Masters of Deception Essays

  • Hamlet - The Master of Deception

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    Deception is defined as a misleading falsehood. One is usually deceitful when there is a need to conceal the truth, or create a scheme to reveal the truth. This statement can be applied to the play Hamlet, where Shakespeare creates a society that is built upon deceit. Each character in the play experiences or enacts on some form of deceit in order to expose the truth or obscure the truth. There are no characters in the play that feel the need to be straightforward and seek the truth. As a result

  • Counter culture / Hackers

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    Why Hackers Do The Things They Do? Hackers. You know them as gangly kids with radiation tans caused by too many late nights in front of a computer screen. Evil beings who have the power to wipe out your credit rating, cancel your cable TV, raise your insurance premiums, and raid your social security pension. Individuals who always avert their eyes and mumble under their breath about black helicopters and CIA transmissions. Paranoid, social deviants who could start World War III from the privacy

  • The Computer Hack: A Brief Biography Of Kevin Mitnick

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    Kevin Mitnick Kevin Mitnick was born in 1963 in Los Angeles California. His parents divorced when he was young so he had a lonely life while his mother worked as a waitress to support them. He was unpopular until he discovered his aptitude for computer programming. His “career” began as a teenager when he learned to get free bus tickets, then progressed to a telephone phreaker, and ultimately to a notorious and elusive computer hacker. In his teens, he joined a local phone phreak gang who met

  • Hacker Crackdown

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    The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling is a book that focuses on the events that occurred on and led up to the AT&T long-distance telephone switching system crashing on January 15, 1990. Not only was this event rare and unheard of it took place in a time when few people knew what was exactly going on and how to fix the problem. There were a lot of controversies about the events that led up to this event and the events that followed because not only did

  • Hacking and Digital Counter Culture

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    Hacking and Digital Counter Culture Hacking was first introduced as a new way to embrace and utilize computer technology. Many of the hackers then saw the technology as a way to demonstrate their independence and aims to share this to the public and they used the computer to achieve this. In the last couple of years however, hacking has been given a new connotation. It became connected with criminal and illegal activities which is totally different from what the hackers had in mind when they initially

  • Deception In Spoon River Anthology, By Edgar Lee Masters

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    Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of epitaphs revealing dark secrets about the residents of Spoon River. As readers go through each passage, it reveals more secrets and connections, these secrets disclose relationships, deaths, and lies between the townspeople. People's actions often reveal hidden truths, as these emerge, the consequences of these actions become evident. Many townspeople in Spoon River make poor choices, which eventually lead to their downfall. Deception is concealing the

  • The Issue of Money in The Tempest and Othello

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    to his matter, in that the subplot characters attempt to achieve high respect and, therefore, gain power and strength by deception. A parallelism can be drawn between the characters of Caliban, Trinculo and Stephano from The Tempest to Othello with Iago, Othello involved. Both of these scenes illustrate how the characters Caliban and Othello are easily fooled by deception. What these characters, from both plays, Trinculo and Stephano and Iago do have in common are their evil intentions and conspiracy’s

  • Loyalty In Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

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    treasure -- Oh, my! Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is a book filled with greed, deception, and duty. In Treasure Island, young Jim Hawkins goes on the adventure of his lifetime; he gets to travel and live with pirates. He learns who is loyal, who is not, and what happens when they get on Long John Silver’s nerves. Throughout Treasure Island, Stevenson explores the moral themes of greed, deception, and duty in different ways, throughout lives of various characters. Greed is one of the

  • Alfred Kinsey and William Masters and Virginia Johnson: Were They Ethical?

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    however, when researchers ignore the scientific method and rules of ethics. The experiments of Alfred Kinsey and the scientific team of William Masters and Virginia Johnson have been criticized for their methods of research and sense of ethics. Both scientific teams researched human sexuality, a topic in which is perpetually scrutinized. Kinsey and Masters and Johnson were not always ethical in their studies, and did not always follow the scientific method. Alfred Kinsey is best known for his research

  • Roderigo's Jealousy

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    In Act 1, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello," the character of Iago emerges as a master manipulator, employing a sophisticated blend of language and rhetoric to advance his nefarious agenda. Through an analysis of Iago's language in this pivotal scene, it becomes evident that his use of persuasive techniques, deception, and manipulation not only reveals his Machiavellian nature but also contributes significantly to his character development as the quintessential villain of the play. At the

