“He grabbed a bucket of water, a washcloth, and a towel, went up to Alexander Hamilton’s tombstone, and cleaned it until it sparkled. Then he and the other chiefs stood at attention and saluted the founding father of the Coast Guard”-Adm. James M. Loy The Coast Guard’s response to 9/11 remains a defining moment in Coast Guard history. The terrorist attack in lower Manhattan not only affected the surrounding New York area, but sent shock waves throughout the United States with many citizens fearing the protection of domestic security.
Fleming uses statistics to describe how dangerous it is for refugees to cross the Mediterranean, Fleming stats, “ By August of that same year over 2000 refugees had already died trying to cross the Mediterranean.” By using this statistic Fleming tries to convey to the audience just how dangerous and deadly it can be for refugees who are trying to flee the war torn country of Syria. And that if they aren't killed by the fighting going on in their own county they are in just as much danger trying to flee their country. Fleming continues to use logos to appeal to her audience by stating that half of Syria's population which as of 2014 was at 22 million has been forced to relocate from their homes or flee the country altogether. Lastly Fleming uses statistics from the day Doah's boat was attacked and capsized to show just how tragic that trip was, Fleming stats, “ Only 11 out of the 500 people onboard that refugee boat survived.”
Many passengers tried covering the hole and others called for help with a satellite phone. Six long hours later, help from the Italian coast guard came. Everybody on board survived due to the steadfast thinking of the passengers. When they saw the hole, they could have just said “we're done for” and given up, but they kept trying to think of solutions to save everyone on board. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have the same perseverance to keep trying for a better life by moving to different countries where equal rights and a better life exist.
After the 16ft boat the five people were on, capsized in a storm, John Riggs left for shore to get help, knowing that it was the only hope to save his sister, father, daughter and nephew.. He swam for five hours in cold jellyfish infested waters, having to stop and
Blaire Carney December, 1, 2017 Changing Society DBQ DiPrimo 6 During the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, there was a great abundance of civil issues with American politics and society. Reformers are those people who not only took notice of the problems but also took actions to amend them. Society was such a mess that most citizens were in danger, be it from food unfit to eat before it was further defiled by workers and animals in the abhorrent circumstances found within most food-processing factories, illnesses spread through closely confined living quarters lacking ventilation or necessary access to bathrooms for basic hygiene, corruption, and bribery inherent in the structures of political machines, or discrimination
The plane then sunk into the Potomac River, leaving passengers fighting for their lives. Only six of the seventy four passengers survived and one of the passengers lived to tell the story of the man who risked his own life while fighting to save everyone else ’s. In the article “The Man in the Water,” by Roger Rosenblatt, the theme is heroism.
People begin to have extreme courage and strength when there are accidents. We get scared for others and dive right into help them. Some people will risk their lives to help people in need of serious help. Just like Donald Usher and Eugene Windsor, the helicopter crew, that risked their lives every time they landed in the water in Roger Rosenblatt ’s essay The Man in the Water.
The book, “Brave New World”, talks about how The Hatchery can produce humans and can be conditioned. It starts off with a group of students having a tour to the fertilizing room where they see the process how humans born not through natural birth but through apparatus and computer. The fertilized eggs are divided into Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons where Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons “undergo Bokanovsky’s Process”. From that process, one egg can produce more than ninety buds that will turn into a fully sized adult. The Director calls Bokanovsky’s Process as “one of the major instruments of social stability”.
The director makes the argument that unorthodox behavior is worse than murder to portray that unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of one person. Unorthodoxy is so dangerous for the reason that it threatens the whole society, it strikes at society itself (pg.148). D.C.H dislikes Bernard for Bernards heretical views on soma and sport, unorthodox sex life, and refusal to obey teaching of Ford. To humiliate Bernard D.C.H exposes Bernard. For instance, he states, “ this man who stands before you hear, this Alpha-Plus to whom so much has been given, and from whom, in consequence so much must be expected, this colleague of yours or should I anticipate and say this ex colleague?
This entire world is hell, we live in fear and the constant series of brutal events that break us until we can't fucking move. The world isn't nice, the world was never ment to be nice. We have changed it, destroyed it, destroyed each other, but where does it end. When people say seize the moment. Does it even work that way, because it seems the moment seizes us.
Imagine if you were born into a country filled with poverty, fear, anxiety, despair and sorrow. The pain and suffering you would go through every day was so violent that you and your family had given up on all measures of hope. Every day you would fear persecution and you couldn’t even feel safe in the comfort of your own home. But what if there was a sliver of hope of escaping this drama occurring in your homeland by leaving by boat. All this drama gone in a flash, wouldn’t you want to try?
Even though some people might not think we are moving towards being like the Brave New World society, I think we are becoming more like the BNW society in the area of sex and relationships. Everyday we get closer to becoming more like a Utopian society because we have good and bad morals. We are similar when it comes to dating relationships, having multiple partners, and lack of sexual intimacy. In the Brave New World, the system rewards promiscuity and the lack of commitment.
Is Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel Brave New World still a relevant text in today's modern society or is it no longer relevant in today's modern society? Yes, Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World is most definitely still relevant in today's modern society. Even though Brave New World’s society is pretty much different from our society today, there is still some things that are still relevant today that are in the book. One thing that Brave New World is relevant in our modern society today is the drugs and alcohol. In Brave New World, the soma is what the people use for a drug.
Throughout my search for colleges, I came across a number of different schools. Each school offered something different, a new research insititue, excotic places to study aborad in or even a pet friendly policy. All of these things were great offers but one thing that none of the schools I saw offered was a city like Boston. Boston is what many call a young city. Yes, it is true that the city itself is not, considering it dates back all the way to before the American Revolution but the people living in the city are young students eager to learn.
Instead, they are taken across bodies of water relying on rickety water crafts and false promises from human traffickers. In many cases these human traffickers give potential clients assurances that their trip across the sea will be upon seaworthy vessels which will lead them to a new prosperous life across the sea for a few hundred or thousand euros (Goettsche-Wanli, 2015). Once these refugees arrive at their destination due to the complexity, and oft, convoluted laws of the sea they may be left without adequate shelter and may end up living a temporary life of purgatory upon ships as they await lengthy litigations of legal responsibility from nations unwilling to take and care for the refugees (Newland,
