...GEORGE FAHMY ENG 121 D. Meltzer A summary is a brief restatement, in your own words, of the content of a passage. You should focus on the central idea of the passage. Summarize when you want to present the main points of a lengthy passage or when you want to condense peripheral points necessary to your discussion. A summary should be brief, complete, and objective. In order to summarize information, you must first be able to understand it. This requires careful critical reading. Read the passage completely the first time to gain an overall understanding of the piece, begin making margin notes that identify important points, shifts in thoughts, . also want to consider at this point what the significance of the whole piece is, what the parts of the essay that fit into the whole are, and how the points are organized to support the whole. A paraphrase is very similar to a summary in that you use your own words to communicate to your reader what the original passage has stated; however, an important difference between the two is that the paraphrase is approximately the same length as the original rather that one quarter of its length, as a summary is. In a paraphrase, instead of only restating the writer's main points, you will follow the progression of the writer's ideas sentence by sentence. In other words, each sentence in the paraphrase corresponds to a sentence in the original, the main difference being, of course, you have replaced the language of the original...
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...1. Do you think that Kant would approve of Snowden’s decision to leak the NSA confidential material? Explain your answer including specific details from Kant’s deontology, why/why not? No, I do not believe Mr. Kant would agree with Mr. Snowden’s decision. If Mr. Snowden wanted to warn the American people as he claims, he could have done so without putting the entire country at risk. Mr. Snowden cannot articulate a duty towards his fellow American and put them at risk at the same time. He can argue that he wanted to change the law however he could have release the information to the media here in the states instead of flee to a another country then release the information. Snowden argument fails to prove to the American people that all of his actions were merely “matter of principle” as he claims. 2. Explain whether or not you believe Edward Snowden should be hailed as a hero. Support your statements by explaining the rationale for your decision. That is a double-edged sword question because if he was from another country and divulge national secrets that could potentially help the U.S. to protect it from terrorist attacks then we would probably hail him a hero. However, his leaks have led to a more open debate and more democratic process than would not have existed otherwise. So what makes us different from other countries? One is the way we openly discuss and democratically process the laws. Two: The ways the U.S. protect and secure the nation. Mr. Snowden’s leaks...
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...Edward Joseph Snowden is a former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who disclosed a global surveillance by the NSA, such as PRISM, XKeyscore, Tempora, and the interception of US and European telephone metadata. Page 2 1. In May 2013 Snowden took a leave of absence, telling his supervisors he was returning to the mainland for treatment, but instead left Hawaii for Hong Kong on May 20. 2. On June 22, US officials revoked Snowden's passport. Although Snowden had applied for political asylum to 20 countries, the US administration, specifically Vice President Joe Biden, had pressured the governments of these countries to refuse his petition for asylum. 3. On June 23, Snowden landed in Moscow's international airport. He remained in the transit zone for 39 days until being granted temporary asylum by the Russian government on August 1.Then he went to an undisclosed location kept secret for security reasons. HongKong In Hongkong, Snowden spoke very frankly about the US Government’s attempts to extradite him, so his intention is to ask the courts and people of Hongkong to decide his fate. As we can see in the pictures, On June 15, people in Hong Kong got together to support Edward Snowden. After Snowden had taken off, The HongKong government released a statement, saying that said the extradition request received from the U.S. “did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law.” so they had no legal reason to prevent Snowden from boarding...
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...a chat message, it stores your IP address of where the message was sent from, essentially telling Facebook, marketers to whom your information is sold, and the other person where you are. B. Background: The project that I have chosen is to make the viewer aware that they are vulnerable on the internet, even if they think that they are not, introduce my role model who I strive to be like one day, and explain how this all fits into the career path I have chosen. C. Edward Snowden nowadays is referred to as a “whistle-blower” because he leaked secret government documents that essentially proved that the government has been spying on its citizens for years, illegally collecting data, text messages, phone calls. But I argue that what he did made people more aware that the internet is not safe, and it kick started a movement to better hardware encryption technology, which is the field I would like to get into, or integrating seamless encryption into other existing software and technologies. D. Edward Snowden became a martyr because he shared the truth with the world that the government was spying on them, he lost his freedom because of it, I want to make encryption commonplace in his honor. E. Most of what will be talked about is the information collected by the NSA, the leaked secret documents, government created malware, and how I want to be someone who makes a difference in the world by making encryption seamless. II....
