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It seems like a recurring theme in this course that a disaster can be manipulated in order to support an argument of one side. This concept was brought up by Steven Biel in his own writing piece “Unknown and Unsung” which takes a look at the perspective of certain groups in America and their reaction/take on the disaster. The concept is made apparent by first looking at an African American point of view in several versions of the song “The Great Titanic” where the song mentions upper class people living in separate quarters from lower class people and due to this perceived unfairness, the wealthy are later on divinely punished with the sinking to make a point (Biel 316). Another example of the Titanic disaster being used to justify a point is when Socialist writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman saw it as only being seen as a major disaster due to the wealthy on board and thus hinted that it was, “the product of capitalism and its desire to legitimate itself” (Biel 324). Either way, these opinions and others mentioned in Biel’s work show that a disaster can be used to support an idea or ideology. I agree with this argument by Steven Biel for what should rather be another sinking disaster that reflected more on the cockiness of designers as well as the preference for speed over safety in the Atlantic became blinded by the politics of the time. These arguments are no better than early Christian writers who used the horrific deaths of Roman Emperors who were hostile to Christianity as justification of their faulty belief system. This is made more clearer in a post by Rhruska in discussing the feminist interpretation of the disaster by saying, “This rejection of paternal [dominance] by feminists after the disaster was critical to publicizing their cause” (Titanic – More to the Myth). Publication also helps gets more people to curious about a topic and even if the argument is flawed, will at least have knowledge of what is going on. Still these are interpretations of a disaster for political arguments in order to create change. If someone wants to create real change in society, an use of rational argumentation and support, not opinion, is needed to make an impact.