...Why do Ferdinand and Miranda have to fall in love? It simply could not have been love at first sight. Yes, perhaps there is such a thing as love at first sight, but for Ferdinand and Miranda, there is much more to the story. Ferdinand and Miranda’s love for each other was born out of necessity; there are no other simple reasons for them falling in love. There is much reason to stipulate their love was born out of necessity. One such argument is since Prospero wants them to fall in love; they have to because he is in complete control of the island and controls the entire plot of the play. Another such reason for their marriage is that they are ideal characters for each other, all the other primary characters are corrupt, yet Ferdinand and Miranda being young and innocent are the ideal candidates for each other. As well I shall explore one commonality between two of Shakespeare’s plays. One final reason to support these views is of the very nature of this play, which is the nature of Shakespearian Comedy. All Shakespearian Comedies must end in a marriage, and this is no exception. Drawing on my first two arguments to support my third it is quite evident why Ferdinand and Miranda simply have to be. On the island Prospero wields complete power, over the forces of nature and even to some extent over the wills of others. What Prospero wants, Prospero gets. He accomplishes this through his magical powers and sorcery, and to a certain extent- his cunning. So how does...
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...| TEMPEST Paper | | A brief look into the history and evolution of compromising emanations. | | Nicole King CIS 284s Winter 2013 | 2/1/2013 | | Introduction TEMPEST stands for “Telecommunications Electronics Material Protected From Spurious Emanating Transmissions”. It also is used to refer to security preventing any exploitation of vulnerabilities created by compromising emanations of electrical devices. Basically when electrical devices operate, they generate electromagnetic signals that can be intercepted and used to reconstruct sensitive information. “Listening” for these signals is known as “eavesdropping”. With the right equipment an eavesdropper can be hundreds of feet from the signal. This presents a real problem when a computer is processing classified information. The NSA (National Security Agency) has developed the TEMPEST standard which consists of several industry measurements to avoid such leakage. These computers have heavy metal cases, different power supplies and some additional modifications. History TEMPEST came about in 1918 by a man named Herbert Yardley. He and his Black Chamber staff were instructed by the U.S. Army to find ways to detect and exploit combat radio transmitters and telephones. Yardley determined that normal equipment was allowing secret information to be passed to the enemy via technical vulnerabilities. A program was then created to find ways to prevent the compromising emanations. Even though the initial...
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...Electronic Surveillance of Employees Dawn Cuffie Professor M. Best Law, Ethics and Corporate Goverance-LEG 500 January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonable expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees are deemed not to have “a reasonable expectation of privacy”. Employees are expected to follow guidelines and regulations regarding usage of workplace computers, telephones, cell phones, pagers, email and internet. These are often times found in the employee handbook and manuals managed by HR. In the private sector, privacy law is determined by the variety of state and federal statutes and the common law of torts (Halbert and Ingulli, pg. 74). Employees may file a claim based on “intrusion” of privacy but must prove that the electronic surveillance was highly obnoxiousness and intrusive and that the reasons for retrieval was irrelevant to the employee’s job. Government employees may argue that electronic surveillance and monitoring violate their Fourth Amendment right to “reasonable expectations of privacy”. These cases are often time judged by the balance test which weighs the importance of the employee’s privacy against the employer’s interest. An example of this is correctional facilities performing body and bag checks on their employees before they enter the facility. The safety of the inmates and the employees at the correctional facilities is of more importance than that of an individual’s need for privacy. Social media such as Face...
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...Shane Fitzgerald has used the photographic process to create the impressive vision of the landscape ‘Tempest: After Streeton’. This view is a fictitious creation that has been created by the particular elements and aspects of the work; and it challenges the traditional role of photography as a document of the real world. In addition, Shane Fitzgerald works significant elements together to promote a specific theme that makes spectators feel free to read into the image and to distil from it –an ‘awesomely’ sublime environment and extreme weather. This is in addition to exploring the human perceptions of the environment and telling people what the real art is. This artwork functions like a large ‘mirror’ in which the viewers may identify with a creative expression of the landscape to which it belongs. The ‘mirror’ gives an illusion of sublime weather under the conditions of tempest, which captures the viewers’ mind all the time—the vast realms and luminous coalescences of the grassland and dark clouds. The panoramic landscape at sunset has been manipulated, producing a paint-like effect across a vista of clouds at dusk, with extreme fears and depression sweeping over the horizon. This is the viewer’s first impression regarding the artwork’s composition in terms of evoking a breath-taking natural spectacle so intense it seems to pulse with life-force. In these intense stunning conditions, Fitzgerald seeks a sublime expression of the landscape by standout artwork techniques through...
