Spy College Essays Samples For Students

The thrillers of Alfred Hitchcock have not been strangers to unconventional protagonists – from Vertigo’s cowardly, power-hungry Scottie Thompson to Rear Window’s incapacitated paranoiac LB Jeffries, to the hapless journalists and playboys of his early British spy capers like Foreign Correspondent and The Lady Vanishes. Part of the thrill of Hitchcock’s thrillers is seeing a clear sense of comedy and irreverence mingling evenly with the serious, atmospheric cinematography of his films. North by Northwest is no exception, mining comedy out of an otherwise highly tense spy thriller through the haplessness of his protagonist, ad executive Roger Thornhill (Cary ...

Many people use deception to either cover up their deeds or to try to uncover the deeds of others. As one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Hamlet is a play that has many deception themes throughout its story. Three forms of deception can be seen in Hamlet that is the fear of some of the characters that they are being deceived by others, the act of deceiving others, and the outcome of the deception. In the play, many of the characters such as Claudius, Hamlet, and Polonius all used various forms of deception to either hide information from others ...

The antihero is a long-established literary convention, in which a main character does not have the normal trappings of heroism that you might normally find in traditional heroes. Antiheroes are not idealistic, they are pragmatic; self-centered instead of selfless; amoral instead of moral, and so on. These anti-heroes are not meant to be role models, but are often avatars for the desires and ideals of whomever is writing them, as well; in the case of Stephen King’s horror novel Misery and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Moonraker, the characters of James Bond and Paul Sheldon both carry many similar ...

Function of Ophelia in the Plot of the Story

Ophelia is portrayed as an innocent girl who is faced with grief when her father dies as she is left talking in riddles and singing sorrowful songs. The grief Ophelia undergoes leads to her drowning in the end with suggestions that she might have killed herself. However, there is a disagreement with the sentiments of the clerics during the funeral event since Laertes, her brother believes that the innocent soul of Ophelia will be in heaven. The fact that her brother believes that she shall be in heaven further paints the picture of an innocent Ophelia. The Queen wishes ...

In this video, Bob Simon explores new high-tech techniques that modern wildlife movie makers use to capture pictures and scenes that are breathtakingly clear and of high quality. Specifically, the video tells of how the ‘spy-cam’ techniques have been used by filmmakers to bring viewers unseen-before views of polar bears in their natural habitats. The video clip combines high quality, cleverly organized scenes with the narration to introduce the viewer to these techniques which offer the audiences a rare chance to experience bears (and other wild animals) closer than they ever did before. Simon says that these new ‘spy-cam’ cameras ...

The movie “Bridge of Spies” was released on 16th of October in 2015. This historical drama was directed by Steven Spielberg, starring the Academy Award winning Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, and Alan Alda. The movie of the similar historical events was planned to be filmed in the XX century, however the company MGM had rejected the idea of the film. In the year 1965, the "Cold War" was in full swing. The world has just recovered from the armed conflict in the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban missile crisis, and the MGM decided that then was ...

In the post-9/11 world of espionage, soldiers have been replaced with spies as nationalist heroes – since drones do much of the grunt work now as opposed to reservists, the nebulous War on Terror is fought through intelligence and espionage. At the same time, we take a much more self-reflexive look at our heroes, especially in media, and question whether or not they are truly worth rooting for. These notions of the flawed heroic spy, the one who does what is necessary while putting themselves through misery, is explored in depth in the recent films Casino Royale (2006) and Zero Dark ...

for Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Logline

Will humanity be able to survive itself or will it succumb to it’s own madness? Or will humanity succumb to its own stupidity?

Introduction to key characters

Felix Hoenikker – One of the key researchers who worked to create the nuclear bomb that was dropped on Japan. He is cagey, irritable, and seems more to resent his kids than appreciate them. He resents them because she died giving birth to her third born. This affects the way that he treats his youngest son, and how the youngest son is raised.
Emily Hoenikker - Southern Bell. ...

