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Rúḥíyyih Yuille
No full textAri Barrientos and Denise Spencer interview Rúḥíyyih Yuille, a woman with a history in racial and social activism. Born in 1976 in Arcadia, California, Yuille’s earliest memories involved singing and performing with other children. Her memories of living in Monrovia, California involved growing up among a diverse community and how teenagers had some places in and out of the city to hang out. The topic then turns to Yuille’s time at the University of Redlands. Having been there for both her undergraduate and graduate years, from 1944 to 2000, the interviewee talks about the area. While Monrovia had some diverse businesses, Redlands had only around two that Yuille went to. She mentions that while being a junior in high school she saw the Rodney King verdict’s release and was a freshman in college when the OJ Simpson verdict was released. As someone who was raised by parents who taught her the importance of racial and social justice and had also attended the University of Redlands, Yuille was surprised to see the only people of color were in her college. She mentioned her father was involved in both student politics and student organizations while at the university. There discussion talks about how during an ordinance for young adults to only be in groups of five or fewer people, Yuille and fellow students suffered from it. The ordinance was meant to be a “safety” method to stop gangs but was ultimately believed by Yuille to be a way of racist security. Yuille herself was in the Wadada Wa Rangi Wengi group while on campus, a women’s version of the men’s Rangi Ya Giza. Both groups focused on people of color and related justice. Yuille herself said she was grateful for getting support and funding from the university to create demonstrations and protests to raise awareness of injustices. The interview then goes on to Yuille’s faith, which is the Baháʼí faith. She goes into detail about the religious beliefs revolving around education, anti-racism, and gender inclusivity that align with her own beliefs. She also tells about a person who was upset by her faith has prayed for her immediately after finding out. After speaking on her faith, Yuille explains that even with all of the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the multiethnic community that raised her, she still feels that there has been no progress. She points out the murders of Black and Brown bodies as well as the racist laws or propositions that exclude people based on language or ethnic heritage. To her, many people that she knew who spoke for progress changed negatively in the events recent to the recording. When asked for a message for future generations, she tells about how the youth’s experiences are real, they are heard, and that there is a need to relearn what they previously knew after seeing the systematic racism in society
Martin Andersen Nexø
No full textThis is a short presentation of the main works of the Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø
Louis A. Martin-Vega
No full textDr. Louis A. Martin-Vega has served as Dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina since 2006. With over 10,000 students, 750 faculty and staff and $200M in annual research expenditures, NC State’s College of Engineering is internationally recognized for the excellence of its research and educational programs. Prior to joining NC State, he spent five years as dean of engineering at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He has also held several prestigious positions at the National Science Foundation (NSF) including acting head of its Engineering Directorate and director of its Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of industrial engineering, manufacturing, logistics and distribution, operations management and production and service systems. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and other publications and has made over 200 keynote and related presentations at national and international forums.
Martin-Vega is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). His numerous awards include the 1999 IIE Albert Holzman Distinguished Educator Award, the 2000 HENACC-Hispanic Engineering National Education Achievement Award, the 2007 National Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award from the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry, the 2008 Outstanding Engineer in North Carolina Award from the NC Society of Engineers, the Industrial and Systems Engineering Alumni Leadership Award from the University of Florida in 2009, and the 2012 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award, IIE’s highest honor. He is a past president of IIE, a member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering and the HENACC Hall of Fame and was named as one of the 50 Most Influential Hispanics in the US by Hispanic Business magazine in 2014. He is a former member of the executive board of the National GEM Consortium and former chair of the ASEE Engineering Deans Council. He is currently the Immediate Past President of ASEE, past Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Engineering Directorate at NSF and current Vice-Chair of NSF’s Foundation-Wide Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE).
