597 research outputs found
Jere Nash Interview with Billy Powell
No full textInterview conducted by author Jere Nash with former Mississippi Republican Party chair Billy Powell in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Powell\u27s background; Billy Mounger; Mississippi Republican Party; involvement in a bond issue campaign for Rankin County in the early 1970s; working on Larry Swells for Rankin County supervisor; working on Kirk Fordice gubernatorial campaign and Phil Bryant\u27s state legislature campaign; organizing a county Republican precinct; the kitchen cabinet that meets regularly with Governor Fordice; Evelyn Gandy; Haley Barbour; Powell\u27s election as chair of the state Republican Party; getting politicians to switch to the Republican Party; battle over state party leadership; Eddie Briggs; Roger Wicker\u27s first congressional race; Chip Pickering\u27s first congressional race; Mike Parker switching parties; Ronnie Musgrove; various Republican candidates for state offices in the 1990s; and Amy Tuck and others switching parties
Billy Gartin with Johnny of Philip Morris
No full textInscribed: To my friend, Billy Gartin, from Johnnyhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/gartin_photo/1071/thumbnail.jp
Billy Collins
No full textBilly Collins visited The College at Brockport in March 2000. He is a critically-acclaimed poet and professor.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
A Riff on Billy the Kid
No full textIn this essay the author discusses Billy Joel’s recording of Billy the Kid and that song\u27s history
My Elvis Blackout and Neverland: Truth, Fiction and Celebrity in the Postmodernist Heterobiographical Composite Novel
No full textA PhD by publication comprising two of my books, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland, accompanied by a reflective and critical exegesis, which examines notions of truth, fiction and celebrity in the composite novel through a broadly analytical and practice-based methodology. The exegesis begins by exploring the links between the methodology of the fine artist and the new creative writer. It then demonstrates that My Elvis Blackout and Neverland represent an original contribution to knowledge in the way that they explore and develop literary form (the ‘composite’ novel), and, in their exploration of celebrity, myth-making and fictional hagiography, and that the two books function as performative critiques which probe the boundaries between fiction and the fabricated reality of celebrity culture. My exegesis analyses Linda Boldrini’s term ‘heterobiography’ (2012) with particular reference to Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy The Kid (1981), which as a bricolage relies upon the reader’s pre-conceived recognition of the historicity of its protagonist and continually tests the boundaries between fact and fiction. In this section of the exegesis, I propose that what sets My Elvis Blackout and Neverland apart from Billy The Kid is that whilst Ondaatje’s book certainly does exploit the confusions between fact, fiction, autobiography and history, it remains firmly set within the timeframe that its historical protagonist inhabits. My Elvis Blackout and Neverland remain grounded within their readers’ expectations of American settings contemporary to their nominative protagonists, but both books also feature dilations in both historical and geographical setting. Through analysis I have come to perceive ‘the celebrity persona’ as an identikit image assembled by thousands of witnesses. A photo fit photomontage tiered with impressions of subjective provenance, each layered transparency filtered through the fears and desires of fans and critics. Whereas other historiographic metafictions use historical figures as singular characters, My Elvis Blackout and Neverland can be seen to be utilising an ‘identikit’ concept to present their respective protagonists as manyheaded Hydras, or multiple probability ‘versions’ from parallel universes. By a conflation of terms, Hutcheon’s ‘historiographic metafiction’ (1988) and Boldrini’s ‘heterobiography’ (2012), My Elvis Blackout and Neverland are in fact historiobiographic metafictions. The exegesis concludes by establishing my own works’ live impact on the overarching celebrity metanarratives, and their inevitable organic status
A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
No full textThe works of Kurt Vonnegut stand as seminal in the American literary canon. Looking at three of his most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically through the novels, the study examines historical context, narrative technique, theoretical underpinnings and the social critique of each novel. Guided by an idea of the postmodern novel the study examines how these elements interact, concluding that by way of what may be considered "simple" yet self-conscious metafiction and prose as well as variations in narrative technique, Vonnegut is able to more accurately convey his opinions on the American situation as well as demonstrate his stance on the role of fiction and the writer in contemporary society. The study also considers closely the role of the reader and the author/reader/text relationship
DESIGN OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER SALES COMPUTER ACCESSORIES ASSEMBLY IN. BILLY MOON USING VISUAL FoxPro 9.0
No full textSales of Computer Information Systems and Computer Assembled Accecories, is onevery important part in a company, particularly those engaged in trade. Because inactivities jualbeli transaction. Transparency and accuracy of the information isneeded, especially in improve the quality of service to the customer. previous systemof sales at PT. BILLY MOON, things are still done manually. So well many of thediscovery of several problems. Besides, it also slows the quality service. Therefore,an improvement requires the computerized system. In order to facilitate all activitieswithin the company. Like, data processing well, record keeping, preparation ofreports and others. In this case, given that dperlukannya a system improvement. Thenauthors propose an Information System Design of Sales at PT. BILLY MOON. Inorder for information and service needs of the customer, can be improved. Indesigning this sales system, the author uses the Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9.0
Renewable Resources of the Beaufort Sea for Our Children: Perspectives from an Inuvialuit Elder
No full text... Whaling has been going on in the Western Arctic for many hundreds of years, maybe thousands, according to our stories, which were passed on orally from generation to generation as the Inuvialuit had no writing system. The way whaling is done has changed four times over the past century. ... [The author, Billy Day, describes these phases.
ON BILLY BUDD MELVILLE ノ ジンセイカン ニツイテ
No full textP(論文)There are many critical views on Billy Budd, but even now this last work of Melville's cannot be said to have an established estimation, compared with other works, especially with Moby-Dick. So the writer's intention is to follw this work, noting where the important emphasis is put by the author, and to find what the author meant to tell the world, in his last days, on the true aspect of human life.departmental bulletin pape
Biggest billy goat is winner
No full textIn this editorial, the author talks about the case against the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. The author, known as H.L.E., first gives a brief retelling of the famous fairy tale and explains that the violence in the story is common in almost all fairy tales. Parents Jon D. and Kathleen Corbin, wanted this fairy tale removed for excessive violence, however the Eagle Point School Board voted unanimously to keep the story on school shelves. The author makes a statement at the end of the article that instead of attacking the book, the parents should be praising the story for showing quick thinking can get one out of a serious situation. The author then praises the Eagle Point school board for making a wise decision and keeping another instance of narrow-minded censorship out of the school system
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