"A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dinghy one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dinghy."
This is a quote from The Open Boat by .

Stephen Crane

Explanation:

This excerpt from open boat highlights the hostile nature of sea.

This story was Stephen's own experience of thriving on a wrecked ship on coast of Florida  while he was travelling to Cuba for his work.

Stephen was left in the sea for about 30 hours when his ship SS Commodore, hit a sandbar.  He along with three other men used a small boat to navigate back to shore.

eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.

i think it's either 'to expose the corruption of the communists in russia', or 'to criticize animal brutality by communists in russia.'  

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