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    The First Barbary War: It’s Influence on Presidential War Powers The First Barbary War: It’s Influence on Presidential War Powers On May 10th 1801‚ Yusuf Karamanli‚ the Pasha of Tripoli‚ ordered the United States flag cut down in front of the U.S. Consulate. This act sprung the United States into its first armed conflict overseas and ignited the domestic debate over presidential war powers for centuries to come. The First Barbary War was a result of President Thomas Jefferson refusing to pay tributes

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    Pirates in Colonial America

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    Rozell Final Paper April 14‚ 2013 The Pirates of Colonial American Got Taken Down by Religion ------------------------------------------------- During the eighteenth century‚ piracy began ruling the waters surrounding the American colonies. For many people piracy adds an exciting thrill to maritime history with its adventure‚ romanticism‚ mysteriousness‚ and its alluring nature. However‚ piracy is just the practice of a pirate: these pirates conducted robbery or illegal violence at sea;

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    Hickey’s essay “Pirates and Farmers” as well as Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation”. The essay will also touch on the question of how I am perceived by others versus how I perceive myself. According to Dave Hickey‚ in the world‚ there are only two kinds of people: Pirates and Farmers. Pirates are a plundering and boundary-defying individualists while farmers tend to build fences and create territories. He goes ahead to say that pirates may not even know that they are pirates‚ but farmers can

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    Roberto Clemente Interview

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    During an interview regarding Roberto Clemente‚ Pirates’ former General Manager Joe L. Brown said with a smile‚ “He’s a shining star to many‚ many people. He grows and grows over time. He doesn’t diminish... The sad part is that there are not enough TV pictures of him. He made so many great plays that people can only talk about. You could never capture the magnificence of the man” (“Roberto Clemente Quotes”). Born August 18‚ 1934‚ in Carolina‚ Puerto Rico‚ the first Latin American Major League athlete

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    RETWET

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    Such as social networks‚ photo- and video-sharing sites‚ and blog platforms support very high levels of Interactivity compared to other traditional media. Ch 1 Case: The Pirate Bay 1. Why did TPB believe it was not violating copyright laws? What did the Swedish court rule? The pirate bay claims it is merely a search engine providing pointers to existing P2P networks that it does not it

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    Copyright Violation

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    A) A paper on copyright violation 1. Give an outline of the attitudes to copyright violation and illegal downloading as presented in texts 1 and 3. In 2009‚ the three founders of The Pirate Bay (TPB) were convicted of contributory copyright infringement. They were sentenced between four months and one year in prison. In 2006‚ a Swedish prosecutor said‚ “TPB wasn’t guilty of “main” crimes – at best it aids and abets.” Therefore‚ according to Peter Sunde‚ this new conviction‚ which he contributes

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    The Mangy Pirate

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    The 1800s was a period of revolution‚ uprising‚ and movements towards independence not only for Spain but for the colonies in Latin America as well‚ which then belong to Spain. During this era Latin America‚ especially New Spain‚ which today is considered Mexico‚ was going through a critical state condition. To have a better understanding of the situation in New Spain‚ this paper will focus on analyzing the novel‚ “The Mangy Parrot” by Jose Lizardi. More specifically in the following points‚ which

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    Analysis of the Pirate Bay

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    Analysis of The Pirate Bay Copyright Infringement Kristin Philip Marylhurst University MBA 530 E-Commerce August 5‚ 2012 Abstract This paper explores the social and legal issues raised by Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing of copyrighted material on websites such as The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay has created a controversy around the world between people who support P2P file sharing and the industries that make their money selling the content that is being shared by peers (Laundon

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    Pirates of Silicon Valley

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    Trevon Johnson Wendy Waugh MIS 130 2-6-11 Pirates of Silicon Valley The Pirates of Silicon Valley was more of a documentary movie where it talked about and followed the life of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs‚ which were founders of Microsoft and Apple. The movie takes you through the process of how they started their respective personal computers and companies. Both guys were very intelligent individuals which they both knew so that’s why they worked together to lift both organizations

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    word pirate‚ the first thing that probably comes to mind is buried treasure‚ people with wooden peg legs and eye patches alongside with a parrot on top of their shoulder. We picture pirates as criminals and hooligans‚ current media have depicted pirates with Long John Silver in Treasure Island and Captain Jack Sparrow in the Caribbean‚ all showing how life might have been like during the era of pirates. Rediker’s Villains of all Nations tells us the real and harsh stories of what real pirates went

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