (ISM code) was adopted in 1993 and was made compulsory in 1998. This code sets up safety-management goals and calls for safety management system to be established by the ship-owners or ship managers. Further, the company is required to develop a way of achieving the set goals; which include making available necessary resources required to offer support for the set objectives. The code also requires the ...

The black box is a flight or aircraft data recorder. It mainly collects and gathers the flight parameters information and stores them as evidence in the case of a plane crash. It is a technology that each and every corporate jet or commercial airplane should be equipped with.

Origin of the Technology.

The technology was discovered in Australia by Dr. David Warren. The technology began in 1952. Warren worked on the information and built up of the black box in Aeronautical research laboratories, in Melbourne. He argued that it was necessary for recording all the aircraft crew discussion. His view was to help trace the cause ...

PEOPLE:

Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was born July 24, 1897, to a lawyer's family. Her love for aircraft came during the World War I. Amelia was a nurse in the hospital next to the airfield. Not long before the round the world flight Earhart wrote that her two biggest desires were: to be the first woman in transatlantic flight (at least as a passenger) and the first woman-pilot to cross the Atlantic. Both her wishes came true. In June 1928, she flew from the U.S. to England, as passenger. And then four years later, May 20, 1932, she has repeated the same ...

Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville tells a story of Captain Ahab's voyage who is in pursuit of a great white whale. Stubb, Flask and Starbuck are three mates of Pequod; they are in pursuit of a whale as they seek to revenge following the order given by Ahab the captain. This paper will focus on Flask and Starbuck, considering that the two have differing personalities and attitudes apparent from the story, this paper will essentially compare the two characters: their attitudes and actions.
Stubb the first mate of Pequot is portrayed to be a person who approaches any situation as ...

Industry Paper

Application of the Crew Resource Management (CRM) Concepts, Philosophies, and Application in the Health Care Industry
Introduction
The aviation industry has been using the Crew Resource Management (CRM) program to improve air safety through reducing the number of fatal accidents caused by human error. The Crew Resource Management (CRM) is, therefore, a group of tools and techniques that can be used by the team to reduce error in human performance. Many other industries that are affected by error in humans have borrowed from the aviation industry and adopted the Crew Resource Management (CRM) concepts, philosophies, and application. The ...

Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (1994) was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in 2001, and was an extremely important decision regarding copyright fair use.
The case was based on a copyright infringement dispute over the song “Pretty Woman,” written and registered for copyright protection in 1964 by Roy Orbison, and famously associated with the motion picture of the same name. In 1989, the music group 2 Live Crew created a version of “Pretty Woman” which used the title lyrics and the opening instrumental riff of Orbison’s song.
Originally, 2 Live Crew (and the group’s publisher, ...

In spite of the fact that significant milestones have been made in airline technology, cases of many commercial airlines landing on the wrong airports continue to be on the rise. Although cases of commercial aircraft landing on the wrong airfield are not very common, this does not imply that they are unheard of in the United States. Commercial flights in the United States landed or began to land erroneously in other airports several times in the last two decades. However, the actual figures could be higher than the ones reported by the media and the relevant authorities. There are ...

Introduction

A lot of things can happen to a ship after it has departed from a seaport and left to travel against the waves of the ocean on its own. This is where the purpose of maritime safety and risk management comes in. Its purpose is to educate officers and crew members of a ship on how to react to certain risks, or in the worst case scenario a certain crisis. In general, the objective of a maritime safety and risk management is to ensure that the current maritime risk does not escalate into a crisis, and if it already did, mitigate the probable effects of ...

Aliens Films (1979-1997)

What is the significance of events in films? Are all the bits and pieces in films intentionally included by directors? These are some of the questions I asked myself as I set out on a comprehensive analysis of the audience message in the Aliens Films (1979-1997). According to film analyst Greg Smith, different events in films are not to be treated as accidental encounters of random occurrence and spontaneity. They are instead purposefully planned series of events with cause and effect and with nothing left to chance (Greg 128). Greg explains that Hollywood films are inadvertently one of the most ...

