Essays about: "The Secret Agent"

Found 5 essays containing the words The Secret Agent.

1. 1. The Molly Maguires and the Detectives. : An analysis of the relationship between the use of undercover policingand violent labor conflict.

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

   Author : Constantin Torve; [2021]
   Keywords : Molly Maguires; Pinkertons; criminological history; labor unions; policing; Irish diaspora; migration; Pennsylvania;

   Abstract : This paper evaluates the role of private policing in the patterns of violence that were prevalent in the mining regions of eastern Pennsylvania during the 1860s and 1870s, and which were attributed to an Irish secret society called the “Molly Maguires”. This topic has long been subject to academic and political controversy, and the use of agent provocateur tactics by the Pinkerton agency has been strongly suggested, but never conclusively proven. READ MORE

3. 2. Before and After the Bomb : A Study of Narration and Politics in Conrad’s The Secret Agent

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Tilda Karlsson; [2016]
   Keywords : The Secret Agent ; Conrad; narration; focalisation; plot-structure; anarchy; anarchism; irony;

   Abstract : The aim of this essay is to investigate ways in which the narrative in Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent reflects the political views within and around the novel. The narrative focus of the essay is plot-structure and focalisation, and the political focus circles around anarchy and anarchism. READ MORE

4. 3. The secret life of Bacillus anthracis

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health

   Author : Anna Cavalli-Björkman Hellström; [2013]
   Keywords : zoonosis; anthrax; Bacillus anthracis; sporulation; spore; transmission; soil;

   Abstract : Bacillus anthracis is the causative agent of anthrax, a serious and globally distributed zoonosis affecting a wide range of wild and domestic animals, invariably also humans. However, although known to humans since biblical times, much remains to be elucidated concerning the ecology and transmission of this bacterium. READ MORE

5. 4. Effector vector design in the Phytophthora infestans-potato pathosystem

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Plant Biology and Forest Genetics (until 131231)

   Author : Abu Sayeed Tareq; [2012]
   Keywords : Phytophthora infestans; potato genome; effectors; potato pathosystem; effector vector design;

   Abstract : The oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans is the causal agent of the devastating plant disease late blight on potato. Diverse type of transposons and many gene families are present in the genome which encodes the effector proteins involved in causing the pathogenicity. READ MORE

6. 5. Multiple Escrow Agents in VoIP

   University essay from KTH/Kommunikationssystem, CoS

   Author : Abdullah Azfar; [2010]
   Keywords : Key escrow; VoIP; Law Enforcement Agency; Multiple Escrow Agents; Threshold Cryptography; Reliability; Availability; Shamir s Secret Sharing;

   Abstract : Using a Key escrow agent in conjunction with Voice over IP (VoIP) communication ensures that law enforcements agencies (LEAs) can retrieve the session key used to encrypt data between two users in a VoIP session. However, the use of a single escrow agent has some drawbacks. READ MORE