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Snowden has been charged with two counts of violating the Espionage Act and has stolen government property and can therefore be charged for up to 30 years in prison by the federal prosecutors in Virginia. He is on the run from the American authorities, and the White house spokesman, Jay Carney said, “he is not a human rights activist. He is not a dissident” (Herzenhorn, 2013). The National Secret Administration also claims that their programs are constitutional and that their aim is to protect…

Rachel Samuels 001665731 HIST 1390 Professor Burds Israeli Espionage Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars examines the history and exploits of Israeli intelligence from the country’s founding in 1948 to today. Instead of moving through the history chronologically, the book looks at the history through various stories and examples of intelligence successes and failures. The book also gives insight into the other major and minor organizations that play key roles in providing…

Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Coming in on the scene in the nineteen-sixties, Mapplethorpe was considered scandalous and controversial at best. Most of his work had been seen as homoerotic or simply just pornographic. Instead of looking at his work from this perspective however, I will be taking the stance of his work as being technically beautiful as well as arguing that he uses photography to push our popular perceptions of sexuality and…

The genocide in Gaza has resulted in 20,674 innocent civilians dead, all murdered by the IOF. Malcolm X fought against racial discrimination and advocated for the rights of African Americans, while the situation in Palestine involves the fight for their holy land and the rights of Palestinians, there are many similarities. Malcolm was also wrongly portrayed in the media, just like the Palestinians who are painted as terrorists. Malcolm would organize speeches that would raise awareness for the…

needed, or the accessories that I required. Truth be told, regardless she has the majority of my disposed of apparatuses and pedals, since they were so costly she couldn't stand to dispose of them. Mom was with me when I won the World Championships in Oslo, Norway, in 1993. I was twenty-one. I pumped my fists in the air, blew kisses and bowed to the crowd. After I dismounted, I found Mom, and we stood there in the rain, hugging. “We did it! We did it!” I said. In the midst of the post-race…

Bang! The main character of the popular video game is now dead. However, just because a character dies, a child will not go out and hurt someone else. There’s a line between fantasy and reality. Every gamer knows that line and are well aware of the effects a video game has on him/her. Therefore, it’s impossible to say violent video games are the direct cause of violence in youth. The United States should not ban violent videos when they are not the direct cause. The parents can see what the…

My Race against malignancy was hard, however it didn't prevent me from hustling. I didn't simply hop again into dashing and win. There were a great deal of good and bad times, however this time I didn't allow the lows to get to me. In 1999, I went ahead to win the Tour de France, however my triumph over malignancy has implied the most to me on account of how it helped me create as a person. When I was twenty-five, I was demanded to have testicular disease. I was given an under 40% probability…

Quite apart from the fact that there is a general agreement that torture is morally wrong, the prohibition of torture is also enshrined in fundamental conventions like the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights. From a moral point of view, we agree that torture is ‘evil in itself’ (mala in se) : the act is inherently wrong by nature, independent of the law. This means that it is not required to base it on a legal rule to prove that…

The Hagen Oil Company has been in William Hagen’s family for over 60 years. It is located in Oslo, Norway. This is where the majority of Norway’s oil is produced. The company has been passed down from generation to generation. William had recently gotten the company from his dad who had passed away earlier in the year. William would be passing it down to his son, Oskar, in the next couple of years. William was working in his office one day when a breaking news report came on the television. The…

1 Abstract: This paper seeks to explore the function of interdisciplinarity between Poetry and Mythology in the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’ “The Phases of Anat” and how myth is employed to serve cultural and resistance purposes by means of creating and ascertaining identity through proposing and documenting a new version of the subaltern history that have been marginalized for decades in view of the capabilities of their powerful occupiers at all levels. to serve supporting his…