The Hunt For Lost Pirate Gold By Sam Bellamy

What does Lemon's treasure teach us; In "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" There are many lessons to be learned from the book "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers. The main theme or lesson is that you must face your problems in order to learn and grow. Greg was failing math class and as a result, he knew he wouldn't be able to play basketball for the Scorpions. When Greg meets Lemon Brown he changes everything. He helps to make Greg realize that he will never learn or grow if he continues to run from all of his problems.

Authors present similar information in different ways. In the golden age of piracy, despite being disputed when it actually happened. Despite sometimes being worlds apart, the similarities in all these people and their dastardly deeds is incredible. Their paths frequently intersected either through direct contact or other things. Both Rediker and Greene talk about similar situations and people, but they discussed it quite differently. From showcasing the hardships to glorifying their short and fast paced lives, their arguments are as different as night and day, but give us a solid insight into the average life of a pirate in the golden age of piracy.

“He revealed some yellowed newspaper clippings and a battered harmonica.” In the short story, The Treasure of Lemon Brown, by Walter Dean Myers, the main character, Lemon Brown, had a small treasure that was more important to him, while it is not close to important to someone else. The author, Walter Dean Myers, shows the theme that everybody has something small and important to them, even if it’s not important to someone else. The author uses character’s actions to determine the theme of the story.

Baca’s essay shows the reader how he grew as a person. Even though he had many obstacles his intention was to become a better person. The first steps he took towards growing as a person was by listening to someone read to him. Before long he was able to start reading books on his own. After succeeding in learning how to read, he accomplished his biggest goal yet, Baca was able to write. Thus, causing him to feel a sense of freedom and no longer anxious.

When the word pirate is mentioned, many people think of ship carrying men across the seas as they pillage other ships. While this is true to some extent there was much more to the lives of the men that were known as pirates. Pirates were mostly men from French, English or Dutch heritage, and were privateers or merchants. Many of these men were sanctioned by their government. By the Spanish they were call piratas or unsanctioned sea-raiders, and would have a heavy influence of trade in the Caribbean and on the Spanish Empire.

Terry Malloy is a dock worker for the union and in this story, this is the first main point of why he is being controlled by the MOB. In one scene, where Terry is in the office, Terry is being treated as a child towards Johnny and it makes him feel overwhelmed. Also, out on the docks, his bosses treats Terry poorly because they are rude to him and it make him work very hard to earn his pay. For an example, pigeons, on the other hand, is a symbol that represents the life that Terry wants because he wishes he was free from the union, to be like a pigeon, and the reason is that he says, “they got it made, they eat all they want, fly around like crazy, sleep side by side, and raise gobs of squads” (On the Waterfront).

Putting myself in the the position of a sailor back in that time I can see why many were attracted to the life of a pirate. The life of a sea faring man during the early 18th century was a grueling way of work. Wages were low, decease was rampant, ships were cramped, and discipline from officers was brutal, sometime murderous. The pirate life symbolized freedom and liberty and a brotherhood that stood for being “ one for

Pirates are people we think of living in the eighteenth century, attacking ships in the open seas. One that may come to mind is Blackbeard. The most common definition of pirates is a person who steals or robs at sea. Although it may not seem like it, there are still pirates today such as the Somali pirates.

The Slave Ship was written by Marcus Rediker and it tells several accounts of the African slave trade as well as the world of the middle passage. The author discusses the nature of the slave ship and the African paths to the middle passage. Rediker also mentions the lives of historical figures (Olaudah Equiano, James Field Stanfield, and John Newton) and the roles that they had during the Atlantic slave trade. For the African captives, the sailors, and captains, the slave ship was seen as a wooden, floating, traveling dungeon and a place of terror and survival, which are also the overall main themes of the book.

Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Maltese Falcon, is a hard-boiled detective novel; a subset of the mystery genre. Before the appearance of this sub-genre, mystery novels were mainly dominated by unrealistic cases and detectives like Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. As Malmgren states, “The murders in these stories are implausibly motivated, the plots completely artificial, and the characters pathetically two-dimensional, puppets and cardboard lovers, and paper mache villains and detectives of exquisite and impossible gentility.” (Malmgren, 371) On the other hand, Hammett tried to write realistic mystery fiction – the “hard-boiled” genre. In the Maltese Falcon, Hammett uses language, symbolism, and characterization to bring the story closer to

Although piracy is typically seen as a male dominated dominion, female pirates have made a lasting impact on the maritime world. The golden age of piracy began during the late 17th century and the early 18th century and was a pivotal time where piracy surged and crime flourished. This period of time was also defined by an abundance of gender roles and stereotypes where it was encouraged for women to remain in the household. However, the daring and adventurous female pirates defied these gender roles and had a perpetual effect on piracy. Despite male pirates receiving more attention, female pirates made a significant impact in the age of piracy because they challenged traditional gender roles, shaped the dynamics of pirate communities, and contributed to significant discoveries

Between the mid-seventeenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century the Buccaneers were in their glory. Transitioning politically and socially, the Buccaneers economy was greatly dependent on selling hides and boutcan to the ships passing through the Mona Passage and the Windward Passages. They also achieved international fame by performing freelance attacks on the Spanish possessions in and around the Caribbean. With the support of rival states the Buccaneers continued their attacks on the Spanish, which helped the success of non-Spanish attempts at colonization. The communities of Buccaneers represented a phase in the shift from pioneering colonialism to organized imperialism. They began to make profits off of different kinds of animals such as dogs, horses, cattle, and hogs. The Buccaneers succeeded their attacks on the Spanish by maintaining support from other states and this created a greater opportunity for colonization. This developed a bond between the Buccaneers and other cultures around the Caribbean. The

During the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries, piracy was rampant in the Atlantic, specifically in the West Indies. Piracy has existed since the earliest days of ocean travel, for a range of personal and economic reasons. However, one of the major reasons why piracy was wide spread and rampant in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries was Great Britain’s endorsement and usage of piracy as an asset; in wars fought in the New World. Great Britain with its expanding power and conflicts with other nations would make piracy a lifestyle and lay down the foundation for the Golden Age of Piracy and eventually bring what it created to a screeching halt.

The Pirate Round ended and the Post Spanish Succession Period came into play. A major pirate attack was launched against a group of Spanish Divers, causing the start of this period. The raid was successful and the pirates received a bountiful treasure. The Governor of Jamaica however banned these pirates from spending their gold in the area, and forcing the pirates to find somewhere else to live. Nassau being a small island in the Bahamas was where they retreated. Here a man named Benjamin Hornigold established a pirate republic. This place thrived. That is until the King of England gave the pirates an ultimatum. Either accept his pardon or accept death (“Post Spanish Succession Period”). All nation had began to get fed up with the pirates.

There are many misconceptions about walking the plank, but real live pirates wouldn’t actually make a person walk the plank, in fact, walking the plank was actually invented by Robert Louis Stevenson, as told in “Walk The Plank” by W.M. Akers. Walking the plank displays a person walks off a board into the ocean and then the ship sails away and leaves a person at the mercy of the sharks and cold water. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­To begin, walking the treacherous plank was just a figment of the writer or author Robert Louis Stevenson’s imagination. Surprisingly, in the text in states, “But in fact walking the plank was imagined by Robert Louis Stevenson, a 19th-century novelist, whose most famous book is Treasure Island.”(Akers 1). This demonstrates