Essays on Piracy Page 2

I’m curious to know how the readers will like Gottfried von Kalmbach …  A more dissolute vagabond than Gottfried never weaved his drunken way across the pages of a popular magazine: wastrel, drunkard, gambler, whore-monger, renegade, mercenary, plunderer, thief, rogue, rascal – I never created a character whose creation I enjoyed more. — Letter to…

1583 — The beginning of “The Moon of Skulls” describes how Solomon Kane comes at last to Negari. He finds Marylin Taferal alive. She is now eighteen. The story describes her as “only a girl, little more than a child” but that may be Kane’s sentimental response. Eighteen was reckoned fully a woman in Elizabethan…

NOW this cat needed to be belled. The Abbot of Aberration hanged a bell on the rock as a result of which the bell ranged continuously till the storm was present and thus the sailors avoided the way where the bell ranged. Sir Ralph the rover, a pirate decided to free the rock from the…

“Roger O’Farrel.” Now she had a way of pronouncing that rogue’s name as if he were a saint or a king, and for some reason this rasped on my nerves greatly. So I said nothing. “Were Roger O’Farrel here,” she prattled on, “we should have naught to fear, for no man on all the Seven…

“What sort of looking man is O’Farrel?” “A fine figure with the carriage of a king.”  She looked me over with a critical eye. “Taller than you, but not so heavily built. Broader of shoulder, but not so deep of chest. A cold, strong handsome face, smooth shaven. Hair as black as yours in spite…

“As for Roger O’Farrel … He took me off a sinking ship when I was a baby and raised me like his own daughter. And if I took to the life of a rover, it is not his fault, who would have established me like a fine lady ashore had I wished. ” – Robert…

Shamus Ford’s report suggests that in the current era of computer advancements and technological breakthroughs, hackers, computer pirates, and virus creators engage in similar actions but may have different motives. The prevalence of computer crimes such as hacking, computer piracy, and virus creation is on the rise in today’s society. These crimes primarily occur online…

Throughout history, the Vikings have been depicted as the savage and somewhat barbaric pirates from Scandinavia. Conducting frequent, vicious raids upon countries across Europe, their reputation has always been, more or less, ruthless. Though this may be partially true, historical evidence also suggests the Vikings as being more than what we generally presume… —What were…

Piracy in software industry is not a new issue. The illegal copying and redistributing of professional software was practiced globally for a long time. The new addition to this piracy cycle is illegal copying and selling of PC games for profit. USA the biggest computer game producing country is not even out of piracy business….

The title of this book is Treasure Island. It is written by Robert LewisStevenson and takes place mainly on Treasure Island. There were many charactersin this story but the most substantial were; Jim Hawkins the cabin boy/narrator;Long John Silver the captain; David Livesey the ships doctor; Pew theblind-beggar; and John Trelawney the owner of the…