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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 …

Commentary On the night of April 14/15, 1912, the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, a British luxury passenger liner, sank in the icy waters of the western North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. The liner was making its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York when tragedy struck, resulting in the …