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    A clumsy housewife and mother takes a job as a computer assistance at a software company, but soon discovers that her co-worker plans to sell cruical data and she becomes a reluctant spy to stop the conspiracy. STORY COMMENTS DON’T TELL HER NO focuses on a likable female protagonist, Julie Braine, a rather ordinary housewife who unwittingly gets caught up in an international computer spy caper. The script follows Julie as she comes to learn to respect herself and prove that she’s a capable,

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    Nate Perea 4 April 2017 Professor Kenneth David Period 4 How Spies Affected the Outcome of the Revolution The American’s and the British had many tactics to solving the enemy’s plans. One way of solving this was hiring Spies. Spies did everything from joining the enemy’s army, to volunteering to go behind enemy lines. Spies would risk anything to get the enemy’s plan. The Spies of the Revolution were very important because they helped figure out enemy plans, were willing to risk it all, and used

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    Each nation has secrets that it guards jealously, especially in wartime. In order to learn these secrets, the spy must take over where the intelligence officer leaves off. Spies, or espionage agents, are trained to gather secret information by going undercover. Spying is against the law all over the world, yet every important nation employs spies and has schools for training them. Since they don’t wear military uniform, captured spies

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    and he had won a pulitzer so now he was near untouchable. It is extremely hard to sue a whole newspaper company and a pulitzer prize winner. Should journalists who acquired secret information by bribery or tapping wire calls be treated with the espionage act because they used and illegal way of obtaining their information? Journalists who bag the information themselves can be jailed because they were technically the leakers. People are afraid of reporting things like secret information because they

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    Nikita Mears is a covert operations operative trained by the secret government organization known as Division. She was recruited after escaping her abusive foster father, becoming a drug addict and living on the streets. Foster Father,”hey daughter you want some drugs.” Nikita respondes,”NO!!.” And Nikita was sent to death row after killing a police officer, upon where her death was faked. With the downfall of The Group, Nikita was pardoned from all crimes and wrong-doing, and retires from government

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    English Assignment 3 Outline A. Introduction: A. Rhetorical question: To snoop, or not to snoop? B. Name of the writer: Judith Woods. C. Name of the article: Should parents spy on their children’s emails and texts? D. Summary: Main Claim: the author throughout the article talks about the idea of parents spying on their children privacy, through social media. The article is supported by many various examples of people personal experiences. Thesis: throughout

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    George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spies That Changed Nothing What should someone expect from a historical narrative about the revolutionary war written by a Fox News co-host? An agenda pushing, shamelessly biased story about American patriotism and bravery perhaps? If that is the case, George Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmeade does not disappoint. Kilmeade portrays the “Secret Six,” also known as the Culper Spy Ring, as heroic patriots responsible for “saving the cause for liberty.” Anyone

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    Covert actions involves the use of military and political operatives as an intelligence activity, aimed at a specific target and undertaken in such a way that it does not reveal the identity of the source of the action. Through this concealment, the identity of the actor is disguised, providing deniability (Burgos, 2009). Covert actions, including information gathering and assassination have existed in many forms over the centuries and have developed through necessity for a particular civilization

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    more and more technologically proficient, humans adapted their self-driven procurement of social secrets into a sophisticated network of battlefield espionage. Beginning in World War II and continuing into the 1960’s, Virginia Hall exemplified both the thrill seeker’s inner satisfaction and the professional spy’s execution of tradecraft driven espionage. Background Hall was born into a wealthy family on 6 April 1906, in Baltimore, Maryland. From a young age, she was an

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    Though both the Union and Confederacy didn't have a proper intelligence network, they both were able to acquire critical information through spies, espionage transactions, and undercover agents. Because this was one of the first American wars that spying was used in, many modern American spy tactics and techniques were introduced. They also helped deliver crucial information to both the Union and Confederate and free a great amount of slaves. Spies in The Civil war also were of a large variety of

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