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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of Light in August and the semester by mapping Faulkner's theology of Calvinist predestination onto race. Using Nella Larsen's novel Passing as an intertext, she shows how Joe Christmas's decision to self-blacken expresses his tragic sense of being predestined, of always "coming second." Moving away from tragedy, Dimock reads Hightower's delivery o...more
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)Professor Wai Chee Dimock focuses on the themes of dying and not dying that reappear throughout For Whom the Bell Tolls. Marshaling Elaine Scarry's argument on the aesthetics of killing, she reads the execution of the Fascists as a representation of both aesthetic and ethical "ugliness" in death. She then turns to a discussion of the tragic-comic dimensions of not dying as depicted in the bullfight...more
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)Professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her discussion of The Sound and the Fury by juxtaposing Quentin's stream-of-consciousness to his brother Benjy's narrative subjectivity. Professor Dimock argues that Faulkner uses stylistic parallels between the two sections to communicate "kinship" and "variation" between the two narrators. In her readings, she focuses on their relationship with the black charac...more
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)Professor Wai Chee Dimock concludes her discussion of To Have and Have Not by showing how, in the context of the Cuban Revolutions and the Great Depression, characters devolve into those who "Have" and those who "Have Not." While protagonist Harry Morgan may look like a political and economic "Have Not" -- he neither supports the revolution nor possesses enough money to extract himself from its see...more
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)Professor Wai Chee Dimock introduces the class to Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not, which originally appeared as a series of short stories in Cosmopolitan and Esquire magazines. She focuses on Hemingway's designation of taxanomic groups ("types") by race, class, and sexuality, arguing that Hemingway's switch of narrative perspectives throughout the course of the novel casts every character, e...more
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Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251)Professor Wrightson provides a broad sketch of the social order of early modern England, focusing on the hierarchical language of ''estates'' and ''degrees'' and the more communitarian ideal of the ''commonwealth'' by which society was organized. The differences between the social structure in rural and urban areas are addressed and the subordinate...more
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner (AMST 246)Professor Wai Chee Dimock continues her discussion of Hemingway's In Our Time, testing four additional clusters of chapters and vignettes. She offers readings of each cluster that focus on Hemingway's logics of expressivity, substitution, and emotional resilience. She concludes that Hemingway mixes tragedy and comedy as genres of writing to produce a humor that vacillates between irony and farce.Wa...more
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(January 16, 2009) Hayes Raffle of Nokia Research presents the Topobo system, a class of tools that helps people transition from simple but intuitive exploration to abstract and flexible exploration. Children use Topobo to transitiion from hands-on knowledge to theories that can be tested and reformulated, employing a combination of enactive, iconic and symbolic representation of ideas.
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An important area for improvement is cross-border trade, which includes shipping, customs and language translation, says Tilenius. Creating businesses around eBay to continue to grow the trading community (e.g. Auction Drop) is also important. Some of the key questions the company attempts to answer are: How do we convince people of the safety of the site, and how do we make it easier to use?
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eBay has about 5000 pages that must be localized, says Tilenius. Hence, eBay plans to reduce pages, keeping the important functionality and making it easier to go from country to country. However, the countries where eBay is present have more similarities than differences. Thus, eBay only has to be customized in a few areas, including language and message boards, she adds.
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Dell explains how process is critical for organizing large numbers of people in a company, particular if it has grown rapidly. As part of its business development process, the company allows anyone to get involved in improving things they see could be done better. These improvements can be shared easily across the world, says Dell.
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Tilenius talks about the long term plan of eBay, which is to have a language translator so that there is one platform and one user ID to trade across borders. eBay has not found the technology to do this yet, she says.
