2014年6月25日水曜日

Titanic


 The Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world when it set sail from Southampton, England to New York City in 1912. No other ship has captured the world’s attention quite like the Titanic did. Constructed to be unsinkable, the first class ocean liner set sail on April 10 that year. The world has awaited the maiden voyage of this luxury liner for years.

 Then, on Sunday, April 14, four days after it began its voyage, the Titanic was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when tragedy struck. At 1:45 p.m. messages were sent from another ship telling the crew of the Titanic that large ice bergs lay, in its path. However, since the Titanic’s radio operators were concerned with relaying messages to and from the passengers, they did not report the message about the icebergs to the bridge.

 That night, which was freezing cold the ocean was calm and the moon was not visible, even though the sky was clear. At 11:0 p.m., two members of the crew on the bridge spotted a large iceberg and telephoned the senior officer, exclaiming, “Iceberg, right ahead!” When the ship struck the iceberg, many people on board were drinking and socializing. So they did not notice the sudden jarring movement of the ship. The crew, on the other hand, soon realized that the Titanic would sink.

 Sadly, there were not enough lifeboats before departure because it wanted to make the Titanic look good. However, this was a big mistake. It resulted in the deaths of 1,513 people that night. Of the 2,228 passengers and crew members who set sail, only about 700 of the Titanic passengers survived.

 I thought it was surrounded by a solid 'wall' of class in British society at the time, and upper-class aristocrats and millionaires, lower class middle class, such as teachers, engineers, officers, workers belonging to disjoint. For example, train seats and won the first, 2 and 3, and distinction, people were even choose class belongs his seat.

 I think in 'titanic' being brought in as gap in British society at the time. Rose and Jack rose was third class cabin guests first class cabin, Jack. Is a tremendous gap that the shipping cost of the Titanic's first class cabin is 870 pounds, 2 class cabin is 13 pounds, 3 cabin is 3 to 6 pounds. Design dining room and aisles are doorways in all, meet each other that not even was. It is truly a microcosm of British society at the time. Was the mechanism by which men and women do not love beyond the class gap and brought love field. It is was predisposed to to love among the upper class in social circles.

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