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...Romano 1 Fabio Romano Mr. Brown English 1011 30 September, 2013 A Play on Power In all of Shakespeare’s works there is always the element of symbolism to help display his personal beliefs of human nature throughout his play, which is suggested by Harold C. Goddard and other scholars. In The Tempest, one of the symbols that is most abundant and is the main driving force behind certain decisions the characters make in the play is power. The play is also certainly related to the change of power between nobilities such as the civil war between Lancastrians and Yorkists around the time Shakespeare started writing his plays (1422-85), which likely may have been an influence on the play along with other plays such as with Romeo and Juliet (Frye). An example of how power functions as the main influence on decisions that characters make, is when Prospero talks to his daughter about how they ended up on the island. He discusses how his brother was possessed by the lust for political and military power, which caused him to plot with Alonso, betray him and then proceed to take the throne for himself. It is evident when Prospero explains, So dry he was for sway – with’ King of Naples To give him annual tribute, do him homage, Subject his coronet to his crown, and bend The dukedom yet unbowed – alas, poor Milan! – Romano 2 To most ignoble stooping. (I.2.110-116) Prospero says that Antonio was so power hungry that he was even willing to pay Alonso, which undoubtedly...
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...“Beyond the Traditional Analysis” In his play, The Tempest, Shakespeare conveys themes through different character pairs. Each pairing is a guise for a different theme in the play's plot. For instance, Ariel and Caliban are thought to be grouped together because they show two contrasting sides of servitude. Other examples lie behind Miranda and Ferdinand's "love at first sight", as well as the forgiveness that Alonso, Antonio, and Prospero receive. Each grouping of characters is placed strategically throughout the play by Shakespeare to exemplify different themes. Ariel and Caliban are both under Prospero's servitude, and are actually foils for one another. However, while Ariel abides by Prospero's rules willingly, Caliban only serves Prospero out of fear. They are both obligated to serve Prospero and do his bidding, but while Caliban is only trusted to do the simplest of tasks, Ariel is the equivalent to Prospero's second in command. He is constantly a major aide in Prospero's grand plan, and he is privy to Prospero's secrets. "All hail great master! Grave sir, hail! I come to answer thy best pleasure,"(Shakespeare 14). Ariel says this to his master, living with the hope of soon being free. He could behave as Caliban, but Ariel is trusted enough to help Prospero complete his master plan. Ariel even influences Prospero's decision on whether to forgive the ones who have wronged him. At the end of the play, Prospero's other servant Caliban, turns out to be one of the ones who...
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...passion for the literature. Shakespeare was known to develop the Early Modern English language. He is the insightful genius of coined everyday phrases that is used in this generation. Shakespeare’s literary works used the world around him to disseminate the concepts of social class and human behavior. These concepts are demonstrated in The Tempest and Une Tempête. Une Tempête is a play by Aimé Césaire who shadowed Shakespeare’s, The Tempest. The problem is not Aimé Césaire’s version of Shakespeare’s play but it is the comprehension of Early Modern English. When students study the Early Modern English language, there is a debate of whether the use of SparkNotes embodies the understanding of what Shakespeare is exploiting. The use of SparkNotes only translates the plays in simplistic form; it does not give definitive historical facts about the words that Shakespeare uses. Shakespeare distinctively incorporated rhythmic patterns, play on words that exposed a character’s purpose in the play and his ideologies about society. Each play Shakespeare produced emphasized a specific theme that the audience or reader had to search for. The theme The Tempest is political romance about two individuals that are of a certain social hierarchy. Aimé Césaire’s Une Tempête is about social domination and the role of colonization. Students in high school would not be able to figure that out the basis of Shakespeare’s language with the use of...
