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Taxation by citation in many US cities does little to protect the public and can compromise individual rights
No full textOver the past decade many US cities have attempted to fix budgetary holes by raising revenues via enforcing their municipal codes. Dick M. Carpenter II investigates three cities in Georgia which undertake “taxation by citation”. He finds that the budget share of fines and fees were three times higher for these cities than in others, most citations had little to do with public safety, and local courts also play an important part in revenue generation
Motion and mobility in the realist novels of Philip K Dick
No full textThis essay explores the ways that ideas of motion and mobility support readings of Philip K Dick's early novels that take full account of the changing geographical context. They are set during a period of rapid suburban expansion, the building of the interstate and the spread of automobility through car ownership, and their characters frequently exist in a state between continuity through conformity and the potential for change. The open ended forms of the novels reflect a world around Dick that was still under construction, and where alternative realities can be glimpsed between incomplete materialities
James Carpenter, Lubbock; Paul Simon, Detroit; Dick Everett, San Diego, and Bob Brawner with J. T. Elliott
No full textGlider Model Fliers - Signing up for glider model competition Thursday at Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum, left to right, James Carpenter, Lubbock; Paul Simon, Detroit; Dick Everett, San Diego, and Bob Brawner, Phoenix, Arizona with J. T. Elliott, aviation metalsmith 2nd class, holding retriever balloons, and other officials, Jim Clem, Dallas; Lieutenant Commander M. R. Ball, Fort Worth; Ernest Donohoo, Dallas, and Richard Mossoney, Detroit, helping the contestants.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/13844/thumbnail.jp
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Oral History Interview with Dick J. Reavis, June 22, 2019
No full textInterview with Dick J. Reavis, political activist, journalist and author. Reavis is a former staff writer for Texas Monthly, professor in English department at North Carolina State University, contributing publications for Soldier of Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, and author of The Ashes of Waco: an Investigation. He discusses childhood memories and early experiences of his father's newspaper publishing career in Oklahoma, Texas, and South Carolina; Experiences in Texas public schools during segregation era; Father's political views and development of his own political views; Experiences as college student at Texas Tech, Panhandle A&M, and University of Texas; Involvement in the civil rights and antiwar movements with Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Students for a Democratic Society, and in various other left causes and organizations; Career in journalism; Personal life, political views and travels
Oral History Interview with Dick J. Reavis, June 22, 2019
No full textInterview with Dick J. Reavis, political activist, journalist and author. Reavis is a former staff writer for Texas Monthly, professor in English department at North Carolina State University, contributing publications for Soldier of Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, and author of The Ashes of Waco: an Investigation. He discusses childhood memories and early experiences of his father's newspaper publishing career in Oklahoma, Texas, and South Carolina; Experiences in Texas public schools during segregation era; Father's political views and development of his own political views; Experiences as college student at Texas Tech, Panhandle A&M, and University of Texas; Involvement in the civil rights and antiwar movements with Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Students for a Democratic Society, and in various other left causes and organizations; Career in journalism; Personal life, political views and travels
Front Matter of Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action
No full textComplete Digitized Text of the Front Matter (Contents, About the Author, Contributors, Forward by Dick Sobsey, Preface, and Acknowledgments) of the book Combating Violence & Abuse of People with Disabilities: A Call to Action by Nancy M. Fitzsimons.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/books-fitzsimons-combating-violence/1001/thumbnail.jp
Chasing American Originality: Literary Continuity and Artistic Survival in Moby-Dick
No full textHerman Melville wrote Moby-Dick, or, The Whale during the nineteenth century American Renaissance when America sought a distinct, identifiable culture for the new west apart from European tradition in the East. In 1839, eleven years before the publication of Moby-Dick, John L. O’Sullivan published an article in the Democratic Review prophesizing America as “The Great Nation of Futurity.” O’Sullivan’s vision for America stretched beyond political destiny into the realm of culture. To further demonstrate America’s superiority as a nation, O’Sullivan argued the nation’s literature must reflect America’s democracy and nation while also rejecting any imitation of foreign cultural tradition. Melville’s fifth novel serves as an allegorical response to O’Sullivan’s political rhetoric. Often called the great American novel, Moby-Dick ironically represents the inherent danger in nationalizing art for the sake of profit or pride, and through Ishmael, Melville affirms artistic survival requires separation from extreme American individualism. Through Melville’s creative allegory, he demonstrates literary continuity to the past must be upheld for the culture to survive. However, O’Sullivan’s desire for American originality neglects the natural continuity in creativity. As an author reads, sparks of inspiration provoke thought, and with those thoughts, the author writes. In summation, Moby-Dick reveals artistic survival within a democracy requires an author willing to establish boundaries to national belonging. Furthermore, the author must resist the lure of success and fame by writing the truth, rather than chasing a mythic, political ideal
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Aerial seeding: the methods and techniques employed by the Oregon State Board of Forestry
No full textIntroduction -- Adaptability of area -- Preplanting survey -- Compilation and analysis of data -- Delineation of seeding area -- Tree seed -- Procurement of seed -- Care and storage of seed -- Preparation of seed -- Rodent bait -- Procurement of bait -- Baiting and seeding -- Helicopter specifications -- Baiting -- Seeding -- Germination and establishment of seedlings -- Spring germination analyses -- Stocking surveys -- Results of aerial seeding projects -- Aerial seeding, 1949 -- Aerial seeding, 1950 -- Aerial seeding, 1951 -- Summary -- Bibliography.by R.M. Kallander, Rehabilitation Director, and Dick Berry, Research Director.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 53).Made possible by funds derived through the Oregon Forest Research and Experimental Tax Act of 1947.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
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The electric shepherd and the marvellous boy: literary evocations of Thomas Chatterton's 'suicide' in Philip K. Dick's 'A scanner darkly' and elsewhere
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