Classmates Presentation

I only had the joy of seeing one classmate's presentation, but i learned so much from it. He showed me that transitions mixed with effortless timing were a key part of any presentation. How to know the information isn't enough you need to know how to relay the information without reading words off a screen, and this im sure worked wonders for him. I couldn't fathom anything about his presentation being bad which is probably why i begged to see his to begin with aside from this post. Although im sure his presentation was great i felt my presentation was just as good if not better.

What I learned in Pirate School is

This was experience was as unsettling as being a prisoner on a pirate ship.I wrote on what makes a person a pirate. I deduced that a person only becomes a pirate either because they're greedy or desperate. I reinforced this by paralleling vikings to golden age day pirates and shining a light on what started modern day piracy. In the beginning I was torn between three topics but abruptly chose one so i could turn in the making a claim worksheet. After tearing my brain apart piece by piece to choose between the three i just couldn't. So i did what any stressed college student juggling two much would do, I did what i thought was the easiest. I started writing on all three topics and tried to see which would sway my attention the most. That is the part of this project i regret the most and wish i could've changed because this did nothing more than waste time, effort, words, and attention. In the end i learned that piracy today is nothing like it's ancestors and i was interested in how truly terrible the conditions of people is in modern day Somalia.
     

What Makes A Pirate?

What turns a person into a pirate? What circumstances cause an individual to turn to the skull and bones flag with a backdrop as black as the situation that first bore light? An ancient Grecian proverb states that, “where there is a sea there are pirates”, and from the moment man discovered that wood could float the seeds of piracy were implanted in the human psyche. Documented piracy dates back as far as the Vikings of the 8th Century, but the “Golden Age” of piracy is considered to be from the 1650s-1730s. The lifestyle of a pirate from its origins is that of a gruesome life filled with murder, treason, and uncertainty; and this form of existence is not for an ordinary person. The individuals who are extraordinary in one of two ways become pirates: those who are either extraordinarily greedy or extraordinarily desperate. This means any individual who willingly succumbs to this life either drunk with greed or has nowhere else to turn. This is essentially what my paper will be about and how it will be structured. I believe the hardest part of my paper will be how i show that a normal person doesn't be come a pirate and in turn say what isn't normal.

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