among sailors and common folk alike about the Dread Pirate Roberts. A dangerous swashbuckler braving the cruelness of the vast ocean. His name has been ringing across the land for years‚ too many years for a pirate captain of his stature and success to spend in piracy without cashing out his earned loot. Some seafaring men say there is no Dread Pirate Roberts. He’s like an imaginary character used to hide the real identity of who captains the pirate ship Revenge. Others yet say he’s immortal. A demigod
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Business Ethics Ethics Issues in “Pirates of Silicon Valley” The film‚ “Pirates of Silicon Valley‚” is a review of the building of both Apple Computer and Microsoft as told through the lens of people that worked with both Steve Jobs at Apple and Bill Gates at Microsoft. The film addresses both the inner working of the two companies and the ethical issues that arise from their leaders‚ Jobs and Gates‚ desire to be the most important person in their chosen industry. While the film primarily
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Copyright violation & illegal downloading "The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: It’s Evolution‚ Stupid" and "You like my poems? So pay for them" The first article "The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: It’s Evolution‚ Stupid" is published in 2012 by WIRED Website‚ and presents the story of Peter Sunde‚ the Swedish co-founder of the media search engine The Pirate Bay. He tells his story of getting a new computer‚ and how it broke down. He explains how that was a part of evolution‚ which launches him straight into
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figured out what a mythic archetype was and did some research on some of the examples I was given I found one that I could easily point out in a movie‚ the Trickster. The movie I found that had a thematic significance connecting with the trickster was Pirates of the Caribbean‚ and the trickster being one of the main characters‚ Jack Sparrow. The mythic archetype‚ the trickster is known to break the rules of the gods or nature‚ sometimes maliciously but usually with ultimately positive effects; though
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“When I think of pirates‚ I think of the Caribbean Sea or the Gulf of Aden. I don’t think of the Ohio River.” (Lepper) Mark Twain lived during a time when hearing someone’s relation of a river pirate in America was typical‚ and stores along the rivers were frequently being pillaged. He had much experience on the rivers due to his early profession‚ and witnessed first-hand the crimes that they committed. Twain expressed his thoughts toward piracy through his literature‚ written around the time
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Pirates of the Silicon Valley – Reaction Pirates of the Silicon Valley is a 1999 film showing how personal computers evolved from mere boxes with buttons into modern-day computers with mouse‚ screens and colorful displays. This is a film about Steve Jobs (played by Noah Wyle) the co-founder of Apple Computers and Bill Gates (played by Anthony Hall) co-founder of Microsoft. Good artists copy‚ great artists’ steal. This is the phrase that had the biggest impact on the future of Steve Jobs
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Pirates of Silicon Valley assignment The Pirates of Silicon Valley tells the story about how Apple and Microsoft came to be today’s technological giants. At first‚ Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak come up with the idea of creating computer that everyone‚ including ordinary people‚ could use. They name their company Apple. After they can’t come up with any ideas for their new project‚ they go to a big computer company‚ and steal their ideas in order for them to start developing their own. After some
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There were many conflicts that were more significant in terms of gains‚ losses‚ and casualties than that of Villa’s raid of Columbus‚ New Mexico. Upon hearing that the nearby town of Columbus‚ New Mexico was lightly garrisoned‚ Mexican revolutionary Francisco “Pancho” Villa ordered what remained of his army to attack the small farming town. His well-earned reputation had been seriously damaged by this point considering recent losses that devastated his army‚ having both the Mexican and American
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How has the strategy of pirates changed over time? The North and East coast of Africa are very well traveled waterways for the Global Maritime Shipping business. Learning about and working with one of these businesses was very eye opening to an unknown world. With every major industry there are upsides and downsides. When someone is placed in a new industry they are generally naïve to any downsides until they begin reading periodicals and researching every facet of the industry. When someone
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Boom! Boom! Boom! My house shook. Bombs everywhere as me and my family ducked down from an explosion near my house in London of 1943. “That was the last one! yelled a man who lived down the street.” We could finally go out as the German raid was over. I am Alex‚ 19 years old and this is my journal about my life and the war around me. Three weeks later... I am running and running as I look back at my house with my family trying to open the door‚ and it shatters into a million pieces with them
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