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...Is Prospero too controlling a character to feature as a protagonist in a comedy? Prospero is a puppet master, he controls the happenings on the island directly or indirectly, he either uses his capabilities or uses other characters capabilities to perform tasks that he wants Taking back to the time where we see Prospero had sent Ariel the spirit to wreck the ship “Hast thou, spirit, performed to the point the tempest that I bade thee?’’ This quotation emphasis that Prospero demands something from Ariel, Ariel obeys like a subject would obey his master, in spite of the fact that Ariel is performing the actions and has the powers to cause the ship wreck; she consistently obeys Prospero like any loyal subject would. The reader can interpret from this that Prospero is an exploiter, because he knows that Ariel would heed to what he command, it also shows Prospero as a shady character because at this point, Prospero knows that the ship is already wrecked but yet he still asks Ariel whether he has ‘’performed to the point the tempest I bade thee’’ it also shows how Prospero is taking a boss figure that takes the advantage of reminding Ariel that she is her master and he the servant in other words exercising his authority over Ariel, this also emphasis that Prospero is an exploiter. Although, Ariel is not the only person he treats as his subject but also his daughter. Prospero uses imperative language to talk to Miranda as if she is his subject. Prospero continually asks Miranda...
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...Mariana: Shakespeare's “The Tempest” was set in a fictional island that was somewhere in the Mediterranean in renaissance Europe. The imaginary island gave Shakespeare the opportunity to create endless possibilities for activities in the story. The island was described as “ barren and arid” and magical place. The Twelfth Night was set in an imaginary Dukedom in a city called Illyria which is today parts of Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Albania, Croatia, and Montenegro. It is a place set on the Adriatic coast which gave Shakespeare the perfect mysterious setting he had in mind for his play. The main part of the play takes place in Paris and Roussillon France and as well as Italy. Shakespeare's “Measure for Measure” takes place in the Catholic...
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...the state of sleep she has the will to resist against Prospero and gain knowledge. By using the word dulness, Prospero acknowledges this yearning, which prompts him to hold her hostage in the state of sleep. This also relates back to “the term barbarian and its cognates [which] imply… a traveling stranger in a foreign land who…exists within a shared geographical space but resides, in fact, outside of the geography of the Same” (Smith, 175). Miranda is physically with Prospero when he summons Ariel and discusses his plans, but the loss of her mental consciousness through sleep guarantees Prospero privacy. At the same time, it reaffirms Miranda both as uneducated and as a barbarian. When Shakespeare introduced Caliban to the world of The Tempest, he introduced “a vile race” that signified the colonialism of the era (Shakespeare, 1.2.188) . The lack of education in Caliban’s case can be traced back to his racial identity, his willingness to act as a “savage” and “a thing most brutish”, and his resistance against Prospero (Shakespeare, 1.2.185; 187). On the other hand, Shakespeare’s placement of Miranda in the play indicates the importance of knowledge for the Early Modern Era. One who is born to educated parents and remains uneducated, although both parties are from the same race, is just as inhumane as the enslaved people. In the same manner, Miranda’s educational status in comparison to that of Prospero’s allows her to be inferior not only to Prospero himself, but to Caliban as...
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...RAVAGE FOR DESIRE I will analyze the three main characters; Prospero,Caliban and Miranda from the play ‘The Tempest’ by Shakespeare in my essay. I will be analysing the relationship of the three and also refering to the other characters that effected by them. The first thing that draws attention is the title of the play. ‘The Tempest’ name first associates with the destructive force that tear down everything including the social positions and hierarchies. But when you finish reading, it means not the revenge of Prospero but the possibility of tranformation that he gives to the other characters in the play. The tempest also helps Prospero to regain his position as the Duke of Milan by destroying the new regime and bringing back the other characters to their old positions. Prospero is one of the main characters for shaping the whole play with his plan. He reserves all the features of west civilization which are power, wisdom and magic, in addition to his being as a saviour from the squalidity. He rules the nature with his learning and wisdom. In scene 2 , we are informed about the life of Prospero when he tells his daughter Miranda about why they are in that deserted island for twelve years, how his brother Antonio usurped his kingdom with the help of Alonso,the king of Napoli and tells that they are still alive because Gonzalo provided them with clothing,food and books from his library that he owes his power and wisdom. Gonzalo shows us how good people are mocked...
