Harland and Wolff

You probably have heard of the Titanic. If you haven't then let me tell you about the Titanic. My article is about the Titanic: the building of the Titanic, the journey, iceberg/crash, and survivors. Like you heard earlier the building of the Titanic started on March 31, 1909 by Hard & Wolf. Titanic’s sister Olympic, had set sail three months before the Titanic. The Titanic had 15,000 workers working on her. About three million iron and steel rivets were used. It was 822 feet long and eleven…

As it seems the massive liner was doomed to infamy from the very beginning. At on Wednesday April 10, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic started to depart from Southampton on its way to New York City. Just as titanic left port a dangerous suction started and pulled another ship the New York into a crash course with the immense ship and it wasn’t until the last possible minute that a huge surge of water pushed the New York out of harms way. Yet just as it seemed that disaster was averted another major…

On April 10th 1912, the largest ship buoyant left Southampton, England on her voyage to New York. The Titanic was pure luxury with its grand staircase to accompany the center of the ship. Made from polished oak, wrought iron and a variety of boutique glass. The centerpiece of the grand staircase was a large carved panel containing a clock. The Titanic was sheer luxury and was larger than any ship at that time. There was 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class. Unfortunately, this played a large role in the…

Julius Lester’s poem, “Parents” reveals how quickly life can go wrong. A girl kills herself instead of her dog when forced to shoot it by her parents. This plot twist is similar to that in “That Room” by Tobias Wolff because people can’t plan everything and unexpected events will occur regardless of a person’s will. The article doesn’t hold this deeper meaning. However, Lester does and finds art in it. Art is perceived differently for every individual. Lester makes changes to the article to make…

Deception and Tobias Wolff’s This Boy’s Life, but only through examination of the two. The main protagonist, for the sake of this essay they will be labeled that way, in each memoir is the father figure. For Geoffrey Wolff it is his biological father, The Duke, and for Tobias Wolff it is his step father, Dwight. Both Memoir’s focus…

response, I decided to write a series of letters between the characters of Tobias and Arthur Wolff. This seemed appropriate given that the text provides a range of viewpoints in the form of letters, notably ones of serious and important matters. I thought it would be interesting to view the memoir from a new perspective of Arthur Wolff as well as the reoccurring perspective of the adolescence, Tobias Wolff. Throughout the memoir Arthur Sr. was an elusive father-figure and would only be mentioned…

This Boy’s Life is a memoir written by Tobias Wolff. It describes his childhood, like how he changed his name to Jack. When Jack was young he often changed households until they finally ended up with Dwight. This might have an effect on his morality, or at least his morality as a child. Throughout the novel Jack acts like an egoist as his actions are done to benefit himself in some way. Jack is still fighting Arthur even after rolling down the hill that led to the bank they are currently…

memoir, Wolff uses myriad techniques to create an unsparing self-portrait that shatters the audience’s image of childhood and highlights the difference between the reality of his childhood and the falsified image of it that he constructed at the time. He uses this to achieve his purpose of demonstrating how appearance can have more weight to an outcome than reality. The author employs short simple sentences, so as to shatter the image of a time of innocence. By the use of metaphors, Wolff…

Tobias Wolff’s “Powder” is the story about a young man who is hesitant in his actions and unlike his father who is impulsive. He explains how the father’s actions are spontaneous while the son remains disinclined and yet not wanting to tell his father no. He gives the readers examples such as, them staying and continuing to ski after it began snowing just as they were about to leave. The father was not taking into consideration that the beautiful snow that was falling could impede him getting…

“The hunters in the Snow” is a short story by Tobias Wolff. The story opens up with an overweight man named Tub. He waits for his friends to come pick him up for over an hour and when they show up Kenny, the driver, plays joke acting like he was going to run him over. Tub complained and Frank, his other friend, told him to relax that it was just a joke. Once Tub was in the car, they drove to the woods to go hunting for deer. Once there the story shows that Kenny and Frank were closer than they…