Selfhood, Love and Responsibility: Film Stories of the Everyday and Crisis within the Couple and Family Unit.

Selfhood, Love and Responsibility: Film Stories of the Everyday and Crisis within the Couple and Family Unit. This is a film practice PhD investigating how selfhood, love and responsibility within couple and family units are conveyed, imagined or problematized in contemporary cinema and how the properties of screen fiction can be used to explore contemporary parental experience. The research project incorporates an original feature screenplay (Nuclear) and short film (Inhabit) which were developed in parallel to, and informed by, the theoretical research in the accompanying critical thesis. Chapter One explores how parenthood, with an emphasis on motherhood, might be imagined by non or aspiring parents, and what anxieties or desires are expressed through these imaginings. Miranda July’s The Future (2010) and Joanna Hogg’s Unrelated (2006) are placed in dialogue with Inhabit (2014) in an examination of the slippage of generational identity experienced by the characters as they struggle with the prospect of impending or denied parenthood. Chapter Two concentrates of evocations of the everyday as it intersects with stories of family life. Drawing from cultural theorists of the everyday including Giard, de Certeau and Highmore, I examine why and how we might attend to the everyday on screen. Taking Henri Lefebvre’s notion of ‘rhythmanalysis’ as a tool with which to analyse Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday (2012), Joanna Hogg’s Archipelago (2010) and Nuclear, I explore how rhythm and patterns of repetition and difference can embody and communicate experiences of domestic relationships and the everyday. In Chapter Three, I analyse spectator engagement via character, and look at how Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation (2011), Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale (2005) and Nuclear utilise a multi-protagonist structure to create a democracy within the narrative. Through a symbiotic approach to theory and practice and a focus on British middle-class subjects, I have sought to investigate parallel drives within couple and family units and to accomplish a balance between the demands of drama and a desire to describe the everyday.University of Exeter London Film Schoo

Viewpoint: Giving Back to the Veterans

California is home to nearly two million veterans, more than any other state in the country. While California veterans live primarily in rural areas of the state, where cost of living is lower than it is in the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 26,000 veterans call the Bay Area home. Even those living in surrounding communities rely on services, and in particular legal services, available in the Bay Area. At the ABA\u27s August meeting, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Bar Association and the Legal Services Corp. announced a new partnership and pilot program aimed at reducing the veterans\u27 claims backlog and making it easier for unrepresented veterans to receive assistance developing claims for disability pay. The program provides free assistance from ABA and LSC attorneys to a targeted group of unrepresented veterans who request their help in filing disability claims. These are important initiatives. The significant backlog requires that more lawyers do more to begin to ensure those who have served our country receive the assistance and support they deserve

The Trouble with Protecting the Vulnerable: Proposals to Prevent Developmentally Disabled Individuals from Giving Involuntary Waivers and False Confessions

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Lamartine, as Historian of the French Revolution

Any discussion of Lamartine as an historian necessitates a study of his political career. His Histoire des Girondins was the culmination of\u27 his political career, it was the embodiment of the theories and principles which he had advocated all thru his speeches in Parliament. To understand these principles it is necessary to trace their growth from the time Lamartine entered politics. After tracing his political growth a discussion of the Histoire des Girondins\u27\u27 will show that its value lies not in its historical value but in the influence it had on the people of France

Viewpoint: Giving Back to the Veterans

California is home to nearly two million veterans, more than any other state in the country. While California veterans live primarily in rural areas of the state, where cost of living is lower than it is in the San Francisco Bay Area, more than 26,000 veterans call the Bay Area home. Even those living in surrounding communities rely on services, and in particular legal services, available in the Bay Area. At the ABA\u27s August meeting, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Bar Association and the Legal Services Corp. announced a new partnership and pilot program aimed at reducing the veterans\u27 claims backlog and making it easier for unrepresented veterans to receive assistance developing claims for disability pay. The program provides free assistance from ABA and LSC attorneys to a targeted group of unrepresented veterans who request their help in filing disability claims. These are important initiatives. The significant backlog requires that more lawyers do more to begin to ensure those who have served our country receive the assistance and support they deserve