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...Annotated Bibliography Mccoy, Blake. "Lawmakers Tackle Privacy Concerns with New Technology." Lawmakers Tackle Privacy Concerns with New Technology. National BroadcastingCompany, 28 Jan. 2014. Web. 05 Mar. 2014. This article is helpful because it outlines some of the problems the new technology will face with privacy. Minnesota state law makers discuss the privacy problems with new law enforcement technology, such as license plate readers and cellular exploitation devices. Also in this article it brings up the fact of how long will these records of innocent people be kept. Law enforcement officials admit that laws governing these new technologies is very murky. Signorelli, Paul. "Sparking Innovation, Learning and Creativity." Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Technology. New Media Consortium, 11 Nov. 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2014. This article is helpful because is reveals a lot of privacy problems with ubiquitous technologies. Ubiquitous technologies are device like smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices; using these devices can destroy privacy barriers and may lead to unfortunate events. The article refers to the privacy problem as a novel challenge, a solution that can be proposed but it is already outdated by the time becomes in affect. Watts, Steve. "More Xbox One Kinect Privacy Details Outlined." - Video Game News, Videos and File Downloads for PC and Console Games at Shacknews.com. Shacknews LTD, 01 Nov. 2013. Web. 6 Mar. 2014. This article is helpful because...
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...How did Snowden get into this mess? Where does he come from? Snowden’s past is talked about extensively on NPR with journalist Brian Burrough. Brian talked about Snowden’s interesting past. Snowden dropped out of high school at the very young age of 15. For five years Snowden had no job and was only taking a couple classes at a local community college at the time. Brian says that this is the most interesting part of Snowden’s life because he spent most of his time navigating the internet and learning about computer systems in depth. The crazy thing about it all is that he taught himself everything (NPR). After five years of private study and couple classes of computer science at a local community college, Snowden would go on to join the Military. It is really hard to try and unravel some of Snowden’s “shrouded” past because there isn’t much said about his past. It is especially hard to tell what the true answer is to the question of why Snowden left the military Snowden told the Guardian that he broke his legs in a training incident and was discharged...
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...11 Position Papers I f you like to argue, you will enjoy writing position papers and argument essays. The purpose of a position paper or argument essay is to explain both sides of a controversy and then argue for one side over the other. This two-sided approach is what makes position papers and argument essays different from commentaries (Chapter 10). A commentary usually only expresses the author’s personal opinion about a current issue or event. A position paper or argument essay explains both sides and discusses why one is stronger or better than the other. Your goal is to fairly explain your side and your opponents’ side of the issue, while highlighting the differences between these opposing views. You need to use solid reasoning and factual evidence to persuade your readers that your view is more valid or advantageous than your opponents’ view. In college, your professors will ask you to write position papers and argument essays to show that you understand both sides of an issue and can support one side or the other. In the workplace, corporate position papers are used to argue for or against business strategies or alternatives. The ability to argue effectively is a useful skill that will help you throughout your life. 221 CHAPTER AT–A–GLANCE Position Papers This diagram shows two basic organizations for a position paper, but other arrangements of these sections will work too. In the pattern on the left, the opponents’ position is described up front with its...
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...The Great Northern railroad company built the Snowden lift bridge in 1913; it spans the Missouri River between Roosevelt and Richland Counties in Montana. Its designer, John Alexander Low Waddell, based the Snowden bridges design on the South Halsted Street Bridge in Chicago. In its completion, the Snowden Bridge was the longest (1,159 feet) vertical-lift bridge in the world. Its cost then was $465,367, which is equivalent to $10,000,000 today. The War Department wanted a bridge that would allow large steamboats to venture up the Missouri during the month that the water was high enough to allow such ships through that part of the river. A kerosene engine could raise the platform 43 feet in about thirty minutes. And in theory, a hand turned capstan might also be used to lift the bridge. The span was last raised in 1935 and the lift machinery was removed in 1943. In 1925 a plank road was built for one-way vehicular and foot traffic, while the bridge was still being used by the Great Northern Railroad. Although this sounds...
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...Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor The Edward Snowden Case is one that really opens your eyes on things that are considered private. Do we really have privacy? Are our “private materials” being kept private and safe? These are the questions that we have to ask ourselves when dealing with personal privacy and also the privacy of our country. Edward Snowden is someone who did something that helped or harmed our country. Now we must ask ourselves was what Edward Snowden did worth it? Is he a hero or a traitor? Edward Joseph Snowden, a U.S. citizen was born on June 21st, 1983. He was raised in Maryland near the National Security Agency (NSA) Fort Meade Headquarters. Snowden did not complete high school and later took classes at a community college. In 2004, Snowden enlisted in the United States Army Reserves. “I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to free people from oppression.” (Harvard Kennedy School) Not long after enlisting he broke both of his legs in an accident and was discharged. Snowden later took a job for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His job was to maintain computer network security....
