Argumentative Essay On Pirates And Explorers

I am arguing that pirates and explorers are the same. Some reasons that shows they are alike is simply, how society has portrayed them how we think and how movie/book show that pirates are evil and manipulative and explorers are brilliant and heroic. Another reason they are alike is there greed, there has been many times that explorers and their greed has taken over. The last reason is what they’ve done, and how both of them have done horrible things. These are the three reasons why I think that pirates and explorers are alike.

Firstly, is how society has portrayed/romanticized them through movie/shows and who we see them. Just like captain Jack sparrow in Pirates of the caribbean. In the movie he is romanticised, everything he does
Everyone was scared of Blackbeard but why wasn't anyone scared of Lord amherst, who put small pox into Indians blankets. The image Blackbeard created is something that we think is something interesting and how the reputation he has is cool, and that many people think that he’s not evil. “Personally, I have immense respect for Blackbeard. He takes the easy way out and betrays those who trust him just to get what he /wants, but his amazing plans and his ideas on a man's dreams are more important. He just takes advantage of his opportunities. On whether he's evil or not, I would say he's not. We don't know his true intentions, but he does everything for a purpose, for his dream. If his dream is to become the pirate king, I would say he isn't evil.” (do you think blackbeard is cool or evil, reddit.com, 11 May 2016) There so many examples on people that think blackbeard is cool but what about him that he was a thief, murderer? Lastly theres Marco Polo. Marco Polo was from Venice Italy, he traveled from europe to asia and infact he was one for the first to do so, but he has a game named after him “ his family searching for him and calling his name "Marco". Because of this, he began to respond to those cries with "Polo". It turned