The Secret Agent

novel. Victor from a young age was very ambitious and yearned for knowledge. This lead him to the study of biology at the university in Ingolstadt. He learns all he can from his professors and then further pushes the boundaries by learning the “secret to life”, thus creating the monster. However, this characteristic of craving knowledge can be seen not only in Victor but also in the monster. Created and abandoned…

Deep, dark secrets are not an aspect of life that came to age with 21st century technology. However, through the modern medium of the World Wide Web, there has been a new cultural phenomenon called “PostSecret,” which provides people a window to anonymously share their secrets. This phenomenon began in 2005 when Frank Warren initiated an art project that welcomed people to anonymously mail him their secrets on postcards. Since 2005, on every Sunday Warren has released new batches of secrets so…

Understanding Family Secrets For our project, we have decided to take a closer look at the topic of family secrets, and more specifically at the four different types of family secrets. Family secrets involve information purposefully hidden or concealed by one or more family members. The four types of secrets are sweet, essential, toxic and dangerous. Galvin, Braithwaite, & Bylund (2015) describe sweet secrets as those that protect fun surprises and they are time limited. Essential secrets tend…

On a cold chilly winter day the wind howled blowing snow that whipped hard against Westfield high school. It wasn’t normal for the weather to be this cold as Canada didn’t exactly have the stereotype Canadian winters people perceived, but a 12th grader named Ryder knew he couldn’t use the -35 degree weather as an excuse to skip class because there he was sitting at the back of English class with his feet propped up onto the desk and his arms behind his head. He did not want to be there. “Ryder,…

seem to make a nest in the back of your mind. The book 13 Gifts written by Wendy Mass, Mass creates a story that grasps the beginning of new memories. During 13 Gifts the main character, Tara, creates new memories by finding herself, discovering secrets, and paying off debt. “The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field.” (Ch. 23, pg 339). This is a quote by the main character after she has learned the true meaning of herself. In the beginning of the book Tara has always gone…

Special Agents is different from most Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) in the Army. Anywhere that an Infantryman can go follows the same general progression. They go to a line platoon, move from soldier to team leader to squad leader to Platoon Sergeant. They all receive training on the M4 carbine, M249 Squad automatic Weapon, 240 Machine Gun, and M2 Machine Gun. CI Agents do not follow a path similar to the infantry setup. CI Agents can go to positions where they can be the only Agent…

“You made very sharp-witted decisions on today’s surveillance case, Agent Smith. Without you on the job I don't know if we would have been successful,” announced Agent Nelson. “Thank you, you did a wonderful job managing the team,” Agent Smith responded. Aiden Smith, known as Agent Smith, is a surveillance specialist for the FBI. He works at the FBI Headquarters in Washington D.C., and his job is extremely important to him. Everyday he observes suspicious areas through hidden security…

city of Boo York, there was this girl who was born with special power. But she kept it a secret from everyone, even her best friend. She used to think that if she tells her best friend about the secret that she keeps to herself, her friend will start to think that she is very weird and all of that stuff. But she was wrong about what she thought her friend would think of her.Because her friend also had a secret that she had never told anyone. Arnella is a girl at Falcon High school. She has been…

When trying to determine whether someone is an agent, child or not, there are many ways to come to a conclusion. A method that I am a fan of is to define ‘agent’ and then see if the subject will fit the definition. Agent as defined by our text book, is ‘A person who acts freely and knowingly’. Free will is defined by our textbook as “the power of acting without the constraint; the ability to act at one's own will, a gift from God’. In order for this to be true, you must have the ability to make…

The Pearl of Great Price is an ideal place to learn about agency because it shows us the story of our first brothers and sisters to practice using agency in the flesh, through Adam and Eve’s experience falling from the presence of God and exercising their agency outside the Garden of Eden. Additionally, we learn about how we had agency even before we came to Earth and received our bodies through the knowledge we can gain about our preearth life, and our specific choice to follow our…