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Memo from Harry L. Black, Assistant Project Director, to Willard E. Schmidt, Chief of Police, re: disorders in Block #54, June 2, 1944
No full textDiscusses imprisonment in the stockade of 12 incarcerees and tension concerning the Japanese Language Schools and the schools in the camps, detailing what it terms "terrorist tactics" on the part of the Japanese Language School's proponents and concluding that the Project Director is justified in using the stockade for disciplinary purposes. The document also includes the directive, Administration of Japanese Language Schools at Tule Lake incarceration camp (March 30, 1944 by R. R. Best, Project Director), which outlines policy regarding the camp and Japanese Language Schools; a memo regarding this directive "prepared as a public announcement by Mr. Harkness, Superintendent of Schools... (May 18, 1944);" and a memo from Kenneth M. Harkness, Superintendent of Schools, to Harry L. Black, Chief, Community Management (May 21, 1944) concerning these memoranda. Also included is an envelope from the Federal Communications Commission to Willard E. Schmidt marked Personal and Confidential.The Willard Schmidt collection, documents some of the administrative duties of Willard Schmidt, the Chief of Internal Security for the War Relocation Authority and the Tule Lake incarceration/segregation camp. This collection contains administrative records and photos documenting the Tule Lake camp, the largest incarceration camp with a peak population of 18,789 and with the most turbulent history. In 1943, the camp was turned into a segregation center to house "disloyal" Japanese Americans relocated from other camps based on their answers to a confusing loyalty questionnaire. The camp endured martial law from November 1943- Jan 1944 after escalating protests and unrest. The hostile environment of the camp lead to many incarcerees renouncing their American citizenship upon the end of incarceration, a process which took 14 years to reverse if they did not wish to be deported to Japan
Jack and Charmian London
No full text"Black-and-white photograph of author of Jack London and his wife Charmian, who were close friends of Harry Culmer.
Letter from Tsuneo Iwata to Mr. Harry L. Villinger, April 14, 1942
No full textLetter of gratitude from Tsuneo Iwata president of the Turlock Social Club to Mr. Harry L. Villinger, in response to the mass removal in California.The Nisaburo Aibara Collection features materials from the Turlock Social Club, a local Japanese-American community group active between 1939 and 1970. It contains documents regarding the Stockton, Turlock and Merced Assembly Centers and Japanese American Citizens League chapters. The Collection also features correspondences with reactions, responses, and preparations for the forced evacuation. Additionally, the Collection has records on the Central California Cantaloupe Company, Turlock Farm Corporation, Turlock Japanese Society, and family records and funeral service programs of Japanese-American residents of Turlock
Memo from Harry L. Black, Advisory Committee, to Mr. [Raymond R.] Best, February 8, 1944
No full textMemorandum regarding meeting with Co-ordinating Committee. Concerns meeting to discuss Committee's recommendation to release "18 additional detainees from the stockade." The memo on "Executive Office of the President, Office for Emergency Management" letterhead, also discusses employment of incarcerees from Manzanar and Tule Lake and moving incarcerees out of and into various housing blocks.The Willard Schmidt collection, documents some of the administrative duties of Willard Schmidt, the Chief of Internal Security for the War Relocation Authority and the Tule Lake incarceration/segregation camp. This collection contains administrative records and photos documenting the Tule Lake camp, the largest incarceration camp with a peak population of 18,789 and with the most turbulent history. In 1943, the camp was turned into a segregation center to house "disloyal" Japanese Americans relocated from other camps based on their answers to a confusing loyalty questionnaire. The camp endured martial law from November 1943- Jan 1944 after escalating protests and unrest. The hostile environment of the camp lead to many incarcerees renouncing their American citizenship upon the end of incarceration, a process which took 14 years to reverse if they did not wish to be deported to Japan
A Comparative Study of Shakespeare’s Periods of Division
No full textOne of the most effective methods of studying any writer is to read his works in the order in which they were written. Custom in literary history sanctions the practice of studying an author period by period. When a literary artist has worked at his craft for a lifetime, scholars find it conventional to analyze the master’s work into convenient groups or units for detailed study. This process affords critics the opportunity of tracing more clearly the gradual growth of the poet’s mind from one production to another. In English letters this has been the accepted practice for Chaucer, with his French, Italian, and English periods, as well as for Spenser, for Milton, for Dryden, for Pope, for Wordsworth, for most Romantic poets, for Browning, and for Tennyson, to mention only the major poets. Also the academic practice of dividing Shakespeare’s dramatic works into several periods is a helpful device in the study of his development both as an artist and a dramatist.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Postal telegraph from A. L. Wirin to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, May 3, 1943
No full textTelegraph from A. L. Wirin to Ernest Besig: "Air mail Korematsu brief care of Harry Wirin, 412 South Garfield Street Arlington, VA."The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Harry Potter: purebloods and racial segregation
No full textThe artistic productions, in this case the literary, are the result of the relationship between the
artist/author with his time and therefore can reveal aspects of society in which it is
inserted, culture, social organization and forms of coexistence, even if in a work
permeated with an imaginative character. In this work we will approach the relationship between the books of the
Harry Potter series, by J.K. Howling, with a remarkable fact of History, the German Nazism.
