Essays on Spy

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 ...

The US-China diplomatic relations have been strained for long periods. However, the critical issue affecting the two countries is the South China Sea dispute. According to analysis of commentaries from various authors both from the Chinese front and from the U.S front, this is the only dispute between the two countries with the potential of making militarization of dispute between the two powers inevitable. Several reasons have been advanced by commentators on this issue of South China Sea dispute. From the Chinese perspective, it has been an issue for the United States in an area where it is not ...

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 ...

Introduction

Superhero is a term that is socially accepted and widely revered in today’s society. We are fed with information about their supreme powers and ability to save humanity from evil. Every popular media form has been used to ensure our society fantasizes about their presence and accept their critically maligned narratives (King 167). Vigilante, it’s a word taken from Spanish and it was first introduced to America in the mid-19th century. A vigilante is someone who operates alone or in a group, “takes the law into their own hands” (Butler 1). These people are not endorsed as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uber - Ride Sharing Company

Introduction Uber is the biggest taxi company that operates in four hundred and sixty-three cities in the world. It was started by Travis Kalanick, a serial entrepreneur from the Silicon Valley, and since 2012, the company has been expanding exponentially. Uber has faced opposition in many cities in the world, from London to Nairobi in Kenya, and there have been cases of assault on Uber drivers. The impact Uber usually causes the problem has on local taxi industries, as it offers cheaper rides with better efficiency, pushing the traditional taxi drivers out of business on price advantage (Knight, 2016). ...

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 ...

Richard welch was born in 14th December, the year 1929, in Hartford, Connecticut. He later joined Harvard University to study Classics. At the age of 22, Welch graduated from the university, top in his class. At this point, Welch took the challenge of working with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The first position Welch got in the CIA was of the case officer. His duties involved walking all over the world to follow various cases relating to the agency. At the age of 55, Welch rose in the ranks to become a CIA station chief. In 1974, Welch was ...

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 ...

Introduction

The question that comes to mind is what is Trojan horse? Trojan horse is stated to be a malicious program that looks harmless however, it is used to hack into people’s computers. The term Trojan horse is derived from Trojan War a Greek mythology (Christensson, 2006). The myth talks about the wooden horse that was pulled by the people from Troy. The legend claims that inside the horse there were Greek soldiers in it who emerged at night and seized the city. This fact can be observed from the program where a person installs the application unaware that ...

Bridge of Spies (2015) is a historical film that was directed by Steven Spielberg. One of the stars in this film is Tom Hanks. This film received a very positive feedback from the viewers and in my opinion it is one of the best films about the confrontation between the USA and the USSR in the past few years. The film is set in 1957 – 1962 and is based on a true story. In 1957, the USA arrested a Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, but a few years later he was swapped for the American pilot that was brought down ...

Government Survaillance is unconstitutional and should not be conducted. It deprives citizens their right of liberty. Peolpe’s privacy should not be sacrificed for the sake of security. Security concerns have often been used to justify a breach of citizens’ privacy. Law enforcement groups have created different measures such as the use of surveillance cameras including in many public places to monitor the activities of unsuspecting citizens. In the surveillance process, the agencies involved use high-tech machines. These devices are controlled from a private area and are mostly invisible to the public (Norris, 2010). The tools are made in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Section 1

Question 1 In order to understand the most influential technology in broadcasting, it is imperative to first understand the meaning and concept of broadcasting. Broadcasting is identified as a means by which audio and/or video content is distributed to a dispersed audience. This is done through a mass communications medium, mostly one that uses electronic magnetic spectrum, otherwise referred to as radio signals (Gielan, 2015). With this approach in mind, the greatest innovation technology of the 20th century was the coaxial cable. The coaxial cable is a cable that has a conductor in its inner workings and which is ...

The modern science of warfare assumes that in armed conflicts and local wars of the new century the winner is the one who will be able to quickly collect multifaceted, ever-changing data on the course of the battle, to analyze them, to make the right conclusions, make the right decision and quickly bring it to a subordinate. To ensure victory over the enemy is necessary to achieve the so-called information superiority, which allows preempt it in the evaluation of the rapidly changing situation on the battlefield, making the right decisions and planning the operation progress (fighting). According to the ...

