Analysis Of The Documentary ' Pirates, Galleons, And Treasure ' Globe Trekker '

Buried treasure, eye patches, and walking the plank are all words and phrases that often appear in stories involving pirates. Tales about the voyages of pirates are often adventurous and riveting ones. It is very awe-inspiring to think about the daring lives those pirates once led. However, it might not be safe to assume that these stories are close to the truth or even based on genuine facts. In 1881 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a book entitled Treasure Island, which in return would forever change the way people looked at the term "pirate." Due to this book there are several different movies that have been created to interpret the term pirate in different ways. Black Pirate, The Dancing Pirate, Sea Hawk, and Captain Blood include some

Anne Bonny was a Irish american women who became a pirate. she was born on March 8, 1698 , the she died April 25,1782 charles towne. She was mostly known for her robberies and her murders. There was also a book written about her in 1724, called A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates.

Have you ever watched the movie Pirates of the Caribbean? If you have you may or may not think that’s how the life of a pirate was in the 1700s. This is necessarily true though. I believe that the life of a pirate is not as glamorous as Hollywood portrays it.

The brand of justice pirates toward vessels they captured was something I found fascinating. For example, on page 88, the incident involving the capture of Captain Snelgraves vessel by the pirate Thomas Cocklyn. Initially Snelgrave resisted Cocklyns takeover so as Cocklyns crew overpowers Snelgraves and is taken by the pirates. Certain that Snelgrave will be killed or beaten for resisting, Snelgraves crew comes to their captains defense thus Cocklyn sparring the respected captains life. Because of the degree of respect Snelgraves had, Cocklyn not often seeing a government captain holding such admiration from a crew offered him a new ship and profits from a captured slave ship for his return to England. This story really caught my attention because of the level of hospitality pirates show to a captain who held such respect with his own crew.

Anne Bonney was born on March 8, 1698. Died April 22, 1782. Her parents were Mary Brennan, William Comac. Anne bonney was an Irish woman who became a famous pirate, operating in the Caribbean. What little is known of her life come largely from Captain Charles Johnson’s a general history of the pirates. Anne Bonney was a strong, independent woman who was way ahead of her time. Eighteenth century, was still a time when man made all time when women did not have many rights. In this men’s world, it was hard for Anne Bonney to become an equal crewmember and a respected pirate. Anne Bonney, born in County Cork, Ireland, was the illegitimate daughter of lawyer William Cormac and his housemaid. They immigrated to America after Anne’s birth in the late 1600s and settled on a plantation near Charleston, South

Abigail Chance’s mother has unexpectedly passed away leaving the estate to her. After the reading of the will, the lawyer approaches Abigail with a secret letter from her mother. Her mother warns her not to share this information with anyone except those whom she trusts. She explicitly tells Abigail to never breathe a word of this to Pastor Kincaid who has been after the family for years. It seems that Anne Bonney, one of her relatives, has left a box buried nearby with information on a treasure. Anne Bonney and her friend Mary Read were pirates who hid gold and jewels somewhere in the Virgin Islands. Now that her mother has died, Abigail decides it’s time to find this hidden treasure. Unfortunately, she’s not the only one that’s after this infamous treasure.

Little is known about Blackbeard’s early life, but his real name was thought to be Edward Teach. There are other variations of his name such as; Thach, Theach, and Thatch although Teach is the most common. Teach was British and he was born before 1690 (Kirkpatrick). There is also little to no information about Teach’s family, one clue however, is that Teach was able to read and write, skills more likely found in people of wealth (Hamilton). During the war many men purchased their own ships and began the life as a privateer attacking enemy ships. Just as many young men Teach joined a British privateer that was based in Jamaica. Their mission was to attack the ships of the enemy (Kirkpatrick). Queen Anne of Britain gave Teach’s privateer permission to plunder French and Spanish ships during the war and to keep the stolen goods (Kirkpatrick). By the end of the was Teach had become and experienced sea robber. After the war had ended Teach did not plan to stop plundering ships so he joined a fierce group of Caribbean pirates (Kirkpatrick). And so started the beginning of his life as a pirate.

