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    of his actions onto Victor’s shoulders. Not only did Victor’s secret lead to the death of Justine, now the very creation of the monster lead to William’s death. After deciding to comply with the creature’s demand for a mate, Victor’s obsessive secrecy changes to an obsessive fear. Victor’s procrastination and avoidance of fulfilling his promise causes him great distress. “I had now neglected my promise for some time, and I feared the effects…

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    was disposing of her certainty. Pearl intuitively presumed that she’s connected/related to the scarlet letter. Transitively, this moment resembles Hester rejecting Pearl. Dimmesdale was worried about his future. He realized that he can’t live with secrecy and dissimulation, and must confess his guilt to escape entirely. This chapter is called “The Minister In a Maze” because he’s lost in his own perplexity. Him running off to a new and better life is actually running off to the life of sin.…

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    about 3500 employees worldwide, of this number approximately 2,500 are the special agents whose responsibility in the investigative jurisdiction involves tax money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act laws. While there are federal agencies that have investigative jurisdiction for money laundering and also some bank secrecy violations. The IRS is the single federal body that can examine possible criminal desecrations of the Internal Revenue Code. Obedience with the tax laws put in the United States…

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    Veil", the main symbol and how the symbol relates to what it represents. Textual content from the story itself will be concluded by the author as well. In "The Ministers Black Veil" Hawthorne discovers the themes of religion, loneliness, and secrecy to open his personal opinions. Throughout the short story Hawthorne portrays religion as a powerful force and as a force that effects the world more than we realize. "... he became a man of awful power of souls that were in agony for sin".…

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    Black Veil

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    To conceal one’s visage is to convey that they must be hiding something. The Minister’s Black Veil is a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne that touches base with the troubled times of having to hide one’s secrets behind a simple, yet deeply interpreted black veil. Hawthorne’s tale is strong in characterization and setting, thus leading to the tone-- seclusion. Characters are simply humans molded to another’s preference. To be strong enough to stand the test of peers is a crucial sign of a character’s…

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    Cryptography is the study and practice of secret writing and communication. It could also be said to be art and as such provide the keys and locks of the Information Age. Secret writing developed into two different branches. One of them is steganography, derived from Greek words meaning “covered” and “to write”. Cryptography was created in parallel to this. It originates from the Greek word of kryptos meaning “hidden”. Whereas in steganography the purpose is to hide a message, so that it cannot…

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    Though all of the theories are interesting, isn’t it all just a bit too unrealistic? Sure there is some truth in the history of such a group existing at one point centuries ago, it is hard to believe that what we know of as facts about them hasn’t been tampered and tweaked. How can we take these assumptions and ideas seriously? Paranoia can be very debilitating, when minor and , believing that there are people or a species that is ruling us and has so much power in our insignificant actions can…

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    ended in 1989, causing an uprising of ‘nuclear anxiety’ in many countries including the United States, just six years before the novel was published in 1995. III. Body 2. Topic__O’Brien uses depression, anxiety, fear, and secrets.__ As O’Brien uses secrecy in some of his novels it comes to light quite a bit when reading his novel ‘In the Lake of the Woods’ when the main character's wife Kathy Wade goes missing out of the blue after John Wade loses the race for U.S. Senate after being revealed…

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    Looking for Alaska “You can love someone so much… but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” This heart-wrenching quote by John Green from An Abundance of Katherines relates to another of his heart breaking novels, Looking for Alaska. The bildungsroman novel, tells the story of Miles Halter (Pudge) a socially awkward teen out to seek his great perhaps. Along the way he meets Alaska Young, who he ends up falling in love with, but he can never have her. The unexpected loss of…

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    of the atomic bomb saved hundreds of thousands—perhaps several millions—of lives, both American and Japanese; that without its use the war would have continued for many months.” Overtime, information has been released to the public, however, the secrecy of the Manhattan Project is still kept in check. For example, newsreel footage and military film was kept secretive for a long time. Japanese footage was also eventually released. Military film still has never been…

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