Background of the Titanic

The Titanic carried 2,227 people before the ship sank. The sinking of the ship can be attributed to the negligence of the captain of the ship. Before the occurrence of the instance, the titanic ship was warned six times of sea ice on 14 April but unfortunately, it travelled at a maximum speed towards the sighted iceberg. After it approached the region, the captain’s efforts did not work since titanic failed to turn quickly as it was required.
It was not until the captains of the ship realized that the ship was to starting to sink than ...

Gallery 155 at the Metropolitan museum of Art showcases Athenian Art, mostly vases with black figures that depict scenes from Mythology and actual life in Athens. Also in display are helmets, vests and knives from 7th century BC. While the vases are descriptive with exquisite painting of scenes from mythology, the bronze artifacts are rather telling of the war they were used for. The helmets, the body vests and the knives, although old and rusty are in good shape and can tell the viewer about the size of the person who used it. The fact that they survived this ...

Introduction

Reeve Aleutian Airways, Inc., Flight 69, took off from Anchorage Alaska on a scheduled cargo and passenger flight and headed towards Cold Bay on February 16, 1982. The plane was scheduled for intermediate which was a Nihon Y-11A was carrying a total of 33 passengers and 3 crew members. The plane departed from Anchorage at around 0751 Alaskan time and roughly two hours later, the plane made an emergency gear landing at the frozen waters of River Naknek which is just adjacent to the King Salmon Airport in King Salmon (NTSB, 1982). The plane had lost power in both its engines and ...

Robinsonade literature is literature in the tradition of marooned sailors. It gets its name from the literary work, which sparked the tradition, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. This essay establishes criteria for evaluating whether or not a piece of literature belongs in the Rubinsonade genre. It looks at an accounted of a shipwrecked Japanese sailor. The account, Nankai Kibun translates from Japanese to Sothern Ocean. It is an account of a Japanese sailor who was the only one of his crew to survive and one-day return to Japan. While the Japanese sailor's account is interesting, there are several reasons why it should ...

There are clears facts here. First, CareFree Jet focuses on cutting costs and maximizing profits and is, as part of this goal, using Ace (underpaid and used as the manager deems fit). Second, CareFree Jet’s emphasis on profits is putting at risk the lives of passengers (such as mechanical problems to the planes.
This raises an ethical issue. Ace, aware of the situation, is divided between his civic duties (as a pilot) to report the matter to concerned authorities and just go on an act like nothing is wrong, considering his private plans and financial needs (which might ...

One of the major tools used in organizational management by leaders, managers and employees alike has been the effective use of the ‘teamwork aspect’. Although, not an easy tool to implement, teamwork and cooperation are key aspects within an organization. By simple definition, teamwork is the process of collaboratively working together as a group of people in order to achieve one specific goal. It means people in a team will always try to work together using their individual skills for the success of the team, despite the existence of any personal differences. Despite being a positive aspect of any organization, teamwork does ...

Just like this decade, Hip Hop music has been very instrumental in expressing cultural aspects, political views, social perspectives and attitude towards a particular group in the 80’s. Criminal minded was widely considered to be the foundation of the hardcore rap, that announced its overall intentions with just a cover photo of its artists- Kris-One and Scott La Rock. These artists posed with weapons which was unheard musical gesture since the year 1987. Boogle Down production was a rap tailored to explain about the inner city violence and drugs. There existed no explicit mention of the real gangs who conducted the ...

- Thesis Statement
Jeffrey Carlson daring theatrical production leads us into the heart of Shakespeare’s dark comedy, where vice and virtues collides, as law and lust become inextricably entwined.
- Overview
- The play to be watched is Measure for Measure.
- This play took place in the Goodman theatre, a professional theatre located in Chicago’s loop.
- The 2 hours and thirty minutes show begun at 2.00pm on March 21, 2014
- The cost of my ticket was $14. I had bought it online after checking the availability of a seat at ...