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The main point of this essay is that even if smartphones have many desirable and positive qualities, it also has negative qualities that can harm its users. Smartphones, for instance, significantly changed how people exchange information and communicate with each other. These technologies have influenced their social and personal life, including their work, education and personal relationships. The prevalence of smartphones is phenomenal. Statistics have shown that almost all people in the United States have smartphones and that almost 70% of these people access the internet through their cell phones for work, personal and recreational purposes. But ...

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 ...

In late September 2001, while most of the nation’s law enforcement and was focused on Al Qaeda and the beginning of the “Global War on Terrorism”, one Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) counterintelligence investigation was closing in on a more traditional threat, namely a “mole” deep in the heart of the intelligence community working for a long-time enemy. Ana Belen Montes was born on February 28, 1957 in West Germany to Alberto and Emilia Montes. At the time Alberto was an Army physician stationed in Germany. After a number of further deployments, the Montes’ eventually settled in Towson, ...

Introduction

The paper attempts to provide a brief critique of the movie “the imitation game” in light of the leadership theories. Ahead of it, the RLP and RLR theories are also explained, and both have been related to the movie. The main character of the movie is Alan Turing, who leads a group under the supervision of the United Kingdom’s government. In addition to it, Alan Turing also exhibits some strange attributes which are entirely related to his personal life.

Critique of the Movie

The movie is totally based on the biography of the Alan Turing, who is a gay man by nature. ...

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 ...

Law Regarding to Drones and Biometrics

Executive Summary This paper talks about drones and biometrics. These are two things that are taking over our world today since they are new inventions. Due to this, they need to be studied longer since this is their time. In this article, we look at both these inventions, the laws that govern them, the threat they pose to their environment as well as a recommendation on how they can be utilized better. I. Present Scenario for drones and biometrics. a. What is Drones? Drones are defined as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are controlled in one of two ways, ...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was established through Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. It is an independent agency that assists the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who is a US government official subject to the US president’s authority, control and direction. The DNI serves as the chief adviser of the president, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for matters related to national security. The DNI also serves as the head of United States Intelligence Community (IC) and oversees as well as direct the National Intelligence Program. The 9/11 commission, ...

The Neandertal type site revisited: Interdisciplinary investigations of skeletal remains from the Neander Valley, Germany

Neander Valley was an important limestone extraction site but in mid-1800s human bones were discovered during excavations. These bones were assigned to a human Neandertal 1 but the exact details of the extraction and the location remain obscure. Many years later in 1997 and 2000 excavations in this region were resumed and many new bone fragments were discovered. These bone fragments are typical as that of Neandertals and belong to at least three different individuals. AMS radiocarbon dating and mtDNA sequencing suggest that the bones are about 40,000 years old and establish the context of the humans they belong ...

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 ...

Introduction

Budgeting is an integral part of public programs. The concept of budgeting emanates from the principle of scarce resource planning. According to Rubin, budgeting helps in efficient allocation of scarce resources and suggests choice between potential objects of expenditure (Stillman II, 2009). Public budgeting is essential as public administration have limited resources that need to be allocated to public programs. The prioritising of public programs in line with what the citizens want and required fund allocation to carry out the programs effectively constitutes the essence of public budgeting. However, as argued by Rubin, there are challenges of public accountability ...

White collar crime is a crime committed on the corporate level. It includes credit card fraud and cybercrime. Corporate level crimes are committed by companies to fulfill their own interests. On the other hand, street crimes are criminal offenses that take place in the general public for example drug trafficking, pickpocketing, etc. White collar crimes present biggest threat to our computer security.

An insider espionage case took place in 2001 in FBI where a FBI agent who had considerable experience and privilege rights to FBI systems was charged to spy for Russia since 1985 and this was considered to be the ...

In his description of himself, Baer acknowledges that he wasn’t born a patriot whose intention was to work for the CIA. He describes himself as a struggling student who had personal agendas (Baer, 2002). The book gives several accounts of what Baer describes as frustrations and mistakes he made while posted in Lebanon and India. The book also discusses the failings of the CIA. Baer gives the reasons for a failing CIA as: replacement of human intelligence with computer and satellite technology; a risk aversion approach by the agency that promoted bureaucratic practices and undermined intelligence gathering; and the prioritization of interests ...

