Short Summary : Flinaria, A Pirate Adventure

A Voyage Long And Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

Bernardo thinks he knows what’s best for his little sister and believes that she, Maria, should listen to everything he tells her to do. Bernardo freaks out because Maria was dancing with one of the Jets, Anita sticks up for her while she is gone, “So why doesn’t he write a book about America? None of you is so smart. In this country girls have as much right as boys to have fun. Girls can dance with anyone they please in America.” (Laurents 90-91) The boys believe that women are not free to do what they want, and cannot handle themselves. Then there’s this girl named Anybodys and she is the only girl that wants to be a part of the Jets, badly. They asked her how desperately she wanted to be one of the Jets. She said she would do anything. They told her that they were going to look for chicks and that she wouldn’t want to go. The Jets started laughing at her, “The sob tore from Anybodys’ lips was drowned by the roar of laughter” (Laurents 26). The Jets and the Sharks didn’t trust girls in any sense. The only thing girls were reliable for was being girlfriends, and even then they weren’t trusted enough to do anything but be the puppet and their boyfriend be the puppeteer.

Rowlandson’s account of her captivity is shaped through her Puritan background and perspective. Her knowledge of the Bible, historical references, and current events influence her views on Native Americans. She perceives her experience during captivity as punishment, a trial that she must persevere with faith to both God and the Bible, for her wrongdoings. Rowlandson thought she deserved her unfortunate turn of events, but that by holding on to her Puritan faith during the encounter with her captors she could somehow survive and represent herself as a genuine Christian lady. Only then would she be fit for Puritan society. Rowlandson’s desire to keep hold of her status in society is evident in her writing. Because of this, her account is a biased and not entirely accurate one.

Amari never thought that her perfect life will be stolen from her, in any type of way. But Amari quickly discovered that she was absolutely wrong, when “pale skinned” Atlantic slave traders attacked her village and brutally murdered her whole family. Amari not only lost her family and loved ones, but she also lost her freedom. Nothing, in Amari’s life was going to be like it was before, Amari knew this for sure. While on the way to the Carolinas, Amari was beaten and raped, she also witnessed many horrifying actions. In the novel, Copper Sun, Draper uses a significant amount of imagery to describe Amari’s experience on the ship headed to America. This is very clear and noticeable when Draper uses 3rd tone point of view to describe Amari’s experience aboard the ship, “One by one the women were unchained and dragged, screaming and kicking, to a distant area of the ship or a corner of the deck. Amari heard them plead for mercy, for understanding, but no one listened” (Draper 50) and “Amari was taken to a filthy corner of the of the ship by a dark-headed, skinny sailor who used her, hurt her, and tossed her back on the deck, bruised and bleeding, all of her dreams finally and forever destroyed” (Draper

“After the 1890 season, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys signed several players from rival American Association teams- including the Philadelphia Athletics star second baseman Lou Bierbauer. The Philadelphia team loudly protested the move, complaining to league officials that the Alleghenys’ actions were “piratical.” The Alleghenys made sport of being denounced for being “piratical” by renaming themselves the Pirates for the 1891 season.” Pirates have had a strong presence throughout the ages; their presence has often garnered acknowledgment from governments- both foreign and domestic. For the most part, pirates are more real than ninjas based upon their presence and the acknowledgment of their existence by governments throughout history.

Leah, the girl who has always followed her father’s teachings, and strived to be like him, is forced to make a decision : listen to her father, giving up on the hunt, and turning to the sad complacencies that the Congo holds for females, or disobey her dear father, and walk her own path, one she believes in. Of course, she chose the latter, which drew a wedge between her and her father. That marked a turning point in Leah’s development as a character, as she will further her views from her father exponentially more as the story progresses. After Ruth May’s death, the Price women begin to leave the Congo.

Aminata shares the struggles of these losses, how it affects her life, how it makes her fight for what she believes in and makes her become a strong independant women for young women to look up to because she was such an important female character.