A Critical Essay Review

Fulfillment of the Course
Requirements of American History 2010/20
Antonio, Bly. "Crossing the Lake of Fire: Slave Resistance during the Middle Passage, 1720- 1842." Journal of Negro History 83.3 (1998): 178-186.
Similarly, the resistance during the middle passage was difficult to achieve. This is so because the existence of cramped and filthy space in the ship made cooperation difficult. The extreme shortage of the holdings also caused the hostility among the slaves. The situation of the holding area contributed to slave madness and ended up killing each other to secure a room to breathe. It was ...

A Critical Essay Review

Fulfillment of the Course
Requirements of American History
Similarly, the resistance during the middle passage was difficult to achieve. This is so because the existence of cramped and filthy space in the ship made cooperation difficult. The extreme shortage of the holdings also caused the hostility among the slaves. The situation of the holding area contributed to slave madness and ended up killing each other to secure a room to breathe. It was difficult to resist because the slaves were required to avoid being seen by slave crews who were vigilant against revolt. The crew singled out and ...

Introduction

Nothing is impossible, the impossible just takes longer. This is clearly brought out in the prison break series where the things done by the actors may seem impossible even to the viewers but through strategic planning, those involved deliver and make happen. Michael Scofield is the leader in this case and no matter how much his crew, the likes of his brother Lincoln Burrows, inmates T-Bag, Sucre, among others, lose hope as view Michael’s plan as not achievable, he proves them wrong. In fact, Michael shows qualities of a good leader indeed, it is true what they say that a ...

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Dear Ms. Boyer-Parker,
We regret to inform you that refunding of $400, the cost of your prescription reading classes, cannot be honored. After a review of your complaints, the management has decided to deny your request as per our terms and conditions which apply to every client.
According to our terms and conditions, the management is not liable for any passenger’s belongings. The air hostess kindly requested all passengers to be in charge of their belongings before passengers began to alight from the aircraft. This is a normal routine; we try as much as possible ...

- Introduction
Whilst there have been many space missions – the majority either under the auspices of the National Science and Aeronautics Administration (NASA), or the European Space Agency (ESA) or the Russian Aviation and Space Agency – famously including manned landings on the moon (NASA), the most successful mission of all time in terms of space travel must surely be the creation, construction and the successful continued existence and operation of the international Space Station (ISS). A key purpose of the ISS has been to evaluate the effects on humans of lengthy exposure to conditions in space – an essential ...

My dream job is to become the Operations Manager of Saudia Arabian Airlines. As the Operations Manager of this airline company, the key responsibility is to oversee the ground operations and air traffic control. I am tasked to watch over the schedules of the pilot and crew trainings, submission of medical reports and take care of the background checking of the employees. One of the critical responsibilities is to guard the scheduling and discuss the finalizing of schedules with the in-flight departments. Aside from this, the airline manager must see to it the operations of the department are running ...

- Treatment
I aim at introducing 5 films from 1970-2010s in this project. I will also match up the movies with audio clips which have been edited by me personally. These incorporated sound clips in the audio track are taken from either the film trailers or the theme music of the films. These audio tracks would be utilized as small trailers for each of the films in context. For this project, the target audience is the film lovers who are aged 18-65.
II. Rundown/Script
III. Shot sheets
IV. Equipment and Facilities

Two cameras would be needed by me, apart from a switcher, a server, an audio board and a character generator.

V. CG List
...

The united airlines flight 173 crash could have been evaded with a few simple steps. The airplane was approaching Portland, Ore from JFk airport New York on December 28th 1978 when the pilot realized that there was a predicament with the landing gear. He immediately ordered for the emergency safe landing of the 189 passengers on board. He circled the plane for more than twenty minutes while trying to communicate with the air controllers on the possible approach strategies to apply. The airplane had a scheduled stop at Denver airport before it arrives to its final destination Portland airport. It took off ...

The Back Story

Yesterday, 12 cartons of special equipment were transported to Melwood Test Labs, Syracuse via the Merryhew Van Lines Albany as the shipping company. Along the way, the truck rolled off the highway 8 miles east of Rochester, New York.
On the following day, Vern Rogers, our branch manager, asked me to check the damage along with the representative from Milltown Insurance Company, Noella Redovich.

