...Ping Sweeps and Port Scans Devry University SEC-280-13755 Principles Info Sys Security 9/9/2012 Ping Sweeps and Port Scans There are various problems that organizations will face as a cost of doing business. Ping sweeps and port scans are noteworthy because they can affect normal operations. As technology advances, so do the inevitable threats to our cyber security. Ping sweeps and port scans are examples of the threats that most organizations are likely to face. These two probes are the two major and fundamental ways through which hackers and crackers will assess the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and design a plan to break in (Baskin, 2008). It is important that our organization understands the two primary attacks and their approach so that we can prevent them from taking place and proactively mitigate our risk of attack. Our competitive world and fast-paced market dictates that we effectively decrease our exposure to cyber attacks to protect the integrity of our data and infrastructure due to attack resulting from port scans or ping sweeps. The term “ping sweep” is a process that involves the attacker learning more about the functioning of our existing systems. For instance, if an attacker attempts to breach our servers, he or she will be able to detect if the system is active by performing a ping sweep. This will likely be an attacker’s first step in their attempts to probe our organization for vulnerabilities. The results of the ping sweep will...
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...depicting women and their power struggle throughout the 18th or 19th century, or depicting the lives of the children put into the labor force at a very early age. These children were put in a tunnel (almost literally when they worked in the chimneys), where there was no light at the end, this path had one and only one destination: death. The symbolism in Blake’s poetry accurately reflects the cruel conditions of child labor and the environment of hostility in which these children lived and breathed every day, what the church meant in society in the 18th century, and the family dynamics. Clearly marking its importance by publishing multiple items on the subject, William Blake composed two poems about children working in the chimney sweeps both titled “The Chimney Sweeper”. The transition of emotions from the first “The Chimney Sweeper” to the second demonstrates an evolution from purity to exposure (Mayhew 1), which correlates directly to the title of the book in which these poems were published, “ Songs of Innocence and Experience.” Blake’s poetry appears to be detailed to a point where one begins to feel the emotions these people did, if only we could imagine. The vivid images he paints strike as surprising upon learning his background. William Blake had a limited education as did most children in the 18th century. He was schooled...
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...THESIS STATEMENT & OUTLINE 1) THESIS - The injustices that juvenile chimney sweepers had to endure were selfish, inhumane and riddled with neglect. a) Introduction b) Slavery parallels i) Worked long hours ii) Malnourished iii) Health hazards a) Biblical allusion iv) Sacrificed for selfishness v) Cleansed vi) Reborn vii) Angelic savior b) Theme viii) Innocence ix) Naïve c) Conclusion William Blake’s statement “I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans” appears prophetic in his poem “The Chimney Sweeper”. This becomes apparent in the introduction when the narrator states after his mother’s died he was “sold” into slavery by his father, before he was old enough to verbalize the work he was made to do. The adults in the story failed to protect the innocence of the main characters that had very little choice in the way they lived during this time. Although, there were child labor laws set in place to look after the young workers, for selfish reasons, they were seldom enforced. Robert Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper” is set in London, England during a time when it was common for children to work long hours, for minimal pay and in hazardous conditions. The poem is divided into two sections; it begins in the first stanza with the narrator being the main focus and then later shift to the character Tom Dacre. Who appears...
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...that opens the locks on the coffins and sets the children free. The newly freed children run through a green field and wash themselves in a river, coming out clean and white in the bright sun. The angel tells Tom that if he is a good boy, he will have this paradise for his own. When Tom awakens, he and the speaker gather their tools and head out to work, somewhat comforted that their lives will one day improve. Analysis “The Chimney Sweeper” comprises six quatrains, each following the AABB rhyme scheme, with two rhyming couplets per quatrain. The first stanza introduces the speaker, a young boy who has been forced by circumstances into the hazardous occupation of chimney sweeper. The second stanza introduces Tom Dacre, a fellow chimney sweep who acts as a foil to the speaker. Tom is upset about his lot in life, so the speaker comforts him until he falls asleep. The next three stanzas recount Tom Dacre's somewhat apocalyptic dream of the chimney sweepers’ “heaven.” However, the final stanza finds Tom waking up the following morning, with him and the speaker still trapped in their dangerous line of work. There is a hint of criticism here in Tom Dacre's dream and in the boys' subsequent actions, however. Blake decries the use of promised future happiness as a way of subduing the oppressed. The boys carry on with their terrible, probably fatal work because of their hope in a future where their circumstances will be set right. This same promise was often used...
