Captain Phillips: A True American Hero

Samuel Bellamy was a famous pirate also known as Black Bellamy. He was born on February 23 1986. He went to sea at an early age and became a sailor in the Royal Navy while still a teenager. During his service with the Royal Navy,Samuel Bellamy saw action in several battles.

Blackbeard was a nasty and wicked pirate. He was active from 1716-18. He was born in 1680 in Bristol, England and stayed there until he became a pirate. He became a privateer, which were legal pirates, during Queen Anne’s war. Once the war was over, many men were left with no jobs and some became pirates, including Edward. He became the captain of a pirate ship called Queen Anne’s revenge and sailed in the Caribbean. He was a very cruel captain and once he even shot someone in the legs! To make himself look scary, he had lots of guns and burned fuses in his hair to create a cloud of smoke. Because he burned his hair, it was black, so he got the name Blackbeard. He died when he and his crew got in a fight with Lieutenant Robert Maynard. Maynard

Giovanni “John” Cabot was a successful, and adventurous Italian explorer/navigator, who is known for making big discoveries. He is known for discovering and claiming land in Canada, and somewhere in North America off the coast of the Labrador Peninsula. John Cabot was raised in Bristol, England and was born into a wealthy family. His family would buy spices and sell them, (at the time spices were really expensive and rare to find). In addition, just like Christopher Columbus he was search for Asia (but actually founded North America), and was also in search for the Northwest Passage. Most importantly, he sailed for England and King Henry VII paid for his voyages/expeditions. Giovanni Cabot was married and had 3 sons;

In an era when spices were just as sought after as precious silks, several countries participated in a race to find trade routes to Asia. Christopher Columbus imagined a path across the Atlantic, one that led to a dead end: the Americas. Suddenly, the goal of the race changed. Countries began searching for a strait that connected the Atlantic and the Pacific, opening a route to the Spice Islands. Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese cartographer and sailor, looked to Spain for support on an expedition to the Spice Islands. During the course of the expedition, Magellan faced much opposition and made many decisions that may be deemed questionable today, decisions that led to his eventual demise in battle. Many of his men were against saving their captain, raising a question: was Magellan valuable enough to save? Though Ferdinand Magellan achieved his goals through dubious means, his crew would have found it auspicious had they saved him, due to his extraordinary navigation skills and strategy

In my report i’m going to talk about the Pirate clothing, religion, where they from, how they live, the things they do, their history, and my 3 main points are gonna be their ships, blackbeard, and their flag .

Stanley Lord, Captain of the “Californian” ship. He was only sailing 30km away from the Titanic, although he was aware about the ship sinking he didn’t try to help them. If only Lord made some signs that a sink was sinking that would save so many people’s lives.

Almost everybody has heard of Christopher Columbus, but do you know that he tried to sail for 15 years. Christopher Columbus found new land, was a good navigator, and never gave up. Here are some reasons why Columbus should be considered a hero.

Christopher Columbus was a disastrous leader who was motivated by his own personal greed of finding a westward passage into China and India. Throughout Christopher Columbus’s explorations; he ended up getting many Spaniards killed in an attempt to please his own motives. During Columbus’s first voyage, he ended up getting 39 of his sailors killed by his naïve thinking and lack of defensive planning amongst a foreign land and population.

Captain Aubrey used supportive leadership to help Mr. Blakeney regain his self-confidence to be a great Midshipmen who helps the Royal Navy plans to defeat the Acheron (House, 1996, 330-336). Captain Aubrey also helps Blakeney because he knows Blakeney loves the Royal Navy, and Captain Aubrey cares about Blakeney’s well-being because Captain Aubrey was friends with Blakeney’s father who he fought alongside with in the Royal Navy.

In the article by Roger Rosenblatt, a man risked his life to save the other passengers in the freezing cold water of the Potomac River. In Time Magazine, the article summarizes the plane crash and the reason behind its significance. In 1982, Air Florida flight 90 crashed directly into a bridge located in Washington D.C. The plane then sunk into the Potomac River, leaving passengers fighting for their lives. Only six of the seventy four passengers survived and one of the passengers lived to tell the story of the man who risked his own life while fighting to save everyone else’s. In the article “The Man in the Water,” by Roger Rosenblatt, the theme is heroism.

The Barbarossa Brothers were once the greatest pirates who ever roamed the sea, they had a fleet of ships so large they outmatched any navy or pirate crew that crossed their path. They had so much treasure that it could fill the whole entire Nile river. But a young captain by the name of L’Olonnais, he was just starting out as a crewman on the ship called the Royal Fortune. While they were passing a small island called The Angel Isles. There was a dark cave that The Barbarossa brothers hide into the attack because it 's right next to a major trade route out of nowhere The Barbarossa brothers came out of the cave and started firing at them. Their main ship is so large they have over 300 crewmen on board with four levels of cannons. The whole

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were heroic because they stood up for what they believed in which was freedom and liberty. They both believed in these ideas for different reasons. For Lincoln, he was trying to save America as well as free slaves. This idea is shown in SpringBoard on page 69 with the quote “Our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won.” To illustrate this, the ship and her captain, which represents the USA and Lincoln, went through a difficult and treacherous journey, the Civil War, to reach a certain prize. This prize is the reuniting of the country as well as freedom and liberty for slaves. Lincoln’s ideas were impactful on society but Lincoln was killed for them. On the

Christopher Columbus and Charles Lindbergh had many similarities and differences. Columbus journeyed to the new world, overcoming obstacles and making a permanent change in the world. Lindbergh took on the journey to be the first to attempt a non-stop transatlantic flight from New York to Paris. Although these journeys seemed very different, they had many similarities. Both Columbus and Lindbergh faced many challenges and had to show their skills to overcome them.

Swoosh! Splash! Swish! A pirate ship sails through the salty ocean. Three pirate ships sail across the same deep glimmering marine. They all meet around the cove, but they all get ready for rivalry. One ship started to dismiss their cannons at their enemies. Just then, the two other ships began to sail away, but one cannonball proceeded towards one ship, and struck the ship leaving it to sink. Pirates used ships to get to their destination, and to be ready for their enemies.

The Scarlet Letter, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a story about a woman, Hester Prynne, who committed adultery with the reverend, Arthur Dimmesdale, which will not confess his sin. A physician, Roger Chillingworth, takes care of him on the outside, but behind closed doors Chillingworth is keeping Dimmesdale in his pain.Because the man will not confess his sin he tortures himself, which causes physical and mental illnesses. Another American gothic novel, Moby Dick, was writing from the author's, Herman Melville , experience on a whaling ship. The wailing ship’s captain is Captain Ahab. Ahab’s main goal for going on the whaling ship is to kill the whale, Moby Dick. Roger Chillingworth and Captain Ahab are both evil characters with many differences.