For that, we will start from authors such as Antônio Cândido (2010), who discusses the relation between
literature and society; Isabelle Cani (2008), who presents analyses between the series and Nazism;
Ian Kershaw (2010), who discusses the life of Adolf Hitler. Methodologically, this is a
bibliographical research with production of argumentative text that starts from the characters to the
categories of social division existing in the series. With that presents reflective approach on
racial prejudice from a literature not considered canonical and that passes for looks
depreciative looks in the academy.
Keywords: Harry Potter; thoroughbreds; literature and society; racial prejudice.As produções artísticas, nesse caso a literária, são fruto da relação entre o
artista/autor com o seu tempo e por isso pode revelar aspectos da sociedade em que este está
inserido, a cultura, a organização social as formas de convivência, mesmo que em uma obra
permeada de caráter imaginativo. Neste trabalho abordaremos a relação entre os livros da
série Harry Potter, de J.K. Howling, com um fato marcante da História, o nazismo alemão.
Para isso, partiremos de autores como Antônio Cândido (2010), que discute a relação entre
literatura e sociedade; Isabelle Cani (2008), que apresenta análises entre a série e o nazismo;
Ian Kershaw (2010), que discute a vida de Adolf Hitler. Metodologicamente trata-se de
pesquisa bibliográfica com produção de texto argumentativo que parte dos personagens às
categorias de divisão social existentes na série. Com isso apresenta abordagem reflexiva sobre
preconceito racial a partir de uma literatura não considerada canônica e que passa por olhares
depreciativos na academia.
Palavras-chave: Harry Potter; puro-sangues; literatura e sociedade; preconceito racial
Harry Potter e la lingua dei maghi: incantesimi e formule
No full textThis study explores the vocabulary used in Harry Potter and the Death-
ly Hallows, with particular reference to the list of names for magic spells, charms
and curses. The investigation aims at shedding light on how British writer J.K.
Rowling has built the wizard’s world of Harry Potter and its linguistic universe.
The aim of this survey is to emphasize recurring patterns and idiosyncrasies’ em-
ployed in the construction of the magic form, which is based chiefly on neolo-
gisms. The language the author has used for the creation of magic formulae is,
in most cases, a kind of Latin, whose names are substantially recognizable to the
reader
Are there synergies between World Bank partial credit guarantees and private lending?
Get PDFSince 1994, the World Bank has provided partial credit guarantees to private financiers of several large infrastructure projects in developing countries. A major objective of the partial guarantee program is to leverage Bank resources so as to provide developing countries with better private credit terms. A real test of the efficacy of World Bank partial credit guarantees is whether they also lower the interest rate and lengthen the effective maturity of the part of the credit not covered by the World Bank guarantee. On the basis of deals closed so far, the author finds no evidence that guarantees have affected nonguaranteed interest rates favorably, while the duration of the nonguaranteed credits remains relatively short.International Terrorism&Counterterrorism,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Strategic Debt Management,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Strategic Debt Management,Insurance&Risk Mitigation
Optimal high-dimensional and nonparametric distributed testing under communication constraints
Get PDFWe derive minimax testing errors in a distributed framework where the data is
split over multiple machines and their communication to a central machine is
limited to bits. We investigate both the - and infinite-dimensional
signal detection problem under Gaussian white noise. We also derive distributed
testing algorithms reaching the theoretical lower bounds.
Our results show that distributed testing is subject to fundamentally
different phenomena that are not observed in distributed estimation. Among our
findings, we show that testing protocols that have access to shared randomness
can perform strictly better in some regimes than those that do not. We also
observe that consistent nonparametric distributed testing is always possible,
even with as little as -bit of communication and the corresponding test
outperforms the best local test using only the information available at a
single local machine. Furthermore, we also derive adaptive nonparametric
distributed testing strategies and the corresponding theoretical lower bounds.Comment: 53 page
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