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    In the following essay, we will identify the narrative, stylistic and thematic conventions of our term project. There will also be an editing pattern analysis of our reference film James Bond. We will then look at the 5 skills I have chosen and elaborate on them. Our film’s genre is action and its sub-genre is spy, the title of our film is Agent Brody. Our film deals with many narrative, stylistic and thematic conventions. Synopsis: Agent Brody is a film about a secret agent who works for South

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    Mitch Rapp Predictions

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    When doing an everyday task in life, a person almost always wants to do it the most simple and efficient way possible. For Mitch Rapp, everyday tasks include figuring out how to assassinate individuals in explicit ways, and constructing a secret operation under the nose of the CIA while using their resources to do it. When Mitch Rapp kills an influential jihad leader, he realizes there are many more men just like this one around the world. Mitch teams up Irene Kennedy, Director of the CIA, and Scott

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    Intelligence provided by the Culper Spy Ring was instrumental in the defeat of the British during the Revolutionary War. Picture this: Benedict Arnold, one of the United State’s (U.S.) most infamous traitors and John Andre are successful in conspiring to attack West Point in 1780 (“The Culper Spy Ring,” 2010). General George Washington becoming captured or killed would be a secondary effect of Arnold’s treasonous act. The U.S. Army losing the Revolutionary War and securing any chance of independence

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    Elizabeth Van Lew: An Unlikely Union Spy A member of the Richmond elite, one woman defied convention and the Confederacy and fed secrets to the Union during the Civil War image: https://thumbs-media.smithsonianmag.com/filer/Elizabeth-Van-Lew-Civil-War-spy-631.jpg__800x600_q85_crop.jpg Elizabeth Van Lew One of the most effective Union spies was Elizabeth Van Lew. Over a course of four years she quietly sent valuable intelligence to Union officers and even ran her own network of spies. (The Granger

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    The Impact Of Spies in the Civil War Levi A. King Global Impact STEM Academy The Impact of Spies in the Civil War Throughout the entire American Civil War, spies and scouts play a major war in winning key battles. Both the Union and Confederacy used spies to gather information. Spies could make reports based off information they gathered from field agents, prisoners of war, refugees, newspapers, articles, and documents retrieved from corpses found on the battlefield. Both sides used

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    Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dear Sir: This is an eventful time of the month for our government, with our Olympic champions’ competing in the Sochi Olympics 2014. Despite that, several incidents have happened on February 10th that require attention. Summary: 1. An uprising of cyber threats for Canadians. 2. Canadian couple slain in Mexico, Sunday February 9th. 3. Ottawa’s Mexican visa policy hurting business. 4. Donor

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    The American Revolution saw the rise of the American spy, and the father of these spies was George Washington, commander in Chief of the Continental Army. The siege of New York demonstrated the importance and dire need for an intelligence to General Washington. Unfortunately, the difficulty, at least initially, lay with finding people willing and able to serve in this manner. Upon recognizing the necessity for a network of subterfuge, Washington created the Culper spy ring. Housed in New York

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    Liar Temptress Soldier Spy is a novel about four women who go undercover in the Civil War which is written by Karen Abbott. Karen Abbott is an American author who invests her time in composing nonfiction, novels based on American history. Throughout this novel she expresses the impact women had on the Civil war, she brings into view that women were more involved than what we originally assumed. This novel allows us to change our perspective, seeing women in a new light, knowing not only were women

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    Allan Pinkerton , born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1819, emigrated to Chicago. He was America’s first “private eye.” A man of many contradictions, he was a conservative who strongly opposed slavery, a very cautious man who risked his life capturing criminals, a militant labor organizer who suppressed the labor movement, and fought for women’s rights to be detectives. During his twenty-eight year career as a private detective, Allan Pinkerton and his agency investigated over a thousand crimes. Pinkerton

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    Women Spies of the Civil War “ [At first] it was not deemed possible that any danger could result from the utterances of non-combatant females… That this policy was a mistaken one was soon fully proved…” - Allan Pinkerton, The Spy of the Rebellions, 1883 (Leonard 1). In antebellum America there was little tolerance for autonomous women. Usually females, spanning all classes, were attached to households, dependent on males for status and wealth. Society

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