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    African American Movie

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    The numerous captures of Stede Bonnet. As well the relationship between the Spanish and British. The common trend with the Animal crossing, spore, Bully and the McDonald game plus the virtual villager and assassin creeds games is that they utilize their rhetoric for the entertainment of the game. In a way m saying their subtle in their pedagogy, Sum are more direct for example “Where’s Carmen San Diego” demands players to learn geography for progression and Nintendo’s Brain Training series, that smacks you in the face with problem…

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    Even the cargo that is plundered from ships is accurate to what was actually plundered from ships during that time.Where the game takes place, or the cities where Edward free runs around, are very accurate as well. Black Flag does something that not a lot of other games do nowadays, in that it accurately displays a time in history. The famous pirates that are depicted in Black Flag include that of; Edward "Blackbeard" Thatch, Benjamin Hornigold, Mary Read, Stede Bonnet, Anne Bonny, Calico Jack,…

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    Rcr314 Case Study

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    well-stocked armory of at least 24 iron cannons were fitting of the description of Blackbeard’s flagship. The recovered artifacts had to be tested and analyzed to determine the ships definite identity. While it was strongly hypothesized from the time of discovery that the shipwreck was that of the infamous pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach), it was not officially confirmed so until August 2011 by Archeologists with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources’ Office of State Archeology. …

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    The Golden Age Of Piracy

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    though he actually started his career on the sea in the British Navy after being discharged he was commissioned by Charles II of Spain to play the French ships and eventually became captain of the ship the fancy was the name of the ship after the crew with Newton Eve Amarillo every went on to become the richest Pirates in the world after capturing and stealing 600000 UT up of precious gold silver and the Blue Diamond dazzling jewels the Sparkles not all of the Golden Age pirates an inductive…

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    and write. We can get the evidence of him belonging to a wealthy family who was able to give him the education. At an early age, young Edward went to the sea and began his career by serving on privateers sailing during the war of the Spanish succession which occurred between 1701-1713. Not only this but also, he worked in a Jamaican ship commanded by Benjamin Hornigold. This was something which happened in 1716 when Benjamin saw an enormous potential in Teach and later gave him an opportunity…

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    world. Pirates are capitalizing on the weaknesses of water security and are proving to be a threat to the national security. Marley states that “some of the very innovations and improvements that have contributed so significantly to this exponential growth in our seaborne commerce, have also contained a few inbuilt seeds of future trouble” (33). With ships offering large ransoms and small amounts of men to operate the ship, these individuals are easily vulnerable to the advanced weapons used by…

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    compared to each other, they had definite similarities as well. There is little record of Blackbeard before his life of piracy in the 18th Century, other than his actual name being Edward Thatch and that he might be from the English port of because his name appeared on a census roll. The first actual historical record of Blackbeard was back in December 1716 when he was Hornigold’s lieutenant, where he was in charge of his own eight-gun, ninety man pirate ship. Blackbeard became a captain in a…

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    world. Pirates are capitalizing on the weaknesses of water security and are proving to be a threat to the national security. Marley states that “some of the very innovations and improvements that have contributed so significantly to this exponential growth in our seaborne commerce, have also contained a few inbuilt seeds of future trouble” (33). With ships offering large ransoms and small amounts of men to operate the ship, these individuals are easily vulnerable to the advanced weapons used by…

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    away without a Legal Authority, This is Robbery and Piracy. If the Mariners of any Ship shall violently dispossess the Master, and afterwards carry away the Ship it self, or any of the Goods, or Tackle, Apparel, or Furniture, with a felonious Intention, in any place where the Lord Admiral hath, or pretend to have Jurisdiction; this is also Robbery and Piracy. Hedges contended that mutiny was not considered piracy until the mutineers made away with the ship or some of the goods. This…

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    If the Mariners of any Ship shall violently dispossess the Master, and afterwards carry away the Ship it self, or any of the Goods, or Tackle, Apparel, or Furniture, with a felonious Intention, in any place where the Lord Admiral hath, or pretend to have Jurisdiction; this is also Robbery and Piracy.” Hedges contended that mutiny was not considered piracy until the mutineers made away with the ship or some of the goods. This interpretation was completely in conflict with the 1536 Piracy Act…

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