The Secret Agent

Secret service agent Before Jason Bourne,before Jack Ryan ,there was Bond, James Bond , the original two dimensional ,world saving secret agent .Ever wondered who protected your money and stops numerous frauds the Secret Service.The career of being a secret service is compelling because of the multitude of jobs and opportunities.The secret service performs more task than just protecting the president.They are america's private secure banker because they protect america's currency. The research will describe the career of secret service ,what is required to become a successful secret service agent ,and the impact this career has on society . The United States Secret Service is one of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies in the country…

of Conrad spinning a veil over the reader's stem from London’s “maze of streets… rested at the bottom of a black abyss,” (198) to “a town without shadows,” (9) which are like perspectives- indistinct and indefinite- to constant torrential rain and fog that blurs the characters’ and the reader's’ perception. To summarize, Conrad uses weather and atmosphere to emphasize unreliability and portrays perspective through the use of windows. In one distinct example, the Assistant Commissioner questions…

Prose Assignment 1 Accusations of Conrad’s misrepresentation of women continually perpetuates feminist criticism of his work: his ‘man’s world’ texts are notorious for their exclusion and simplification of female characters, leaving them on the periphery of his fiction. ‘The Secret Agent’ may break this assumption. Significantly, Conrad self-declares the novel ‘Winnie Verloc’s story’ , thrusting a ‘female, working-class protagonist’ into the androcentric spheres of both Victorian London and…

Through the course we analyzed and examined various books, movies, and topics in relation to terrorism over time. One thing most fascinating are the terrorists themselves. What motivates them to do such atrocity acts? Why do terrorists go to great lengths into delivering chaos across the globe? Terrorism isn’t a regional epidemic across history, but looked as a generational phenomenon in many countries and cultures. In the research done we will look at and try to figure out some answers for…

which requires him to orchestrate terrorist activities, and several of the characters deal with terrorism in some way: Verloc's friends are all interested in an anarchistic political revolution, and the police are investigating anarchist motives behind the bombing of Greenwich. The novel was written at a time when terrorist activity was increasing. There had been numerous dynamite attacks in both Europe and the USA, as well as several assassinations of heads of state. Conrad also drew upon two…

When it comes to racial crimes and segregation there is nothing more depressing than talking about how many times our world has been through it. It has happened throughout our entire lives and sadly it still happens today. The devastation and violence from these acts have shaped the way our society is and it’s not necessarily good. As a white male I can’t say I have ever been part of any minority group, but as a white female in South Africa during the 1960s you could say it was quite shocking to…

event, or feelings, that you yourself find incomprehensible or unfathomable or inexpressible. For example, after 9/11 there was a rush to proclaim certain kinds of art as speaking for the time[s], and it was then that Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent received a lot of attention, it being a novel concerned with a plot to blow up a well-known building. Subsequent to the attacks on the Twin Towers, this book has now come to be known as The Great Terrorism Novel, and is seen as a kind of…

view and its implications as depicted in Conrad’s The Secret Agent. Spy novels are seldom known to have preferred philosophical or intellectual content. The predominant plot is the hunt and the staple character is the hunter of the hunted. By the token of their profession, spies are constantly chased; and if hunted,…

The Problem of Moral Agency in Hamlet In order to be a moral agent, a person has to have a good sense of self, they have to know exactly who they are and how they must act according to the decisions they make. In Hamlet, the moral task at hand is revenge for the murder of Hamlet the elder. The murdered King's son, also of the same name, must be the one to avenge the murder. Before Prince Hamlet finds out the true story behind his father's death, he has his mother's…

As Agent Smith tells Neo, "You have been living two life’s" (The Matrix). As Thomas, he's working for a software company and lives inside the matrix. As Neo, he is a computer hacker who wakes up in the real world. Neo is referred to as “the One”. “In Christian theology, Jesus Christ is the Messiah (Son of God, Son of Man, "Light of The World") who saves mankind from its sins" (John 8:12). In the Bible, Jesus dies on the cross, but later is resurrected and ascends to heaven. Christ translates…