http://www.karlrees.com/academia Academic writings and projects by Karl Thomas Rees. en-us Copyright 2013 Sun, 01 Dec 2013 22:11:34 -0700 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=2.63 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This is my Honors Thesis for graduation from Brigham Young University. In it, I contend that Asian American poet Li-Young Lee participates in the American literary tradition by organizing and redefining memory so as to overcome its temporality and arrive at a universal divine origin. My argument is informed primarily by a close reading of Lee's "The Cleaving," a comparison of Lee's "With Ruins" to Frost's "Directive," a comparison of Lee's "Furious Versions" with Eliot's "Four Quartets", and Lee's comments to me during an phone interview. http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/the_course_of_memory_liyoung_lee_and_the_american_tradition.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/the_course_of_memory_liyoung_lee_and_the_american_tradition.html Literary Criticism Wed, 01 Aug 2001 16:08:10 -0700 Porgy and Bess and Hughes' Mulatto reveals that America's stereotyped notions of blackness and resistance to racial progress contributed to an almost universal misunderstanding of Hughes' message. Even more disturbing is that both Hughes' and Gershwin's plays evidence the social and economic needs for commercial black theater to ironically reinforce the very stereotypes and social conventions that Hughes and other African American authors sought to overthrow.]]> http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/selling_blackness_in_the_1930s_comparing_audience_responses_to_hughes_mulatto_and_gershwins_porgy_and_bess.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/selling_blackness_in_the_1930s_comparing_audience_responses_to_hughes_mulatto_and_gershwins_porgy_and_bess.html Literary Criticism Fri, 01 Jun 2001 20:46:55 -0700 For our Linguistics 580 project, my sister and I attempted to design a Java-based distributed Foreign Language Recognition System. Our original hope was to create a telephone-like IP Multicast system, in which a client connected to the network and began... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/foreign_language_recognition_system.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/foreign_language_recognition_system.html Computer Science Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:44:25 -0700 This is my reliable IP multicast interface for my distributed Foreign Language Recognition System. I decided that if I was going to make a practical system that could process sound streams in real time, I would have to create a distributed system--one computer by itself isn't going to have enough manpower. And, of course, for a distributed system to work, each of the clients would need to talk to each other so that they know what they're doing. Thus, the need for some sort of protocol to facilitate communication between them. http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/reliable_ip_multicast.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/reliable_ip_multicast.html Computer Science Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:32:57 -0700 http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/liyoung_lee_and_the_course_of_memory_a_case_for_asian_americas_place_in_the_american_literary_tradition.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/liyoung_lee_and_the_course_of_memory_a_case_for_asian_americas_place_in_the_american_literary_tradition.html Literary Criticism Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:37:24 -0700 Our culminating project for CS 470 (Artificial Intelligence) was to, as two-student teams, build an AI agent that could compete against other teams in a 2d capture the flag game. Each agent consisted of three "players" that could either play... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/capture_the_flag_ai.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/capture_the_flag_ai.html Computer Science Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:49:25 -0700 This is a presentation I did in my Ling 580 class (Natural Language Processing) about problems and strategies for text categorization. It asks how we can use natural language processing to categorize bodies of text (i.e. given a word document,... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/text_categorization_presentation.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/text_categorization_presentation.html Computer Science Mon, 02 Apr 2001 13:52:39 -0700 One of the main purposes of my CS 560 class (advanced networking) was to study network architecture and routing protocols. Thus, our biggest programming project was building our own pseudo network where we could test things out. Each student implemented... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/router_emulation.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/router_emulation.html Computer Science Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:12:35 -0700 This project was for my CS 450 class (digital signal processing). The point of this project was to learn about various compression and encoding techniques. For it, I compressed and encoded various images and explored the effectiveness of both processes.... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/image_compression_and_encoding.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/image_compression_and_encoding.html Computer Science Sun, 10 Dec 2000 01:11:25 -0700 Here is a complete C++ implementation of the TCP/IP stack--from the Physical layer on up. Also implemented were ARP and RPC. This project was built gradually through the course of my CS 460 (networking) class. It's definitely not very user-friendly,... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/tcpip_stack_with_arp_and_rpc.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/tcpip_stack_with_arp_and_rpc.html Computer Science Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:27:56 -0700 This is FAT 12 file system (think floppy disks) reader/writer that I wrote in CS 345. It is written in Visual C++ 6.0, and let me tell you it was a bugger to write. The program performs all of your... