In 1983, the year Scarface debuted in theaters, big oil marched across the buckle state of Wyoming with the construction of the Frontier Oil pipeline. Oil patch workers from around the U.S. came to ...Wyoming to labor on the project, forming a temporary community termed the pipeline family. My mother’s brother, Ed Brown, moved to Big Piney, Wyoming and was hired on as a pipeline welder. His shooting death at the hands of a pipeline inspector ushered in my coming of age. Back at the family homeplace in Texas, 1000 miles from Big Piney, grief stained the fabric of our daily lives as we processed the murder of a beloved son, father, brother, and uncle. Proper justice, something I thought we could count on, was repeatedly delayed. When an ominous warning came to my grandfather that to continue to pursue justice was to court death, despair overtook us. My grandfather stopped his attempts to “get justice for Ed.” For years, hopelessness blanketed the tragedy like so much country dust, until in the wake of the pandemic, my grandfather’s files on his oldest son’s murder arrived on my front doorstep, giving me the means to excavate the truth. In facing this almost forgotten family tragedy, I have overcome my fears in an effort to bring closure to these wounds. The present-day narrative follows this work and frames the story of Uncle Ed’s murder. Along the way, my mother and I orchestrated an adventure that landed us in the Grand Tetons some thirty-eight years after Uncle Ed’s death and just in time to meet the judge who dismissed the case against his murderer.
Stretching the Truth Hauptman, Robert
Journal of information ethics,
04/2018, Letnik:
27, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Hauptman cites that it took many years for the scientific community, government regulatory agencies, Congress, and even the White House to come up with an acceptable definition of scientific ...misconduct in order to ensure that whatever is discovered, touted, or clarified really does jibe with reality. Postmodernists claim that we do not have a solid understanding of truth--metaphysically, conceptually, or practically--but even surrealists know where their mouths are and what pleases the palate and the digestive system. Our attitude toward truth derives from our culture and depends on the situation, but the bottom line is that Truth does exist and it is often discoverable. Journalists, historians, biographers, scientists, and academic specialists in all disciplines have dedicated their lives to the discovery, creation, and dissemination of truth. They seek out what is, clarify it, and pass it along to interested readers or viewers. Sometimes, though, the truth is boring, weak, or vapid, and the author decides that a bit of tweaking may help his or her case. The argument will be more convincing, the discovery more enticing, the account more titillating, if a word or term or datum is altered ever so slightly.
Unwanted Advances presents a treatise against American tertiary students' misuse of Title IX legislation: a provision within the 1972 Education Amendment, which protects people from discrimination on ...the basis of sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal funded assistance. Unwanted Advances aligns with, and pre-empts, reactions against the #metoo movement such as that led by Catherine Deneuve in France, part of a collective of 100 women who protested in a public letter against the 'puritanism' of #metoo, its inability to distinguish between sexual violence and 'a clumsy come-on,' and its infantilising of women as subjects who need state protection (Worldcrunch 1). Institutional power is not seen to correlate with erotic power relations; many analyses have commented on Garner's description of the student's physical appearance as femme fatale, vividly associating female youth and beauty with power that is both alluring and dangerous: 'a woman in the full glory of her youth, as joyful as a goddess, elated by her own careless authority and power' (58). The complaint described in this book is one of male disempowerment, abandonment and loss at the hands of multiple inimical forces: the infantilised woman who seeks institutional protection against acts of sexual harassment, her shadowy feminist supporters, institutions themselves obsessed with limiting exposure to risk, and a society where individual freedom is under threat.
The plant processes more than 5,000 cattle a day, and the fire, while not widespread, burned a critical location of the facility, shutting down production. Beef prices have rebounded to nearly $1.10 ...a pound, said John Navilka, owner of Sterling Marketing Inc. ofVale, Oregon, and a longtime beef industry analyst. DuVall, the president of the Finney County Economic Development Corp., said the Conagra fire and shutdown was a harsh blow to the county, and no one wanted a repeat.
Harper Lee and Other People CHOIŃSKI, MICHAŁ; EDER, MACIEJ; RYBICKI, JAN
The Mississippi quarterly,
06/2017, Letnik:
70/71, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
A number of biographical or semi-biographical publications on To Kill a Mockingbird prove that the story surrounding Harper Lee's writing of the novel has a life of its own, interwoven with the ...cultural functioning of the book. Her troubled friendship with Truman Capote; her relationship with her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, upon whom the character of Atticus Finch is largely modeled; her reclusiveness after the astounding success of her debut--all these elements have attracted the interest of the general public almost as much as the fictional story she authored. Here, Choinski et al complement literary history with stylometry and biography with statistics and discuss the various quantitative results that make too much sense in time-proven hermeneutic interpretations to be discarded as coincidences.
This essay argues that Truman Capote's unfinished novel Answered Prayers critiques the existing capitalist gender order through its delineation of queer utopianism and social-sexual spaces. To make ...this argument, it looks at the shifting definition of masculinity in the 1970s by analyzing the increased visibility of homosexual subcultures in the mainstream and by examining how the men's magazine Esquire (the original place of publication for Answered Prayers) responded to these shifting gender norms. Having established this historical and cultural context, the essay develops an analysis of Answered Prayers in conversation with twenty-first-century Capote scholars who have sought to unveil and analyze the political dimensions of Capote's persona and his writing, especially in relation to cultural norms of sexuality, conformity, and consumption. The essay then turns to the role of queer spaces in Answered Prayers to demonstrate how Capote critiques the relationship between economic and masculine domination.
...Pugh notes, wide swaths of southern literature elide or belittle queer experience. According to Pugh, "Capote's moments of gothic excess encourage readers to see the landscape as horrific but with ...an undercurrent of sly humor" (57). According to Pugh, Sedaris disrupts southern literary norms and demonstrates postsouthern anxieties through the openness with which he treats homosexuality and race relations.
Vuelta a la casa del padre Pedrós-Gascón, Antonio Francisco
Confluencia,
09/2011, Letnik:
27, Številka:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Recenzirano
La historia familiar, que el autor conocía, es que últimas y confusas noticias lo ubican ahogado o devorado por tiburones - al intentar emigrar a EE.UU., en un barco rumbo a Miami - pues se dice que ...fue tirado por la borda. La búsqueda de las raíces y la identidad, la investigación sobre su línea paterna, y la difícil relación del individuo con la ley del padre, son los temas que vertebran tanto esta última novela como la mayor parte de la narrativa taurina desde sus inicios, hace ya casi tres décadas. Antonio Francisco Pedros-Gascon Colorado State University
To this day, because of that damned history-making, barrierbreaking piece of fiction, I can't look at a soup tureen, a grandfather clock, or a Crayola crayon without sporting an erection, bursting ...into tears, and wanting to either paint my fingernails black or firebomb Dresden. If I risked reading that collection in public now, I'm sure I'd have to fend off all sorts of pesky questions, like "Was that Steve Bannon's winning game plan for Wisconsin?" Some years later, when I assigned Oldest Living Confederate Widow in a class entitled "Imagining the Civil War," students rebelled. ...there was no "we of me" that night, and you owe me thirteen euros, Mr. Gurganus. ...there's my humor class, a survey of US comic writing that begins with three weeks of humor theory.
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