Essays on Titanic

Robert Olen Butler’s story “Titanic Victim Speaks Through Waterbed” is narrated by the ghost of a victim who died on the Titanic, whose spirit continues to haunt the waters in which he dwelled. Making his way from the ocean, to a cup of tea, and...

I have always been intrigued by the Titanic, but my interest boomed with the recent development in how the side of the ship was damaged. I was amazed that instead of causing a gaping wound, as was previously believed, the iceberg that Titanic hit merely...

Maritime transport is a common way to travel, even today. Over the past 10,000 years, there have been over three million ship wrecks on the ocean floor. Only one percent of shipwrecks have been explored. (Bennett 2017) Two common ships that are in the one...

The Titanic: A Test of the Efficiency of U.S. Capital Markets The effectiveness of the stock markets involves the investigation of how much, how fast, and how accurately the available data is incorporated into security prices. Financial economists classify the efficiency of capital markets into...

A Titanic Tradegy When the Titanic sank, many mysteries went with it. How did they die? Who fired gunshots? These questions cannot be answered with any proof, but they can be answered by some of the witnesses that survived the ordeal. John Stall was aboard...

Love or Lies? The RMS Titanic, known as the “unsinkable” ship, tragically went down in the middle of the ocean, leaving many to freeze in the icy waters. The boat may not have been unsinkable, but it was still the most extravagant adventure of the...

The American independent film comprises a branch of the Hollywood industry, birthed since the 1970s but which exploded in the 1990s owing to a spurt of interest and funding. Clerks (1994) cannot be challenged as one of the films which answers to every characteristic of...

Mise En scene: The Titanic In James Cameron’s academy award winning film The Titanic (1997), themes of good versus evil awry when Jack and Rose fall in love aboard the sinking ship, and complications of social stratification becomes apparent both in the musical scoring by...

The Titanic tells the dramatic, prosperous yet love story of Jack Dawson played by Leonardo Dicaprio and Rose DeWitt Bukater played by Kate Winslet through a journey taken place in 1912 on their voyage from Southampton to New York City. Director James Cameron splurged a...

The Titanic Watching a good movie is one of my favorite pastimes. After a long day of school or work there is on other sensations such as curling up on the couch and watching a great movie. Epic stories throughout our history our best portrayed...

Every day people are faced with the harsh reality of sociological issues. Including classism and inequality due to sex and gender. For instance, 76% of all countries have at least one law treating women and men differently including, applying for a passport, conferring citizenship to...

Titanic’s creators wanted to create a ship that could not be defeated by nature and its laws and that’s what they believed when in March 1909, they began work on the ship, it was built in competition against other big luxurious steamships around the 20th...

In this essay I will be talking about the use of mise-en-scène to convey narrative in a film sequence from the movie Titanic, directed by James Cameron. “A narrative is a story that you write or tell to someone, usually in great detail. A narrative...

The film Titanic hit the big screen in the year 1997, becoming the top movie in the box office for that year. Since then, many have been able to experience the epic romance and tragedy all wrapped into one hundred and ninety four minutes. The...

The film Titanic (1997) is a riveting Drama/Romance film based on real life events, told by Rose, one of the survivors, as well as one of the main characters in the film. The majority of the film takes place on the Titanic, set back in...