The sinking of Titanic

The sinking of the RMS Titanic was one of the worst shipwrecks in history. When Titanic sank a lot of people died that night in the freezing cold water. Ironically, the Titanic was built so wonderfully that the people who built it thought that it would never sink at all.

The RMS Titanic was built in Belfast, Ireland by the Harland and Wolf shipyard for the White Star Line. It took over three thousand men three years to construct the ship. It cost 7.5 million dollars to build. Titanic was 882 feet long and 92 feet wide.  Features on the ship included a swimming pool, gymnasium, squash court, Turkish bath, the Veranda café, and libraries for both First and Second class guests. Titanic was the most luxurious ship ever built at that time.

Titanic began her maiden voyage in Southampton, England and was headed to New York City, New York. The captain of Titanic was Edward John Smith. He was going to retire after this final voyage on Titanic.
  

On the night of April 14, 1912 Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the early hours of April 15. It took two hours and forty minutes for the ship to sink beneath the ocean surface. There were only 706 survivors and 1, 517 passengers and crew died. One of the passengers, Molly Brown was the only known woman to row a rowboat to safety. Mrs. Straus another passenger refused to leave her husband Mr. Straus, so she stayed and died with him. The people who survived in lifeboats got saved by the RMS Carpathia a few hours after Titanic sank.

After RMS Titanic sank a lot of things changed. First they never let ships go in the area where they were re routed  to avoid ice burgs. Second all ships were required to carry enough lifeboats for everyone on board. Third regulations stated that ships could never turn off their radios.

The sinking of Titanic was a very tragic experience for those who were on it. Titanic was structured to be the finest ship in the world. RMS Titanic took less than three hours to sink to the bottom of the ocean. There was no other ship wrecks before or after April 15, 1912.

The Time of Shakespeare

The time of Shakespeare was a very gross environment. William Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays and some sonnets. Here are a few things that Shakespeare might have done when he lived.

Going to the dentist in Shakespeare's day was a painful and dangerous thing to do. If you had a cavity back then and you had to go to the dentist you could have had your tooth puled without Novocaine. And if you had the money, you could have paid for a new tooth donated by an animal or a dead person. And it was deadly to go to the dentist back then. You could lose a whole lot of your blood and die.

Another thing that was really gross back then was how people went to the bathroom. Since they didn't have toilets they usually used a bucket. After they did their business, they would throw the contents of the bucket out on the streets. Kings and Queens probably just used a hole in a room which led to a pipe which led to a stream or under could.

The last thing that was very gross in Shakespeare's time was that regular ordinary kids sicknesses were very deadly. If a kid fell off a tree and broke their leg, they would just have to lay in bed and hope that their leg healed. Because they didn't have children's Ibuprofen back then they only had about 10% chance of living.

Shakespeare lived in a really gross time. They didn't have toilets, they had horrible dentistry and they had no way of curing sick kids. I would have loved to have seen Shakespeare in real life but I would have hated to have lived in his environment.