Description of my Trip to Washington DC

I had been planning for a long while to go on a trip and I got an opportunity to fulfill this dream and go to Washington DC during thanksgiving holiday. My first cousin also had his holidays and he was excited to receive me at the airport. We started with The Hay Adams, a residential hotel that started in 1920’s, and had delicious food and headed towards the International Spy Museum. My cousin had already purchased the tickets to enter, and once we went inside I was enthralled to see the spies from all over the world, including Vladimir Putin; current ...

Good day! I am here today to speak to you about Area 51. Much has been said and written about Area 51. The main perception of this area is that it is so secretive such that there are many theories that abound to this day about Area 51. It has been romanticized in books, papers and films that the area is the site where an alien ship crashlanded, that it is an area where meetings with aliens are held, and that time travel and teleportation are held here as well. Today, I would like to provide with information that ...

The end of World War II ushered in a new era in international policy. After the Axis powers were defeated, the world became polarized between two competing camps: the democratic capitalists, and the authoritarian communists. The first twenty years after the war were especially critical, as various US presidents sought to implement policies to contain the threat of the spreading red nations, which no world leader had seen before. Important policies such as the Truman Doctrine, New Look, and Flexible Response were created to protect American interests, though they at times differed from each other. Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and ...

Mission: Impossible in a spy thriller movie franchise. First film of the series was released in 1996, and follows Ethan Hunt, agent of IMF, on the trail of a mole, in a role made famous by Tom Cruise. The film itself is based on television series of the same name that lasted from 1966 to 1973.
Use of music in this film is now iconic, especially the main theme. It is based on the original theme song from the television series, composed by Lalo Schifrin. It had unusual rhythm for the time, but very obvious jazz influence, motifs now ...

The leaders are people who take responsibility. First and foremost the responsibility is visible in unusual situations that require non-standard solutions. These decisions are always risky. In such situations, there is no ideal and simple solution - the leader should be able to make sacrifices. The leader should be able to take responsibility for the results of his actions and decisions.
In “Bridge of Spies” James Donovan is an insurance agent, a former lawyer with a good reputation. He has to protect the Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel, to present the United States as a country that fights for the ...

This brief essay examines ethical considerations surrounding two military and politically-charged events, one in 1960 and the other in 1968. Ethical guidelines help military personnel find practical and professional ways to face moral challenges and dilemmas “to enable and motivate them to act professionally in the discharge of their professional obligations” (Cook & Syse, 2010, p. 119).
The U-2 incident occurred as the U.S. was gathering data on Soviet missile sites. President Eisenhower affirmed the value and continued use of U-2 flights for important reconnaissance data needed to negotiate with the Russians who were withholding vital weapons information. With the ...

Correlations normally show the relationship between two variables. The three types of correlations are either positive, negative or no correlation at all.

Correlation implies that there is an existence of some definite relationship in two or more variables such that if for instance two quantities vary in a manner that movement in one is accompanied by movement in the other, these two quantities are said to be correlated. What correlation therefore does is to determine the degree of relationship that there is in two or more variables. It does not bring out the cause effect relationship between ...

Budgeting is the process of planning on measures to accomplish programs related to objectives of an organization. Government officials adopted the public budgeting to allocate the scarce resources to achieve the government’s goals at a given period. Public budgets serve a vital role in governance of a country. Public budgets are contracts agreed upon by both the legislative and executive officials to raise and spend funds on public projects, within a fiscal year, usually from July 1st to June 30th. Irene Rubin argues that accountability and acceptability of a public budget is hard to achieve among the public administrators, and the government needs ...

The United States government has been faced with undeniable allegations of spying on its citizens in the recent past. The fear of terrorism has prompted our overenthusiastic government to employ tactics that continue to contradict with human rights globally, as well as the fourth amendment. However, the most alarming fact of this surveillance activity is that the spying efforts are not only directed towards suspected criminals and terrorists, but also everyone else. With every step that the government takes to generate more information regarding innocent citizens, so does our faith in it continue to diminish. This paper will examine ...

