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The doomed watercraft is the backdrop for an even deeper story as immigrants attempted to travel from Southampton, England, to New York City to pursue the American dream. The classist society aspect of the tragedy is still unfortunately alive today, as rich patrons are treated differently from the poor. In …

More than a century has passed since Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic started its ill-fated maiden journey from Southampton, UK, only to sink in the North Atlantic, which turned into the ship’s frigid graveyard. The grand ocean liner collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912 and …