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On A Sea Of Glass
The ''Titanic'' has played a prominent role in popular culture since Sinking of the Titanic, her sinking in 1912, with the loss of almost 1,500 of the 2,224 lives on board. The disaster and the ''Titanic'' herself have been objects of public fascination for many years. They have inspired numerous books, plays, films, songs, poems, and works of art. The story has been interpreted in many overlapping ways, including as a symbol of technological hubris, as basis for fail-safe improvements, as a classic disaster tale, as an indictment of the class divisions of the time, and as romantic tragedies with personal heroism. It has inspired many moral, social and political metaphors and is regularly invoked as a cautionary tale of the limitations of modernity and ambition. Themes The ''Titanic'' has been commemorated in a wide variety of ways in the century after Sinking of the Titanic, she sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912. As D. Brian Anderson has put it, the sinking of ''Titanic' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ship That Will Never Return
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
