Thesis Statement: Somali Pirates pose a threat to overseas cargo transportation, which puts lives in danger. I. Introduction A. Hook: Imagine being held captive by pirates, not knowing the outcome. B. Transition To Thesis: Main Idea One: “Reports in the world press would have us believe that piracy and armed robbery against ships in the Gulf of Guinea have reached epidemic proportions” (Trelawny, 2013, para 1).
B) Pirates ways about piracy now days. iii) “Today pirates tend to work in small groups of a dozen men, operating from high speed boats or fishing travelers.” iv) Pirates have always been known for attacking out in the high seas so they can’t be caught
Grandpa Bobby tells his story: some people offered him a job smuggling emeralds from South America, but later double-crossed him, tried to kill him, and stole his beloved fishing boat. Ever since then, he's been trying to track them down and get back his boat. It hurt to think that everyone thought he was dead, but it was necessary. First, he didn't want the guys he was looking for to know he was still alive; second, he also knew that if his son found out, he would, true to form, drop everything and rush down to South America without another thought. Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV.
There are many other places where news about pirates still come to us. I wrote this paper to tell you some things that I learnt about pirates through this project. Now we know that William Kidd was a very unlucky pirate, though he was a famous one. He is a pirate catcher that turned into a pirate. He made his one and only capture of the Queddah Merchant.
It becomes difficult to comprehend and reason how all these crimes come about. Let’s say you are in a corrupt government in Colombia. Convictions for misconduct have been sparse and when one corrupt official is removed another soon takes his place, so it becomes a cycle unless full force is initiated. Many times they don’t want to do it as it is too much trouble and/or too
They were printing stories just to boost their sells of papers. These prompt the president to send a warship to the Havana harbor, which was eventually blown up killing 260 navy servicemen. Which the yellow press automatically blamed the Spanish authorities. “Even though Spain had no rational motive for provoking the United States, and no evidence of Spanish guilt has ever come to light, the incident was instantly seized upon to inflame passions for war,” stated Ries and Weber. The United States insisted on making Spain pay for the demise of the
Africans were chained and packed into quarters unfit for movement or proper breathing. The only hope of escape rested in suicide by jumping overboard. With the British Parliament's outlaw of the slave trade in 1808, the naval superpower set sail to enforce total European abolition. The Society of Friends, along with other such concerned parties, published accounts of the horrific middle passage to distribute amongst still practicing nations. These accounts, supported by memoirs such as Oladuah Equiano's, who survived the journey, informed the masses and catalyzed the destruction of slavery.
The Barbary Corsairs, sometimes called Ottoman Corsairs or Berber Pirates, were pirates and privateers who operated from North Africa, based primarily in the ports of Tunis, Tripoli and Algiers. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants. Their predation extended throughout the Mediterranean, south along West Africa's Atlantic seaboard and even South America,[1] and into the North Atlantic as far north as Iceland, but they primarily operated in the western Mediterranean. In addition to seizing ships, they engaged in Razzias, raids on European coastal towns and villages, mainly in Italy, France, Spain, and Portugal, but also in England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Ireland, and as far away as Iceland. The main purpose of their attacks was to capture Christian slaves for the Islamic market in North Africa and the Middle East.
Customs officers are expected to do their job and put a stop to the drug trafficking but the temptation of making some extra money may be extremely strong. Money is the root of all evil and a lot of people are very selfish. For an example, they know the effects drugs have on a society as a whole but if the price is high enough, they may turn their head and allow the drugs to be brought in. Not only is this wrong, it is damaging to everyone. “It is believed that the loss of the drug trafficking industry in Mexico would cause that country’s economy to shrink by over 63 percent” (DrugAbuse.net, (2012), para.
Such pervasive corruption denigrates and demoralizes all law enforcers and causes disrespect for law among citizens.The distractive effects of the drug war on law enforcement indirectly but profoundly encourage crime. In many cities, half or more of arrests are for drugs or related crimes, expending police resources and energy that might otherwise be available for domestic violence, fraud and other serious offenses. As a consequence, all criminals have a much better chance of escaping detection and punishment than if drugs were legal. (Duke, Steven B. Dec. 1993). The drug war also deeply undercuts the role of incarceration in dealing with people convicted of such serious crimes as child molesting, rape, kidnaping and homicide.