Traitor College Essays Samples For Students

Is Edward Snowden a Traitor or a Hero?

In this research paper, we would like to talk about the controversy that chases the society on every corner of the 21st century and how our beloved Social Media can become a reason of the risk. Also, the main topic of our research is a life story of one of the most controversial personalities alive nowadays. He is a true superhero. The authorities hate him, simple people rely on him. The man who was not afraid to disclose the confidential data of the US government in order to protect the people of the whole wide world. One may say ...

Nowadays, Edward Snowden is the person, whose activity connected with the leak of top-secret documents about a variety of the classified N.S.A. surveillance programs, who is widely discussed all around the world from ordinary people to high-ranking officials.
Being a computer system contractor for the N.S.A., Snowden collected a pile of documents linked with the U.S. surveillance activities towards ordinary Americans (Smith). The whole society was shocked with his revelations, though an overwhelming majority of ordinary citizens approve the act of Snowden, people who are in minority ask themselves: ‘Why Edward Snowden is a hero? (Turley)’ The answer to this question can ...

All the characters of the play An Enemy of the People hold different views on the happenings that take place in a small town. Some of their views are the ones that put them in loggerheads with each other. The conflict of interest among the main characters stems from a variety of issues top among them, the springs. Not all the characters are in support of the happenings at the springs and of course some of them are in favor of them and this creates the kind of stand that each one of them has. This essay is going to highlight ...

Louis Riel is one of the greatest leaders of the Metis- descendants of the indigenous Indian population, mostly French immigrants. He is commonly referred to as the father of Manitoba as he founded the Canadian province referred to as Manitoba. Essentially, it took dedication and a lot of struggle from this selfless leader. His era was faced with a lot of opposition from the Canadian government which was much more endowed than the Metis settlers (Stewart18).
Being the first born in a family of eleven children naturally made him a leader. Hudson’s Bay Company owned the Red Settlement where he was ...

Like in many countries, treason is the most demonized crime (Samaha, 2012). It is the only crime, expressly addressed in the constitution of the United States. Extreme acts committed against the nation are considered treason. The culprit is called a traitor. As is in most countries since ancient times, death by hanging was the common, most practiced punishment. To date, most countries (including the United States) state death for the traitor. However, most convicts spend life in prison for reasons that include the cases being dragged too long. In ancient Britain, convicts were fastened by rope, to hurdle and drawn ...

Basic Conflict and its Context

The main conflict in Sophocles’ Antigone revolves around the burial of a corpse. Antigone wants her deceased brother Polyneices to have a proper burial, and is decided to have this happen in spite of the obstacles that she may find in her way. On the other hand, King Creon prohibits this because he believes that Polyneices is a traitor, saying that he died “laying waste the land for which he fought” (Sophocles). This obviously clashes with Antigone’s set desire, as the titular character is intent on burying him, claiming that this is right, regardless of what Creon’s ...

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 ...

The novel by Toni Morrison, Tar Baby, is a tale of the disputable plight of racially segregated African Americans and the underlying discrimination based on the racial prejudice and biases. The conflicts presented in the novel are portrayed in the character shades of the protagonist, Jadine, who is charged with an act of racial sedition as she pursued her dreams by abandoning her true culture and racial heritage. The novel uses the polemic viewpoints present in the character of Jadine to delineate the racial prejudice which exists at a different level of interaction within the society. Morrison’s primary ...

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Horwitz, Tony. Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War. 2012.
Years before the American Civil War (1861-1865), African Americans were considered property to the whites as per the slavery institution present at the time. Slavery in the northern states was however not the same as that in the southern states as the latter was vast with cotton plantations that depended on the free labor availed by black slaves. Therefore, the difference solely lay in the economic functions of the two states with the north ...

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Obedience to Authority
“Hypothetical question: If you had free reign over classified networks for long period of time, say, 8 ‐ 9 months, and you saw incredible things, awful things, things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC, what would you do?”
- Bradley Manning
The above words were uttered by the Whistleblower Manning, who released classified documents of US Intelligence, which among others showed how US Army meticulously murdered Iraqi citizens including children. He revealed some troubling information about the repercussions of the ‘ ...

Introduction

The main antagonist in the Theban plays, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, Creon undergoes a major character transformation. This is clearly indicated in the three roles he takes up in respective plays. In Oedipus the King, Creon is the loyal brother-in-law who is accused by the former of murder. He is depicted as a lover of his family and of the people of Thebes. In Oedipus at Colonus, this nature slowly fades away and he becomes devious and deceptive. As a king, Creon, a noble statesman finds himself between a rock and a hard place while he decides to stand for the ...

How a theatrical text could be accurate in describing humans weaknesses? Perhaps by following the life of a human being through a fictional world of dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca investigated life and the all the basic virtues like value and morality in his theatrical texts. He perfected at maximum the Spanish theatre and accomplished with great ability to weave the characteristic of the theater of Lopez de Vega with the phasing out of certain realistic forms. The European Baroque theater with Calderon reaches, perhaps, its highest point. One of his most famous plays is Life is a Dream. The story of ...

Elements or events in a story that represents larger themes function as symbols. Symbols function as images that can stimulate the imagination of the reader in associating the image with numerous elements from lived political, social and personal reality. Study of symbols at once brings out larger significance and more immediacy to the story. Looking from this point of view, everything in Ralph Ellison’s story Royal Battle, which later became the first chapter of the novel Invisible Man, is symbolic. The story evokes some deep feelings of pity and sympathy for the protagonist. But pity and sympathy are perhaps ...

The Daily Show has become a hallmark of the ability to both convey the news and poignant information while at the same time making the target audience laugh. This essay focuses on the capacity for Jon Stewart to bring a balanced effort to the often bipartisan news environment.
In the Daily show episode ‘The Government Shutdown’, there is a broad message that is brought forward in a comedic light (The Daily Show 1). The highlights during the beginning of the show utilize the full range of acting ability that Jon Stewart possesses. Through this medium, the capacity to communicate matters of substantial ...

A Literary Analysis

‘Battle Royal’ is a powerful and evocative story that Ellison later made the opening chapter of his novel, Invisible Man (1952) ‘Battle Royal’ was originally written in 1947 and is, therefore, set in 1927 in an unnamed state in the American South.. It is an engaging text, not only because of its content and subject matter, but also because of Ellison’s writing – especially his manipulation of point of view and his meshing of past and present. Hos perspective as narrator looking back twenty year allows him to criticize the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Sooth’s segregationalist policies – which ...