This paper is a reaction and analysis of covert incest, as reported in Dr. Kenneth M. Adams' account 'Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Children Their Partners".
Abstract Referring to Dr. Adams' book, the writer discusses that covert incest should not be confused with overt incest, which is the direct and physical occurrence of sexual abuse within a household. Instead, covert incest is much less direct. The writer describes that it is commonly found in families where one parent does not actively participate in everyday family affairs. In turn, this provides an opportunity for the other parent to feel neglected and to run to one of their children for emotional support. The writer examines how as a result, the child is made a "surrogate spouse" to the troubled parent. In this article, the writer discusses Dr. Adams views on this issue in his book "Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Children Their Partners".
From the Paper "Dr. Kenneth M. Adams, author of Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Children Their Partners, is a clinical psychologist who resides in Michigan. He specializes in working with children and adults who are products of alcoholic or dysfunctional families. He has written articles concerning covert incest, sexual addiction, and adult children. He spends most of his time traveling to different states to lecture and provide consultation in his areas of specialization. In his account of covert incest, Adams describes "the silent seduction covert incest victims experience and its effects on their sexuality, intimacy and relationships."
This paper discusses the British intelligence service and studies Stephen Dorril's book, 'MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence'.
Abstract In this article, the writer discusses whether the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, intentionally and deliberately helped to initiate the Cold War, and then kept it going. The writer maintains that this is one of the thrusts of Stephen Dorril's book, 'MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence'. The writer discusses that another clear message from Dorril's book is that there were numerous misguided and failed strategies used by the British in their attempts at covert influence against communism during the Cold War. This paper outlines several intelligence operations that were run against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The writer also reviews whether the operation was a success or a failure and assesses the reasons why they succeeded or failed.
From the Paper "Working in tandem with the R5 (MI6's anti-Soviet group), IRD had agents in British embassies around the world. The task of the R5 was to plant stories, create forgeries, lies and fabrications to be broadcast on secretly funded (by the MI6) radio stations and newspapers. This was pure propaganda, and it was linked to the truth (because the Soviets indeed had slave labor camps and gulags), but ultimately it failed and was shut down. On page 80 Dorril explains that "secrecy does not ultimately corrupt" and the R5 was really no better, in the end, than Soviet propaganda. This was a dismal failure on the part of Britain to establish on the ground floor something that would eventually become an intelligence operation."
Abstract This paper is a critical review and "personal" examination of the women's diet book, "The Fit or Fat Woman: Solutions for Women's Unique Concerns." Author Covert Bailey suggests that women have difficulty losing weight because they use diet plans that are designed for a male's physiology and thus the body chemistry of women do not respond as well as men's to male-oriented diet plans. The paper takes a negative perception of Bailey's book, as the author suggests that women can either be "fit" or "fat" and that there is no middle ground where these two elements blend, and that Bailey also uses a degrading writing style in which to address his female readers.
From the Paper "This paper shall examine and address the specifics of Covert Bailey's book on women's health, The Fit or Fat Woman: Solutions for Women's Unique Concerns. Published in 1989 by Houghton Mifflin Co., this book immediately became a best-seller based on its humorous yet accurate examination of women's self-perceptions and issues such as dieting, physical exercise, and proper nutritional balance. Covert Bailey is a biochemist who addresses women's concerns from a fairly unique perspective: Rather than allowing women to burden themselves with diets that address a male physiology and diet, Bailey suggests that women have a body chemistry that differs from that of their male counterparts, resulting in inaccuracies when they use diets that are designed for men. This indicates that the use of these diets, while geared towards a more general state of health, also harms the woman through the time lost through following a male-oriented diet."
Abstract The writer looks at overt and covert advertising in order to give the reader a solid understanding of the basic theories that are used to sell products. The writer talks about the different places that new forms of advertising have been tested and show how these are used successfully to entice people to buy a specific product. According to this paper, sex is used in almost every type of advertising and its effect on today's youth is immense. The use of sex in advertising is not new, but the overt nature of it is, something, that this writer feels has now take on a life of its own and is having a negative affect on many people's self-image. The role of sex in today's society and as a result its influence on today's younger generation, is the message that this writer is trying to communicate.
