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Confessions of a Murderer by Ryan Murphy

This work is devoted to comparing two integral bases for the integral cohomology of the Hilbert scheme of points in the projective plane. Let X be a smooth complex projective surface. One of the more interesting moduli spaces parameterizing objects associated with X is the Hilbert scheme of points, denoted X[superscript [n]], which parameterizes all 0-dimensional closed subschemes of length n in X.W. Wang, Z. Qin and W.P. Li used Heisenberg algebra operators to construct an integral basis of the integral cohomology of X[superscript [n]] whenever X is a smooth projective surface with vanishing odd Betti numbers. On the other hand, a work by G. Ellingsrud and S.A. Strømme gives a cellular decomposition of the Hilbert scheme of points on the projective plane. From this work, we have a second integral basis for the integral cohomology of X[superscript [n]] when X = P2. We compare the elements of these two bases and ultimately give the upper triangular transition matrix from one basis to the other.

Poetry. THE REDCOATS is a book of doubts. An elegy and celebration of those fragments of a specific American history always at risk of reduction to kitsch and irony. These poems attempt to manufacture a sense of identity from the contradictions of a self-consciously contemporary perception of these historical tropes, and the overwhelming sense of being ill-equipped to abide in those perceptions. Rather than applying a historical context to the contemporary, THE REDCOATS provides a contemporary context to the historic (in the manner, for example, of the painter Larry Rivers).This makes it perhaps a sad book, or a book with more dislocation than comfort, but with the ambition to find and occupy a space between, to at least temporarily balance the blind acceptance of a moral and nationalistic absolutism (which may also stand in here for a kind of New England spirituality) and a comic and ironic rejection of those mores in the face of contemporary life. THE REDCOATS recognizes a pressure to enjoy the spoils of our national mythology and the absurdity of anxiety in an age of easy antidote, modern medicine, and quotidian comfort. A history, however, not regarded with either pure rapture or dismissive disinterest but with an unsettling combination of both.

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There are three self-contained essays in this dissertation. In the first essay (Chapter 2 of the dissertation) I estimate various achievement models for math and reading using the nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) dataset. An indicator for gifted program participation captures the impact of gifted programs, holding innate ability constant.

With a fine ear for cadence and an eye for the odd and illuminating line break, Murphy gleans the U.S. cultural landscape for both detritus and diamonds in the rough, emerging with a unique post-millennial blend of torqued language and affecting (if also disembodied) confession.

One of two winners of the 2002 Aldrich Poetry Competition judged by Robert Hass.