When you hear the word pirate you probably imagine a treasure burying, one-eyed, lawless, ignoble, and barbaric thieves. And even though they were thieves, only one pirate (William Kidd) buried treasure. After all there booty wouldn't gain interest or do them any good underground! Pirates also never survived losing an eye due to infections, though some wore eyepatches for low light vision below deck. Pirate ship had a lot of rules (some banned alcohol) and people rarely did “walk the plank” but it was not the captain's decision because…
Pirate action followed a democratic system. Pirates had a system of checks and balances, created a representative legislative body with reserved powers, and provided healthcare. Pirates voted for their captain,
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During which they would turn a minor scuffle into a massacre. Raid a government ship, a British ship no less, to take its contents, and then they would finally start fighting it. 57 years after the end of the golden age of piracy the next big democratic system was finally created. This new government would elect a leader and vice leader by a vote both of which can be impeached, as well as healthcare. 107 years after the revolution ended and 164 years after the end of the golden age of piracy, a new war would start: the reform era. In which Americans would fight for equal rights. People on pirate ships had rights that it would take America 235 years to give to its citizens. By pirate code gay marriage was legal, in fact, pirates endorsed gay marriage. While only recently gay marriage was made legal in the USA, we are still hashing out the problems with this huge decision. Such as if businesses should have to serve people whose romantic preferences they believe to intersect with their beliefs. Pirates were also known to commandeer slave ships and offer anyone on board (including enslaved Africans) a place among their ranks and a share of the booty. Some scholars even estimate that 60 percent of Blackbeard's crew was black. Yet in the United States movies such as Black Panther are considered revolutionary for having a predominantly black cast. And even though women weren't
Cordingly’s book Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates tells the story of many different pirates of different time periods by the facts. The book uses evidence from first hand sources to combat the image of pirates produced by fictional books, plays, and films. Cordingly explains where the fictional ideas may have come from using the evidence from the past. The stories are retold while still keeping the interest of the audience without having to stray from the factual
Blackbeard was a brave and most outspoken sea rovers who operated during early 1700s in the coastal regions of the English Southern parts of the New world. His piracy activities, together with his co-pirates are key sectors in United States of America’s history. Happening in the time eminently known as the golden age of piracy, their brave advances in sea robbery facilitated the gradual demise of sea hijacking and theft on the deep seas.1
The death of Blackbeard and the trial of the remaining crew were seen as the beginning of the end of the years of buccaneering glory, and a big coup in the war against piracy.
Little is known about the infamous Blackbeard's early life; in fact, the first documentations of him are not recorded until the early 1700s, long after his childhood. Yet with so little knowledge of him, he is arguably regarded as the most notorious pirate in history due to his fearsome personality, distinguished look, daring acts of piracy, and stalwart death.
Starting with the common necessities of everyday life, hardships were of many aboard the ships of the sea. Days on the water without stop would surely leave any seamen lacking food and supplies. Now more specifically for pirates, crew members would have to rest in hammocks or on the wooden decks. Only the highest ranked members of a pirate ship would get to sleep in actual beds and cabins such as the captain.(Jenson-Elliott) In addition, their sleep would be stretched even more when battles occurred at night. The Barbarossa brothers and their crews snuck up on islands at night in order to gain an advantage, but this would require the pirate crews to stay attentive and possibly fight, very late in the night.(Little) Aside from lack of sleep, pirates also had to face things like brutal storms, wounds, gore and the possibility of seasickness. Some wounds would cripple pirates bad enough that they couldn’t fight and had to become cooks.(Jenson-Elliott) These are just a few hardships; the list goes on, and pirates had to endure it
Blackbeard was a pirate during his adult years, but when he was younger he worked on a British ship as a privateer; whose mission was to take over or attack enemy ships (“Blackbeard: Pirate Terror at Sea”). His Father, whose name is unknown, was believed to also be a senior privateer on a Jamaican ship (“Blackbeard: Pirate Terror at Sea”). Later he joined a group of fierce Caribbean pirates (“Blackbeard: Pirate Terror at Sea”). The group of about two hundred fifty men became his crew after they stole a ship to be their own (“Blackbeard: Pirate Terror at Sea”). His ship that is most commonly known was called Queen Anne’s Revenge (“Blackbeard: Pirate Terror at Sea”). They captured this ship in 1716 and sailed it for two years (“Pirate Shipwrecks”). For the two years they ...
