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Steven Biel suggests in his article, “Unkown and Unsung” that the sinking of the Titanic and the stories going around about the disaster reflect the thought of the American people. He talks about a “myth” about the rich white men aboard the Titanic saved the women and children. He says that, “Repeated celebrations of the chivalry and Christian sacrifice embodied in this act reinforced conservatives views of gender and class relations in which both women and workers were best served by accepting the authority and protection of paternalistic elites.” Conservatives used this disaster against women suffragists, to show how women depend on men. I think its interesting how Biel shows that people during the Progressive era, a time of change, use the Titanic to prove how they are right. People look at the same event, and use it to push their own agenda. That can be seen with the both suffragists and also with those against it. This is true not only during this time in America, but can also be seen now in the present. With the elections coming up, politicians sometimes use the same facts to argue their point. We can see it in the different news channels that report on the same world events, but come up with totally opposite conclusions. Joshua kinda comes to the same conclusion, ” It seems like a recurring theme in this course that a disaster can be manipulated in order to support an argument of one side.”