Essays on Sailors

The situation on the HSM Bounty presents an excellent opportunity for studying organizational behavior, administration, and organizational decline. In particular, the film Mutiny on the bounty deals with issues such as attitudes towards leadership, toxic leadership, communication, ethics, and organizational culture. In the film, the HMS Bounty was commissioned by the English government on a mission to collect and transport breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. William Bligh served as captain, the first time he was holding that position on a ship. Fletcher Christian, a man from a distinguished and wealthy family, serves as his second-in-command. Before ...

In the summer of 1884, four English sailors, Thomas Dudley, Edward Stephens, Brooks and Richard Parker who was a cabin boy were cast away in a storm in the Atlantic Ocean and were forced to put into an open boat from which they were stranded. Inside the boat, they had only two tins of turnips. They lacked supply of water and food for three days. Fortunately, on the fourth day they caught a turtle on which they fed till the twelfth day when it was entirely consumed. The depended on the sporadic rain for the supply of fresh water. ...

Impact of Benjamin Franklin's Charts of the Golf Stream on the Shipping Industry

The Gulf Stream is a gigantic current that flows from the Mexican Gulf, past the Florida Peninsula, U.S. East Coast and up to Cape Hatteras. The current then flows across the Atlantic towards Iceland, British Isles, and to Norway. Viewed from the Straits of Florida, the stream has a width of approximately forty miles. Its speed can go as high as five miles per hour (4.3 nautical knots). As the current flows into North Atlantic, the width widens and can increase to up to hundreds of miles at some points (Richardson 51). The amount of water carried by the ...

Impact of Benjamin Franklin's Charts of the Golf Stream on the Shipping Industry

The Gulf Stream is a gigantic river that flows inside ocean from the Mexican Gulf, passing through Florida Peninsula, the East Coast and to Cape Hatteras. The current flows into the Iceland, British Isles, and to Norway. Viewed from the Straits of Florida, the stream has a width of approximately forty miles. Its speed can go as high as five miles per hour. As the Current flows into North Atlantic, the width widens and can increase to up to hundreds of miles at some points (Richardson 51). The amount of water carried by the Gulf Stream is more than ...

Introduction

On the shores of the Gulf of Omen lies an almost dying city called Sur. Sur was the capital city of Ash Sharqiya Region before it was split into two. The primary activity in the city today seems like prayer and religion in general as most of the very few buildings in the city are mosques. The city only looks like what it used to be that what it is currently. The sea which is said to have been once the most active as a means of transport to East Africa looks deserted with only a few boats lying ...

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S Navy’s Finest Hour serves as a chronicle of the Battle of Samar. The author, James Hornsfischer referred to this battle as the ultimate upset in the naval warfare history. The author brilliantly combined the different accounts from official reports and firsthand witnesses of the warfare that occurred in the Gulf of Leyte. Despite being the underdog during the encounter, the ‘tin cans’ of the American forces were able to overcome the overwhelming forces of the Japanese military. It was on January ...

Will become smoker or not?

There are a lot of things, without which people cannot live. Humans are accustomed to a large number of things that help them to have fun, relax or simply kill time. Among this set of habits, a special place belongs to old, but at the same time always modern habit - smoking. Surely it’s a bad habit, for which humans spend a lot of money, time and health, of course. In the modern world the number of smokers is rather increasing than decreasing. Some people start smoking, whereas others don’t even try, but why? After all, what ...

For many historians and academics, globalization was a big bang phenomenon of 1492. The onset of globalization is thus often related to the voyage of Christopher Columbus, which resulted in his discovery of the Americas. Later on, Vas Co Da Gama’s voyage around Africa and his eventual entry into spice trading further laid the foundation of globalization and interconnectedness. The focus of this essay is to develop a clear analysis of the actual onset of the globalization process. It seeks to show that globalization was present even before the famously-acclaimed voyage of 1492. Globalization in itself denotes the ...

Basic Setting(s):

The Story is set in a tropical place where the sailors find many exotic things and the scenery is wonderful as there are waterfalls and other natural beauties.

Brief Plot Summary of this chapter/essay/short story/poem/play:

The beginning of the story asks for action because the sailors get to a country which is exotic and new. Everything is strange and they see a place which is tropical with a variety of divine natural wonders. The “Lotus-eaters” are the people who are native in this place and they are very kind, but seem to be melancholic. The sailors who taste this plant have a strange feeling and they ...

Convict Women have usually been portrayed as Prostitutes and Criminals.

Convict women have usually been portrayed as prostitutes and criminals. Prostitution among female convicts was a common practice in the new colony where women convicts were considered sexual objects for men. Most female convicts were punished with transportation when found guilty of their offences for the purpose of serving the needs of other sailors. Female convicts were subjected to harsh conditions where besides receiving and giving sexual favors they were forced to work as servants as well as laborers for the few individuals who had influence within their context such as the prison officers. Only a few of the ...

Until 19th century the attitude towards gender was clear: there was a strict limit of occupations available to women as well as there was an established idea of what a good woman should be like. The prejudices of many centuries influenced this sharp definition between men’s and women’s role. Women were considered inferior to men in a number of aspects, which is why they were made mostly to undertake household duties, and were refrained from education or training in any professional sphere. However, with economic and technical progress in early 19th century women became more independent. Several ...

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 ...