A description and history Pirates around the world
Date Submitted: 05/09/2003 02:03:50
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (1021 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (1021 words)
During the Renaissance, society considered pirates as dirty, heartless, and evil. Pirates deliberately tried to scare their enemies. They designed their ship's flags with evil images, including a skeleton stabbing a heart. Blackbeard, one of the most famous pirates, braided his hair to look like devil's horns and carried his cutlass in his mouth to make him look evil. In fact, pirates possessed qualities that society valued and pirates were similar to other people in …
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…pirates" it put a negative spin on everything they accomplished. As Phaedrus declared, " Things are not always what they seem."(5).
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