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Henry S. Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Henry Gee came to American as a teenager and lived with his grandparents in Louisiana. He
later moved to Mississippi but could not attend school with the whites. Therefore, Henry came
to Houston, attended school in Houston with the whites. Meanwhile he worked in Harry Gee Sr.'s
restaurant and lived with Harry Gee Sr. After high school, he went into the US merchant marine, and then
the Navy. After his military service, Henry attended UT Austin on a GI bill. Upon graduation he was
hired by Texas Highway Department. He started the first Chinese school in Houston, called the Institute
of Chinese Culture, with a group of other people. He was president of the school
The Oberholzer-Gee/Strumpf File-Sharing Instrument Fails the Laugh Test
No full textI examine the key instrument (German kids on vacation) used by Professors Oberholzer-Gee and Strumpf. Their measured relationship between the instrument and the variable that it is instrumenting for, American downloading, is seen to have outlandish implications, indicating an important error. The instrument is also shown to be related to American record sales, contrary to the requirements of their analysis. The data set used by O/S is biased, considerably overstating the share of German files. Finally, I demonstrate that the instrument must have a de minimus impact on American downloading (and thus American record sales) negating its potential usefulness and implying that their approach could never have worked.
Allen Gee oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Dr. Allen Gee, currently the Donald L. Jordan Endowed Professor of Creative Writing in Columbus State University, was born in 1962 in Astoria, a mixed ethnic neighborhood in Queens, New York. He grew up with a family background of restaurant owners (his grandfather) and laundry owners (his mother’s side), which are stereotypical Asian immigrant jobs. However, on the contrary, Gee’s father, who was an engineer, is not a stereotypical Asian in many ways. He founded the Gee Family Association and is a vocal, romantic, and unconventional person who doesn’t hold himself back, and is a life explorer. The family bond and mindset became a major component in Gee’s personal values. As an athlete in high school, Gee later became a voracious reader and writer in college. Throughout his career, he had a number of mentors, among which most notably, the late James Alan McPherson, who Gee is now the designated biographer for. He earned a BA in Secondary English Teaching at the University of New Hampshire. He studied for his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he met McPherson. Gee earned his PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Houston. He is married to the novelist Renee Dodd, and has two daughters, Ashley and Willa. He’s the author of the essay collection, “My Chinese-America,” for which he was awarded the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award. He is currently completing a novel, “The Iron Road” that chronicles the lives of Chinese railroad workers building the Central Pacific Line in 1866; as well as "That Little Marcella", a novel; and “Multicultural Americana,” which is the working title for the upcoming collection of essays. Gee is planning to work for another 7 years until retirement at 65
Gee, A S, TX2006
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/387132Surname: GEE. Given Name(s) or Initials: A S. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: TX2006. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 1326.208902
Item: [2016.0049.19425] "Gee, A S, TX2006
The R Package geepack for Generalized Estimating Equations
No full textThis paper describes the core features of the R package geepack, which implements the generalized estimating equations (GEE) approach for fitting marginal generalized linear models to clustered data. Clustered data arise in many applications such as longitudinal data and repeated measures. The GEE approach focuses on models for the mean of the correlated observations within clusters without fully specifying the joint distribution of the observations. It has been widely used in statistical practice. This paper illustrates the application of the GEE approach with geepack through an example of clustered binary data.
Author and artist George Gee. Flutters from Side Street Volume One.
No full textIn 1992, George Gee and his wife Deborah Seaton opened Side Street Espresso, on G Street in downtown Anchorage. Soon the daily white boards for the cafe mirrored the intensity of contemporary American culture with social and political caricatures and commentary. Whereas George would erase each board at the end of the day, starting in 1997, he began to preserve the artwork, which resulted in the book, Flutters from Side Street: Volume One, Dry Erase Drawings, Social and Political Commentary, and Reflections From A Morning Walk To Work. The book is an amazing collection of dry erase drawings that highlight pieces of Anchorage and American history
Making Sense of Gee and Identity in (Language) Teaching
No full textThis perspective article discusses Gee’s (2000) four-pronged framework of identity in the context of (language) teaching . To better make sense of Gee and his framework, I first present a scenario from my teaching context, which contains all the components of Gee’s framework. I then mention some identity questions that encapsulate the scenario and pave the way for discussing the framework. Next, Gee’s conceptualization is presented with a focus on its four dimensions, as followed by a critical discussion of the framework with reference to layers of the scenario. Finally, I conclude with a conceptualization of identity that complements Gee’s framework in better making sense of identity in (language) educational work
Review of script displays of African languages by current software
No full textAll recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few exceptions. Whilst Unicode successfully handles the encoding of both these scripts, current software, in particular web browsers, take little account of users wishing to operate in a minority script. Their use for displaying African languages has been limited by the availability of facilities and the desire to communicate with the ‘world’ through major languages such as English and French. There is a need for more use of the indigenous languages to strengthen their language communities and the use of the local scripts in enhancing the learning, teaching and general use of their own languages by their speaking communities
Marriage record of Gee, James S. and Croft, Madeline
No full textMarriage license for James S. Gee and Madeline Croft. J.B. Ley was the officiant
Gee!! I Wish I Were a Man, I\u27d Join the Navy
No full textGee!! I Wish I Were a Man date: 1917 illustrator/author: Howard Chandler Christy agency: U. S. Navy size: 27.9 x 22.9 cmhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/wwII_posters_recruit/1008/thumbnail.jp
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