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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

It was very intriguing to learn that Lorraine Hansberry’s was so involved and interconnected with race, gender as well as sexuality. All of which were extremely controversial during that era.
Big thanks to today’s group for a wonderful presentation about Hansberry👏🏻
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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Today’s class was super interesting and interactive! My favorite part was learning how to use Google My Maps to map the locations of our author’s first theater performances.
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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Lillian Hellman highlighted how women at her day and age lost many opportunities and were restricted due to being forced to stay at home.
This interesting fact was shared by my classmates’ wonderful presentation💗

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Crother’s plays highlighted and confronted the concept of inequality and unfairness of society towards women.
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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Very interesting presentation done by my classmates today about the author Rachel Crothers! 💗
Did you know that she was an actor herself as well? Her experience was what mainly differentiated her from other playwrights.

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Collocation is the term used when words follow other certain words; words that are often found after each other.
Ex: salt and pepper, cat and cute etc.

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

🌈Fun facts about computer text analysis✨
It is used for 2 main reasons:
1) Look for patterns
2) Distinctive features

Con: You cannot use the computer to find what is not already in the text itself

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Just dropping a sweet quote by Zona Gale that I came across during my research 🌈🧚‍♂️✨
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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Data mining in DH can be used for several research reasons:
- analyzing an author’s style/genre
- comparison of texts to one another
- gain insight on history/origin of a word
- explore authenticity of an author’s piece
…The possibilities are endless!

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

@KaramGhaddarDH @rachel_hajjar 🙋🏼‍♀️

[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Today in class, we learned about DH tools like Google NGrams; a search engine that analyzes frequency data from a large corpus of books. We used this to dig further into social and cultural change and related it to gender/sexuality topics. Super interesting!!☺️

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Fun fact about Zona Gale: she was a major pacifist and strongly advocated for peace, even though it portrayed her as weak or minuscle amongst her community.
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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

For our class presentation, my group and I presented Zona Gale and her work. She was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize got Drama when she published Miss Lulu Bett (1920).

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Hello class! I encourage you to watch this short video I came across when looking up DH. It is about how The Oxford University describes DH to be and specifically the techniques they implement.
https://t.co/0AUQBfkVIx

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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Where can we find DH?
Practically everywhere! More specifically, we can find it in history, philosophy, linguistics, literature, art, music, design, heritage and more of such fields.
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[Lea El Kassar @Layz_Kassar]

Hi! ✨ I came across this interesting definition of digital humanities:
Digital Humanities is the critical study of how the technologies and techniques associated with the digital medium intersects with and alter humanities scholarship and scholarly communication.
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