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A Night To Remember - Term Papers

A Night To Remember

The non-fiction novel by Walter Lord is about the well known disaster that the luxury cruse ship the "Titanic" went thorough. This story takes place on the ship and on its many decks. During the story the Titanic sails along the Atlantic Ocean. Walter Lord wrote this book in 1955, but the famous collision occurred on April 14, 1912 at 11:40 P.M. In this novel the author, Walter Lord wants to show what happened at every moment on the colossal cruse liner. The Novel also has not one main character, that is, all characters have the same value in the story.
On April 14, 1912, 2:00 P.M. was when the Titanic left Queenstown for New York on her Maiden Voyage carrying 1316 passengers and 891 ...

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of the ship. All but a few cared about it - if they even heard it. The ship's reputation would hold up to some grinding noise any day. So after a while the word got around that they had, in fact, stuck an iceberg. Surprisingly no one cared and everyone went back to bed. The captain of the Titanic could if in emergency hit a electric button and many air-tight doors sealed off special rooms that could keep the ship afloat even if it had a hole in its double reinforced hull.
As word soon spread that the collision was a lot worse than before expected, the captain and the crew members went to go check the damage. The blow caused a two foot gash in the side of boiler room number 5.
The people had to get into the emergency row boats right? Wrong! The Titanic only had enough row boats for a fraction of the passengers. So the only likely thing to do was to make the women and children go first then if there was any other room left (which there couldn't be) the men could go on. The calls came ...

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Added: 1/28/2004 01:55:37 PM
Category: Book Reports
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