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/fat_lab.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/fat_lab.html Computer Science Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:49:43 -0700 This project is a Java-based, simple 3D object renderer for my CS 455 class (computer graphics). It only renders a couple of objects (tetrahedrons, cubes), but it allows you to do all sorts of transformations and rotations. It also does... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/3d_renderer.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/3d_renderer.html Computer Science Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:01:56 -0700 For this CS 450 (digital signal processing) lab, I wrote 2 C++ based programs. The first convolves two images, while the second removes an interference pattern from an image. Here's a better description: convolvef - returns the convolution of two... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/convolution_and_interference_removal.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/convolution_and_interference_removal.html Computer Science Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:43:23 -0700 This, as the name implies, is an HTTP daemon I wrote for CS 460 (networking). It is a very simple C++ based application--it allows you to specify a port and address to bind it to, along with a directory to... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/http_daemon.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/http_daemon.html Computer Science Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:16:47 -0700 This is just a really simple Visual C++ front-end for the dos command line, written for my CS 345 class (operating systems). It does things like like show you the results of a "dir" or "ipconfig" statement, as well as... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/command_line_processor.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/command_line_processor.html Computer Science Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:00:28 -0700 http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/lord_of_weak_remembrance_the_role_of_memory_in_prosperos_colonial_discourse.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/lord_of_weak_remembrance_the_role_of_memory_in_prosperos_colonial_discourse.html Literary Criticism Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:29:21 -0700 Any reading of Gulliver's character that ignores the omnipresence of colonial discourse in both Gulliver's voice and Swift's conscience is incomplete. It is my intent to reconcile this "brainwashing" with colonial discourse by showing how Gulliver's colonial indoctrination throws him into the epistemological crisis of being both a colonizer of and immigrant to Houyhnhnmland. http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/the_colonized_colonialist_gulliver_and_the_crisis_of_colonial_discourse.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/the_colonized_colonialist_gulliver_and_the_crisis_of_colonial_discourse.html Literary Criticism Sat, 15 Apr 2000 16:21:49 -0700 The metadramatical moment of Act II, scene iv, in which Falstaff and Hal take turns playing the part of the King, seems to argue against the notion that the peasantry and nobility are interchangeable. It is the intent of this essay to further explore the implications of this scene and to thereby attempt to reconcile those implications with the social criticism inherent to the common-man production of a play about nobility. http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/play_out_the_play_social_implications_of_the_metadramatical_moment_in_1_henry_iv_iiiv373480.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/play_out_the_play_social_implications_of_the_metadramatical_moment_in_1_henry_iv_iiiv373480.html Literary Criticism Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:12:03 -0700 th century social commentaries and a selection of early 20^th century articles from The Dial, the historical context behind this statement.]]> http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/eliot_and_the_american_tradition_exploring_the_unconscious_roots_of_the_mind_of_europe.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/eliot_and_the_american_tradition_exploring_the_unconscious_roots_of_the_mind_of_europe.html Literary Criticism Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:06:55 -0700 Quartet, and Eliot’s final major poem, “Little Gidding” represents Eliot’s return to an understanding of tradition consistent with that expressed in “Tradition and the Individual Talent.”]]> http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/another_voice_ts_eliot_little_gidding_and_the_changing_nature_of_tradition.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/another_voice_ts_eliot_little_gidding_and_the_changing_nature_of_tradition.html Literary Criticism Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:59:48 -0700 This was my first major project in C++. It is a web crawler. You tell it what site to crawl, and it creates a series of web pages indexing your site by word. The code I wrote for this project... http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/web_crawler.html http://karlrees.com/academia/computer_science/web_crawler.html Computer Science Mon, 01 Nov 1999 21:18:32 -0700 One of Australia's finest poets, Judith Wright's success lay in her ability to examine sensitive Australian issues from new perspectives. "Bora Ring" is no exception. Written in 1946, the poem attempts to shed new light on colonial Australia's treatment of the Aborigine. Wright highlights the fear that drove colonial Australia to mass genocide by presenting conflicting views towards the fall of Aborigine culture. She shows that colonial Australia's true fear was not of the Aborigine, but of a universal primeval darkness inherent to human nature. http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/the_australian_cain_colonial_fear_in_judith_wrights_bora_ring.html http://karlrees.com/academia/literary_criticism/the_australian_cain_colonial_fear_in_judith_wrights_bora_ring.html Literary Criticism Sat, 27 Mar 1999 16:23:55 -0700