Essays on Enigma

The U-505 is a 750 ton German submarine what was built by the Nazi regime for the Kriegsmarine (German navy). The U-boats were highly effective for Germany as they destroyed many of the ships carrying food and other essentials to Britain. Britain relied heavily on these materials form North America and German success on the seas would have meant that Britain would starve before the end of the war. The capture of U-505 on the 4th of June, 1944 proved to be highly favorable for the allied forces in many ways. The capture of U-505 German submarine meant that ...

In Shonda Rhymes’ “Scandal”, the appeal of the film comes from the opportunity it offers to the viewers to get closer to the close world of American politics, and into the White House. By making the President of the United States humane and likable, the filmmaker ensured that the audiences would find the show fascinating and intriguing. In the last episode of the show’s 2nd season, namely episode 22: “Who’s Your Daddy”, Olivia Pope and her team manages to hide the issues of the election fraud and to reestablish the authenticity of the show comes from its ...

Cryptography is an art that is involved in writing and interpreting secret messages. It involves encrypting messages into symbols, numbers, and letters that form a different meaning to conceal the message. In other words, it is the use of codes to conceal a message. In the past, cryptography was very common, especially during epochs of combat where it was deployed to communicate coded messages (Bauer 34). It was an important tool that a particular community would use to conceal messages from their enemies. Today, this mode of communication is rarely used. However, codes are commonly used in technology, especially ...

The Old Testament is believed to have been written before the time of Jesus (BC). Different books in this period of time feature known faithful and prophets such as Abraham, Moses, David and his son Solomon. The book of Ecclesiastics, in the Old Testament, has been regarded as one of the most controversial books in the bible. Officially, it is believed to have been authored by a Hebrew named Qoheleth. However, given the style of writing and the way the author evokes the reader’s emotion, most people believe the book was authored by none other than Solomon. The ...

INTRODUCTION

Leonardo da Vinci is deservedly considered to be the most well-known art master of the Renaissance. Examining almost all important spheres of human life, from physics to anatomy, Leonardo, however, left a substantial trace in the history of arts. His paintings, all perfectly performed and delivering a deep meaning by every detail, are now the absolute examples as well as the mysterious enigma. In fact, St. John the Baptists is considered by some to be the last work of the master, therefore, it is still considered to be one of the most controversial. Anyway, this painting represents the genius ...

Aztecs` Human Sacrifice as the Example of Cannibalism

Cannibalism is a phenomenon that has always wondered people with its ambiguous nature. Despite the fact that cannibalism is now perceived as a deviation from the norm, yet there is documentary evidence that human flesh eating existed in the past. And now, the only difference is in the explanations that people find to cannibalism. In most cases, people believe that it was either way to survive in conditions of hunger, or a part of the culture and sacrificial rituals of the past. Time goes by and scientists put forward new explanations for this phenomenon. Nevertheless, each person creates his ...

Derek Pearsall’s essay “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Essay in Enigma” is part of The Chaucer Review’s commemorative issue celebrating the work of C. David Benson as he approaches the age of retirement. Pearsall hearkens back to his master’s thesis days when he writes about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; he begins by noting that even though he is quite familiar with the plot of this tale, to the point where he can tell a slightly less salacious version of the tale to his children and grandchildren. However, he also points out that ...

Al Capone was a gangster who ran an organized crime syndicate back in the 1920s in the Chicago area during the Prohibition era. Despite his role in various crimes, Capone was a charming gangster who was both charitable and amiable to others. His demeanor was opposite the power and viciousness of his personality, which is why he became an iconic image of the successful American gangster. He was even dubbed as the modern-day Robinhood for his knack in helping the poor people. Born in 1899, Capone was the fourth of nine children born to Gabriele and Teresina, both Italian immigrants. ...

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 ...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most mysterious and remarkable writers of the 19th century, whose artistic heritage has always been readers’ and critics’ concern. Being a representative of the American Romanticism, Poe is also well known as an innovator of new genres of literature (detective-fiction and science fiction genres) and as successful practitioner of the short story. His literature style is considered to be macabre and anxious, and the theme of a death is presented in the most of his short stories, and every time it is inextricably linked with psychological conditions of the heroes. “The Masque of the ...

