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    The Black Fish Monologue

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    The Black Fish was known to be loud and full of the kinds of characters who enjoy imbibing in colorful company down at the docks. Boisterous laughter come from within accompanied by cries of excitement. One of the fisherman known for being no stranger to the bottle had challenged the Wastelander to a drinking contest. They are Barbaric people from the Northern wastes. The harsh environment ensured only the strongest survived. Standing at six and a half feet and thick with muscle, the monstrous…

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    What would a citizen of the U.S. do if they were under attack by pirates? Would they resist and fight back or would they surrender and give up their home in the U.S? These are the questions that the president of the U.S. has to contemplate as the U.S. goes into an all out war with Pirates. In The Jefferson Key, President Danny Daniels along with Cotton Malone and other influential operatives fight back against Barbary Pirates that are trying to take over the U.S. These Barbary Pirates, Also…

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    This novel does an excellent job at this as he depicts the difference between pirates in literature and pirates in History. Ideas included in this is that of wooden crutches and women who dressed as men to join the pirate life. Many of them joined piracy due to their upbringings from childhood. Though, other details is the punishments of pirates. Pirate’s punishments for their crimes is often cruel or unusual. The crimes that the pirates did to humanity is a lot more scandalous then their own…

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    An Essay About Aha Myth

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    In this Myth, involved a pirate name Aha. He is one of the most fireced pirate on the seas, he stole goods, killed people you name it, Aha did it. Many people considered him a hero others think he is despicable. Some rumors say that he gives all of his stolen treasure to the poor, like the orignal red riding hood. Some say with the stolen treasures he has he spents it on boozes. Aha has a pirate crew of four people; stinky, stupid , stinky stupid, and stupid stupid. Trust me these guys are more…

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    In a post apocalyptic world where modern medicine and technology is barely used, and most of the population has died because of a plague spread by rats. People must thrive and live on the land, and people must work together in harmony to survive. On the island Hatteras, which is connected to the island Roanoke by a bridge lives a tribe of 14 people. Everyone on the island has special gifts, and because of these gifts they’re known as elemetals. Elementals are people who were born with the…

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    In the 1710’s also known as the “golden age of piracy” One of the most notorious of pirates was Edward Teach better known as “Blackbeard”. Edward Teach was from Bristol, England this town produced many pirates. At the time privateering was legalized. British government allowed private ships to attack enemy ships. When the war ended Edward Teach lost his livelihood. In 1717 he stole a ship for himself and his crew. The name of his ship was the ”Queen Anne’s Revenge”. Blackbeard put 40 cannons on…

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    Not exactly the most illustrious or morally right way to begin his life as an adventurer. After conflicts with Spanish ships in the area Drake began a career in piracy, attacking Spanish settlements in the Caribbean from around 1570-1573 (“Francis Drake, Sir” Historic). After illegally pirating for several years, Drake received a privateering license from Queen Elizabeth I, legitimizing his career for he was now…

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    The biggest difficulty historians face in relying heavily on the trial reports is their varying form and content. Although the 1700 Piracy Act required registers to keep minutes of the proceedings, like much of everything surrounding piracy law, there were no specifics on what that meant. It is clear from the collection of these trials that the point of the recorder was not to capture every word uttered in court. Depending on the court the narrative changes between first and third person, and…

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    any Acts of Piracy, That their Design was against the Spaniards, and other such-like frivolous and trifling Excuses.” This flaw is compounded by the Board of Trade and colonial governor’s desire to control the narrative of piracy trials leading to heavy censorship…

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    Pirates of the Caribbean is a fictional series based on a captain named Jack Sparrow. Sparrow isn’t your average captain, for he is a pirate and a troublesome one at that of course. The series setting goes back in history when the world was ruled by the British Empire, the East India Trading Company (EITC) and the Spanish Empire, as pirates raid the sea defining any laws that come their way. There is a total of four movies out with a new one to be released this year. Each movie portrays Jack…

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