Unexpected Homelands Video

Project 2: In this assignment, students worked in groups to design interview questions, collect video interviews, and then to composing a video essay that makes an argument about relevant commonalities among respondents

Composing For Public Audiences

Project 3: Students were asked to identify a piece of scholarly research or prior inquiry they would like to share with a broader audience, by shifting it into a new modality, and framing its importance rhetorically for their target audience

Maps And Analysis

Project 1: This assignment invites students to experience cartographic agency by producing multiple maps (or inviting others to produce maps for them) and then analyzing the rhetorical effects of the maps\u27 compositions

Visual Rhetorics And Multimodal Writing (ENGL 2V) Syllabus

Visual Rhetorics and Multimodal Writing is a course in rhetoric (the art of persuasion) that focuses on arguments made via digital media. In this course students read, watch, listen and respond to maps, video essays, podcasts, newspaper and magazine articles. They also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience producing their own persuasive pieces, by creating maps, gathering video interviews, collaborating to produce video essays, learning basic animation skills, and producing podcasts

Structural Evolution of an Extensional Terrane Margin: Case Studies from the Colorado River Extensional Corridor, Southeastern California, USA

The lower Colorado River extensional corridor (CREC) is an area of extreme crustal extension (>100%) which borders areas of moderate to minimal (<15%) extension. Regionally extensive detachment (low-angle normal) fault models commonly applied to the CREC define the margin of the extensional terrane as a discrete “breakaway” where the detachment fault originally intersected the surface. Results of field investigations along the CREC margin reveal locally complex deformation histories inconsistent with simple detachment models. In the Little Piute and northwest Piute Mountain areas, the dominant extension direction (NW-SE) is orthogonal to the commonly observed extension direction in the CREC (SW-NE), multiple generations of strike slip and oblique normal faults are present, and deformation occurred after roughly 17.7 Ma. These observations suggest a complex strain field evolved throughout the Miocene along the western margin of the CREC. Westward tilting of the Piute Mountain block indicates extensional deformation persisted beyond the previously hypothesized CREC breakaway. In the Piute Range, west-directed normal faults dip steeply (60°) and have cutoff angles near 90° showing no obvious relationship to east-dipping detachment faults documented to the south (Homer Mountain) and east (Newberry Mountains). In all study areas the observed deformation history is more complex than expected in simple detachment fault breakaway models, suggesting current models are inadequate in describing deformation patterns along the margin of highly extended terranes

"Language is not a vague province": mapping and twentieth-century American poetry

In recent years, the terms “mapping” and “cartography” have been used with increasing frequency to describe literature engaged with place. The limitation of much of this scholarship its failure to investigate how maps themselves operate—how they establish relationships and organize knowledge. In this document, I offer a rigorous examination of the structural and epistemological parallels between the fields of poetics and cartography. I argue that William Carlos Williams, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Hass can rightly be named cartographic poets, not only because they are invested in places, nor because they write evocatively about maps, but because, while maintaining the commitments to order and analogy long associated with both poetry and mapping, they deliberately challenge the traditional sources of their poetic authority, which include an emphasis on visual mastery and the singular, “authentic” voice of the lyric poet. By offering these challenges, they participate in what J. Hillis Miller identifies as twentieth-century American poetry’s desire to “abandon the will to power over things,” or the “emerging skepticism toward all mastering discourses of vision and voice” that Barbara Page discusses. While each of these poets calls up specific geographical frames of reference— New Jersey, Brazil, Northern California—geographic presence is not, in and of itself, enough to qualify their texts as maps. Maps contain an important dual potential: to master and control what they depict, and to serve as testaments and invitations to exploration. My discussion of cartographic authority, particularly in claims to objectivity, draws on the works of J.B. Harley and Mark Monmonier. Maps, however, allow us to explore not only physical territories, but conceptual ones as well; and it is in the investigation of these potentials I turn to the works of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Frederick Jameson, and James Corner.Englis

Temperature dependence of the band gap shrinkage due to electron-phonon interaction in undoped n-type GaN

The photoluminescence spectra of band-edge transitions in GaN is studied as a function of temperature. The parameters that describe the temperature dependence red-shift of the band-edge transition energy and the broadening of emission line are evaluated using different models. We find that the semi-empirical relation based on phonon-dispersion related spectral function leads to excellent fit to the experimental data. The exciton-phonon coupling constants are determined from the analysis of linewidth broadening

Black Holes From Different Perspectives

In this paper we consider black holes from a non general relativistic perspective as also from a microphysical point of view.Comment: 8 pages, Te