Acquisition Planning: A Process for Contract Support and Timely Budget Execution

The purpose of this action research project is to develop acquisition policy and procedures for the New Hampshire Army National Guard to decrease acquisition risk and increase budget execution. Contracting data collected reveals that 47% of acquisitions occurred during the last four months of the fiscal year 2017. Internal and external factors will be analyzed to determine an appropriate course of action and implementation plan. The project will enlist subject matter experts from across the National Guard. The end state is to ensure customers are supported through timely execution of contracts and efficient use of resources

The Orwellian Consequence of Smartphone Tracking: Why a Warrant Under the Fourth Amendment is Required Prior to Collection of GPS Data from Smartphones

This Note argues that a warrant under the Fourth Amendment, rather than under the ECPA or no warrant at all, must be obtained prior to collection of GPS data from a user’s smartphone, whether payment for the phone is contractual or pay-asyou-go. This Note discusses smartphones and how the purpose of the Fourth Amendment applies to smartphone tracking. This Note also discusses the legislative intent behind the ECPA and its inapplicability to smartphone tracking. In addition, this Note addresses United States Supreme Court decisions regarding electronic monitoring by law enforcement, as well as the development and present use of GPS technology

Cell Phones Are Orwell\u27s Telescreen: The Need for Fourth Amendment Protection in Real-Time Cell Phone Location Information

Courts are divided as to whether law enforcement can collect cell phone location information in real-time without a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. This Article argues that Carpenter v. United States requires a warrant under the Fourth Amendment prior to law enforcement’s collection of real-time cell phone location information. Courts that have required a warrant prior to the government’s collection of real-time cell phone location information have considered the length of surveillance. This should not be a factor. The growing prevalence and usage of cell phones and cell phone technology, the original intent of the Fourth Amendment, and United States Supreme Court case law are the deciding factors. Research has shown that a cell phone can be located through its basic functioning as it automatically connects to a growing number of cell sites. The fact that nearly all Americans have a cell phone and carry it on their person makes a cell phone’s location that of the phone’s user, essentially acting as a monitoring device. Permitting law enforcement to collect this location information in real-time without a warrant under the Fourth Amendment violates the principles of the Amendment, which is to curb arbitrary government power. Twenty-first century United States Supreme Court jurisprudence furthers this argument. The Court recently found in Carpenter v. United States that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their physical movements as captured through historical cell cite location information (CSLI). The same rationale in deciding Carpenter also applies to the real-time CSLI and GPS data emanating from one’s phone: neither United States v. Knotts nor the third-party doctrine are applicable to real-time cell phone monitoring

Sexual selection: Symmetry, inbreeding and mate choice in Trinidadian guppies

This thesis investigates whether asymmetry has a role in sexual selection in guppies. This is potentially interesting because it might illuminate whether the cues used in female mate choice correlate with male quality (the "good genes" hypothesis) or purely "aesthetic" choice. Guppies are well suited to investigations of mate choice as males have prominent sexual pigments which females use in mate choice decisions. Theory predicts that the symmetry of secondary sexual characters could indicate the quality of the male, as it is widely thought that fluctuating asymmetry (FA) is a sensitive indicator of developmental stress. Sexual coloration in guppies was found to be sensitive to genetic stress caused by-inbreeding. Several traits showed indications of inbreeding depression. Pigment areas and numbers of spots and colours all decreased with inbreeding. The response of different pigments was highly correlated with their importance to females in each population. Display rate and swimming performance also showed signs of inbreeding depression. The evidence on these traits is consistent with the "good genes" hypothesis. But there was no difference in pigment FA between inbred and control fish. This provides no evidence that genetic stress is reflected particularly well by FA. Females did not prefer outbred males, but preferred high display frequency above other cues. However, if display rate was controlled, females of both populations preferred males with symmetrical patterns when given choices between males differing in spot symmetry - but this is unusual FA as this concerned unpaired characters. Spot asymmetry showed no response to inbreeding and thus was a poor indicator of male condition. This cue appears to support the "aesthetic choice" hypothesis. Overall, this evidence suggests that most (but not all) traits preferred by females are good indicators of male quality. There was no evidence that any form of symmetry correlated with male condition