half the global piracy attacks were ascribed to Somali pirates. Until recently‚ piracy was a phenomenon in decline. Twenty-first century piracy was first seen in the South China Sea and in the Malacca Straits. 3 Attacks peaked at roughly 350 to 450 reported attacks per year during the period 2000-2004‚ and then dropped by almost half in 2005.4 This reduction was attributed to effective and coordinated international action against the pirates. But in 20082009‚ piracy again skyrocketed‚ due almost
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Along with Hamlet‚ King Lear and Macbeth‚ Othello is one of the four greatest tragedies written during Shakespeare’s tragic period. But Othello is unique among the others. Unlike Hamlet‚ King Lear and Macbeth‚ which are set against a backdrop of affairs of the nation‚ Othello focuses on human nature. Love‚ jealousy‚ racism and deceit are universal themes not only evident in Shakespeare’s time‚ but also in our time and in the future. They are patterns of human nature which are continuous in the history
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of piracy. Piracy has made trouble for the delivery of shipments and raised shipping costs‚ which have risen to an estimated 10 billion dollars a year in trade world wide. Pirates in Somalia have made it clear that they do not want anyone in their waters‚ or it will mean trouble for the by passers. The average age of a pirate is normally anywhere from twenty-five to thirty and generally come
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Livesey‚ and the protagonist‚ Jim Hawkins‚ are taking to find Captain Flint’s treasure. But the person who is hired as the cook is actually Long John Silver‚ one of Flint’s pirates‚ and he brings many of his pirate friends with him onto the ship
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at least a few hours. When he finally comes to‚ he is awoken by great band of hearty Pirates. They quickly tie him up at first glance of him‚ because to their eye‚ they notice that he‚ is in the least‚ two feet taller than the rest of them. Gulliver struggles to squirm from the Pirates grips but fails due to there being way too many for them to handle. While being tied up Gulliver becomes aware of what the Pirates are chanting‚ for they are wailing screams of anger or freight‚ but they are singing
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Once upon a time‚ there was a lonely one-legged pirate named David. He lived on a big‚ big island all alone with his faithful friend Macaw. Pirate David had a small boat and every day‚ he and Macaw would sail around and have fun together. One day‚ Pirate David saw an X mark while he was walking on the beach. He started digging and Macaw was trying to help. After a lot of digging‚ they found a bottle with a message inside. They unrolled the message and found a map. And this is where their adventures
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series takes place in a fictional universe where vast numbers of pirates‚ soldiers‚ revolutionaries‚ and other adventurers fight each other‚ using various superhuman andsupernatural abilities. The series’ storyline follows the adventures of a group of pirates as they search for the series eponymous treasure. The main character of the series is Monkey D. Luffy‚ a young pirate who wishes to succeed Gold Roger‚ the deceased King of the Pirates‚ by finding his treasure‚ the "One Piece". During the course
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“Treasure Island” because the plot is very exciting and the main character Jim Hawkins is a brave strong‚ kind and clever teenager. One foggy afternoon a one-legged man whose name was Blind Pew‚ came to the guest house Admiral Benbow and killed the pirate Billy Bones with his curse. The owner of the guest house Mrs. Hawkins and her son Jim took Billy’s bag of gold coins and then they hid under the bridge. Mr. Dance who was in charge of the customs men captured Blind Pew and then he took Jim Hawkins
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and abusive captains‚ and in doing so‚ threatening the hierarchical status quo of sixteenth and seventeenth English society by declaring “war against the world.” The Law considered them hostes humani generis‚ enemies of all mankind. In reality‚ pirates of the Golden Age‚ a period loosely covering the years 1660-1730‚ were none of those things‚ or perhaps more accurately‚ were not one but a combination. They were all robbers‚ since piracy in its most elementary definition is nothing more than a robbery
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Ching Shih‚ also known as the Pirate Queen‚ was the most powerful female pirate of her time. Before she became a pirate‚ Ching Shih worked as a prostitute in a floating brothel in Canton. Ching Shih was born Shi Xiang Gu in 1775. In 1801‚ the Pirate Zhéng Yi married Ching Shih. It is said that Zhéng Yi chose Ching Shih because of her because of her abilities as a businesswoman‚ using the secrets she learned as a prostitute to control her powerful and affluent clients. Ching Shih agreed to marry
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