Missing Crates

Miss Redovich and I went to C and J Storage Inc., at 63 Crane Street to check the warehouse where the damaged crates were being held. There, the twelve crates were inspected to check ...

The purpose of this memorandum is to articulate the experiences of working in the food service industry putting emphasis on job duties and responsibilities. Working in the food industry requires adequate knowledge in food handling and customer service. Therefore, in order to effectively perform the job a series of trainings have to be taken before deployment. The job involves several areas of training such as food preparation, product knowledge, sanitation and inventory. Service efficiency is also a crucial part of the job, and the food industry requires that the staff undergoes continuous developmental training during the term of employment. This involves ...

A Singapore airline which was created in 1972 developed strategies in preparation to provide to the customers the necessary health care needs. The company ensured that their fiscal benefits were geared towards maximization of market shares and profitability margin in order to become the most competitive service provider to its customers. Since the customers were their priority, the management chose to operate based on a thematic statement. The philosophical statement indicated that their success or failure would be determined by the quality of service they offered. Thus they had to ensure the health needs of the clients were equitably addressed ...

Though this was not his actual name, Christopher Columbus was an Italian born in the city of Genoa, and accounts shows he was born between 1450 and 1452, to wool weavers parents. This concept confuses historians by the fact that though being born in Italy, Christopher Columbus showed no evidence of speaking Italian. Though the young boy had no formal education, he was very observant, and at an early age, he exhibited the characteristic of exploring (Thomas 1). In view of the fact that he aged early in looks, historians in most situations mistook to be older than he ...

The “Secret Sharer” explores the relationship between the narrator, an inexperienced young captain setting out for the first time on a ship with an established crew and Leggatt, who was a mate on the Sephora until he murdered a crew member during a raging storm. Conrad’s almost poetic style lends itself to the reflections of the young captain as he recounts this tale many years after it occurred. The depth and interplay between the captain and Leggatt is shown not only in how they are similar, but also in how life has placed them in vastly different circumstances.
The text starts ...

Career development depends upon a combination of interest and skills in a particular field, and along with these two it is important to have sound knowledge of the subject and the opportunity to learn and enhance one's skills. In order to do a self-assessment of my interests, skills and to analyze the future of career that I have chosen, and interview was conducted. The details of the interviewee are mentioned below.

Occupation: Fire Fighting Officer

Captain Saucier mentioned that he is A.A.S. in fire science and A.A.S. in Para medicine, was an EMT for 2 years, has been a paramedic for 16 years and has Firefighter 1&2 ...

Abstract

Launch window is the precise time at which a space vehicle must be launched so that a given space mission can be achieved. The launch window is especially important in missions to other planets and when the vehicle has to rendezvous with a satellite already in space. If the launch window is not calculated right, it could lead to spending a lot of time and energy. Space missions are elaborate tasks which use a large number of people working in crews to complete specific tasks, calculating the launch window is an important task completed by a selected crew. There are cases in which whole missions ...

Aircraft Cabin Safety

Accidents are complex systems that happen when multiple failures and factors accumulate and finally blow out of proportion. The failures and factors that accumulate are jointly sufficient to cause various types of accidents. Aircraft systems are complex systems that have the potential multi-causal conditions. The conditions rarely arise but when they do they create a possible trajectory for an accident. Most of the factors that cause these accidents are always present way before they are triggered and an accident occurs. Additionally, most of them are actually triggered by the organization of the system itself due to its design, the ...

Introduction

Upholding ethical principles is essential to the maintenance of peace in any community. Precisely, the nature of people’s conduct in any organization is essential to the success of the institution. As such, people can determine how ethical or unethical we are by assessing our behaviours. According to Guerrette, Ethics is the philosophical study of the principles that govern the conduct of people in society [1]. Our actions can, therefore, be said to be ethical if they are praiseworthy and unethical if they are blameable. Ethics, therefore, tries to make a distinction between what is right and wrong. This ...