From the Paper "Advertisers will embed the word, ?sex,? in a magazine picture that is not perceived by the human eye or will superimpose pictures of sexual objects on objects like ice cubes and it is not noticed until this is pointed out to people, they will not perceive this either. (Key 9 ? 12)
Whether or not subliminal advertising works is still a matter of debate.
Should sex be used in advertising? No! CNBC had run an ad that showed scantily dressed women, an ad for a topless club."
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the topic of the Iran-Contra Affair. Specifically, the paper discusses what the Iran-Contra Affair was, how it developed, how it was discovered, the Congressional hearings, and the aftermath. The Iran-Contra Affair was really a series of covert operations initiated by the Reagan Administration and carried out, first, by the CIA and then the NSC. These affairs were investigated by Congressional committees after they became public and were as detrimental to the government as the Watergate affair because they subverted the Congress and the Constitution.
From the Paper "The Iran-contra affair is certainly one of the most notorious acts in United States governmental history. Many critics have likened it to the Watergate Scandal of the 1970s Nixon administration in terms of importance and sheer ignorance. One writer noted, "The Iran-contra affair raised serious questions about the nature and scope of congressional oversight of foreign affairs and the limits of the executive branch" (Editors 23448). After the Congressional hearings ended, numerous reports and recounting of testimony were published, including a 690-page report from the Tower and other committees who investigated the affairs. Caspar Weinberger (Secretary of the Defense) and several other participants were pardoned by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, and North and Poindexter's criminal convictions were eventually overturned, so very little actually happened legally to the main participants in the affairs."
Abstract This paper provides an overview of Lochrie's book, how it is organized, the evidential sources used by the author, and an assessment of how the book was received critically. The book's placement in the context of class is followed by biographical information about the author. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.
From the Paper "From both feminist and poststructuralist perspectives, human sexuality has increasingly come to be seen not as biological but as a cultural construction, subject to fashioning and redefinition under pressure from social forces and juridico-political power (Nederman & True 1996). According to Carolyn Dinshaw (1999), gender violation, or the violation of active-passive roles, underwrites the condemnation of female sex acts without men as the worst problem among humankind; the hierarchical importance of gender over sexuality found in the castigation of female perversion is consistent with other representations of female-female homoeroticism found in the long literary tradition from Artemidorus to Ptolemy to Caelius Aurelianus to Cino da Pistoia to Shakespeare: "Only sexual acts between women that violate gender hierarchy emerge into visibility; they are consistently represented in relation to masculinization, facts suggesting that gender rules are regarded as much more serious than rules for sexual behavior insofar as they can be separated" (Dinshaw 1999)."
Abstract This paper explains the Catholic Church has little justification for their past and present practice of covertly handling sex cases and relocating the guilty parties. The author points out that Megan's Law, which forces all convicted sex offenders to register as such and makes this information publicly available, could be seen as an invasion of privacy and further punishing individuals who have already paid their debt to society; however, legislators have taken the perspective that protection of the nation's children is the first priority when handling these issues. The paper relates that the Church is further violating their general position in society and their obligations to be a safe haven from danger and a model for moral existence.
From the Paper "Most centrally, the issue regarding sexual molestation is exceedingly delicate because it boarders upon invasion of privacy. For requiring religious authorities to report existing sex offenders, and having them to be registered and publicly identified as such makes it virtually impossible for such individuals to live a life free of stigma and shame. Yet, the risk is the utter ruin and permanent damage done to the innocent; preventing this should be the prevailing concern of lawmakers, and certainly, clerics as well."
Tags:covert, relocation, megan-law, protection, moral
A book review of "Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else," written by David Cay Johnston.
Abstract This paper introduces and analyzes the book "Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else," written by David Cay Johnston. The paper discusses the content of the book and reviews the writer's skill and qualifications to write the book. The paper concludes that the book is startling and illuminating.
