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The article Human Intelligence Collection talks about how HUMINT operations are conducted and its motives behind it. Whether it is personal greed, ideology or revenge against their mother country it will cause exceptionally grave damage to the country. It mentions a few countries such as Soviet Unit, West Germany, and China how they conducted HUMINT operations. The article elaborates intelligence source was collected from emigrate, use of sex to gain secrets, defectors during the Cold War…

In Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas represents death by night and darkness. Hence, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (1) means ‘do not slip quickly into death’. Thomas is addressing an unknown listener, advising them not to die without putting up a fight; “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” (3). This “dying of the light” (3), along with “close of day” (2), represent the nearing of night and therefore the nearing of death itself. This also means “the sun in…

Verbal Irony in The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare wrote the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in the late 1500s. Set in Verona, Italy, the story includes two young "star-struck lovers" who fell in love despite the two family's brutal history. In the story, the two teens fall for each other despite their families wishes. Hatred and brutality surround the two teenagers but that only sparkes a fire. A love so strong that even if death is the only way to be together, Romeo and Juliet…

or white, young or old, when dead, will all equally nurture nature. The grass will use nutrition equally from all the people who were supposedly different and grow on their graves. In other words, the speaker is saying that all people are equal in the face of death and nature. Moreover, the growth of grass on top of the grave signifies the idea that souls are…

play is the comparison of a sickly interior versus a healthier exterior. The gravediggers are a physical embodiment of this motif within characters of the play, further highlighting this motif. The gravediggers appear as they are digging Ophelia’s grave after she has drowned, which is significant because it…

TITLE In the book The Cult of the Saints, Peter Brown explore the rise and function of the cult of the saints, and the religious practices and cultural life of people in the early church. Peter Brown opposes the popular “two-tiered model” and offers an alternative model. The “two-tiered model” is the theory that the cult of the saints was a “popular religion” and started by the “vulgar” bringing in their superstitious practices and the elite just have to succumb to it. However, Brown comes up…

Throughout the book, family and friends did many sacrifices and jeopardized their lives for each other. An example is when Paravana ran away from the taliban. She showed courage because if the taliban caught up to her she could have faced twice the consequences or worse. Another example is when Mrs.Weera decided to walk home with Parvana because if the taliban would have noticed them both of them would have gotten punished because Parvana wasn't covered completely. Also when Parvana found Homa…

” Despite the different types of men shown by Thomas’s poem, he points out that they all face the same fate: death and they battle against it and do not go without a fight (Thomas). In the fifth stanza, the speaker directly shows the reader that “grave men [are] near death” (Thomas). This is the first time in the poem that Thomas literally indicated that this man is near death, instead of figuratively using death references like in line 4, “wise men at their end know dark is right” and line 7,…

Symbolism is important, and all good books have it. Throughout The Almond Tree, written by Michelle Cohen Corasanti, has a prominent symbol; the almond tree, which is mentioned quite frequently and is able to be a symbol for many different things. This novel, tells the story of a young Palestinian boy, named Ichmad, and how he grows up and overcomes the challenging events that take place in his life. Throughout Michelle Cohen Corasanti’s novel, The Almond Tree, the almond tree itself acts as a…

La dia de los muertos, known as The Day of the the dead, is celebrated similar to Halloween. Both Halloween and The Day of the dead include spirits but they are incorporated in different ways. These holidays share similarities and differences through their history, festivals, and and they way the spirits are incorporated. While Halloween is celebrated only on October 31st, Day of the dead is celebrated starting on October 31st and ending on November 2nd. The day of the dead was started…