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Succeeding As an English Teacher
'Clever, comprehensive and current...a book I'll be returning to again and again.' Stuart Pryke 'Every English teacher will get huge value from this timely book.' Alex Quigley The ultimate guide to teaching English in a secondary school, this book supports you on your journey from trainee to head of department - and everything in-between.
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TILL DEATH DO US PART: PREPUBLICATION REVIEW IN THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
As a condition of access to classified information, most employees of the U.S. intelligence community are required to sign nondisclosure agreements that mandate lifetime prepublication review. In essence, these agreements require employees to submit any works that discuss their experiences working in the intelligence community—whether written or oral, fiction or nonfiction—to their respective agencies and receive approval before seeking publication. Though these agreements constitute an exercise of prior restraint, the Supreme Court has held them constitutional. This Note does not argue for or against the constitutionality of prepublication review; instead, it explores how prepublication review is actually practiced by agencies and concludes that the current system, which lacks executive-branch-wide guidance, grants too much discretion to individual agencies. It compares the policies of individual agencies with the experiences of actual authors who have clashed with prepublication-review boards to argue that agencies conduct review in a manner that is inconsistent at best, and downright biased and discriminatory at worst. The level of secrecy shrouding intelligence agencies and the concomitant dearth of publicly available information about their activities make it difficult to evaluate their performance and, by extension, the performance of our elected officials in overseeing such activities. In such circumstances, memoirs and other forms of expression by former agency employees become extremely valuable. The potential for discriminatory review—the approval of works that portray agencies in a positive light and the suppression of works more critical in toneilluminates the need for an improved system of prepublication review: one that respects the intelligence community's need to protect legitimate national-security information but demands more robust protections for the First Amendment rights of potential authors and the public's need for information with which to evaluate the highly secretive activities of their government. This Note concludes by arguing that action is required from all three branches of government to improve the system of prepublication review.
Journal Article
Cinemetrics: Creative Approaches to Visualize and Analyze Movie Data
In the age of visual media that we live in, there is an immensity of content being produced worldwide every day through the cinematographic and TV industries. This, alongside with the widespread availability of Internet access and social media, has democratized the appreciation, discussion and constant analyses of movies and TV shows. Since these are visual media with their own “visual language”, where creators use a lot of visual tricks to convey information, emotion, and to show a bit of their signature style, a lot of data can be extracted from them. This represents a great potential for people trying to analyze trends and patterns in video content, for example with colour palettes, length of shots, movement in scenes, audio, etc. But all this can be overwhelming without the aid of technology, and so there has also been a growth in the development of tools based in Artificial Intelligence, and Machine and Deep Learning, to be able to quickly and efficiently analyse this data and produce meaningful and insightful results that might help in the creation of new video-based media or just for anyone interested in video, like cinematographers, video editors, animators or any others. However, with large amounts of data, the results can sometimes be hard to parse by the user, and so there’s also been a trend of trying to consolidate data into graphic representations for easier analysis, giving rise to a new field called Data Visualization. With this in mind, we attempted to develop a new tool for video analysis of multimedia files based in scripts that would be able to give information about the composition of shots and scenes, such as the instants of the cuts or estimates of numbers like the total of shots, frames and more, but also to graphically present information using multimedia data visualizations.
Dissertation