During the train ride the NKVD gave the prisoner food rations mainly bread and water. Also during the train ride Andrius found a colorful shiny rock. Mrs. Rimas a Liberian holds the rock a say she the queen of the cattle cart, everyone laughed except for the lady who give birth because her baby died. It took weeks to get to the labor camps, but when they finally step off the train Lina met Kretzsky a NKVD officar of the work camp. Once Lina and her family, enter inside their hunt they saw Ulyushka inside who demand debt for saying inside the hunt. Even worst, in the night Lina saw Andrius mother inside a nice comfortable NKVD house putting on makeup. Lina thought Andrius and her mother are part of the NKVD, but his mother is being forced to be a prostitute. After she saw Andrius mother, she run into Andrius she rudely told him he part of the Soviet. Andrius heart-broken told her his mother is a prostitute to earn food ration for him and told her he felt guilty for it. Weeks later Jonas starts getting scurvy from not eating fruits and

In ‘Lucy’ the character Lucy, an immigrant girl, leaves her home in the West Indies to come to America in order to reinvent herself and to discover her own identity. Her struggles for personal freedom and independence would require her complete disconnection from her family especially her mother. To do so, Lucy not only had to let go of her former identity, but she also has to void herself of the self-destruction and loneliness. Lucy’s liberation from the past is the key element to her finding her new self. That too will require her to mentally recolonized her past and present in a way she feels comfortable. The novel places Lucy at a cross road of culture and identities Antiguan and American. Upon arrival to America to work as an au pair for an

There is little record of Blackbeard before his life of piracy in the 18th Century, other than his actual name being Edward Thatch and that he might be from the English port of because his name appeared on a census roll. The first actual historical record of Blackbeard was back in December 1716 when he was Hornigold’s lieutenant, where he was in charge of his own eight-gun, ninety man pirate ship. Blackbeard became a captain in a rather unusual way. In August of 1717, an unfamiliar vessel came into Nassau Harbor. The captain and crew were covered in battle wounds from them engaging in a clash with a Spanish warship upon arriving. The captain, Stede Bonnet, had ran away from his old life to start a new life of piracy. Bonnet sought protection

Little is known about the infamous Blackbeard's early life; in fact, the first documentations of him are not recorded until the early 1700s, long after his childhood. Yet with so little knowledge of him, he is arguably regarded as the most notorious pirate in history due to his fearsome personality, distinguished look, daring acts of piracy, and stalwart death.

The article, “Robbers of the Seas”, introduces us to pirates, piracy, and their way of life. In addition, the article mentions different types of ships that were used by pirates during the “golden age” of piracy. Two of the most popular sailing vessels included a sloop and a barque. If I were a pirate, I would rather be on a sloop than a barque. Although both vessels were widely used by pirates, I would choose a sloop because of its size and ease of control. On page 97, it says that a special feature of a sloop is its “small size”. This would be helpful for a pirate attempting to avoid obstacles in the sea, such as sandbars. A barque, on the other hand, was a larger vessel, which was harder to control. Another reason why I would choose

Some video games used to teach are “Pirates of The Burning Seas”, “Uncharted Seas”, “Minecraft”, and “Scalable Games Design”. “Pirates of The Burning Seas” is set in the Caribbean in an anachronistic 1720, mixing ahistorical characters and events with a relatively accurate geography as well as adding economic, political, and diplomatic situations that match what was happening within the region during the period (Smith). Students choose nationality affiliation from four nations: Great Britain, Spain, France, or Pirates (Smith). Students success in the game depends on their ability of having tactical ship battles and swashbuckling combat in port battles with participation in a player-driven economy. Each nation has specific ships, economic opportunities,

Quick Synopsis: The story follows the Bloody Baroness, Androma Racella, and her crew aboard the Maurader. When a routine mission goes awry, the all-girl crew’s resilience is tested as they find themselves in a most unfamiliar place: at the mercy of a sadistic bounty hunter connected to Andi’s past and a harrowing betrayal.

Captain Piper Faraday stands on the bridge of her pirate vessel, solemnly lamenting the possible effects of the newly established scrapper gang's rampages; they are sure to draw the ire of the monarchy, that rule the outskirts with an iron fist. What makes matters worse is that