Frank Chin

Born in Berkeley in 1940, Frank Chin lived in the Motherlode country of California’s Sierra foothills during the Second World War before returning to the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended the University of California at Berkeley as an English major, but was drawn away to work for railroad companies throughout the west. Such early experiences of movement and transience would provide the foundations for the shifting settings of much of his drama, fiction, and criticism that would follow; additionally, this transience would also underlie the complex tone, treatment, and perception of Asian American identity that characterizes his work and distinguishes Chin from many of his contemporaries in literature and criticism. As Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald comments, Chin has constantly worked to reclaim the history of Chinese Americans as a “valiant, vital part of the history of the American West, to counter dominant narratives and historical fantasies about passive, obedient, humble, and effeminate Asian Americans (ix). As though countering such preconceptions about Asian American passivity through physical as well as creative activity, Chin has led a relatively transient life, although primarily along Interstate 5 between Washington and California. “Fed up with the Bay Area,” he recalls, Chin moved south to work with the East-West Players; and, although no longer with the group, he continues to live and work in Los Angeles

Effects of specimen geometry on tensile ductility, The

Includes bibliographical references.2018 Summer.The effects of specimen geometry on tensile ductility, with specific focus on methods to correlate total elongation values between different sheet type specimen geometries, were evaluated for five sheet steel alloys using six different geometries. Alloys included DQSK (drawing quality special killed), TRIP590, DP980, QP1180, and M1500. All materials were 1.4 mm thick and uncoated. Specimen geometries had gage lengths ranging from 10 to 80 mm and gage widths from 2.4 to 25 mm. All specimens were tested in room temperature air using a constant crosshead velocity determined for each specimen geometry to produce an engineering strain rate of 0.001 s^-1. Strain data were gathered using digital image correlation (DIC). Ultimate tensile strengths (UTS) and total elongations (TE) for the alloys evaluated with ASTM E8 standard tensile specimens ranged from 332 to 1617 MPa and 5.6 to 44.7 pct, respectively. Engineering stress-strain curves showed that smaller sample geometries resulted in greater total elongations. Tensile deformation behavior for a given alloy was independent of specimen geometry up to the point of tensile instability. Beyond instability, curves for a specific alloy diverged, indicating that variations in total elongation with specimen geometry were primarily influenced by post-uniform strains. Total plastic elongations (TPE), defined as TE less elastic strains, were used to evaluate the original Oliver equation upon which the correlation method outlined by ISO 2566/1 is based. Fit quality in terms of coefficient of determination (R^2) ranged from 0.84 to 0.99 for the alloys studied, indicating that reasonable correlation results were possible despite the fact that all alloys except DQSK were outside the recommended applicability of ISO 2566/1 based on strength and/or condition. The average correlation exponent a for the geometries and alloys studied was 0.4, equivalent to the general value a = 0.4 recommended by ISO 2566/1. However, best fits of TPE data for alloys DQSK and M1500 were obtained with a-values of 0.16 and 0.75, respectively, indicating that correlations can be optimized by evaluating a with respect to specific alloys. Fractured tensile samples were systematically catalogued to determine the effect of necking mode on total elongation. Results showed that the appearance of a localized neck, characterized in sheet type specimens by plane-strain localization along a defined angle relative to the tensile axis followed by fracture along the neck, resulted in lower total elongations compared to specimens on which the initial diffuse neck was not followed by formation of a localized neck. Localized necking generally occurred on specimens with larger gage widths, but also occurred on specimens with smaller gage widths as material strength increased. Analyses of incremental strain rate data confirmed that total elongation generally increased as strains within the neck became less localized. Necking strains were less localized as specimen gage width decreased. Analyses of DIC strain profiles showed that neck lengths along the tensile axis were independent of specimen geometry. The absence of neck length dependency, combined with the dependence of necking mode on gage width and the subsequent influence of necking mode on total elongation, indicate that total elongation for sheet type tensile specimens is more sensitive to gage width than gage length for the range of geometries considered

A study of the group guidance class in the school guidance program

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A study of the group guidance class in the school guidance program

There is no abstract available for this research paper.Thesis (M.A.

Other possible identities: Three essays on minor American literatures

Institutional fields of marginal literary study arose largely from related ethnic, gender, and sexual liberation movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Necessarily entrenched in liberatory identity politics at the time of their inception, those fields have remained committed to relatively stable formulations of disciplinary identity in their public self-portrayals, despite the ongoing internal conflicts over the nature of marginal identity formation. This dissertation engages with structures of disciplinary propriety, that have established the grounds for a replication of the insider-outsider, legitimacy-illegitimacy, canonical-noncanonical standards against which these fields initially formed themselves some decades ago. I trace through three marginal authors and their respective fields—Frank Chin and Asian American literature, Ishmael Reed and African American literature, Sarah Schulman and Gay-Lesbian literature—possibilities for a minor reading not only of the ambivalent academic treatments awarded the three individually, but more broadly, of the institutional formations of marginal literary studies themselves. Despite the significant differences between the three authors, I employ the formal and thematic resonances in the work of Frank Chin, Ishmael Reed, and Sarah Schulman to propose a means of rethinking the ways in which marginal fields of literary study have, following Deleuze and Guattari, resigned themselves to becoming “major” for the sake of institutional legitimacy. When Chin, Reed, and Schulman complicate any disciplinary efforts to stabilize the reception of their works through the coextensive use of essentialist discourses in their critical pieces and unstable—postmodernist or surrealist—discourses in their fiction, they rupture, by extension, dominant disciplinary efforts toward the stabilizing of the broader fields in which their work has been, at best, treated ambivalently. By bringing three such seemingly incompatible authors into conversation, I argue further that marginal American literatures may themselves enter into an active engagement with one another, rupturing the institutional containment to which they have been increasingly relegated since their inception

Purple Rain: Temperamental Politics and Budgets in Arizona

Arizona’s evolving political landscape has become a key factor in its fiscal outlook. Once a solid Republican stronghold, the state has shifted to swing status, as seen in President Joe Biden's narrow 0.3% margin win in the 2020 election and a closely divided state legislature. Strong economic growth in prior years led to FY23 General Fund revenues being revised upwards from $15.9 billion to$17.9 billion. Despite this, declining tax revenues and increased spending, particularly on a universal school voucher program, created a projected $1.71 billion deficit for FY25. The state's Republican-led legislature implemented a 2.5$16.8 billion, included cuts to many programs, most notably a $430 million reduction in the Arizona Water Infrastructure and Financing Authority. The political status quo remained consistent after the 2024 election, where Republicans won a marginal gain in both chambers of the state legislature, Democrats kept control of the U.S. Senate seat up for reelection, and the U.S. House seats remained at 6–3 for Republicans and Democrats, respectively. This report examines the fiscal trajectory, proposed tax policy changes, and political state driving Arizona’s FY25 budget negotiations