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Ian And Reene Throughout The Book
374 wordsThe book I chose is called Wreck and was written by Allan Bailie. The main plot of this book is a cyclone strikes Albatross Beach when Ian Foster and Reene Thomson are holidaying there. The situation is Ian's parents have gone away for a while and Reene is supposed to baby-sit Ian. Once the cyclone hits their shack on the beach, the shack is destroyed so they seek shelter in a rusty old freighter on the beach. To there misfortune they climbed aboard during the eye of the cyclone and the ship was...
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Harry On The Floor By The Sphere
1,836 wordsTitle: SPHERE Author: Michael Crichton Copyright: 1987 Main Characters: Harry, Beth, 'Jerry', Norman, Ted, Barnes Setting South Pacific under water 1, 00 feet under in a cylinder habitat. My name is Norman Johnson and I am a Psychologist. I am 54 and I am married. I have been called to a crash scene before to administer but this wasn't just any crash scene it would change my life. I was called out by the military to a site in the south pacific. I didn't hear any reports of an airline crashes so ...
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Deck With Their Life Belts
668 wordsIt all started when I was enjoying a late-night game of poker with some friends of mine, including by best friend, Joe Allen. There was a small rumble and my noticed that my glass of fine wine was disturbed a bit. "What was that?" Joe said curiously. "Oh, it was probably just the firemen throwing in more coal to speed this thing up overnight". I replied. The game continued normally until I was out of cash on hand; I wasn't very good at poker in the first place. The end of the game was interrupte...
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Strange Sphere
745 wordsThe Sphere by Michael Crichton Writer's opinion If up until now I have been saying about each book that it was the best book I have ever read, I was lying... because compared with this book they all come down to nothing. For four days I have been reading non stop all 370, or so, pages and that's a first for me in English or Hebrew. Highly recommended to all si-fi fans out-there. The Plot I find it hard to condense the plot of 370 pages to just a few pages, however, I will try my best. It all sta...
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Jason And Jason Jr
497 wordsWe alone can not go down and get close enough to explore the Titanic. We now have the technology to build robotic machines to explore the ocean floor like Jason or Jason Jr. They are smaller than a submarine, actually a lot smaller, almost like a remote control car. The Titanic sank in the north Atlantic in 1912. Jason Jr. is very handy, it can reach as deep as 4000 meters. The reason they do not have Jason Jr. any more is because it got lost in 1991 off the Galapagos Island and was found 9000 f...
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Pieces Of The Titanics Hull
1,413 wordsTitanic Titanic was the largest ship in the world, built by a workforce of 17,000. The ultimate in turn-of-the-century design and technology. First-class suites ran to more than $55,000 in today's dollars, and when she sailed on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England on route to NY, she held among her 2,227 passengers. The cream of industrial society, including colonel John Jacob Astor. Macys founder; U.S. congressman Isidor Straus and Thomas Andrews, the ships builder. The ship was built o...
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Dantes As A Character
400 wordsEdmund Dantes, a strapping young sailor, was the prime years of his life during the nineteenth century. He was a good person, was well mannered and frankly had a lot of things going for him. He was affianced to the lovely Mercedes, he captained a good ship, the Phar on, and had whom he thought been good friends. It was at this stage in his life, however, that things were about to do a complete turn and take 14 years away from him. His envious shipmates planned to ruin him, overtake his ship, and...
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English Ship
397 wordsAfter only a brief stay with his family, Gulliver returns to the sea as a surgeon. The ship is blown off course by a storm in the Pacific Ocean east of Japan and a shore party in an unknown country abandons Gulliver. He finds himself in Brobdingnag where the inhabitants are sixty feet tall. After being captured and exhibited for money by a farmer, Gulliver becomes a prized possession of the royal court. One of the two main story lines in his part is Gulliver's many misadventures due to his size;...
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John Winthrop
707 wordsWhat was john Winthrop's reason for venturing to America Did he and his fellow travelers view their journey to America as a trip into the wilderness After john Winthrop sold all of his possessions and arranged to move his whole family from comfortable England to the rugged and dangerous new world. His wife Margaret was expecting a baby, so he decided to leave her and his oldest son at home for the first year while he went with the first group of settlers. He could barely stand the thought of bei...