A case study of Miami Cleaning Express

1.      Which crew size had the highest productivity? Which crew size had the lowest productivity? What are some of the possible reasons why these results occur?
The ideal way to determine the best and the lowest performing crew is to calculate the productivity index. Therefore, using the data collected by the management, there will be the computation of productivity index using various crew size and average meter per day for each of them per day (William, 2012).This will generate the results recorded in the productivity column in the table below through substitution of the data collected the formulae ...

Module Tutor:

Question 1
There are various selection methods that can be used by McDonalds to ensure that they hire the most suitable crew members. The McDonald’s likes to hire happy recruits for the job who will remain happy and ensure that their customers are satisfied. Selection is an important process when looking to hire. Recruitment at McDonalds should be done at the specific branch levels. After the applicants have applied for the job it is important that McDonald proceeds on to screen the candidates in order to get rid of those candidates who are unsuitable for the positions advertised. ...

There is always change taking place within the society and in every organization or firm in business. Dexter Dunphy (2011) calls this “a perfect storm of change” (p.6), which is said to be a “global situation of unprecedented urgency” (p.4). This becomes a crisis to the society, not unless the firm acts on its impulse, to take effective action that would successfully solve the issue being confronted. This leads to actions of sustainability for sustainability. It is these sustainable models and framework that will answer to the call of the changing environment, to prevent crisis from taking place in societies within the ...

The film industry contributes to a country’s status. It improves the economy through its earnings and also maintains culture. Additionally, provide employment to some portion of the environment. Moreover, they also provide entertainment and serves as a media for education. However, its management should rely on people with the right expertise to avoid its negative impacts manifest (Wells 11). For instance, if poorly managed, it can lead to moral decay. Pornography is one of the products of the industry, and when accessed by minors it ruins its purpose. Often, concepts that movies relay are different. However, some movies ...

Crisis Communication Plan

Overview of the Crisis
Two bizarre incidents in a short period leading to the death of passengers and crew leave Malaysia Airlines struggling to recover. On July 17, a Boeing 777-aircraft, flight MH17 was shot down from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. All 298 passengers and crew members died in the incident (Torr, & Walker, 2014, pp. 23).
Families and employees were left devastated as the crisis unravelled. Malaysia Airlines flew to the assistance. The airline sent over 200 specialists, care givers and managers to Amsterdam to handle the crisis. At the scene, there were 80 caregivers assigned to providing the ...

What conceptual blocks were experienced by the smokejunpers?

Vertical thinking: when the fire was catching up with them, most smokejumpers ran up for the ridge. They were not able to think laterally; the only solution seemed the most straightforward.
One thinking language: none of them were able to visualize how a burnt surface could save their lives; instead of a solution, they saw it as a worsening of their problem.
Stereotyping based on past experience: The crew expected what they called “a 10:00 fire”, that is, they expected the fire to be extinguished by 10:00 next morning. Their mental image of that problem was much smaller than ...

With the growing popularity of hip hop in the youth culture, there can be noticed a growing number of films appearing in the cinematographic industry depicting the in-demand sub-culture. Being more than just a music genre, hip hop can be fairly called a way of life that thousands of young people found close to their spirit. So the ways it looks like in real life and in movies really differ and thus hip hop is usually a controversial topic for discussion. This paper is thus going to reflect on how authentic hip hop is represented in cinema in terms ...

Introduction

The movie Apollo 13 is based on the true account of the unfortunate Apollo mission of NASA. The movie opens with Astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) who is enjoying a party to celebrate the success of Apollo 11 lunar mission. The story subsequently revolves to tell the tale of the third mission of landing in the moon which would be led by Astronaut Jim Lovell, Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) lunar module driver and Kevin Bacon as Jack Swivert, who is the command module pilot. The mission is smooth until the crew is threatened due to the explosion of an oxygen ...