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...Who is Edward Snowden? Edward Snowden, 30, was a three-month employee of a government consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. At Booz Allen (he has since been terminated), he worked as a systems administrator at an NSA Threat Operations Center in Hawaii, one of several facilities detect threats against government computer systems. In other words, he was a low-level intelligence government contractor. Background: Edward Joseph Snowden was born June 21, 1983, he grew up in Wilmington, N.C., but later moved to Ellicott City, Md., he told The Guardian. His mother, Wendy, is the chief deputy clerk for administration and information technology at the federal court in Baltimore, a court official told NBC News. His father, Lonnie, is a former Coast Guard officer who lives in Pennsylvania, the Allentown Morning Call reported. A neighbor said he has an older sister who is an attorney. Education: He did not complete high school. He told The Guardian that he studied computers at a community college and obtained a general equivalency degree. A spokesman for Anne Arundel Community College confirmed that a student with the same name and birth date took classes there, from 1999 to 2001 and again in 2004 and 2005. Military service: He spent four months in the Army reserves, from May to September 2004 as a special forces recruit to a 14-week training course, the Army said. "He did not complete any training or receive any awards," an Army statement said. No other details were given...
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...EDWARD SNOWDEN TRAITOR OR HERO Regarding the Edward Snowden case there is a an very interesting ethical problem. Just to give us a bit of background context ; Edward Snowden was an employee of the CIA and NSA, who revealed details of several monitoring programs and American mass britanniques. For some peolpe he was considered like a hero because he has brought to light confidential information that deserves to be in the public domain and for other a villainous traitor because those put in danger his country, it is important to ask whether his revelations comes under the ethical or the legal fact. Ethical : We know that most people would feel betrayed by Edward because he released personal information about them but it was in order to prove that the US Government is recording the communications of its citizens. But it is Ethic to help other isn’t it ? Ethics are moral principles that guide the way a behaves. It issued by a business is a particular kind of policy statement. A code of ethic issued by a company is some kind of policy statement. A properly framed code is, in effect, a form of binding legislation within the company for its employees, specific sanctions for breaches of the code. If these sanctions are absent, the code is just a list of piety. The heaviest sentence usually dismissal unless a crime has been committed. Focusing on ethics, for those who feel that Snowden did was morally acceptable, calculating almost everyone has to weigh the benefits and...
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...denounce illegal practices in a company or organization. They are usually hated by their companions or the company which was denounced. Edward Snowden, a whistle-blower who leaked National Security Agency’s classified information about national and international espionage, is considered as a hero and as a traitor among some people in United States and in many countries with which U.S. has political relationships since his disclosures could undermine these international relations and the citizens’ trust. This essay exhibits the causes that led Snowden to reveal U.S. classified documents, and then the consequences of Snowden’s actions. The first cause is that he was hired by CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) in 2006 as a Technical/IT expert and received a top secret clearance (Cole & Brunker, 2014, Edward Snowden: A Timeline, NBC News). The next year he is sent to Geneva, Switzerland, where he took the role of IT and cyber security expert for...
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...The Snowden case is unacceptable and it needs to end. Edward Snowden is wrong for what he has done. The Snowden leak is a big issue today, documents have been leaked, federal privacy laws have been broken, the fourth amendment has been broken and so on. Hopefully there will be an end to this. Snowden first began the “government work” after he landed a job as security guard from there began to leak governmental documents. Snowden leaking this information unacceptable because there could be things not meant for everyone to know, now everyone knows and the Government is more in danger than they already were. The Snowden leakage is also a problem because federal privacy laws have been disrespected and broken. One of the few laws broken is “proactively...
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...In a letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania in 1775, on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” In less than twenty words, Benjamin Franklin offered his descendants, the future guardians of this democracy, a stern warning about protecting the liberties entrusted unto them with the ratification of the U. S. Constitution in 1788. As the modern day guardians of democracy, we must stand firm against those individuals and institutions who would seek to erode the liberty our forefathers entrusted to us over two hundred years ago. In a 2015 article in the The Economist, titled “Edward Snowden in the Primaries”...
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...years, from the Rosenberg's to Julian Assange have revealed confidential information about the governent to give America some type of justice but instead for most of them this didn't turn out to be the case. It is debated whether some whistleblowers should be classified as heros or villans and if whistleblowing acts should be considered helpful or harmful. The whistleblower I will be talking about in this essay is Edward Snowden and how he released information about the NSA's spying program. In my opinion I believe Edward Snowden did way more harm than good to America by releasing secure information held by the NSA. A whistleblower is a person who exposes wrongful information that goes on in a organization. Mainly, whistleblowers reach out to parties that can publicize this new found information. These parties include the media, hotlines, members of politics, managers of organizations, other rival businesses and other sources. In most cases the information revealed by the whistleblower goes against a law and harms the public in one way or another. Edward Snowden is a former CIA technical assistant who has claimed responsibility for leaking headline-making information about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance program. He revealed that the NSA has records of majority of calls made in America, including those who are making and receiving the calls phone number, conversations between people in emails, on Twitter, Facebook etc. They also have huge amounts of data on...
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