Martin-Vega holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, an M.S. in operations research from New York University and M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial and systems engineering from the University of Florida.https://commons.erau.edu/asee-se-bios/1002/thumbnail.jp
Jack Alive / Martin Dead : The Location of the "Author" in Jack London\u27s Martin Eden
No full textThis essay is an attempt to read Martin Eden, Jack Londonʼs autobiographical novel, in terms of the inextricable relationship between the author and the protagonist. Critics have often taken the unbalanced plot and the lack of ironic distance between narrator and character in Martin Eden as the technical weakness of London, but this paper argues that the achievement of this novel owes a great deal to the attachment of London to Martin. The unbalanced structure is a necessary product of the severe struggle of the author to kill his romantic alter ego. // Martin, who aspires to win Ruth Morse, tries to cross class boundaries by making a career of a writer. Even after realizing the emptiness of Ruth, who turns out to be nothing but a typical figure of the bourgeoisie, he somehow persists in loving her. The notion underlying here is that, for Martin, love, career and art are fundamentally inseparable. He objects to the aestheteʼs view of Brissenden on account of his separation of art from career. Martinʼs identity and life consist only in the triunity of love/career/art; the alternative is the repudiation of life. Thus, the unnatural delay of his disappointment in love can be regarded as Londonʼs strategy to set the suicide of Martin as the necessary consequence of the story. // By finishing the story and killing Martin, London finally detaches himself from Martin, reconstructs his self, and, unlike Martin, survives as a professional writer. In this sense, Martin Eden is a story about “writerʼs self-reconstruction.
Muriel Spark as auto-biographer in <i>Curriculum</i> <i>Vitae</i>
Full text linkExamining Muriel Spark's main aims as an auto-biographer in her work Curriculum Vitae brings important resources in the exploration of the genre of autobiographical writing. This with the theoretical engagement, allows consideration of the critical issues surrounding the roles of author and reader in the construction of the literary self. Spark demands the reader participate in the constructon of textual meaning; overturning the conventions of autobiography, satirising its claims to omniscience and highlighting the impossibility of an authentic voice with regard to the self
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Letter from Martin Chizzick
No full textCongratulations to Duane Pearsall for receiving the Enterpreneur of the Year award; note on the letter was written by Pearsall and it mentions that Martin, the author of the letter, died in a airplane accident
Robert Martin Tiffin's Mystery Man Newspaper Articles
No full textAdvertiser-Tribune newspaper clippings featuring a story about Robert Martin (written by Nancy Kleinhenz), a local author from Tiffin (Ohio) who wrote under the pseudonym of Lee Roberts, and two of his short stories. Martin wrote mystery novels in his spare time, creating more than 22 mystery novels. For more information about Robert Martin and a list of books go to http://www.mysteryfile.com/RMartin/JBennett.html
Recurrent ATM mutations in T-PLL on diverse haplotypes: no support for their germline origin
No full textShibboLEAP: seven libraries and a LEAP of faith
No full textMuch of UK Higher and Further Education (HE & FE) has begun to grapple with next-generation access management technology. Many UK developments in this area are underpinned by Shibboleth, which is conceptually simple, but architecturally complex. It is hoped that this article will benefit newcomers to Shibboleth. We offer a brief introduction to Shibboleth technology, in the context of the UK's burgeoning federated access management infrastructure. We go on to describe the ShibboLEAP Project, which saw six University of London institutions implement Shibboleth under the guidance of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). The project's background, aims and core findings are summarised, and the detailed project outputs, including case studies of Shibboleth Identity Provider implementation at each participating institution, are introduced. The project deliverables may be of practical assistance to institutions which decide to implement Shibboleth as a step towards federated access management
Experiences Using Large Scale Video Walls for Distance Education
No full textWe describe our experiences building and using the Rutgers Videowall, a low-cost telepresence system that has been used teaching 15 courses and colloquia. By relaxing typical spatial telepresence features, such as background continuity, we greatly reduced costs and gained flexibility in the rooms it could be deployed in. The lower costs and room flexibility enabled academic departments to use the wall, in contrast to traditional telepresence systems which remained inaccessible. We found that the Videowall’s spatial distortions did not have a significant impact on useability, as our initial survey results show that students had an overall positive experience.Technical report DCS-tr-72
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