Part one of term paper
There have been many maritime disasters. The number of people affected by the disasters usually is the significance. The most significant disasters usually stay in peoples' minds forever, even though they were not directly involved. The Titanic was a luxury liner, considered to be an unsinkable ship. Yet on April 14, 1912 the ship sank, k ...

Part two of term paper
... because the water temperature was so low (Maddocks 131). There were many important people who died in this horrible tragedy. A U.S. millionaire John Jacob Astor died trying to save his wife and children, a week later his body was found horribly mangled ("Mute Testimony Of The Wreckage" 712). Other important people who died on the ship such as Thomas Andrews who died, and he was the builder of the ship, and John George Phillips who died while trying to send morse code and no one responded ( Maddo ...