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"An All-American Boy": The Story of Tom Haji and Rural Nisei in WWII
Get PDFThe purpose of this project examines the life of Tom Haji, a Japanese-American who grew up in Skykomish and Monroe, Washington, was interned at Tule Lake following Executive Order 9066, and deployed to France and Italy where he died in April 1945. Through a biographical recreation of Tom’s life that included examination of newspapers, yearbooks, historical photographs with those who knew him, this project reveals a set of complicated and more nuanced relationships between Japanese-Americans and white residents of rural Washington. While most accounts of the internment era emphasize division, Haji’s life and relationships show the importance of ordinary local activities as an inclusive force. For example, his basketball coach and his team boycotted a game in which port authorities attempted to block Tom from coming with his team to a game near the coast. From his hometown, his internment, and the war a sense of what life was like for many Japanese-Americans can be understood on a deep and personal level. Haji reveals a story of a boy and his family becoming integral members of their community when national prejudices against Japanese-Americans were at their apex. Even after Pearl Harbor, Tom and his family were still seen as trusted members of the community which made their sudden internment even more devastating. Despite his internment at Tule Lake, Tom willingly signed up to serve in the Army like many Japanese-Americans in defense of their country and would fall during a battle in April of 1945 in Italy. Even though Tom lived a short life, his is still dearly remembered in the town of Monroe and speaks to the importance of interpersonal and community dialogue and relationships in combatting institutionalized and local cultural racism
Conflict in the Congo: A legacy of Empire, Tyranny and Kleptocracy
No full textUnderstanding the history of the Congo's misfortune is critical because the Democratic Republic of the Congo today with its many hydro ready rivers and rich fertile fields holds the key to a prosperous African future tomorrow. Let us learn from the past and ensure that the key to Africa's future finds the right door.I argue in "Conflict in the Congo: A Legacy of Empire, Tyranny and Kleptocracy" that the seemingly endless war and ethnic conflict that has plagued the fledgling Democratic Republic of the Congo throughout the 21st century, is primarily a result of the long and destructive legacy of imperialism, tyranny and kleptocracy in the Congo Basin beginning with King Leopold II and culminating with the dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko and its aftermath. Western intervention in the Congo first began with King Leopold's takeover and rule starting in 1885 as chronicled in the brilliant monograph King Leopold's Ghost by renowned historian Adam Hochschild. After massive international uproar over genocidal practices, King Leopold sold his colony to the Belgian government in 1908. Forty more years of Belgian colonial rule would ignite the flames of popular resistance in the 20th century that culminated in an independent government headed by Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in 1960. But after Lumumba's assassination by the CIA resulting from collusion between the Belgians, the Americans, and Joseph Mobutu, the Congo descended into civil war. Mobutu with American support emerged victorious, and he set about a forty-year reign of terror that was extensively documented in the book Mobutu's Totalitarian Political System by political scientist Peta Ikambana. Mobutu's U.S. backed authoritarian regime managed to transfer vast amounts of resources out of the Congo and into the industrialized West. Unable to withstand another draining kleptocratic regime the Congo was propelled into the Rwandan genocide and its resulting Great African War. The bloody collapse of Mobutu's Congo led to the chaotic birth of the current Democratic Republic of the Congo. This historical investigation into the modern Congo's history and its relation to the regions present, reveals that only through a proper understanding of the past can we begin to address the reoccurring causes of Congolese suffering and poverty
Reed Ueda, Crosscurrents: Atlantic and Pacific Migration in the Making of a Global America
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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