Essays on Traitor

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 ...

Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderland: La Frontera is a semi-real-life work that comprises text and poems that detail the indiscernible borders that are between Latinas and non-Latinas, males and females, heterosexuals and homosexuals, and various other contrasting crowds. Anzaldúa expounds that her manner of writing involves picking out images from her personality’s judgment, spinning forth the correct words to reconstruct the images (Anzaldua, 96). She asserted that reimaging of certainty in one’s mindfulness is significant because nothing transpires in the actual world lest it first takes place in the images in one’s heads (109). This ...

Explain how the Constitution provides protection for treason and how today’s laws compare, citing example. Is the Constitution under Article III relevant in today's world? Section Three of the U.S. Constitution states that one can be charged with a treason offence when they wage war against the U.S., collaborate with its enemies, or gives them comfort and aid (Harbaugh, 2014). The constitution further provides a threshold that needs to be met for a person to be convicted of treason. Ideally, at least two witnesses must confess to overt treasonable acts or confessions made by the accused in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction

I was a coward. I went to war. Tim O’Brien holds this claim, this thought, for over twenty years. Choosing not to tell it to anyone, for fear of embarrassment, not just his own, but his wife and children as well. Having felt as a secret hero, a “lone ranger”, thinking that in any case it ever became evil enough or it became good enough then he would simply react to a reservoir of courage built up over the years (O’Brien, 1990). But here he was, facing the reality of being drafted into a war he neither supported nor knew anything ...

“Macbeth” is one of the greatest literary works of William Shakespeare. This play proves why Shakespeare is still the most influential English author. Shakespeare has tried to portray mordant psychosomatic and political effects when people do not hesitate in taking help of evil for fulfilling their aspiration of power. The play is believed to be written in the beginning of the seventeenth century but it still pleases people who love English literature. This paper intends to discuss the “Macbeth” and presents a succinct analysis of the play along with discussing all other related aspects.

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Introduction

Dona Marina, also called Malintzin, or La Malinche (1496-1529) was an American Indian originating from the Nahua (Aztec) ancestry. Malinche played a very important role during the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish. She was believed to be a princess of the Aztec language (Nahuatl) speaking tribe and was sold as a slave in her youth to the coastal traders because of the family politics.

Malinche’s father, who was a rich and powerful Aztek chief, died when Malinche was still a young child and therefore, her mother got married for the second time and gave birth to a son with her new husband. In ...

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 ...

(Insert Instructor) (Insert Course) (Insert Date) 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 ...

In the Greek play Antigone, there exist great conflicts between religious/moral laws vs. state/human law. The rebel (stubborn Antigone) and Creon the king, fully represent the conflicts that lie within the laws. Antigone believes that the god’s decrees accompanied by his family chores in taking care of his two brothers had a great importance than any other written laws and decrees by man. She dares to ignore all the written laws including the ones passed by the mighty Ruler of Thebes. She ignores the fact that the powerful King is her uncle and leaves no chance to bow to ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

‘Subject’ 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 ...

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 ...

INTRODUCTION

The history of human civilization is built upon the names, actions, and achievements of people whose contributions have an impact on society. Some of these people and events, be they famous or infamous, become part of the paradigm of the cultures all over the world. In a diverse world, it is not surprising that sometimes society does not always see eye to eye on some of the events that make up history. These actions and impacts may be perceived by some as wrong, while others may support the individual wholeheartedly. That is most certainly the case with Edward Snowden. One ...

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 ...

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 ...

The story of Edward Joseph Snowden who was born on June 21, 1983, began as soon as he broke American and international law and presented many classified documents that were simply stolen from secure databases. His career as a computer specialist and former NASA contractor developed successfully. Until it was some certain moment, when Snowden delivered about 200,000 documents to press. Day by day, and week by week, they were published in Guardian, claiming some day that only 1% of the overall amount of documents was published. That gave many opponents and proponents to expect many more documents, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Writers Name

Born on the 14th day in the month of January 1741 in Norwich Benedict Arnold legacy has run for centuries. Generations after a generation, his life history continues to be taught and passed. Born to a successful businessman, Arnold was expected to be learned son just like the other children from rich families. However, the life of Arnold took another turn when his father got into alcoholism after two of his children succumbed to yellow fever. This got the family into a deeper financial problem which saw Arnold drop out of school. Arnold’s life took another turn after these episodes ...

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 ...