Agent provocateur

in the feminist movement is divisive, they are told bringing up gender-based issues deters from addressing the perceived larger issue of racism, “A lot of black men said we were airing dirty laundry by talking about rape. Someone called me an agent provocateur for talking about rape and said we must be allied with COINTELPRO—Black Nationalist men also adhered to the narrative that rape happened at the hands of white men” (Ross, as told by Nelson). WOC must address sexism in their communities…

The Importance of Being Earnest are still relevant in society today. Themes such as marriage and living double lives are strongly represented in Wilde’s play and will be talked about more in depth through this article. Oscar Wilde was a literary provocateur born in Dublin on the 16th of October 1854. Wilde wrote four plays, these included, Lady Windermere’s…

The creative process, underlying all parts of the artistic career of Baz Luhrmann, worldly renowned Australian director, has roots in various creative theories, but can be found most similar to the one recognized by the theorist and artist David Usher. For the last two decades, the few works produced by Baz Luhrmann have shocked and at the same time captured audiences with their pure, different and untypical view of the cinema (from Strictly Ballroom (1992) to Great Gatsby (2013)), therefore…

months prior to Kennedy’s assassination that shows him and others passing out pamphlets of a pro-Castro organization. During Oswald’s time in Mexico (while he was trying to go to Cuba), he was being watched because he was thought to be an undercover provocateur. According to www.newsweek.com, Thomas C.Mann, the U.S. ambassador to Mexico at the time, had a “feeling in his gut” that Castro paid Oswald to kill Kennedy. Mann sent a document to the CIA containing statements that Oswald was likely…

remove them from power. In addition to directly persecuting and torturing their potential internal enemies, The Party also is also involved in influencing younger children through propaganda and strictly controlled education systems to become their agents at a young age. The most common way this manifests is child versus parent conflict. More specifically, children generally spy on their parents in an attempt to uncover thought crime, a concept that is more or less thinking in a way…

CORRUPTION THROUGH AGES Hamlet: What news? Rosencrantz: None, my lord but that the world has grown honest. Hamlet: Then is doomsday near…. 1. The Problem of Definition Everyone knows what corruption is; but it is difficult to define it in exact terms. According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary of English, the word ‘corrupt’ means “influenced by bribery especially at the time of elections”. Encyclopedia Britannica says: a corrupt practice “includes bribery; but has reference to the electoral…

Women have been used as a marketing tool to sell products and to grab viewers attention. They appear as sexual objects next to the item which advertisers market. Tom Reichert, the head of the department of advertising, and public relations in the UGA Grady College of Journalism states, "Advertisers use sex because it can be very effective." Meaning that people are likely to pay more attention to a commercial if it has some sexual content. Due to that, having sexual content in advertisements such…

However this strategy puts the company on a double competition game. La Perla’s strong segment is the high end, but it is not alone. British company Agent Provocateur, founded in 1994 is closely following La Perla’s example, providing high end, unique, fashion lingerie. With 30 stores in 13 countries, Agent Provocateur holds a key role in the upper segment of the market, strongly reinforced by its advertisement techniques; celebrities such as the singer Kylie Minogue, celebrity Carmen…

the shadow of the Soviet Union and communism loomed as a threat to their way of life, causing paranoia over the threat of communist infiltration, which gave rise to the “Red Scare”. This mass hysteria led Americans to become fearful of communist agents attempting to infiltrate their society, and to undermine it from within. Studies of this era of US culture tend to focus on McCarthyism, the term used to describe the mass communist “witch hunt” within the government, and its impact on certain…

Networks Political Process Model was developed as a critique of Resource Mobilization Theory, which tended to focus only on formal organisational networks. As Beinin and Vairel (2013) point out, since then several scholars have recognised the importance of informal networks. As they argue, informal factors shape social movements (10-11). As Baylouni (2013: 89) puts it, ‘[m]uch transformation occurs through both the dynamics of everyday life and member involvement in movement institutions that…