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Biel’s text explains how different people in the United States remember the Titanic Disaster, and it also takes a look at the current political atmosphere during the beginning of the 20th century. The two groups of people that are examined are Blacks and Women.  During the early 1900’s American women were campaigning for suffrage, and the sinking of the Titanic had been used by both sides as a political propaganda. Women wanted equality between genders in every aspect and an argument to that would mean the end of Chivalry. When the Titanic sunk, women and children boarded escape boats and the men sacrificed their life to save the opposite sex. A counter argument that Biel presents was that women are needed to reproduce and that is the main goal of every living species. Another argument was that the law of the land was separate from that of the law of the sea; which is true, on international boarders, there is only customary law that presides between states beyond their extended economic zone. The other group that was spoken about were the Black population and their coverage of the story. There were many songs and poems that were written about the catastrophe; and  chriscobar explains that  “the idea of class is also brought in with having immigration and racism in the center of it.” This was noticed by comments from the white population that told the Black population they were lucky they could not afford to buy tickets to go on the ship. which was more of a sarcastic insult presented as a blessing.  The final thought the Biel’s wants to bring to light was that the Titanic was just like any other disaster, but different people were trying to make the incident remembered in a different context.