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    Piracy

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    COMM 340 (03) Team #6 PIRACY: AVOIDING ATTACKS AND MINIMIZING THE IMPACTS Brock Josuttes 11094753 Nathan Keck 11123768 Josh MacGowan 11108277 Brittany Saunders 11099828 Brenley Schaan 11142699   PIRACY:  AVOIDING  ATTACKS  AND  MINIMIZING  THE  IMPACTS   2   TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .......................................................................................................................3 Anticipation ...............................

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    Blackbeard Piracy

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    The Golden Age of Piracy Blackbeard, otherwise known as Edward Teach, was an English pirate around the early 18th century. He ransacked ships with his crew off the eastern coast of North Carolina from the summer of 1717 to November 1718. North Carolina was almost a sanctuary for pirates and other unfavorable people, and it had a coastline advantageous to the pirating of ships. Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, was possibly discovered recently in 2008, which provides much information on how

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    Caribbean Piracy

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    Piracy of the Caribbean It seems to be common knowledge that murder, thievery, and full blown naval warfare supposedly plagued the Caribbean Sea from the 1600’s to the 1800’s. Countless tons of priceless goods such as spices, gems, rare metals, and silks were snatched right from under merchant noses (Hanna 42). Goods that were the basis of Triangle Trade economies, goods such as sugar, tobacco, weapons, cotton, and sadly the lives of enslaved humans (which were considered commodities and goods)

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    Piracy first and foremost is an attempt to copy or make use of what was not originally produced by the individual without right permission or authorization by the sole owner of this product for profitable means. This is a huge problem in even the most advanced of countries as a lot of individuals don’t see the damage or wrong in taking part in the buying and selling of these movies. As time and age has become more technological so has the art of piracy blossomed because of the easy access to technology

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    covering Australian crews and ships’ and ‘investigate the impact, or potential impact, of piracy on Australian registered and international trading ships including their crews and passengers. A report was released on 22 April 2010. It provided a detailed overview of piracy at the global level and then by region, actions taken by the international community including the despatch of naval forces to counter piracy, and the impact of attacks on the global shipping industry and impacts on Australian shipping

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    English Piracy Definition

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    for piracy to their final destination is the focus of this study. Their contemporaries described them as “Robbers, Opposers, and Violators of all Laws, Humane and Divine.” Many viewed themselves as a more selfish reincarnation of Robin Hood, stealing from wealthy merchants, foreign traders, and abusive captains, and in doing so, threatening

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    Golden Age Of Piracy

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    Rediker, is a collection of ideas and information about pirates in the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy, between the years 1650 and 1730. This book is a collection of the unprecedented social and cultural history of pirates, mainly at sea, but also before they became pirates, and how piracy affected maritime culture. It delves into the ideas and realities of pirate life and helps further an understanding of piracy during this time. Rediker claims, “The pirates of the 1710s and 1720s were among the greatest

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    What Is Somali Piracy?

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    topic that interested me is piracy, which is evident among the Somali coast. I first learned of Somalia in high school in my Multicultural Studies course. Somalia seemed to intrigue me because of its humanitarian problems and I knew of its piracy issue which is also a gripping topic. I consulted a research article online under Florida Atlantic University’s libraries titled, “The Dialectics of Piracy in Somalia: the rich versus the poor.” The article discusses how piracy has affected Somalia’s overall

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    and Domestic Legal Framework against Armed Robbery ship and Piracy. International law government aim has relationship between all countries. Besides that, they aim to impose duties and rights to ensure harmonisation among countries. To achieve the goal, individual state play role to observe the law that adopt by the international law. In fact, this goal remarkable as achievement, it still arguably lacks prosecution power in combating piracy. It gives domestic laws to produce suitable system to bring

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    Felicia Anane English Composition1 Argumentative essay 10/8/2017. Movie Piracy: Why the Debate Some people have an interest in opening a new business for themselves. Nowadays, people have ways of making money easily on their own. There are several ways people do to get money, for example, cab driving, ride sharing, selling food on the street and opening stores to sell pirated movies. Everyone has their own opinion on pirated movies but the pirated movie is the illegal duplicate of films for

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