All That Is Necessary

Based on Real Events & the New York Times article Rohingya Recount Atrocities: \u27They Threw My Baby Into a Fire\u27 by Jeffrey Gettleman (Oct. 11, 2017) Edmund Burke has been attributed the saying, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” I am in my second draft of a screenplay exploring the tangled web of factors which led to the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslims, a minority group in Myanmar, which began in late 2016. Suu Kyi and her administration deny its occurrence. A tumultuous history of empires, invasions, and migrations, brought different ethno-religious groups into proximity. Britain’s colonization entrenched pre-existing tensions. Assimilation attempts of a military regime against the minority groups incited tensions to turn to violence as the minorities sought to protect their identities. The government’s denial of the Rohingya’s citizenship allowed the violence to escalate into ethnic cleansing. Suu Kyi’s silence and implicit accomplice betrayed her image as a globally renowned icon of democracy and human rights by enabling the persecution of the Rohingya to continue, unpunished. World leaders denounce her and her administration, rescind her prizes, and call for the government to rectify the situation; yet they otherwise, effectively, do nothing. It is all too easy to sit in our relatively comfortable, safe lives and, without even attempting to understand them, condemn and demonize others, while not affecting any amount of real change. We didn’t start the fire, but we let it burn

Wandermust

“Wandermust” is a collection of prose poems that uses both poetic descriptive language and narrative to portray the persona’s experiences in her hometown and abroad. The collection makes use of nonce words as a compositional strategy to facilitate a more visceral reading experience and to develop the persona’s character, since existing words in the English lexicon do not always suffice in conveying the persona’s concept of a sensory experience. Just as the nonce words aid the persona in exploring and expressing her surroundings and her identity, they foster an experience in which the reader can explore and experience the nuances of the English language. By reading new words, the reader travels through and tours the English language; they read words yoked together that may never have been compounded before, process word hybridizations for new and existing ideas, view nouns and adjectives from the angles of verbs, and imagine written sound in new ways. The more intricately descriptive aspects of the poetry also function to breathe life into the settings in which the persona finds herself, turning settings into characters with which she interacts. Some of these prose poems read as flash fictions, whereas others read as run-on sentences or fragmented sentences in a stream-of-consciousness poetic style that reflects the persona’s processing of and curiosity about her surroundings. Both the content of the poems and their fluctuating formats mirror the persona’s restlessness as they portray her continual search for belonging, identity, and fulfillment – a journey that, by the end of the manuscript, she is still undertaking

Automation of data collection from an anechoic chamber

This paper describes the calibration methods and the process that is used on the Ole Miss electrical engineering anechoic chamber. Furthermore the MATLAB code that operates the anechoic chamber has been updated to collect sweep data. The GUI also now includes a tab for calibration giving the user the ability to calibrate for their desired frequency range for when there is not sufficient calibration data already available

Compiling dataflow graphs into hardware

Department Head: L. Darrell Whitley.2005 Fall.Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-126).Conventional computers are programmed by supplying a sequence of instructions that perform the desired task. A reconfigurable processor is "programmed" by specifying the interconnections between hardware components, thereby creating a "hardwired" system to do the particular task. For some applications such as image processing, reconfigurable processors can produce dramatic execution speedups. However, programming a reconfigurable processor is essentially a hardware design discipline, making programming difficult for application programmers who are only familiar with software design techniques. To bridge this gap, a programming language, called SA-C (Single Assignment C, pronounced "sassy"), has been designed for programming reconfigurable processors. The process involves two main steps - first, the SA-C compiler analyzes the input source code and produces a hardware-independent intermediate representation of the program, called a dataflow graph (DFG). Secondly, this DFG is combined with hardware-specific information to create the final configuration. This dissertation describes the design and implementation of a system that performs the DFG to hardware translation. The DFG is broken up into three sections: the data generators, the inner loop body, and the data collectors. The second of these, the inner loop body, is used to create a computational structure that is unique for each program. The other two sections are implemented by using prebuilt modules, parameterized for the particular problem. Finally, a "glue module" is created to connect the various pieces into a complete interconnection specification. The dissertation also explores optimizations that can be applied while processing the DFG, to improve performance. A technique for pipelining the inner loop body is described that uses an estimation tool for the propagation delay of the nodes within the dataflow graph. A scheme is also described that identifies subgraphs with the dataflow graph that can be replaced with lookup tables. The lookup tables provide a faster implementation than random logic in some instances

Of Fire

The teenage daughter of a summer camp slasher, trained to kill sexually active adolescents, questions her father’s work when the camp she’s assigned to terrorize hands out bibles instead of condoms. That’s right, it’s a Christian camp

The ship in the sky

The sky’s grumbling. Layers of gray grinding above me the way teeth grind, angry and wanting, all nap long. Two boom-clap bangs and my eyes snap open to clouds thick as clay, metal-sheet lightening and thunder thumping close and heavy as fists. I grab the stone floor and I’m watching and listening, listening and watching and I’m hearing yelling and it’s my own heart yelling, and I realize this ain’t dreaming. This ain’t dreaming. I ease myself near the rock ledge, hanging there like a loose tooth when the ground rips apart, it clear splits thirty feet in front of me right through the Joneses' veggie patch. My gut leaps to my throat. Would be an awesome sight if it weren’t so terrifying. Air and water and fire and earth dancing into one, blasting the ground inches from the Joneses’ farmhouse splitting their flagpole, my eardrums just about splitting in the roar. I clasp on tight. Next thing, my legs are falling from my body, or my body’s falling from the rock and we’re sinking together, sliding down. Then silence. Earth shattering silence. A venomous pause. Nothing moves, not even my lungs. I grab at the ledge hanging, waiting, watching. Come on Bill. Get out of the house. Get the Missus and get the fuck out. The elements are hovering, brewing a soup so thick and dark a rich thick and dark soup. Triple decker boom and I’m rolling to the spine of the rock as it tilts and digs its feet in, crushing or protecting, as the sky breaks open with rain belting down. I crank my head towards the farmhouse and it’s sinking. Come on Bill and Betty. As the sky belts the earth belts my skull belts on the back of that blasted crushing protecting rock, the ground sinking further under the weight from above and rock falling, consciousness too, and then I’m dreaming of everything

Camas, Fall 1996

The Forest of Words / Richard Nelson -- Alone with the Future / Henri Bensussen -- Bones / Duncan Adams -- Roots and Wings: A Bicycle Journey Across the West / Doug Johnson -- The Way Through: Selected Memoirs of Three Seasons in the Cascades / Caron Campbell -- The Tower on Fern Hill: An Invitation &C Searching for the Faerie Ring / John Cooley -- Stones and Stories / Paul W. Birkeland -- Mythmaker / Irma Ireland O\u27Brien -- To Admit to Oneself & The Present as Place / Robert E. Druchniak -- The Oneness of Two / Tommy Youngblood-Petersen -- Reunion / Guy Hand -- Three Points of Wind / James Taylor III -- Revisiting the Forest / Cara Blessley -- A Good Time or a Bad Time / Melissa Walke