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Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
Episode 21 Townsend House: The Townsend House and the artifacts inside at the Clermont Historic Village
No full textIn this episode of A History of Central Florida we spoke with Dr. Anne Lindsay, Dr. Julian Chambliss, and Dr. Charlie Hailey about the Townsend House which can be seen, along with the artifacts inside at the Clermont Historic Village
Charlie Lovett Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Charlie Lovett, author of the bestselling novel The Bookman's Tale. Charlie is the son of Wake Forest Professor Emeritus Robert Lovett, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library rare books collection and special collections reading room were an inspiration for his novel
The porch meditations on the edge of nature
No full text"There is something spooky and resonant about liminal places like docks, shorelines, decks, and perhaps most commonly porches. Here, Charlie Hailey meditates on porches in a way that is appropriately thoughtful, affecting, rich, and resonant. Porches, in his hands, become portals onto an endless array of large metaphysical questions: what is it to be in a place? How does one place teach us about the world and about ourselves, both as individuals and as a species? What are we-and the things we have built-in this world? In a time when questions of what makes society society and what sustains the individual are so paramount, Hailey's meditations are both a tonic and a series of welcome provocations"
Episode 15 Cracker House: The Lanier House which houses numerous other artifacts and serves as an artifact itself at The Osceola County Welcome Center and History Museum
No full textIn this episode of A History of Central Florida we spoke with Drs. Mark Long, Ronald Haase, David Haase and Dr. Charlie Hailey about the Lanier House which houses numerous other artifacts and serves as an artifact itself at The Osceola County Welcome Center and History Museum
Meghan Daum
No full textRecording of the radio show The North Avenue Lounge broadcast February 15, 2016 on WREK Atlanta, 91.1FMIn part three of our February Celebrity Challenge, Charlie talks to Meghan Daum, newspaper columnist, essayist, and author of My Misspent Youth, The Unspeakable, and other books, about writing as a profession, writing as a life, and why she would not have rocked blogs
Roald Dahl: the Author for Two Audiences. A comparison of His Writings for Children and Adults
No full textKatedra anglistiky a amerikanistikyDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
Charlie May Simon: Uncovering The Lost Voice of An Arkansas Author
No full textThis dissertation analyzes the life and published novels of noted Arkansas author Charlie May Simon, a woman whose writing career spanned four decades, during which time she remained an Arkansas resident. None of her twenty-nine published novels, biographies, or memoirs remain in print. Although a yearly award was established in 1970 by the Arkansas Department of Education— the Charlie May Simon Book Award— educators and librarians have difficulty obtaining copies of her own writing that set the high bar of excellence each award recipient demonstrates. My purpose in research is to uncover the prose beauty of Charlie May Simon’s writing, examine the history of her life and the times in which she produced her work, and wrestle with the factors that caused her voice to go silent, lost to our current generation. Broader implications of research include the ability to view patriarchy, gendered performance, and gender roles through the lens she provides in her writing of the times in which she lived. The research conducted occurred in four special collections archives: Butler Center of Arkansas Studies (John Gould Fletcher/Charlie May Simon photograph collection, BC.PHO.32 and Charlie May Simon Materials, MSS.97.28), University of Arkansas in Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (Charlie May Simon Papers, UALR.MS.0006), University of Memphis Libraries (Mississippi Valley Collection, Charlie May Simon MSS.41), and Syracuse University in New York (E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Records). Analysis of her published works, including illustrations and text, is taken from my personal library collection of all Charlie May Simon published books. Literary analysis is the primary focus of the study; new historicism is the literary criticism lens of my methodological approach to contemplate the culture, historical events, and life occurrences that fueled the creative spirit of Arkansas’s most prolific author of the 20th century. Areas for further research are outlined in the conclusion, signifying implications which additional scholarship and archival research in the four collections could reveal. In each collection, personal and business correspondence chronicle the indomitable spirit of the Arkansas literary diamond, Charlie May Simon
The Charlie Fix Sr. Family
No full textNotes - A brief history of Mr. Charlie Fix Sr., originally born in Missouri, but spent a number of years as a businessman in Athabasca. Mr. Fix and his wife had eight children. Mr. Fix worked as a debt collector and later ran the Universal Garage (2 pages
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