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “ No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing.” This quote can relate to the problem that has been going on against the piracy that has been occurring for many years. It has been occurring more now since it has been becoming easier to get access to certain files online. Personally, I think that people should be prosecuted for piracy because it is illegal, morally not right, and it causes many problems for composers.
The English government made piracy into what it is now known in fables and stories today. By sanctioning piracy through the use of privateering, England effectively chipped away at Spain's hold and newfound wealth in the New World. However, by supporting and funding acts of piracy by men such as John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake and Henry Morgan, the English encouraged others to set off in search of fame and fortunes which most of time, these men turned to criminality.
The Golden Age of Piracy began around 1650, and ended around 1730. Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea, but can include acts committed on land, in the air, or in other major bodies of water or on a shore. It does not normally include crimes committed against persons traveling on the same vessel as the criminal. The term has been used throughout history to refer to raids across land borders by non-state agents. A pirate is one who commits robberies at sea, usually without being allotted to do so by any particular nation. The usual crime for piracy can include being hung, or publically executed. Some of the most famous pirates who were killed either because of piracy, or because of natural causes, are Barbarossa, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonney, Sir Francis Drake, Captain Greaves, William Kidd, Jean Laffite, Sir Henry Morgan, Mary Read, and Giovanni da Verrazano.
Modern piracy has touched nearly every corner of the globe and has increased with globalization. The tentacles of piracy now extend from South America to the South China Sea. The greatest numbers of piracy incidents occur along maritime commercial trade routes. Since China dominates the world’s container shipping industry, the South China Sea has become a hotspot for piracy (Kraska 2011). The prominence of cargo activity increases opportunity for pirates and indisputably triggered the sixty- nine incidents of piracy that were reported in 2009 in the South China Sea (Kraska 2011).
The history of piracy dates back more than 3000 years. “It appears that the word pirate (peirato) was first used in about 140 BC by the Roman historian Polybius. The Greek historian Plutarch, writing in about 100 A.D., gave the oldest clear definition of piracy. He described pirates as those who attack without legal authority not only ships, but also maritime cities (http://www.piratesinfo.com/history/history.php).” The most common meaning of the word pirate recognizes them as an outlaw and a thief. Anyone who was caught and tried with the act of piracy would be sentenced to death.
The protection of trade in general has always been considered as essential to the defense of the commonwealth, and, upon that account, a necessary part of the duty of the executive power.
The pirate code as it is called in the movie could be considered an analogy to U.S. Constitution for being rules that it’s citizens follow that make up the very being of what makes an American an American or what makes a pirate, a pirate. Becoming a pirate was basically the original American Dream, the idea of coming to America to free oneself and be given a chance to make a name for themselves as well, this is the same for pirates leaving British control and being able to live freely and claim fame for themselves. This is shown in the movie when they go to Tortuga and the town is in anarchy, yet everyone is happy to be free and even though it doesn’t look like it the town is still thriving. Pirates are just men who are looking for a better life beyond what they are living now without the constraints that the government put on them while they were citizens. Americans are the same way and that was how the United States came to be formed because the US didn’t not accept the control that Britain had, so they fought back to free themselves and develop a new country. The diversity of America could also be seen in the Captain Jack Sparrow’s crew, which included African-Americans, women, midgets, and a parrot. This also goes for any of the pirate crew presented in the movie, while the British soldiers are all Caucasian and almost all the citizens
The term "software piracy" covers different activities: illegal copying of programs, counterfeiting and distributing software - even sharing a program with a friend.
Child marriage is a worldwide problem that involves countries, cultures, religions and ethnicities. Child brides can be found in every region in the world, from the Middle East to Latin America, South Asia to Europe (“Where does…”). In many developing countries child brides total over 67 million worldwide, in some countries, majority of the girls are married before they even turn 18. This practice of marrying before the age of 18, wrecks the lives of girls, their families and their communities. Child marriage declines 14 million girls a year their own rights to be healthy, educated and to have a sense of security. Unfortunately this tragedy will keep occurring to these young girls if we do not put an end to it.