The United States and Soviet Union have always seen themselves together in the same sentence because they have always tried to one up the other. This scenario is one that is very real with regards the conquest of outer space. For some reason America seemed to be playing catch up as she was a step behind with regards exploring outer space and putting a man in space
Project Mercury is a program by NASA with an aim to launching the first Americans into space. During the duration of Project Mercury six flights were made by astronauts. Of that six, two came ...

According to Selye (1955) stress is defined as a condition which propels a unique body response in a manner that causes changes in physiological or structural aspects of our body. Another view proposed by (Lazarus, 1966) is that stress is a condition which compels an individual to feel exhausted when the demands of that person exceed the physical and social resources accessible to him.

Stress in Aviation

Pilots are really conscious at the time of their flights because accidents can happen with tragic repercussions. These accidents are a cause of series of mistakes committed at the time. Although the executor of mistake may only do one thing ...

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Introduction / Background

The purpose of this document is to provide all management levels within the Airline Company with the basic outline of the philosophy, policies, procedures and practices. This document is the General SOP which provides a high-level overview of the operational regulations and HR practices for the United States and Canada. It and does not have as an aim to explain the tactical level of operations of ...

Discussion Questions

In what direction was Henry Hudson initially ordered to travel? What direction does he ultimately take? What does this say about Hudson’s personality?
Hudson was initially ordered to travel for the northeast. In fact, it was strongly recommended for him to do so. However, the man disobeyed and decided to travel in a totally different direction. He was three thousand miles in the opposite direction as he was sailing towards the northwest. The fact that Hudson disobeyed and chose his own way shows that he was very ambitious, risk taking and persistent. He knew what he wanted and ...

The juxtaposition style is displayed in the opening remarks of Soviet Revolutionary, who asserts that “Revolution is war.” The assertions are accompanied by images in which water crashes on the rocks. It is a demonstration of constant collision that later shook the battleship to the end of the film. The theme of disturbance and collision is at play, and the juxtaposed ideas are made bear in the form of change that is accompanied by destruction. The two ideas are combined subconsciously to ascertain the montage theory. The theme of conflict is used for the conveyance of images to provide ...

Introduction

In the early 20th century, there were hopes for a new, modern and developed era. With the development of industry, machinery and shipbuilding, people were waiting for something better and convenient for their life. Passenger liners to the "New world" were built together with people's hope for a new life. When the new liner appears, moreover with a reputation of being unsinkable, it is impossible that there would be such an unfair end.

"Unsinkable"
Titanic – the ship that defied the higher powers, the miracle of shipbuilding and the largest ship of its time. The builders and owners of the ...

Aviation industry provides the only transportation networks across the globe and is thus the only dependable business for global business development and tourism. Air transportation is one of the crucial services that offer commendable social and economic benefits to a country. It provides jobs and increase tax revenue. Air transportation is evidently the fastest mechanism for movement of peopled and cargo shipments across the world. In terms of social factors, air transport broadens people’s leisure and cultural experiences. It provides a cheaper and efficient platform for talking holiday vacations and visiting distant friends and family.
Automobiles all over the ...

The local business is a small chain restaurant located inside a shopping mall, which offers a mix of American and Mexican cuisine. The business uses around 150-200 square meters of space with the kitchen at the back portion separated from the dining segment with a wall and a swinging door. The business has around 7 employees manning the dining section of the restaurant with one employee manning the entrance, the manager, a cashier and four other employees, which are considered as the waitstaff. The business has a single entry/exit point, which is manned by one employee for the purpose ...

“A High Wind in Jamaica” is masterpiece written by a Welsh writer, Richard Hughes, assuming a Caribbean setting during the mid-1800s. The novel later made its way into the filming industry in 1965 depicting the day-to-day lifestyle of children who lived on a pirate ship. This is after an attack from pirates led by the Danish sailor Captain Jonsen leaves them captured and all their cargo was taken. The captain who headed the children’s ship cowardly escapes and delivers news to their parents that the children are dead. Captain decides to leave the children with a caregiver on ...