Espionage has a long history characterized with various prominent people, activities, and events. However, the global community has essentially associated the history of espionage with some iconic events and people. The paper analyzes the roles that different people and events played in the History of Espionage and the various aspects of the history from the ancient time to the future.

Based on Sun Tzu’s Art of War, he talked about espionage in the form of spies where he stated that hostile armies could be confronted with each other for years, as they both strive for their own victory that ...

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 ...

Shot in 1946, the spy thriller “Notorious” by Alfred Hitchcock is a beautiful love story in the frames of real historic events. The movie is the first mature work of the director where his style and specific features form in the manner of shooting and conveying the message to the audience. “Notorious” was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original screenplay at the 19th Academy Awards in 1947. The beginning of the movie coincides with the immediate introduction to the main characters, Alicia Huberman and T.R. Devlin. When the audience hears the judgment of the court and the ...

Ang Lee's 2007 political romantic drama Lust, Caution is a beautiful, contemplative and breathtakingly tragic story about an undercover resistance fighter in World War II-era China, who begins to form a relationship with the man she is meant to kill - a collaborator with the Japanese. By presenting a hauntingly beautiful and poetic tale of a woman torn between who she is and who she is pretending to be, with tremendous stakes in the balance, Lee's film explores the ideas of performance and identity as a means to demonstrate her nationalism. Wong's character is presented as an actor, first and foremost, from her humble beginnings ...

Public budgeting provides reflections on government usage of money – the primary source of which are taxpayers. Government expenditures clearly define the purpose of public budgets, as deliberated through various decision-making processes influenced by a great variety of actors. In The Politics of Public Budgets, Irene Rubin provided notable features of public budgeting. She said that public budgeting is characterized through the (1) diversity of the actors involved, (2) open nature of the budget, (3) usage of mechanisms ensuring accountability to the public, (4) constraints provided by law, public opinion, and the like, and (5) the difference between ...

PREFACE

Ever since Dr. No came out in 1962, the James Bond film series (produced by United Artists and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) has held itself up as one of the longest, most profitable series of action films in the history of studio filmmaking. One central component of its popularity is the film series’ ability to repurpose the sights, sounds, and trends that were occurring at the time that they were produced and released, acting as cultural touchstones to stay relevant . As they were designed for mass appeal, the Bond producers smartly find ways to capitalize on what is popular for their audiences, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plot and Story

Plot and story appear in different dimensions in narratives. In narrative films, story refers to the account that film narrates. It also refers to events that the audience infers and assumes to have taken place in the film. In narratives, the story appears in chronological order with a duration and frequency. The Story differs from the plot because the plot presents specific events in a narrative. The plot appears as the imaginary construction by the viewer regarding the events in the film. The Plot also involves a chronological order and duration. The narrative’s plot presents Richard Hannay as a visitor in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barth, Emmy. An Embassy Besieged: The Story of the Christian Community in Nazi Germany. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2010. Print. This book elaborates the efforts of Adolf Hitler and its political system while trying to eliminate Christianity in Germany. The book uses relevant sources of information making it reliable for the study of the history of Germany in relation to the dictatorship of Hitler against Christianity. This is of the essence in ensuring that the historians have relevant facts pertaining to the acts of dictatorship perpetrated by Hitler. The author of this book is an experienced lecturer of ...

Book Reviewed

Metaxas, E. (2010). Bonhoeffer: Pastor, martyr, prophet, spy: a Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

Introduction and Thesis

God has a purpose for each and every human being. From the biblical teachings, God uses certain individuals, especially the least expected, to achieve His plans for human beings. All difficulties can be overcome by these chosen individuals, although before humans it may appear impossible to realize certain things, but to God nothing is impossible. Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a good example of how God works through people to show his greatness, especially a time when it appears to be no hope. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was born ...