From the Paper "The author is not against taxes. Again, in the Prologue, he notes, "A good tax system flows from the economic order and greases the wheels of commerce" (Johnston 2). However, in the pages that follow, he illustrates a tax system that is so seriously flawed it would be laughable if it were not so pathetic, and an IRS that is out of touch even with its own laws and regulations. It also shows that even when the IRS knows that certain tax laws have been manipulated by the rich and powerful, they tend to overlook these "transgressions" rather than attempting to collect the taxes. Take for example, the case of the "accelerated charitable remainder trust" scheme that tax consultant Jonathan Blattmachr engineered in the 1990s for Bill Gates (it is not known if Gates used the dodge before it was outlawed) (Johnston 7-8). Schemes like this continue, and as soon as one is outlawed, another takes its place, allowing the super rich to live extravagant and lavish lifestyles at the cost of "normal" American taxpayers."
Abstract The paper examines Frederick Ivor Case's "Racism and National Consciousness," where he presents a complex analysis of race and racism in Canada today. With reference to Case's understanding of racism as exclusion, the paper argues that racism is a covert reality of life in Canada today that is supported in a range of subtle ways by Canadian state culture. The paper shows how racism has clear economic "value" for the capitalist corporate elite of Canadian society, making challenges of anti-racist action as great as they ever were.
Outline:
Introduction
Racism as Exclusion
The Complexities of Racism
A Covert Racism
Conclusion
From the Paper "In defining race and racism, Frederick Ivor Case presents an excellent critique of the physiological absurdity of making distinctions between people on the basis of race: "It might seem superfluous to remark that there is no such phenomenon as African blood or Chinese blood or Jewish blood, just as in the moral sense there is no such thing as good or bad blood" (Case 38). This being said, however, Case recognizes the social reality that for generations the structures of race and racism have defined life in Canada. Case's analysis of racism in the Canadian context is particularly complex given his contention that this racism has been defined historically as the "exclusion on sight, that is, by race" of non-Europeans from the Canadian collective consciousness (Case 35)."
Abstract The paper explains why the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)'s role in Vietnam has been difficult to assess completely. The paper first looks at the degree of commitment that the US government had developed in the political outcome of Vietnam. The paper then discusses the conflict over whether the military or the CIA should establish precedence over covert operations in Vietnam and describes what actually led to the eventual dominance of the CIA in Vietnam. The paper focuses on the many failures of the CIA's covert operations and counter-insurgency effort and contends that the war was already lost when intelligence failures of the CIA failed to adequately prepare the US and its forces to function appropriately in the region.
From the Paper "The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States (US) and its role in Vietnam during that country's involvement in Southeast Asia is a role that has been difficult to assess completely. Part of the difficulty is that the CIA's role is, of course, almost completely related to covert operations in the conflict which are, by nature, secretive and most often censored. Additionally, the role of the CIA in Vietnam was also often one that was competitive in nature with the role of the military's own covert operations with both bodies vying for dominance in the conflict. Yet, there is a long precedence of CIA involvement in Vietnam and it is one that generally established the US government itself in the region while the French colonial forces were still struggling for dominance."
Tags: espionage, counter-insurgency, operations, Kennedy, Johnson
This paper is a critical analysis of the United States' intelligence support for homeland security in dealing with the prevention of terrorist attacks.
Abstract This paper discusses the degree of progress being made in intelligence support for Homeland Security. The paper notes that the progress is primarily due to the expansion of government surveillance powers through the authority of the USAPatriot Act, the issuing of executive orders by the President authorizing controversial NSA wiretapping and other covert anti-terrorism measures, new intelligence programs, and recent modifications of FISA. The author states that these actions have enabled the Intelligence Community to improve and expand their efforts to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States, but that numerous problems still need to be overcome if future attacks are to be prevented. Furthermore, the author argues that there is increasing fear that far too many intelligence related government activities are covert and classified, which heightens the risk of abuses of power.
From the Paper "In addition to dealing with domestic consequences in the form of Congressional oversight investigations and court challenges based on civil liberties and privacy issues, Intelligence Community officials also face the possibility of being indicted and prosecuted by the International Criminal Court. American government personnel involved in detainee interrogations are at the greatest risk because of their participation in controversial activities such as renditions and the ongoing use of enhanced interrogation techniques.
