Nine Foot Tall Conning Tower Descriptive Writing

were lacking equipment. When the ship sunk, they all gathered up on the emergency boat and

When the ship went down some of the men were in a group for survival. Then days started to pass

On the Beach starts off with a man named Peter Holmes who was a naval officer. He was preparing to report to the Australian navy headquarters in Melbourne which is the southernmost large city in the world. Holmes goes to see what his next assignment is going to be. He had not worked in seven months so he was hoping for something good and was happy. He then finds out he is assigned as liaison officer aboard the U.S.S Scorpion, which was an American nuclear submarine.

Officer Christopher Amoroso appears to inform them of other events, such as the attack on the Pentagon, the second plane hit on the South Tower and an attack on Israel though the group does not accept any of these as true. As the men prepare to enter the North Tower, the buildings begin to rumble. McLoughlin realizes that the South Tower is collapsing onto them and that their only chance of survival is to run into the service elevator shaft. Amoroso trips and does not have time to get up. Rodrigues is unable to get to the shaft in time. McLoughlin, Jimeno and Pezzulo manage to escape the huge amounts of dust and rubble flying down from the South Tower. However, as the rubble continues to crush the elevator shaft, the three are trapped. As the cascade of debris subsides, Pezzulo realizes he can free himself and manages to move nearer to Jimeno who, along with McLoughlin, is pinned under rubble and cannot move. Pezzulo tries but fails to shift the debris covering Jimeno's legs and is ordered by McLoughlin not to

The crew aboard the spacecraft includes Fred Haise, Jim Lovell, and Jack Swigert. When their oxygen tank explodes, all three men make their best attempt to stay calm and discover what happened. When they get news that time is extremely limited, they promptly follow all instructions given to them and power down the ship. Back on Earth, the mission control team is using every resource possible to acquire a new plan. The accident causes the the team to think of solutions to conditions that were never simulated.

A submarine can controls its buoyancy force,which is a force that acts opposite to gravity, and pulls down the ship. Submarine can control this, so it can choose to sink or float. When the tanks in the submarine are

Now, with the clear sunlight , the four men finally address their situation. The captain is lying injured in the bow of the boat, and the The rough January sea is tossing the men around the boat, rising high over the gunwales. The oiler and the correspondent are rowing, trying to get to Mosquito Light Inlet, where there is a lifesaving station. As the day goes on, the men become silent. The captain encourages them. “We’ll get ashore all right,” he says. As they row, seabirds fly over them, flying in groups next to them, one even coming close enough to be waved off. The men cuss at it, thinking it is a bad omen, or bad sign. After quite some time of rowing, the captain spots the lighthouse in the horizon. The crew then rigs up a sail , made from the captains jacket, to help them get to shore quicker and easier. They are very tired and sore from rowing all day. As they get closer to the lighthouse, the wind dies down. thus

In the games of man, I was a pawn but what if, whilst no one was looking, I climbed the tower? I planned to eliminate the Generals, Field Marshals and Lieutenant generals who used me, a Captain, and instead of their game it would be mine.

Me and this other fellow picked up what was left of this lad, put him on a stretcher and took him out on the latched-up Mole,” Wright says of the pier-like structure that the troops had built to take them out to rescuing ships. “I took him on board to a makeshift ward they had and went to leave, but the skipper said I could stay on board. I could not believe my luck.” Luckily for him he got to stay on the ship as the characters in the movie were not as lucky and had to hide underneath the makeshift pier. One thing I noticed in the movie is the pier looks professionally built and doesn’t depict that the pier was actually built by soldiers while under fire, which is quite impressive.

Hamlet is a play about a man who has had a father killed by his uncle,

They soon discovered the submarines bow planes were buried; the bow tanks full of sand. The propellers were torn off, steering gear ruined, stern tanks flooded, and all the hatches were desperately jammed.

As I go up and catch up to the firefighters, one of them all bloody and one dead.as we go up we hear that the other tower has collapsed and we are told to get out now, but we were trapped we couldn't go down anymore our only option was to jump but we had to be the last to jump.

Throughout the first semester,I have had the opportunity to read an amount of bountiful texts. Ranging from the enlightenment ages, to the time of the Anglo-Saxon warriors. Having read many stories, I have been able to find some stories that I as a reader have enjoyed. Some poems,others short stories. Each fable,has a message behind it,but it takes the scholar to be able to acquire it.

The warm sun beats down upon my forehead, and sweat beads upon it. Despite this I do not feel hot, nor cold, the climate is perfect not too humid yet not dry, paradise. Another fit of coughs brings fresh pain to my scorched lungs bringing me back to reality. I reach over to the worn oak table that lies next to my bed, but the pain in my joints prevents me from doing so. I heave from the pain that I have now become accustomed to. How did I get to this point, I contemplate this for hours on end as I have done many times before. Though I do not think about this much more as these horrible fits of coughing and heaving are progressively getting worse. I attempt to call to my parents to retrieve me more water, but the burn in my lungs protests and all that comes out is a muffled yell.

The cold rain fell down on my body as I involuntarily shiver from the cold wet feeling on my skin. I look around to find myself surrounded by puddles of water and no way out. My breath was visible through the air. I was one of the best days to run in as well as the worst. It was another exciting day at track.