Pilot Medical Privacy Laws and Germanwings Flight Crash

The crash of Germanwings flight 9525 en route from Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Spain to Dusseldorf Airport in Germany, which caused the death of 144 passengers and 6 crew members, is considered to be one of the grimmest aircraft crashes in European flight history. The sad reality of this event was that this mishap was caused by the deliberate attempts of a deranged co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who was being treated for suicidal tendencies and was also declared “unfit for work” by his doctor. The initial investigations done by the BEA (French Land Transport Accident Investigation Bureau) revealed that the ...

O Captain! My Captain! is a poem written by Walt Whitman in 1865. The work was created in the form of monologue, where the nameless character says about the death of the captain of his ship. Experts say the poem describes the death of Abraham Lincoln in the metaphoric way, but readers can not see this idea without a context. While Whitman did not use many details and focused on feelings and surrounding, it is possible to create narrator’s profile that is based only on poem’s words.
Lines “Here Captain! dear father! [and] My father does not ...

U.S. AIRWAYS FLIGHT 1549

Summary of Event

U.S. Airways Flight 1549 struck a at least two Canadian geese around 3:27 p.m. on January 15, 2009, after departing New York’s LaGuardia Airport headed to Charlotte, North Carolina. As a result, both engines on the plane lost thrust. The pilot notified air traffic controllers of the strike less than three minutes after takeoff, and an emergency was declared. As Captain Chesley Sullenberger communicated with air traffic control, he determined that he would be unable to turn the plane back to LaGuardia Airport and land safely. The captain made the decision to land the ...

Globalization is a concept which has gained significant popularity in the business arena. Every organization wishes to expand beyond its national borders so as to serve the global market as well as gain more revenues. So is the case with companies operating in the maritime industry. In order to grab more market share, build long term relationships in the industry and establish sound image at international level, shipping companies are making use of several strategies. Mergers, acquisitions and alliances are common strategic options employed by the maritime industry to achieve long term objectives (ClilT, 1990). In the given scenario, ...

Flight for life refers to a prehospital service concerned with the provision of care services especially during emergencies, and which has many centers throughout the United States (Kingsolver 12). Primarily, flight for life offers medical transport of critically ill individuals to healthcare centers throughout the United States where they receive specialized medical care. In addition, the flight for life service operates by using several land vehicles alongside the fixed-wing aircraft in facilitating the transport of critically ill patients to specialized hospitals across America. Notably, the transport services by helicopter are very valuable in saving lives of victims of emergencies or ...

Homer, the stalwart figure in the history of literature of the world, made his mark in his seminal work, The Odyssey, which has passed the test of time and has got engraved in the verses of immortality all over the globe for its literary excellence and quintessence. The cinematic adaptation of the epic was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky and it released in the year 1997. Odysseus is a man of paramount strength, but relies on his brains than his brawns. The perseverance of the human soul and loyalty are all the various facets of human emotions which the epic as ...

- Panamax. In case of bulk carrier, it is about 65/82,000 dwt, 7 hatches/holds, it is usually without gear. In case of tanker, Panamax has about 60/80,000 dwt.
- Capesize – around 120/200,000 dwt, 9 hatches/holds, without gear.
- VLCC – Very Large Crude Carrier – about 240/320,000 dwt.
- Handysize. In case of bulk carrier, it has about 20/35,000 dwt, 4 or 5 hatches/holds. It is geared with 25-35 ton cranes. In case of tanker, it has about 10/37,000 dwt.
- Handymax – about 36/49,000 dwt, 5 hatches/holds. It is geared ...

Abstract

An elevator refers to mechanical equipment used to transport goods and people between different floors of the building, decks of a vessel or levels of any other structure. The different types uses, advantages and disadvantages of ship elevators are presented in this essay. The elevators are named based on features and functions as personnel elevator, cradle, standing, swinger, hydraulic, cradle and so forth. The safety features, capacities to lift loads, and such other modern gadgets are also discussed. Elevators are of great use for transporting men and material. Technological developments have facilitated manufacturing of customized elevators to suit a particular dock ...