"The Bush Administration opposed the establishment of the ICC and argues that granting such a court with the global power and jurisdiction to bring American citizens to trial could lead to abuses. The current occupant of the White House and various cabinet officials have publicly expressed concerns about the ICC on various grounds, but the underlying reason for U.S. opposition to the International Criminal Court is that American Intelligence Community personnel, government agency officials, and soldiers could be brought before the ICC to be prosecuted for violations of international law and the Geneva Conventions."
Tags: united states, ic interrogation programs prevention abuses
Abstract This paper covers the issues of covert and overt racism, in particular with African- American vs. Caucasian studies in the United States. Several real life examples are offered and analyzed in terms of the advantages and disadvantages each side faces in normal society. Institutional racism is also discussed in relation to class and social status.
Abstract This paper illustrates how Geoffrey Chaucer ingeniously criticizes the Roman Catholic Church and advocates religious reform by accrediting his opinions to the characters in "The Prioress? Tale", "The Friar's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", and "The Clerk's Tale" through an elaborate system of various degrees of perception, which allowed Chaucer greater literary freedom. Specific biblical references are also used to support the thesis.
From the Paper "Chaucer's veiled criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and support for religious reform through his characters allows him more leeway than he would otherwise have. The intricate filter system allows Chaucer greater literary freedom due to the ambiguity generated as to where each thought originates. Despite this anonymity, Chaucer appears to have taken the advise of the Parson to repent, when he later retracts having written about "worldly vanities". Chaucer's Retraction, which concludes "The Canterbury Tales", adds another level of complexity through which the reader must filter his work: is Chaucer truly repentant or is his Retraction just another device used to mislead?"
Abstract This paper is a look at Edith Wharton's, "Roman Fever," and Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits." Edith Wharton was a white American woman of opulence and class, while Zola Neale Hurston was an African-American who was born in Eatonville, Florida, occupied primarily by black families who have historically been struggling for economic sufficiency and comfort, but have historically been hampered by racial prejudice. The paper looks at how the two celebrated authors write about love, marriage and family, women and their overt well as covert emotions and desires, with the authors? respective and opposing cultures and social classes as backdrops.
From the Paper "Both stories deal with marriage. In Wharton"s, the marriages of childhood friends Alida and Grace had to be cultivated, for they belonged to the genteel class of human beings at that time. They had to try all means to feign happiness and of being loved and their mates" fidelity to them. How they looked to the outside world weighed much more than how they really felt inside, and that was the core of Victorian values of propriety ? the external, heartbreaking, mind-blowing type. This was the price to pay for belonging up there and everything that went with being high above. In contrast, Hurston's characters, Joe and his Missy May, treasured their marriage and had a common line of pleasures, including the pursuit of a few gilded coins, chocolate kisses and a baby. Their simple joys were more accessible and this made marriage more workable and forgiving offenses possible. Although both authors had unhappy marriages, Hurston nevertheless valued marriage as an institution that could save an individual or else saw marriage as a stabilizing force like nothing else in a society."
Abstract This paper is an analysis of Malcolm Gladwell?s,"The Tipping Point- How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference." It reviews the different theories posited in the book about how to market a product, the different factors that need to be considered when bringing a new product to market. Using examples from the book, the paper looks at what triggers were involved in turning around the images of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Hush Puppies. The paper suggests the ability to manipulate the 'tipping point' was key to their successful turnaround.
From the Paper "Yet another thought is that if social trends start slow and then pick up in momentum to become a tidal wave, marketers can well prepare for an anticipated "tipping point" by laying the ground for it in advance. Suppose, for example, socio-cultural forecasts predict an overwhelming increase in teenage boys who think "violence is uncool" and that "true machismo lies in outwitting and outmaneuvering your opponent". As a marketing manager of an entertainment brand such as a TV network, or video games, one could well prepare for such an eventuality by slowly and steadily bringing in at first, niche programming, that offers intelligentsia games and increasing the marketing weight behind such products as the trend favoring such type of entertainment increases. By doing so, it would be possible to be ready for ?the tipping point.'"
