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2005-2006 Michael Knight
No full textMichael Knight is the author of the novels The Typist (2010) and Divining Rod (1998), the short story collections Eveningland (2017), Goodnight, Nobody (2003), and Dogfight and Other Stories (1998), and the book of novellas The Holiday Season (2007). His novel, The Typist, was selected as a Best Book of the Year by The Huffington Post and The Kansas City Star, among other places, and appeared on Oprah’s Summer Reading List in 2011. His short stories have appeared in magazines and journals like The New Yorker, Oxford American, Paris Review and The Southern Review and have been anthologized in Best American Mystery Stories, 2004 and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2009. Knight\u27s forthcoming collection of linked stories, Eveningland (Atlantic Monthly Press) is available for preorder and will be out in March 2017. Knight teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee and lives in Knoxville with his family. (Photo credit: Jill Knight)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1014/thumbnail.jp
Mid-Knight Run: The Story of One Family's Journey to the Northwest from the Deep South
No full textDorothy Knight recounts her family's journey from Moss Point, Mississippi, to Tacoma, Washington, and compares and contrasts life in the Northwest and the Deep South. The interview focuses in particular on the interplay between region and racism within the United States.The oral history interview with Dorothy Knight forms the core of a class project by Shawn Jenkins for the Community History Project under the supervision of Professor Michael K. Honey. The contents of the project are contained in a looseleaf binder, which includes the transcript of the interview, Jenkins' research paper, and related research materials. Also included are a series of scanned photographs of the interviewee and her family
Knight, Michael
No full textMichael Knight was born on January 17, 1890 in Motherwell, Scotland to parents Michael and Letitia Knight. He was the oldest in a family of seven children, including Susan, John, Elizabeth, Joseph, Thomas and Rose. As a young man, Michael immigrated to Canada, settling in Lethbridge, Alberta where his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor were living. Michael found employment as a mechanic and also worked for a time at Lethbridge Iron Works.
On October 14, 1915, Michael Knight enlisted with the 82nd Battalion CEF. Pte Knight arrived in England on May 29, 1915 and remained in England until embarking for France on August 20, 1916. Upon arrival in France, Pte Knight was taken on strength by the 54th Battalion CEF. He would serve with the 54th Battalion for two months seeing action in the Somme region of France.
On October 25, 1916, Pte Knight was killed in action on the battlefields of the Somme. As his remains were never recovered or identified, he is remembered on the Vimy Ridge Memorial. Michael Knight was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal. His mother, Letitia received the Memorial Cross and death plaque in honour of her son
Visual Arts Learning With iPads
No full textIn this chapter Knight & Dooley discuss arts learning and issues of educational authenticity via children’s engagement with iPads (O’Mara & Laidlaw 2011; Shifflet, Toledo & Mattoon 2012). The chapter begins by considering common perceptions about art and how these popular beliefs and conditions affect and influence how children’s art is defined and valorized. \ud
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The art produced by children using iPads is then discussed through key observations and reflections, and the chapter concludes with some recommendations when selecting apps for making art
Interview with James B. (Jim) Knight
No full textJames Knight was interviewed on April 24, 2017, by Michael Rupp.
Jim Knight\u27s career in public agencies spanned thirty-three years. From 1970 to 1974 he worked in Buffalo, New York, for the Erie County Division of Planning and for the Office for the Aging. In June 1974 he joined the Oregon Department of Land Conservation (DLCD), which administers Oregon\u27s land use planning program. He retired from DLCD in March 2003.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/planoregon_interviews/1041/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Edwin Knight, July 13, 2009
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Edwin Knight. Knight was drafted into the Army in 1943 and received training in anti-tank warfare. He was assigned to the 43rd Infantry Division, 169th Infantry Regiment. In late 1943, while stationed in New Caledonia, Knight was selected for medic training. In the spring of 1944, he sailed to New Guinea, where he had interactions with natives. To deal with the heat, he lined the inside his helmet with gasoline, which cooled when it evaporated. In January 1945, at Lingayen Gulf, he tried his best to stay silent as a rat crawled into his shirt while Japanese forces marched by. During combat, Knight tended to a wounded soldier who was then shot and killed while receiving treatment. He also treated distressed soldiers who had self-inflicted wounds. Upon returning home, Knight suffered from PTSD but dedicated himself to international charity work, even working in Japan
Networking iPads into Preschool Spaces
No full textThis chapter explores preschools as networked spaces into which iPads were introduced, which involved the mediation of complex relationships between children and adults, physical and virtual technology and other materials like toys, play spaces, art materials and books. The chapter aims to explain how these human and non-human ‘actors’ come to coexist and lead to the development of literacy and creativity in specific ways. This approach particularly draws attention to specific challenges faced by the teachers as they negotiated a range of complex demands and obstacles to make the iPads available to the children for play and learning
New Republic — Straight, Michael; Editor (1950-1953)(JSK_BB8_F19)
No full textCorrespondence with Michael Straight, editor of the New Republi
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
John S. Knight with O'Neil, Thomas, and Graham at golf course (BK3_F06_I0008)
No full text8 x 10 in. black and white photographic print of (from left to right) Michael Gerald O'Neil, president and later chairman of the General Tire & Rubber Company; John S. Knight; E.J. Thomas, chairman of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; and Phillip Leslie "Phil" Graham, newspaper publisher and co-owner of The Washington Post, holding golf clubs and posing at a golf course
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