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...Literary Analysis Paper COURSE #: English 102-CO1 COURSE TITLE: Comp & Lit Writing Style Manual Used: MLA Thesis Statement: “The Chimney Sweeper” written by William Blake can easily be confused as to whether it is a poem about how hard work and faith can bring you to the Lord or how being naïve can be extremely foolish. Outline I. Introduction a. Discuss what the poem is about b. Thesis statement II. Describe the literal scene and situation III. Discuss the theme of the poem a. Discuss the theme/mood of the poem. b. Discuss the words used to communicate the theme IV. Discuss how rhyme is utilized in the poem and changes the theme/mood V. Conclusion a. Summary b. Restate thesis English 102 25 March 2012 Analysis of “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake “The Chimney Sweeper”, by William Blake begins with a child telling the story of his own life of being sold into slavery by his father. He explains how he was sold very young after his mother’s death before he could barely even cry. As the title states, the boy was sold to be a chimney sweeper. The child then goes into telling the story of another little boy that is there with him named Tom. He explains to the readers how he had witnessed Tom getting a haircut and how Tom cried for the loss of his white hair. The child, narrator...
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...Boylan______________ID #__L23926585_ WRITING STYLE USED_____APA_____________________ In William Blakes, “The Chimney Sweeper”, this poem is told by a chimney sweep who tells of a younger sweep that is sold into slavery by his father, after his mother dies. The main theme of the poem is that of the loss of innocence of these children, who are depicted in the poem under harsh and abusive treatment in the 1800’s. With their innocence stolen by their parents and their owners these children were forced into confined areas filled with comb webs, and dirty sooty conditions, where their lives were sacrificed to their life of cleaning these chimneys, of which they died of young ages. The narrator tells of the young Tom Dacre’s dream of the only way out of this life of misery. 1. Introduction- William Blake writes of his concern for these children’s well being 2. Body Section – The Poem Overview: 1. The boy’s mother dies at young age (Stanza 1) 2. Sold - Loss of Innocence (Stanza 2) 3. Dream (Stanza 3) 4. Angel (Stanza 4) 5. Hope of a Father (Stanza 5) 6. Their duty (Stanza 6) 3. Williams Blake, diction and imagery of the life of a Chimney Sweep 1. Tone- dark and depressing/ happiness: Somber, death, weep, soot, cry, darkness, (stanza 1-3) ...
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...Kelsey Rice Mr. Ortolani ELA 12 2 February 2016 The Chimney Sweeper In the late 18th century, an English poet by the name of William Blake wrote two poems about the young sweeps he saw suffering in the beautiful streets of London. He placed one poem in the Songs of Innocence and the other in the Songs of Experience. Innocence and Experience were printed in two phases. In 1789, Blake published of The Songs of Innocence and in 1794, he decided to link them together. Blake, therefore, confirmed his interest in duality at the very beginning in the 1794 edition. When he acquired the fate of chimney sweeps as the topic for a poem in both Innocence and Experience, he gave us at least two ways of seeing and understanding the same social predicament. By comparing Blake’s two ‘Chimney Sweeper’ poems, we can get some logic of his state of mind around innocence and experience as ‘contrary states’. The sweep in Innocence doesn’t recognize the life in which he finds himself. “And my father sold me while yet my tongue could scarcely cry ‘Weep! ‘Weep!’ ‘Weep!” This is one of the many poetic strategies that Blake uses. The repetitive word ‘weep’ is used to show that the child’s language is not sufficient to make sense of his sorrowfulness. He does not know that he has been taught a fabricated language, which makes him believe that sorrow must be a fact of everyday life. Blake proposes that as there is a slight difference in the way the words sound to our ears, so there is little difference...
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...In both poems, the authors mention that the children have happiness and amusement despite their miserable condition. Perhaps this goes hand in hand with the themes of God and the divine, carrying a symbolic relationship. I believe this relationship is paralleled by our condition as human beings and God’s promises to us. The children in both poems, being as they are (chimney sweepers), live in nightmarish conditions. Going to work, “while yet my tongue could scarcely cry ‘Weep! Weep’,” leaves one barely able to process the horrid conditions in which they live. Children born cursed with this burden are “clothed in clothes of death.” The “coffins of black” referenced in Songs of Innocence allude to how dirty and uncomfortable the boys were; occasionally...
