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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