edmund fitzgerald
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The Edmund Fitzgerald
There were many cases in talking about the Edmund Fitzgerald in how it was taken down for its last journey in Lake Superior. The Edmund Fitzgerald was a large freighter that sank on November 10, 1975. In one case the Edmund Fitzgerald sank because it was over loaded but in another case the waves made the ship twist and it capsized and broke in to two different pieces. Another case was that the ship had hit the bottom of the ocean floor and it took on water and sank the ship. The stories can be told on different aspects and how it really happened. Each of the three sources that are used tells of their own story of how the Edmund Fitzgerald sank to the bottom of Lake Superior. The audience can vary by each from the ballad, news source, and the article through what it tells and how it explains the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. To get the facts and even the true story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the audience would have to view all three texts and not just one to understand the whole story.
The ballad of the Edmund Fitzgerald was a song written after the ship sank in 1975. It tells the story of what happened that night of the wreck in great detail...