Harriet Tubman is most famously known for being an African-American abolitionist during the Civil War. She was a slave who escaped to freedom, spending the rest of her life helping others escape as she did. Tubman risked her life innumerable times for a cause she believed would make the world a better, more equal place. She was considered a civil rights activist and was even a spy for the Union during the American Civil War. Though her activism during slavery and the Civil War were an important part of Tubman’s life and America’s history, the rest of her life is generally overlooked. ...

Introduction

During the American Revolution, many women took active part in both the American and British armies. Apart from direct participation, many women also contributed to the revolution indirectly. In the 18th century America, women’s role in the society was limited to the boundary of home as child bearer and home maker. Politics, military activities and even social activities were almost 100% an all-male affair (Brooks 2013). Therefore, it was not easy for women in that era to directly participate in the American Revolution. Still, thousands of women participated. The American Revolution started when England put in place ...

The Outsiders is a story that took place in Oklahoma. The novel describes complicated relationships between teenagers that belong to different social layers. In the beginning of the book one of the main characters, Ponyboy Curtis became a victim of a group of upper-class adolescents from the West Side. Both belligerent parties had their nicknames: the boys from the East End were called greasers because of their long greasy hair and the boys from the West End were called “Socs” that was short from “Socials”. The conflicts between greasers and Socs arose further several times based on their social background. Sometimes their ...

The Cold War was a global confrontation between the two military and political blocs led by the Soviet Union and the United States, which did not come down to an open military conflict. The concept of the "cold war" appeared in journalism in 1945-1947 and gradually stuck in the political dictionary. After the Second World War, the world was actually divided into the spheres of influence of two blocks with different social systems. The Soviet Union and the United States have sought to expand their spheres of influence. But the rough equality of forces between the blocks, and then ...

This is a study of the lucky German agent during the Second World War, which at the same time was the unlucky spy in modern history. By connecting with the Nazi dullness same duplicity, Cicero made something little for his German masters and for himself. In October 1943, using a habit to take home the Ambassador of the Embassy of secret documents began to withdraw from them and sell photocopies of the German attaché Ludwig Moyzisch got a conspiratorial nickname Cicero. Bazna espionage activity continued until the spring of 1944 - in particular, through it received a number of warnings about the Allied ...

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 ...

Arunabha Banerjee

Senior Associate, Corporate & Compliance Solutions, Thomson Reuters Abstract With the advent of technology, the level of invasion into the territory of our individual privacies has increased significantly. Fancy gadgets have crept into changing rooms, lockers, washrooms and in some cases public places to record the most intimate acts, which when revealed would embarrass any victim. In spite of the best efforts of the state legislators, the laws do not sufficiently address the core issues. Even the judicial pronouncements lack sufficient foresight in laying down the gauntlet for the peeping toms. The situation is clearly calling out for ...

There are is a plethora of many sosocial media webssites that enable let people to stay in touch with each other. Facebook is one of the biggest and evolved great social media networking platformswebsite that facilitates people to stay connected use to communicate with to their familyies and friends. Also pPeople also use the Facebook to share their photos and videos with others. It is a blessing for For international students who leave their homes and travel to foreign countries for better and higher education. Facebook helps them stay connected and updated on the developments back home. who decided to leave ...

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 ...

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. ...

Country Research: Equatorial Guinea

General Description Guinea is officially the "Republic of Guinea". It is a nation in West Africa. Its initial name was French Guinea. It is also called " Guinea-Conakry" sometimes to separate it from its neighboring Guinea-Bissau and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. The population of this nation is around ten million living in the area of two hundred forty-six thousand square miles. It has a crescent-like shape, and it curves by its limits from the west near the Atlantic Ocean. The country shares its borders with Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Senegal in the north. The southern border has nations Sierra Leone, Ivory ...

Belarus would be the non-democratic country I would recommend for the location of a spy thriller. Alexander Lukashenko rules Belarus as a ruthless dictator. Part of the USSR for years, Belarus declared its independence in 1990 when the USSR fell apart, and operates as an independent country. In truth, it is anything but independent. As with all dictatorships, the economy is a disaster. They are totally dependent on Russia for trade and have received over $3.5 billion in loans from Russia to prevent total disintegration. In reality, Lukashenko is a puppet of Vladimir Putin. With the reduction of the US as ...

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 ...

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 ...