Soo Hyon Kim Assistant Profess of English (COLA) travels to New Zealand

In November 2015, I traveled to Auckland, New Zealand to present a paper at the 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing. The annual symposium, since its inception in 1998, has been devoted to moving forward the field of second language writing and encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars situated in fields such as applied linguistics, composition and rhetoric, education, and foreign language studies

On the Divisibility of Trinomials by Maximum Weight Polynomials over F2

Divisibility of trinomials by given polynomials over finite fields has been studied and used to construct orthogonal arrays in recent literature. Dewar et al.\ (Des.\ Codes Cryptogr.\ 45:1-17, 2007) studied the division of trinomials by a given pentanomial over \F_2 to obtain the orthogonal arrays of strength at least 3, and finalized their paper with some open questions. One of these questions is concerned with generalizations to the polynomials with more than five terms. In this paper, we consider the divisibility of trinomials by a given maximum weight polynomial over \F_2 and apply the result to the construction of the orthogonal arrays of strength at least 3.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur

“Root of All Social Ill”: A Marxist Analysis of Poverty and the Labor of Writing in George Gissing’s New Grub Street

This paper explores George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891) and the four main characters: Alfred Yule, Edwin Reardon, Harold Biffen, and Jasper Milvain to bring light on the reality of writers’ labor in the publishing industry in 19th century Britain. The characters’ impoverished lives are analyzed to see what money symbolizes, and how it affects their relationships, career prospects and goals, success in class, and their engagement in society. The theoretical framework of Karl Marx’s Capital is used to analyze the meaning of labor and money in the literary world of each of the four characters. Gissing carefully places the characters in poverty and compares their career paths to illustrate their methods of success and survival. Abundance of capital brings them luxury of time and class while the lack of it becomes “roots of all social ill” (Gissing 32)