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    One of literatures greatest quality is allowing the reader’s mind to uncover subliminal messages in an attempt to form their own understandings and ideas. Perhaps, this particular process is commonly described in the idiom “reading between the lines.” While many writers have implanted this literary aspect into their works, this essay focuses on a specific parable written by Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled The Minister’s Black Veil. Notably, a parable is a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual

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    woman during World War II, being a typical women living in Eastbourne, Sussex England and working at a hospital as a nurse. Your husband and many of your friends knew you as Nurse Margaret Spencer but they didn’t know you were a Secret Intelligence Service Spy. A secret that you kept for about fifty years after you signed the Official Scerets Act at the age of twenty. Margaret Spencer was given a gun and the code name M16 as she started her life as a Spy. There were many spies during WWII, but

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    America's First Spy Ring

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    our present day Counter Intelligence (CI) began after WWII with the combined efforts of the U.S. X-2 branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Special Intelligence Services (SIS). These offices gave way to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responsible for countering activities of foreign intelligence services in the U.S. and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) responsible for coordinating U.S. counterintelligence activities in foreign countries

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    “The Destructors” and “The Lottery” Fiction Essay Introduction Some may say that we are, as human beings, a violent people by nature. We see it in our own history of wars and genocide that the violence in us can grow to extreme proportions. These two stories, “The Destructors” by Graham Greene, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, show us that some of the violence can be brought on by people simply following blindly. Whether we look at the past or the present, these two short stories, show

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    foreign spies and enemies of the state. Roosevelt created the OSS with the purpose of uniting the often-divided Army and Navy intelligence gathering services that often concealed information from each other in terms of a quasi-military rivalry in the Armed Forces. More so, the FBI and The United States Department of State had its own separate intelligence service that further divided the nation’s

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    Essay Buried Child

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    It’s amazing what a secret can do to a person. Keeping secrets among friends can be fun, or helpful when you need to confide in someone you trust. Other secrets can do more harm than good. They can fester inside you and cause endless pain. In "Buried Child," this is the case. The family is permanently altered by their secret, which becomes a growing moral cancer to them, leaving each impotent in their own way. The play takes place on Dodge’s farm. About thirty years ago, the farm

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    The book Tuck Everlasting is about Angus,Jesse,Mae, Miles tuck, Winnie Foster, and a man in a yellow suit. Mae Tuck wakes up puts on her clothes and sets out to meet her boys Jesse and Miles. Winnie foster a ten year old girl sits behind the fence. A man wearing a yellow suit approaches her and ask if she knows anything a family that will live forever. Winnie's grandmother comes out tells the man they do not stand outside disguising things with strangers in the dark. Winnie decides to run away because

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    Allie, who reminisces about a time spent when her cousin Mack taught her to fly when she was just a young girl. On different occasions when Mack visited, he would show her how to do new things. As Allie grew up she found herself thinking of the secret that Mack shared with her and how he told her not to tell anyone or she may get hurt. Allie longed for the feeling of flying, if she could just reach out and talk to Mack but too much time had passed. She dreams of flying in her sleep, not for long

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    structure, even if those roots are bad. In the Toms’ family they’re roots were poisoned from the very founding of the family starting with Sam Toms’. His poison was not the fact that he tried to steal a married woman away, but that he was filled with secrets, deceptions, and self hatred. His family was founded on these poisened roots and passes the poisen down generation after gerneration. The only way to stop the poison, or inner self hatred taken out in other forms, was to let go of past and

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    McGovern, Ann W. "The Secret Solider: The Story of Deborah Sampson." Scholastic, 1990." Deborah Sampson was an incredible woman. She conquered so many things and taught people to dream big. She was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Deborah had four siblings and her mother had to give them all away, because she couldn't provide for them. Deborah was just five when her mother gave all her children away. Her father died in a shipwreck looking for adventure. Deborah had a hard childhood. She lived with

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