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 The Julia Wood Prize
 The Julia Wood 2021 essay competition is now open!
 
-Established in 1971, in memory of a St Hugh’s College alumna, the Julia Wood Prize is an annual History essay competition open to Sixth Form pupils who have not been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of more than two years. The Prize, worth up to £500, is offered by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College for the best historical essay submitted by the closing date.
+Established in 1971, in memory of a St Hugh’s College alumna, the
+Julia Wood Prize is an annual History essay competition open to Sixth
+Form pupils who have not been in the Sixth Form of any school or
+college for a period of more than two years. The Prize, worth up to
+£500, is offered by the Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College for
+the best historical essay submitted by the closing date.
 
-The choice of historical subject is left to candidates. Essays should be between two thousand and four thousand words and submitted by the candidate as a Microsoft Word document through the form on the College website.
+The choice of historical subject is left to candidates. Essays should
+be between two thousand and four thousand words and submitted by the
+candidate as a Microsoft Word document through the form on the College
+website.
+
+Essays should be submitted by 5pm on Friday 30th July 2021. The winner
+will be announced on the College website by the end of September 2021.
+The winning essay will be published on the College’s website.
 
-Essays should be submitted by 5pm on Friday 30th July 2021. The winner will be announced on the College website by the end of September 2021. The winning essay will be published on the College’s website.
 Julia Wood Prize Submissions Form
 Please use this form to upload your submission for the Julia Wood Prize. 
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-pandoc paper.tex -C --bibliography=reference.bib --css=https://mohit.uk/document.css -s -o target/paper.html
+pandoc paper.md -C --pdf-engine=xelatex -H formatting.tex -V fontsize:12pt -o target/paper.pdf
+pandoc paper.md -C --css=https://mohit.uk/document.css -s -o target/paper.html
+pandoc paper.md -C -s -o target/paper.docx
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+\nocite{*}
+
+\bibliographystyle{acm}
+
+\bibliography{reference}
+
+\end{document}
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+---
+title: The Stasi and the nature of surveillance
+author: Mohit Agarwal
+date: July 2021
+bibliography: ["reference.bib"]
+biblio-style: "harvard"
+link-citations: true
+---
+
+here is some text [@stasiland] and some more and more
+
+# Surveillance in powerful systems
+
+A government may get involved in the regular surveillance of its
+citizens for many reasons. The interception of communications are
+readily visible (inelegant) including the interception of mail in the
+American colonies by the British in the years before the American
+Revolution. This also included the change and destruction of
+information, yet the purpose remains the same as modern surveillance:
+to watch over citizens that the ruling authority does not trust or
+claims cannot be trusted. Those who wish to monitor modern electronic
+communications may suggest that such an operation exists in the
+interest of the safety of the public, by stopping crime and terrorism.
+
+# The prevalence of the Stasi
+
+Much of the Stasi's strength came from its numbers. The Stasi was able
+to infiltrate every facet of the East German society to an astounding
+extent. The reputation of the Stasi is well deserved from the power to
+plant the seeds of doubt within the population. 
+
+The methods of the Stasi are often described as inducing fear in
+citizens.
+
+# The end of the Stasi
+
+Perhaps the most interesting 
+
+# Conclusions
+
+In a sense the reality of the Stasi and the ways in which it impacted
+the lives of people in East Germany present us with an opportiunity to
+look carefully at a surveillance state that so recently fell apart.
+There are many people alive today who have lived under the influence
+of the Stasi and are yet to share their stories. It is by
+understanding the Stasi that we can understand the increasingly
+visible surveillance in our current societies, and avoid reliving the
+experiences of others that we don't expect to through naivety and
+don't wish to once we are shown them.
+
+The nature of surveillance and the way in which technology enables it,
+just as the Stasi were able to make use of telephone calls to spy on
+citizens, is something that we cannot ignore, given our knowledge of
+the past. Mass surveillance and the impacts it has are naturally not
+limited to the Stasi, yet the seeming otherworldliness of events in
+East Germany feel like looking clearly through a lens, particularly in
+comparison to trying to make sense of the societies we live in. Thus
+the opportunity information about the Stasi provides is a very
+valuable one, given the clear view and judgement we are able to have
+on it and thus our potential to learn more from it than other examples
+of survaillance.
+
+<-- horrible ending
+
+\nocite{*}
+
+# References and bibliography
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-
-The role military intelligence has played both internationally and
-domestically has greatly increased following modern developments and
-continues to rapidly expand.
-
-\section{Surveillance in powerful systems}
-
-A government may get involved in the regular surveillance of its
-citizens for many reasons. The interception of communications are
-readily visible (inelegant) including the interception of mail in the
-American colonies by the British in the years before the American
-Revolution. This also included the change and destruction of
-information, yet the purpose remains the same as modern surveillance:
-to watch over citizens that the ruling authority does not trust or
-claims cannot be trusted. Those who wish to monitor modern electronic
-communications may suggest that such an operation exists in the
-interest of the safety of the public, by stopping crime and terrorism.
-
-\section{The Stasi}
-
-The methods of the Stasi are often described as inducing fear in
-citizens.
-
-\section{The present day}
-
-The traditional means by which enforcement authorities may investigate
-an individual or organisation is by obtaining permission to do so on
-the basis of adequate suspicion of illegal activity. Such a
-requirement prevents the unnecessary and ongoing violation of
-individual rights that may be considered highly present in societies
-around the world, enabled in part or in whole by modern technology.
-
-In a sense, modern technology could have been the ultimate enabler for
-privacy. The promise of modern encryption is such that a communication
-physically cannot be read by anyone other than the intended recipient,
-and the decentralised nature of the internet could mean an escape from
-central authorities in our communication such as a governmental postal
-service.
-
-\section{The future}
-
-\section{Conclusions}
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+@book{ stasiland,
+    title = "Stasiland",
+    author = "Anna Funder",
+    year = "2003",
+    publisher = "Granta Books",
+    isbn = "9781783787340",
+    url = "https://granta.com/products/stasiland/"
+}