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...Either of these questions should work! Just remember, looking ahead, that your goal will be to wrestle with a question. So take very seriously the words "Should" in question 1 and "Can" in question 2. Ultimately you won't just be listing ways in which surveillance could be helpful, or listing benefits of online therapy, but genuinely exploring the questions as you have them formulated above. Hope that makes sense! Affordable, available, and easy to use Rapid advances in technology, particularly in the last decade, have allowed individuals ready access to surveillance tools that were once only available to governments and law enforcement. Surveillance equipment is cheaper, smaller, and more sophisticated than ever before. Also important is that surveillance is a feature of everyday life, and thus has become normalized. Video cameras and GPS are standard features on smart phones. Personal computers together with wi-fi and the Internet allow individuals to watch over their property and loved ones remotely. Stores sell all manner of easily concealable tracking devices and cameras. In short, surveillance tools are no longer the stuff of spy novels but instead have become just another consumer product we can buy at the local mall. Technology as a parental aid Societal changes also play a significant role in the adoption of surveillance technologies into family life. It goes without saying that children have always been watched over to ensure that they are safe from harm. In...
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...William Shakespeare The Tempesthttp://shakespeare.mit.edu/tempest/full.html) LIST OF CHARACTERS ALONSO, King of Naples SEBASTIAN, his brother PROSPERO, the right Duke of Milan ANTONIO, his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan FERDINAND, son to the King of Naples GONZALO, an honest old councilor ADRIAN and FRANCISCO, lords CALIBAN, a savage and deformed slave TRINCULO, a jester STEPHANO, a drunken butler MASTER of a ship BOATSWAIN MARINERS MIRANDA, daughter to Prospero ARIEL, an airy spirit IRIS, the rainbow, messenger of Juno CERES, goddess of the harvest JUNO, queen of the gods and wife of Jupiter: the goddess of riches, the air and of marriage NYMPHS REAPERS SPIRITS The scene: an uninhabited island The Tempest ACT I SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard. Enter a Master and a Boatswain Master Boatswain! Boatswain Here, master: what cheer? Master Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir. Exit Enter Mariners Boatswain Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to themaster's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,if room enough! Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others ALONSO Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?Play the men. Boatswain I pray now, keep below. ANTONIO Where is the master, boatswain? Boatswain Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep yourcabins:...
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... In The Tempest, Caliban is a slave for Prospero. Caliban is mad because Prospero took over the island. Caliban showed Prospero the all entire island. Caliban feels like the island that was his has been taken from him. He wants to revel against Prospero who took over his island. Caliban tries to be hard with prospero but fails to do so. Prospero uses his magic to get and do as he pleases. A Tempest is very different than The Tempest. Prospero is not the same good person as shown in the Tempest. Caliban fights for what he believes in a Tempest. Prospero is called a anti nature by Caliban is Cesaire’s play. Caliban calls him that because he has lived in his island and knows more about the nature than Prospero. In the Tempest, by Shakespeare, Prospero is portrayed as the hero. Propero believes he is doing the correct thing by usurping the island since his brother overthrown him. Caliban in the Tempest is portrayed as the monster for a few reasons. Caliban was accused of trying to rape Miranda. Caliban does not deny it and goes on to say he desired to impregnate Miranda and people the island with Caliban’s. Cesaires play was the opposite of how the characters were portrayed in the Tempest. Caliban is portrayed as a hero because he is fighting in what he believes in. Also Caliban denies the accusation from Propero about wanting to rape Miranda. Caliban went on and did not think anything about what Propero thought. He went on and ignored Propero. In A Tempest Prospero was...
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...World Literature 2310 Postcolonial Analysis Postcolonial theory has many themes ranging from identity to hybridity. Many, if not all of these themes can be found in any literature reading. The theme that is the most interesting is oppression. Oppression can be displayed in many ways and forms within any literature reading and can be obvious, or very subtle. All the themes seem to flow together and are often times created from the effects of another theme. For example, oppression can be an effect of identity. Identity is how a person sees themselves and those that are not at the same class or level of knowledge as them. This starts the theme of oppression. Oppression is when someone has control or power over someone or a group of people and controls their actions and way of life. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, the city of Uruk is ruled by Gilgamesh, who is part god and part human that was created by the gods. With his power as a ruler of Uruk, he created his own set of rules for the people of Uruk to follow that may not have been a part of their everyday lives before Gilgamesh arrived in their city. In The Epic of Gilgamesh, a townsperson tells Enkidu “Gilgamesh the king is about to celebrate marriage with the Queen of Love, and he still demands to be first with the bride, the king to be first, and the husband to follow”(6). This is one example of how Gilgamesh uses his power to oppress the lives of the people of Uruk to do as he says. Gilgamesh also takes the young sons...
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