  • Altar Of Greed

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    humanity is diminished as intentionally limits the capacities of some and unintentionally diminishes the capacities of many others. The institution of slavery is antithetical to the attainment of truth, attached as it is to cowardice, ignorance and deception. The promotion of ignorance is essential to the maintenance of slavery. While this certainly applies as regards the enslaved population, an anti-intellectual atmosphere pervades the entire community when slaveholding regimes rely on shielding

  • Themes of Deception in William Shakespeare's Othello

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    Themes of Deception in William Shakespeare's Othello Deception is one of the main themes running through Othello, along with love, pride and society. Indeed, it is deception that provides the fuel for the plot and deception that is leads to the classic downfall of the 'hero' as is common in Shakespeare tragedies. We see Macbeth and Hamlet both succumb to downfall. perhaps the most obvious deception is Iago's deception. The principal method that Iago uses to convince Othello of Desdemona´s

  • Lazarillo De Tormes

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    from one amoral master to another and it is evident early on that the young Lázaro belongs to the class of people who rely on cheating and lying to survive as he is “born to one thief and then adopted by another” (Bergman). Lázaro is cunning, learning the craft of deviousness through a series of oppressive jobs in which suffering and loss of innocence are revealed to be extremely entangled in his survival. Lázaro’s unfortunate upbringing coupled with the procession of his masters foreshadow the themes

  • The Journey Of Loss In Elizabeth Bishop's One Art

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    great disaster. The line “the art of losing’s not too hard to master” is a twist on the refrain of the poem and in a way is the speaker’s confession; she almost admits her lack of control over loss (Line18). The poem has a Villanelle form with the first five stanzas consisting of three lines with an (a,b,a) pattern followed by a quatrain with an (a,b,a,b) pattern. The two refrains in the poem are more the repeated use of the words “master” and “disaster” than actual repeated lines. Bishop changes the

  • Deception

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    Macbeth uses deception and lies to become king from killing Duncan to killing his “friend” Banquo. Lady Macbeth is not much better. She also deceives Duncan when he comes to stay in their castle. She later tries self-deception to rid her of some of the heavy guilt she is feeling. The witches use deception with Macbeth, toying with his life. Their false prophecies eventually leave Macbeth unprepared and lead to his downfall. While many different strategies are used in this play by Shakespeare

  • Deception In King Lear

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    King Lear Essay Deception is a horrible act, In most circumstances it breaks trust, ruins relationships and causes chaos between loved ones. Whats even worse than deception is betrayal, which is sometimes when someone realises they have been deceived and then feel that they are betrayed. The tragedy “King Lear”, by William Shakespeare, describes how deception and betrayal are portrayed in the play by commenting on family relationships crumbling to pieces , loyalty being disregarded and the

  • Macbeth Deception Essay

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    Macbeth is a play that displays deception throughout the story especially with the main characters. These characters use deception to get what they want, no matter what. It is primarily used to carry out any crimes they wish without being convicted for the actions they have committed. The role of deception to spare one's feelings is rarely used but to only advance one’s agenda. This story embodies deception at its finest, whereas a man deceives others for his own personal gain. All this deceit

  • Suskind's Use Of Biblical Allusions In Perfume

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    religion. Suskind’s integrates religion and omniscience through ironic context for Biblical allusions in order to employ the sovereign nature of Grenouille through omniscience and reveals the deceptive, fallible nature of religion. Suskind magnifies deception through ironic context for Biblical allusions in order to highlight the deceptive nature

  • The Power of Secrets in The Scarlet Letter

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    The Power of Secrets in The Scarlet Letter Deception is defined by Webster's Dictionary as the art of misrepresentation.  Throughout the history of mankind, the use of deception to promote oneself to a higher level, or to hide one's past, has been a common occurrence. In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne , Chillingworth and Dimmesdale both use deception to hide secrets  from each other, and from the rest of the town. Hester Prynne is the only one who knows the

  • Deception In The Merchant Of Venice Essay

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    pertains to the desire to have what is valuable. Second, moral values decline when people deceive the family members that they encounter. Finally, deceiving others through love leads to a decline of moral values. In the play, The Merchant of Venice, deception, as seen through wealth, family encounters, and love, causes the moral