- Discuss the current state of hacking. Identify at least four classes of motivations for hackers including (http://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/) nation-state funded as one of the four. Identify their generally required skill levels and why each may represent a different level of threat to systems. Identify their major goals and objectives and motivators. Discuss how they are similar and how they contrast one another. Describe.
The term hacking initially just referred to ethical hacking – the act of learning about computer systems, their working, detecting problems in it and eventually writing new programs to solve these problems. However, over the years the ...

Summaries

Ambrose Bierce captured the story of a foolish lieutenant named Herman Brayle in Killed at Resaca. Brayle is someone who always wears his complete uniform while on duty but is highly inconsistent in battles. Such has led Brayle to face questioning from his superiors, although he never really changed his attitude. Yet one day, when an order tasked Brayle to deliver a letter, he took the more dangerous path going to the place of his destination. Prancing in an open field riddled by bullet shots, Brayle braved the open fire even up to the point when the Confederates successfully killed him. ...

1. Emphasize the relevance of the particular case under discussion. Why should students spend their time reading it? Why is this case significant? Why is this case with this article?
The case is relevant in the sense that, it helps the students to understand what political budget appertains as well as the process and purpose of budgeting. It can be scrutinized that budgeting helps to ensure that there is a balance between public revenues and expenditure. Whereby, the government establishes a budget by first taking into consideration whether the available resources can meet unlimited public needs. Based on the case ...

Currently people are living in the era of globalization. More information is becoming available for users of the World Wide Web in the whole world. It is important to be alert about the possible ways of leakage of information. Businesses become victims of scams and information leakage which has a negative effect on the overall success and prosperity of the enterprise. Industrial espionage is a term which is not often mentioned or being acknowledged by the big businesses. Oftentimes the heads of big companies do not want to accept the fact that they were victims of the espionage. Most ...

Hacking into a PC even if one’s own; has become considerably ingenious and requires a simple matter of following instructions even if the user is not giftedly skillful. There are also more than a few ways in which this hacking could be carried out, and all that’s needed is access to the right soft wares that could get the job done. The Lazy Method requires the use of a CD with a live .iso file, and all that remains is the booting of the file from the CD. The second method involves the breaking of the password ...

Hamlet is a play written by Willian Shakespear which deals with loss and revenge, religion and love. Prince Hamlet is a tragic hero who dies, but fulfills his mission which is to avenge his father who was killed by his brother, Claudius. Instead of looking forward to a bright future with Ophelia, Hamlet engages himself in a mission full of acting, deception and hypocrisy. The final result is the tragedy which ends with the death of all of the main characters. Hamlet is a tragic hero who is successful in realizing his goals and who dies due to being ...

Was it a surprise attack?

On the morning of December 7, 1942, America woke up to the news of a ‘surprise' attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. This would trigger America's involvement in the World War II by joining forces with the British to defeat the Germans and the Japanese. The Germans were a great threat to the U.S.A at the moment, and its victory over the British would further threaten the United States' national security. The U.S.A feared that the Germans would join forces with the Southern Americans and incite them against the U.S.A. To resist this, North America had to go ...

I became a special agent 20 years before the great computer crash. Before I met young Adam Daley. Things were simpler then. Our lives were not controlled by codes and algorithms. People visited each other when they wanted to talk and we all didn't mind sending letters. Then came the twitter world and everything changed. This brings me back to the time, I decided to become an agent of the state. I wanted to dedicate my life to serving the nation. I wanted to keep people safe. Growing up, I never felt safe and I did not want anyone ...

A terrorist may be a member of different sex, race, political persuasion, or religion. However, every particular terrorist operation has a certain type of characteristics and the most means of identifying and preventing terrorist attacks is by analyzing the attacks on an intelligence-based approach. In the book The Terrorist Recognition Handbook, Malcolm Nance tries to uncover all the dynamics associated with terrorism and how terrorists achieve their heinous motives. The focus of the paper is on chapter 11 and 12 which are: Terrorist Tools: Conventional Weapons Identification and Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons: Effects and Associated Equipment Identification. The ...

