Renovating this old house

When we turn on the faucet we expect water to flow. When we flip the power switch, we expect light. We want a house to work and to look good. This old house of online databases is getting a new look and, in some cases, a new foundation to make it more attractive and robust for 2006. Much of the value of a renovation lies in respecting history while reinforcing the foundation to keep the house intact. Information providers are using state-of-the-art technologies to create digital historical back files and collections

Tight spaces, contextualizing the journey of my experiences: black feminist scholars negotiating power, navigating oppression, and resisting domination while dismantling this old house

The purpose of this study is to "make sense" of how Black Feminist Scholars negotiate power, navigate oppression, and resist domination while dismantling the institutional structures of the academy in order to engage in liberatory practices. Utilizing Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, and Critical Discourse Analysis, I conduct a secondary and textual analysis of the following works: Sister Outsider (2007) by Audre Lorde, and Teaching to Transgress (1994) by bell hooks. Because it serves as the foundation to Black Feminist Scholarship, I utilize Black Feminist Thought (1990, 2009) by Patricia Hill Collins as the central Black Feminist Epistemological framework for this inquiry project. The words within these texts have multiple meanings within global, social, political, and historical conditions and are interwoven within psychological, sociological, and historical frameworks that are not bound by fixed apparatuses. Utilizing these selected works as primary sources, I generate a framework for Black Women to successfully negotiate their multiple marginalizations (tight spaces) within hegemonic institutions of domination--the academy. Many additional works from these and other scholars are interrogated and included in this project; however, these specific writings serve as the foundation for exploring areas of convergence and divergence within my own professional and personal lived experiences. Critical Discourse Analysis provides the researcher with clear connections between the use of language and the exercise of power (Thompson, 2002). By engaging in Critical Discourse Analyses of these texts, I believe the intersectionality of their radical feminist rhetoric(s) presented will provide intellectual, spiritual and pedagogical constructs for Black Feminist Scholars who serve in Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and particularly, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Finally, by engaging this inquiry project; it is my hope new knowledge is not only consumed; but transformational knowledge is produced and utilized as a roadmap for other Black women in the academy as they journey along their path of the unfamiliar

My House

Clara Mae and me got married two weeks ago last Sunday, and we haven\u27t left this house since the first night. This old house was one of the reasons I married her for in the first place. Her daddy willed it to her, and it became my property on the day I joined the family..

A Landscape Designed to be Viewed, Not Experienced

Everyone is Impressed when This Old House transforms a tired bungalow into an elegant new residence, and that\u27s the way oslund.and.assoc. has reinvented the competent Modernism of the General Mills Corporate Headquarters. With fine materials and design elan, the new addition updates and improves the sit\u27s old vocabulary of rolling green lawns, minimalist buildings, scattered abstract sculptures, and amoeba-shaped ponds, making Modernism relevant again for a whole new era of corporate citizens

[Review of] Lance Henson. Selected Poems, 1970-1983

A previously published Native American poet, Lance Henson, a Cheyenne, evokes traditional Native American characters, customs, and beliefs and demonstrates the tension between the new and the old, attempting to reconcile a traditional closeness to the land and to the past with apparently incongruent modern phenomena

Statistical dependency parsing of Turkish

This paper presents results from the first statistical dependency parser for Turkish. Turkish is a free-constituent order language with complex agglutinative inflectional and derivational morphology and presents interesting challenges for statistical parsing, as in general, dependency relations are between “portions” of words called inflectional groups. We have explored statistical models that use different representational units for parsing. We have used the Turkish Dependency Treebank to train and test our parser but have limited this initial exploration to that subset of the treebank sentences with only left-to-right non-crossing dependency links. Our results indicate that the best accuracy in terms of the dependency relations between inflectional groups is obtained when we use inflectional groups as units in parsing, and when contexts around the dependent are employed