Bibliographic record
Abstract
As of 15 April 2006, only two survivors, both women, from the Titanic remained alive. other 2200-plus passengers died during that terrible maritime disaster or later, after having survived the ordeal. Other than the three dedicated burial plots in Halifax, Nova Scotia, (1) the deceased victims and survivors were interred, entombed, or cremated in several countries crossing vast geographical boundaries. Many of the markers and crypt covers do mention the connection between the individual and Titanic; however, it is the site off the Grand Banks on the ocean floor that has been designated internationally as the official gravesite of the Titanic and that of its initial victims (Ballard 210). This essay will examine the literature and several other related publications pertinent to this historic event. folklorist looks at as a type of folktale and defines it as an oral account of an event, a person, or a place that actually existed and can be authenticated through documentation as having been a reality. story of the Titanic and of the events surrounding her fateful maiden voyage has become a well-known and circulated legend of the sea. On 15 April 1912, exactly two hours and forty minutes following its collision with an iceberg, the RMS Titanic foundered off the Grand Banks in the icy waters of the north Atlantic not far from Newfoundland (Lord 136). Having broken into two pieces at first, she slowly sank to a depth of approximately two-and-a-half miles beneath the water's surface, where three pieces of her hull rest today. (2) ninety-fourth anniversary on 15 April 2006 of the worst event in the annals of twentieth-century maritime history stirred memories and elicited lore about the tragedy that resulted in the loss of more than 1500 lives. This catastrophe has been perhaps the most chronicled, discussed, and argued about in history. Not only did it remain the focus of news media through newspapers and magazines for nearly two months worldwide, but it also became the genesis of literature and popular culture as well. impetus of such universal attention was probably the fact that it was Titanic's maiden voyage and that its passenger manifest included some of the wealthiest and most socially elite people of that time. Known by accolades such as: World's Greatest Ship, of Dreams, Wonder Ship, Queen of the Ocean, Millionaires' Express, and for the irreverent, The Ship That God Could Not Sink, her gargantuan size and her grandiose and luxurious accommodations were fitting for those aboard. First class cabins and suites were rivaled by no others provided by competitive shipping lines, second class cabins were also very impressive by their design and appointments, and those among the third class or steerage bookings were not uncomfortable by any means. Although interest in the Titanic has never really waned, periodically a renewed interest or booster shot, if you will, is administered that revitalizes the interest for the next generation. release of James Cameron's film version of Titanic in 1997 is a good illustration of this kind of renewal. Following its box office success and the scheduling of several national exhibits by Titanic, Inc., the research component emerging from Robert Ballard's discovery a little more than a decade earlier, the general public was not only mesmerized by the film but also began to seek as much information as possible to satisfy both an intellectual and popular curiosity. (3) Fast approaching is Titanic's centennial, which will once more cause a resurgence of strong popular interest. That event will surely generate an unequaled popular obsession for the terrible tragedy of 1912. By then, there will most likely be no survivors remaining, and the physical remnants of the ship itself will be no more. (4) As long as the printed word exists, written narratives and accounts together with scholarly investigations and treatises will continue to keep the story of the RMS Titanic from fading and eventually disappearing into the abyss of failing human memory. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".