Jack Wilton and I were serving at the King of Henry VIII of England when our adventure began. It was during the colonial rule and the army had to represent its King at all battles possible. We had the courage and zeal to defend our country from external aggressors no matter what. When our troops encamped near Turwin of France, Jack pretended that he had overheard rumors that the King had plans to reduce the number of sutler, the civilian provisioner. In a particular battle, the king and his council had to agree on a number of issues; one ...

Questions over Case Study 11.1

Identify the weaknesses in each strategy. (Hint: How do you think the bond rating agencies reacted to California’s 2003 budget?)
The first dangerous strategy identified was -Delay maintenance and replacement of assets—and rely on hope (Starling, 2011). The weakness of this strategy is, in addition to posing a physical threat to the people who can be harmed by these delays, poses a very real threat to the budget. More specifically, Osborn an Hutchison (2004a) note that “avoidance becomes addictive, and the real problems fester and grow, ultimately requiring even more painful solutions (p.29)”
The second dangerous strategy ...

Ancient literalists can be easily identified with their works and their time. Christopher Marlowe's poem "the Passionate Shepherd to his love” is a classic piece that paints a picture of the English pastoral life applied to a love context. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was an English translator, poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan era (Edgecombe, 42). Marlowe is said to have been so good a poet and dramatist that his exploits are only comparable to those of William Shakespeare. Initially a controversial character, Marlowe later wrote several plays and poems among them the poem titled "the Passionate Shepherd to his love” which uniquely identifies with ...

Hadji Murat is a fictional novel written by a Russian named Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy also known as Leo Tolstoy and was published in 1912 in Russia. It is a story of a young man called Hadji Murat who betrayed by his fellow Caucasian, Shamil, goes to seek the help of the Russian soldiers so as to revenge against Shamil. This quest does not end well for him.
The Russian empire functioned under a strict emperor that was guarded by soldiers. They had enemies from Chechens and who were with them. There were a lot of terrorist activities at the time and soldiers were assigned ...

I Am Legend is a movie directed by Francis Lawrence in 2007. The producers of the movie include Moritz, Goldsman, Lassiter, and Heyman. The movie bases on the horror fiction novel by Richard Matheson in 1954. The novel illustrates the development of the zombie genre to popularize a worldwide plague. The novel adapts the film The Omega Man in 1971, Last Man on Earth in 1964, and I Am Legend production in 2007. Some of the casts in the movie include Will Smith, who represents Dr. Robert Neville, Alice Braga who plays the role of Anna, and Willow who represent Marley ...

. I believe that the priest accepted help from the pineapple fruit seller because he was broken and had no choice but to accept because he was broken. Secondly, the words that the fruit seller said must have touched him because for a very long time his life was clouded by bad luck and misfortunes. I also believe that Padre Nazario was a true believer because he accepted the offer from the pineapple seller even though he had suffered ridicule at the hands of the people whom he thought would help him.
The couples Beatriz and Andara represent susceptibility and vulnerability ...

Solzhenitsyn's first novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in 1962 after a round of intense, routine scrutiny by Party officials. (Biography of A. Solzhenitsyn) It is autobiographical: ‘Mr. Solzhenitsyn, who spent 11 years (1945-56) in various prisons, concentration camps and places of forced exile in the Soviet Union because of some disrespectful references to Stalin in private correspondence with a friend, caused a worldwide sensation in November 1962 when his first novel, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," was published in the magazine Novy Mir.’ (Kramer) There Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote his masterpiece. ‘The tale involves a ...

Analysis of Allusions, Metaphors and their interpretation in Christopher Marlow’s “Hero and Leander”

Many people have heard of William Shakespeare as he is required reading in high school classrooms across the world. However, far fewer people have heard of Christopher Marlowe who was a great influence upon William Shakespeare (Bakeless, 12). During the time that he was artistically active, Marlow was one of the most widely known playwrights of his day, as popular if not more popular at the time of Shakespeare. To this day, there are different theories of his death. Though he lived relatively short, his influence is still felt today in both his influence on Shakespeare among other playwrights and ...

