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    a better understanding of the notorious women, two sources have been compared. They are J.C Appleby’s Women and English Piracy, 1450-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime, and Marcus Redicker’s Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader. By reading these papers, one author has been established to be better at describing the subject through their arguments, and their evidence to support them. That author is J.C Appleby. His writing on female pirates proves to be the stronger choice and would be better suited as a source of academic information as he provides a clear and unbiased mindset on who women pirates truly were. When reading Redicker’s view on women pirates, the focus is mainly placed on Anne Bonny and Mary Read. His paper spins a tale of their courage…

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    Anne Bonny Research Paper

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    stealing ships with Jack Rackham and Mary Read ("Famous Pirate: Anne Bonny"). Anne lived during the 18th century, and had a long and arduous life full of danger, risk, and excitement ("Famous Pirate: Anne Bonny"). From the day Anne was brought into this world till the day she took her last breath, she worked hard, and was an extraordinary female. Anne Bonny is also known as Anne Cormac was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland in 1697 as an illegitimate daughter ("Famous Pirate: Anne…

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    to gloss over some information. It tends to focuses on myths and interesting stories that may have been true rather than the truth. More attention is also put on cities rather pirates and when it does focus on the pirates, it is not done well. It tends to highlight the successes of the pirates and shows a bias towards making them seem more tough and dangerous than they were. All in all, it is difficult to believe that this documentary would be useful in the academic world, especially when…

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    He further argues that, hyperlinks have the ability to distract readers; numerous advertisements on web pages also cause disruption to readers and are also unethical. Therefore, online reading is regarded as a poor form of reading compared to reading papers and books (Moje & Pugh, 2009, p.6). Despite the large numbers of online readers, most of them still prefer to print out the information and read it in hard copy (Liu & Huang, 2007, p.12). in general readers with larger documents prefer…

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    revealed through questioning insurance men, connecting the parallels between the animal and human stories. The Japanese insurance men act identical to the reader, as they are slow to process the immense relations between the animal and human characters. After Pi retells his challenging tale, but this time with humans in place of the animals, both the reader and insurance men conclude that “the Taiwanese sailor is the zebra, [Pi’s] mother is the orangutan, the cook is...the hyena - which means…

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    Yann Martel’s book, Life of Pi, whether the story is mostly fact or mostly fiction, presents us with a very large fact of life. It is found within two recurring motifs that are very important: adaptation and survival. Martel gives plenty of examples for both motifs using humans and animals. The lesson he is trying to teach with these two motifs is that adaptation is necessary for survival. Already in the first half of the book it is clear to the readers that Pi is a very open minded…

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    Humans are often considered as “higher” beings when compared to animals, but humans are ultimately animals with a set of instincts that can kick in at any given moment when put into tough situations. Yann Martel’s Life of Pi describes the life of a young Indian boy, Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patel. In his childhood, Pi’s family owns a zoo in Pondicherry, India which influences Pi to become interested in zoology, and practices multiple religions to show his devotion to his gods. In order to avoid…

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    Sam Beyda Ms. Agassi Summer Homework 9/9/15 Enemy Territory Enemy Territory is an excerpt from a short story that focuses on an Allied unit entering the dreaded Germany. It is written by Hanoch Bartov and told through the eyes of Elisha, a young and confused allied soldier. In this short chapter Elisha faces many difficulties that he must overcome just to keep his moral values intact. The fundamental problem the story is grappling with is the issue of revenge. Bartov is trying to…

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    Settings are genuinely fundamental, as they allow readers to truly surround themselves into nature of the story, making the story an interesting and interactive piece of work to connect personal experiences with every detail provided. Aside from this, these settings additionally are what highlight and even uncover huge qualities of a character in the story. In the novel, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel, the setting plays a major role in how the reader understands and interacts with the main…

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    Life Of Pi Theme Analysis

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    The Theme of Life of Pi Imagine being stranded at sea for seven months with limited supplies and a Bengal Tiger being the only other castaway in the ship. Pi Patel, the protagonist of Life of Pi, has to live with these circumstances, and he miraculously survives. This story is about a young boy who grows up in a zoo, since his family owns it, and makes sense of himself through religion. One day, Pi’s father decides he is going to move the family to Canada because he believes there will be…

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