KGB

Aristotle’s view of a tragic hero is not very different from today’s tragic protagonist. The themes are still similar in that there is always a fatal flaw of the hero. Elizabeth Keen is a tragic hero in the show, Blacklist, because of her past, job that revolves around Raymond Reddington, and for her always forgiving Reddington. If either of those elements were different, she would most likely not be a tragic hero. Elizabeth Keen, known as Liz, had an unusual childhood, and her upbringing…

Over the years, the human population has struggled over many moral dilemma such as human values and life decisions. The debate of torture is one of the many moral dilemmas. Some say torture is a human right violation, but others say it is necessary for the humanity. Torture has been used since the medieval age to extract information or for punishment to a person. In that time era torture was not a decision of right and wrong but a necessity of doing what is needed to survive in a harsh world.…

sometime during May 2013 where it was a hot, humid night and I was exhausted. Where tomorrow I was supposed to start writing my paper about espionage agencies during the Cold War. It was a 10-page research paper on how the Cold War was impacted by the KGB, MI6, and CIA. Its so clear on how when I entered the class and began typing away that writing is becoming a second nature or even a 6th sense.My writing has fluctuated day to day and assignment to assignment,yet here are some of the…

A Review of Engineering Communism: how tow americans spied for stalin and funded the soviet silicon valley Engineering Communism is the story of two men who would leave the United States to pursue their dreams of Communism and to support the country of Russia. Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant both Jewish men from New York would go on from being members of the local communist party to being the innovators behind much of the technological advances of the Cold War Soviet Union. Barr and Sarant would…

In the story "What, of This Goldfish, Would You Wish?" there is a very ambitious young man by the name of Yonatan, who was going around creating a documentary. He knocked on doors asking people what would they if they were granted three wishes by a goldfish, Yonatan went to different people different areas to get different answers. Unfortunately, Yonatan was not getting the answers he wanted, Yonatan was trying to become big in the TV world and he wanted to make this documentary poignant…

complete control with the party’s law, beliefs and ideals. Consequently technology is being used as a tool to strike fear and insecurity to each individual being watched by the “Thought Police”, an allegorical reference to the frightening acts of the ‘KGB’, a specialised force working under Stalinist Russia. Therefore Orwell uses this quote to symbolise how a totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends to monitor and exploit people instead of harnessing its knowledge to improve…

While there are many conspiracy theories about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy’s death and his assassin, I agree with the majority that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed set up as a patsy to hide the real truth. The top three conspiracies which support this idea are the CIA theory, FBI/Secret Service theory, and the Soviet Union/Cuba theory. Even though all of the theories have different “why’s and how’s” to how the assassin came to be, they all share one common feature. Which is…

corruption in Napoleon's leadership, begging the question, why does Napoleon feel that he needs a small army of dogs on a farm where everyone is supposed to be peaceful working for the benefit of eachother? Napoleon’s dogs are the equivalent of Stalin’s KGB agents, whose responsibility was to suppress domestic resistance, corresponding with the purpose of the dogs. Moreover, the first violent act of Napoleon was when he completely halted the rations of the hens, reading, “...the hens made a…

Introduction Following the end of the Second World War (1939-1945), the United States was propelled into a Cold War with the Soviet Union and other communist countries around the world. At the root of this political hostility was the ideological struggle between western capitalism and Soviet communism. This era, beginning in the late 1940s and ending in the early 1950s, is characterized by a series of communist ‘witch-hunts’ and nationwide alarm caused by the perceived threat posed by communists…

Alex Claiborne Period 5 For centuries people had known that the castor oil seeds were poisonous through ingesting them. However the seeds were not refined until the late 1800’s and it wasn’t thoroughly researched until the Great War. Since it’s refinement ricin has become an issue because of its global impact on the world through assassinations. For years many people have advocated for the use of ricin for warfare and assassinations. A small dose causes death in humans, it is odorless tasteless…