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“The nuclear race” was called the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in nuclear weapons during the Cold War. During the Cold War, and some other countries have been developing nuclear weapons, but no country has produced it on such a scale in which it was done, the two superpowers.
The main feature of the Cold War was an arms race between the members of the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Despite its ruinous, it has led to significant scientific discoveries in many technological and military fields.
Some of the ...

Analysis of Allusions, Metaphors and their interpretation in Christopher Marlow’s “Hero and Leander” Many people have heard of William Shakespeare as he is required reading in high school classrooms across the world. However, far fewer people have heard of Christopher Marlowe who was a great influence upon William Shakespeare (Bakeless, 12). During the time that he was artistically active, he was one of the most widely known playwrights of his day, as popular if not more popular at the time of Shakespeare. To this day, it is not known what led to his demise, and there are different theories ...

He’s Mad, She’s Mad, but by Whose Standards?

A Brief Look at Two Very Different Kinds of Madness in Hamlet
In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the main characters, Hamlet and Ophelia, each appear as being mad at different times. But each is a different kind of mad. The kind of madness depends upon which critic is analyzing the play. Some critics give Hamlet a controlled madness, a worldly kind of madness “linked with culture” (Showalter 239) and carefully created to fool the people out to get him. They say that Shakespeare hints that Hamlet is in control of all his faculties, that he is aware of the plotting and ...

One look at the teaser poster of Casino Royale (2006) is enough to decipher that the film contains elements of film noir. A cold-eyed James Bond can be seen dressed in a tuxedo, a bowtie loosely draped around his neck, and a gun hanging from his hand with the shadow bathing him almost entirely. In the background, Vesper, Bond’s brunette love interest in the film, can be seen dressed in a black ballgown, just standing there and somberly gazing at Bond. Clearly the film’s poster has the dark and gritty feel of classic film noir. While categorizing film noir has always ...

My mother taught me that there are a million ways to love a tree, and in my youth I loved in each of them. I didn’t understand singular, monogamous love; I loved each tree I came across with abandon, tripping up into her branches if she were large enough, or sitting in his shade if he were still young, curled up with a book, often breathing in sunny summer air that is now tinted with the sepia color of memory.
She taught me to climb, my mother, and immediately regretted it. I was a terror on the ground to begin with, ...

1. The Cybercrime press release distributed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (Exercise 6.1) discusses the prevalence and impact of cybercrime in the United States. According to the article, twothirds (67%) of all businesses detected at least one cyber crime in 2005, most notably cyber theft, computer viruses, spyware, adware, phising and spoofing. How would you define the following terms?

Computer virus: is a program installs itself resulting to a slow performance of the computer.

Spyware entails the utilization of software that has the capability to spy on the browsing activities of a computer user.
Adware is software that generates advertisements ...

For centuries, the fairy tale has been the cornerstone of imaginative children's fiction - the genre provides a canvas by which amazing tales can be told. The fantastic becomes possible in fairy tales, and for many, childlike wonder can be recaptured by the simple act of reading one. However, in many children's books, there is a pervading theme of maturation, and "growing up"; in these stories, the fairy tale land the characters inhabit is shown to be fleeting and transient. Two such fairy tales - Ursula Dubosarsky's The Red Shoe and Neil Gaiman's Stardust - frame the fantastic story they tell ...

1. In what ways can civil liberties protections and concerns about national security come into conflict.

On the one hand, it is common knowledge that security of a human being is one of the most important concerns ever. It is important to do all possible and impossible to protect the most valuable thing we have – a human’s life. At the same time constantly emerging technologies ruin all the standard tools of national security. Thus, we get harsh rules and regulations which allow wire tapping and intrusion into personal life. Here comes the main conflict which bothers each and everyone nowadays. ...

Andrew Johnson is a man who, to this day, remains one of the most controversial American political figures to have ever lived. He is often presented as being a man who fought for the rights of his people but in such a way that indicates that he did not fully understand what it was they wanted. For example, he fought for free public education but did not attend school himself (Schroeder-Lein & Zuczek, 2001, p xv). Andrew Johnson is a historical figure with a number of varying portraits which depend, largely, on the historian’s opinion of him. In his various renditions of Johnson’s ...