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...in the poem "the chimney sweeper", blake offers a graphic portrayal of a particular cultural aspects of england in the 1700s. He seeks to show thier loss of innocence in thier childhood by showing chimney sweeper takes away children's freedom and joy. in 1700s, william blake composed a poem about the life of chimney sweeper in "the chimney sweeper". the poem is narrated by a chimney sweeper. he tells a little bit about himself before giving us the lowdoen on another chimney sweeper, tom dacre. after introducing us to tom, he relates a very strange dream that tom had one night, it invovled chimney sweepers in coffins, angels flying, and few othe bizzare things. the poem concludes with tom and the speaker wking up and going to work, sweepin' like they do. in this poem of innocecse i'll prove against child labor; children whi works at thier early ages. in first stanza the narrator tells about a child who is sold by his father after his mother's death. as in first line it says, "when my mother died i was very yoiung". i clarifies, while he was very young his faher sold him to a man who runs chimney sweeper buisness. he started working as a chimey sweeper at his very young age and became a victim of abuse and child labor. in actuality, he was forced to work and clean chimneys without any clothes and shleter. instead of taking care of him his fatgher sold him for money. narrator changes the character in second stanza bu saying "there is a tom dacre who..." from this we can know...
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...William Blake wrote two poems with different versions of the Chimney Sweeper. They both describe the lives of two children who clean chimneys and live a harsh life. Blake uses poetic devices such as imagery, tone, symbolism and allusions throughout the poems. In both versions of the poems images of death are demonstrated using the color black. In the version of 1789, Blake says, “were all lock’d up in coffins of black.”, a in the version of 1794, Blake says, “little black thing among the snow”. This demonstrates the soot of the children walking in the snow, maybe going from home to home cleaning chimneys. Moreover, in the 1789 version he illustrates the chimneys ass black like coffins maybe because they are both claustrophobic and very dark. Since the chimneys are very small and pitch dark due to the soot. In addition, in the 1794 version, the kid says “ they clothed me in the clothes of death,”, this tells us that chimney sweepers live with fear throughout their job. This also says that chimney sweepers can die sooner than the average person who is not exposed to the soot. Soot is a black powdery substance containing amorphous carbon made from the burning of organic material. Being inside a small space with this substance may become overtime, mortal.it may cause respiratory problems, since they are inhaling a lot of this powder which may lead to getting lung cancer and in a matter of years dying. Moreover, the kid by saying “they” he refers to his parents who back in the...
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...Ping Sweeps and Port Scans Ping sweeps and ports scans are a common ways for hackers to probe a network and attempt to break into it. Although network probes are technically not intrusions themselves, they should not be taken lightly—they may lead to actual intrusions in the future. In the information that follows, I will provide a standard definition of a ping sweep and port scan, the possible uses of the two, and the prevention methods which are in place in our company to combat ping sweeps and port scans of our network by would be attackers. According to Whatis.com, a ping sweep is a basic networking scanning technique used to determine which range of IP addresses are mapped to active computers. During a ping sweep, Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo requests are sent to many computers, which determines which are active and which are not ("What is ping sweep (ICMP sweep)? - Definition from Whatis.com," n.d.). If a given address is active, it will return an ICMP Echo reply and the attacker will then focus on those machines. Hackers are not the only ones who perform ping sweeps. I use ping sweeps to find out which machines are active on the network for diagnostics reasons and our ISP (Internet Service Provider) uses automated ping operations to monitor their connection. Disabling the ICMP protocol is one option to prevent ping sweeps; however, doing so may cause problems with our ISP leading them to think that the connection is not functioning because their...
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...The Chimney Sweeper Thesis Blake uses many literary devices to portray the hopeless life of the young chimney sweeps. I. Irony II. Imagery III. Symbolism William Blake masterfully uses many literary devices to portray the hopeless life of a young chimney sweep in his poem “The Chimney Sweeper”. The poem has a young, nameless first person narrator which gives the poem a sense of youthful innocence and anonymity that is in direct contradiction to the horrible conditions they suffer. Most of the poem has dark tones that is punctuated by a happy dream of freedom and joy with his true father his creator. The poem ends with a bleak and almost sinister twist of irony that leaves the reader feeling sorrow and shame for the chimney sweepers. Irony is one of the most powerful literary devices employed by Blake. It is seen running through the poem starting with the first lines. The boy’s mother died and his father sold him before he could “cry ‘weep ’weep ’weep. We don’t know why the boy was sold but we could assume that the father wanted to give the boy more opportunity than he could afford to give. This is extremely ironic because the boy is sold into servitude in deplorable, deathly conditions. More irony is evident in the last lines of the poem where the narrator speaks of the sweeper doing their duty to avoid harm. Children should only have the duty of being happy children, not pleasing their masters and working terrible jobs like slaves. Tom’s dream can also be ironic...