Summary and Annotation

Summary Kinne notes that the first reading prepares the reader to embark on a serious analytical reading by critically considering the text piece by piece if necessary. Further, the author believes that students should endeavor to develop different reading rates when the text proves difficult to understand. He opines that re-reading difficult texts eventually enables the students to grasp the ideas that the author of the text seeks to convey. This way the reader is able to appreciate the value of the text. Kinne is of the opinion that the first step should be to determine the meaning ...

Introduction

This research paper compares and contrasts the views of professionals with respect to fibromyalgia; whether it is of psychological or physical nature / origin. Having conducted the following research and studied the views of others, especially those who we would all hope should know – the medical professionals, the view of this researcher is that fibromyalgia is more psychological in nature, even though that opinion is changed considerably from the view that was almost universally held in less enlightened times, when referring to a condition as having psychological causes was interpreted as implying the person was suffering from a mental illness, which ...

William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is an engaging play which documents the journey of Macbeth up to the paramount helm and his subsequent downfall. The play portrays the dichotomy of mind, the hunger for power and the brutal clutches of fate that looms over the lives of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth who finally succumb under the onus of their deeds. How life meanders its way through the series of events finally leading to the downfall of the duo is aptly portrayed by the stalwart playwright. Shakespeare uses the protagonist of his play to exude the horrendous effects of ambition and ...

John Q. Student

“Can machines think?” – Alan Turing, 1950

This is the one question humans have been asking for decades (even centuries) and it is a topic which has been widely explored until this very moment. This question was posed by Alan Turing in his essay way back in the 1950s. As we all know, one core function of computers nowadays is to enable a systematic automation of processes. These processes pertain to tasks that used to be performed by humans manually. However, computers (and machines) have always worked in a fashion where people command every single move it makes, and therefore the computing world is posed with the ...

Today’s media is keen on making us believe what they want us to believe and implying many concepts. Among these is the concept of beauty. Over the years what is to be considered beautiful was always defined. In the modern world this has its positive and negative sides. On the one hand, beautiful is healthy. This means that media quite often forces people to take better care of themselves, do more sport, eat right and lead a healthy lifestyle. Unfortunately, there are those who take it too far and we end up facing problems like anorexia. Quite often the ...

The following paper discusses at length what Foreign exchange market is and how beneficial it is for world economics. The paper also discuses three major world currencies and how their fluctuation is affecting world economy. The current global economic condition requires one to understand the mechanisms of economy and how it affects the daily lives.

International Financial Markets

An institutional and physical structure is provided by the foreign exchange market. Through this procedure, currencies of different countries are exchanged. The final rate of exchange between currencies is calculated, and then the foreign exchange conversions are known to be physically completed. In ...

Proposed Topic for Research:

A documentary based on the Hibakusha. They are the survivors of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II.

It Aims to Develop the Following:

1. A documentary based on the survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II that will open up a comprehensive understanding of the moral aspects of the event. 2. An understanding of how the Manhattan Project (development of Plutonium and the atomic bomb) wiped out thousands of innocent lives. 3. A comprehensive view on the historical events that led to the bombing. What caused the US to decide to ...

The Novels of V.S. Naipaul

Introduction Mr. Naipaul is of Hindu Indian descent. He is third generation from a family settled in the Caribbean. He was born in Trinidad in 1932. The Caribbean has been a colony of both Spain and England. He has traveled to India to search for his roots. He started his travels away from his birthplace when he attended Oxford at the young age of seventeen years old. Naipaul’s work both fiction and nonfiction generally takes into account identity crisis as a postcolonial phenomena stemming from colonized people and how their since of identity and security is affected.

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Intelligence is as essential to modern armies as ammunition." Brigadier General Joseph E. Kuhn. When stripped to its minimum basics, intelligence would be defined as the methodical or organized efforts to gain an advantage over a competition (mostly in war) using covert or secret means. Intelligence entails four basic kinds of interrelated activities: firstly, gathering information, mostly in secret; secondly, carrying out secret or covert operations, thirdly, shielding, or safeguarding the parent organization from compromise, along with examining the findings, and the outcomes (what has been discovered). Intelligence has been a major dynamic in the American history ever since the times ...