Blackbeard was a brave and most outspoken sea rovers who operated during early 1700s in the coastal regions of the English Southern parts of the New world. His piracy activities, together with his co-pirates are key sectors in United States of America’s history. Happening in the time eminently known as the golden age of piracy, their brave advances in sea robbery facilitated the gradual demise of sea hijacking and theft on the deep seas.1

The movie National Treasure follows the life of Ben Gates. He longs to discover the treasure of the Knights Templar that his grandfather has always told him about. The knights believed the treasure to be too large for any one man to have, even the king. The treasure Ben searches for started with the knights, which then led to the freemasons like Benjamin Franklin. The freemasons hid the treasure from the British during the American Revolution, but left clues for the treasure to be found later. Throughout the movie, Ben, Abigail, and Riley search for clues from history like the Declaration of Independence and inventions of Benjamin Franklin. When they find the enormous treasure at the end, it is filled with tons of ancient history artifacts.

After some time sailing she also served as a soldier in both infantry and cavalry units, very often proving braver and more courageous than her fellow soldiers. While serving as a soldier she fell in love with one of her comrades, and found a way to let him know she was a woman, and shortly thereafter they married. After they were married, Mary and her new husband left the service and set up a restaurant where their former comrades could come and eat. However, not long after they opened the restaurant Mary’s husband died and the war ended, leaving Mary with no spouse, and no income since the soldiers no longer came to eat at the restaurant. She gave up her restaurant and went back into sailing. Eventually the ship she was on sailed to the West Indies where it was captured by pirates, whom she eventually joined. Initially Mary Read had no intentions of becoming a pirate as it was something “she always abhor’d” (Defoe, 1999, p. 146), and she was not planning on staying on that ship. Her intentions to leave the ship changed when she fell in love with another pirate. Her new love had run into trouble with a much larger pirate than him, fearing the worst for her love, she picked a fight with the same pirate and scheduled him to a duel, killing him two hours before her lover was to fight him. Mary’s life as a pirate came to an end in 1720, when the ship she and her crewmates were captured and

These interactions show that piracy was more than criminal activity, it was a business. John Appleby extensively covers the relationships between pirates and women. Some were married, like Edward Teach (Blackbeard), who was married multiple times. A few became pirates to escape marriage, like Stede Bonnet. Women had many roles in relation to piracy.

Pirates of the Caribbean was the first film of Pirates. The whole movie was about Pirates, their lifestyle such as stealing a boat from other people which were shown in the movie when Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) stole a boat from the British people. Other fascinating facts which I found about pirates were shown in the movie when they showed a couple of punishments for pirates who committed crimes and of course the myth of mermaids which for me was inaccurate. This movie was released in 2003 and was directed by Gore Verbinski.

Captured, kidnapped, and rescued, Paul Greengrass knows precisely how to seize his audience’s attention. Not only did I watch this movie with my eyes and mouth wide open, but I kept thinking to myself, “This actually happened in real life!” Little did I know Captain Philips was no hero. Not only was it his fault the ship was captured from getting too close to the Somalia Coast and ignoring warning emails, but he never truly gave up himself to the pirates. According to the article “Crew Members: ‘Captain Phillips’ is One Big Lie,” the ship’s crew tells Callahan Maureen that the captain was intransigent, audacious and didn’t follow protocol. Although, that is what Hollywood is great at: making heroes and false facts.

The pirates have created a unique system that has easily allowed them to continue to pirate with little conflict between one another. The former fishers, military, and technicians have joined together and mutually have all the skills needed to pirate including; difficulties of the navigation and handling ships, weapon and fighting training, and high tech equipment. They happen to be in a spot where lots of cargo ships have to go through as well as Somalis in port cities that tell the pirates when these ships are coming through. The pirates have a good distribution of power and profits and, without a greedy leader, everyone gets paid and no one rebels which could cause the whole system to collapse from the inside. They

Jim Hawkins, the protagonist, is the primary narrator of the novel. He is the son of the owner of the Admiral Benbow inn. His connection to piracy commences in the beginning of his narrative with the “arrival of a mysterious old sailor named Bill[y] Bones at the Admiral Benbow” (Gale). From then on, Jim meets the other ship