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...Ping Sweeps & Port Scans: Potential Dangers and Defense Strategies THIS IS MY ORIGINAL WORK, PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT IT AS YOUR OWN, BUT USE IT AS A GUIDE WHILE WRITING YOUR OWN… I REQUEST YOU TO GIVE ME AN “A” RATING ON THIS PAPER; THANK YOU!!! Insert Your Name Name of University SEC 280 Week 1 Insert Tutor’s Name 1st, October, 2012 Outline 1) Introduction (pg.3) 2) Ping Sweeps & Port Scans (pg.3) a) Ping Sweeps (pg.3) b) Port Scans (pg.4) 3) Recommendations & Conclusion (pg.5) 4) References (pg.7) Ping Sweeps & Port Scans While running businesses, owners must be aware of crucial security threats that their organizations are exposed to in order to formulate effective strategies of mitigating potential risks. Statistics show that there are numerous computer threats that can put an organization’s success in jeopardy especially if they are never detected and controlled beforehand. Examples of such threats are ping sweeps and port scans, which are actually nefarious computer activities that can be used by hackers and crackers to access sensitive business information (Teo, 2000; Wild Packet, 2002). Ping sweeps and port scans can possibly go unnoticed if security measures to detect and block them are not put in place and can have dangerous repercussions on a business. Fortunately, there are many ways through which organizations can detect and eliminate potential damages associated with the activities...
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...“The Chimney Sweeper” Fictional Poetry Analysis Stacy McGee Liberty University Eng 102 October 17, 2013 Thesis: The poem, “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake depicts the life of a young boy being sold to sweep chimneys. This paper will give insight into the misery, mood and tones of the poem through the eyes of a young child as a chimney sweeper. Outline: I. Theme A. What is the theme of poem 1. Unkindness 2. Faith II. Setting A. Literal Setting 1. Metaphorical 2. Literal III. Mood A. Elements Contributing 1. Misery 2. Hope and Faith IV. Significance A. Is the title significant to content B. Job/Daily living The Chimney Sweeper deals with life in London in the 18th century. As of today, one would look at the narrator’s story as cruelty, child neglect or even child abuse. As we read the poem, we are going to take a look and dissect certain aspects of poem, such as the theme, setting, mood and significance of the title. To begin with, when reading the poem written in 1789 entitled, “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake, the theme of the poem circulates around poverty, unkindness and faith. When looking at the poem from the poverty perspective, the narrator’s mother died when he was a young boy and his father sells him to be a chimney sweeper, when he was so young, he...
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...English 102-B12 LUO Spring 2014 Joseph P Garland Jr L23810423 MLA A literary analysis of “The Chimney Sweeper.” Social Injustice was rampant among chimney sweeps in 18th and 19th Century England... In the poem “The Chimney Sweeper” from “Songs of Innocence” This paper will evaluate and show the story and writing style dealing with social injustice. 1. Introduction a. The Chimney Sweeper 2. The Location and Era a. 18th and 19th Century England 3. Point of View a. Tom Dacre 4. Writing Style A. Lack of Rhyme 5. Conclusion William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” from “Songs of Innocence” provides a view of extreme social injustice among children being used as chimney sweeps in 18th and 19th Century England. William Blake also in 1794 wrote “The Chimney Sweeper” in “Songs of Experience.” For this essay, the analysis will be of “The Chimney Sweeper” from “Songs of Innocence” written in 1789. This poem shows social injustice from the character’s eyes dealing with oppression, exploitations and death. The life that William Blake creates in “The Chimney Sweeper” is one of social and economic injustice, the use of child labor which leads to a society of that time being un-sympathetic to the needs of its children. Blake draws attention from the first stanza of the poem to a child that has already experienced the death of his mother and being sold into indentured servitude by the father before the child could even process the death and what...
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