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The cast of Bad Man Bobbs - 1915 includes: Pat Chrisman as Bad Man Bobbs Ethylyn Chrisman as Henrietta Bobbs Sid Jordan as Bloody Bill
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Bad Man Bobbs - 1915 was released on:
USA: 30 November 1915
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Walter Dean Myers worked as a children's book editor at Bobbs-Merrill publishing.
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The rights for Bobbs-Merrill Co are currently controlled by Random House, a division of Penguin Random House. Bobbs-Merrill Co was acquired by Macmillan in 1985, which was later merged into what is now Penguin Random House.
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Durrell Bobbs- known as the singer TANK.
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Apparently you should start wearing a bra when you can place a pencil under your boob and it stays there without you holding it. Most people just buy them when their bobbs start growing.
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The book The Joy of Cooking which was written by Irma Rombauer was published in 1931 and released 1936 after it was picked up by a commercial printing home called the Bobbs-Merrill Company.
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Ethylyn Chrisman has: Played Muriel in "Her Slight Mistake" in 1915. Played Henrietta Bobbs in "Bad Man Bobbs" in 1915. Played Daisy Martin in "The Impersonation of Tom" in 1915. Played Mona in "The Passing of Pete" in 1916. Performed in "The Desert Calls Its Own" in 1916. Played Leading Lady in "A Mix-Up in Movies" in 1916. Played Jane Hope in "Starring in Western Stuff" in 1917. Performed in "The Wrecked Station" in 1917. Played May Bond in "Durand of the Bad Lands" in 1917.
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The cast of A Chance in Life - 1914 includes: Elizabeth Bobbs Edward DeWolff George Gowan Will Hartzell Louise Huff as Mary Edgar Jones as Frank Deacon Brinsley Shaw
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Easy! just go to da menu put the cursor on episode list + press A button then 1 2 3 bobbs yer uncle! ( it only works in explorers of sky though) (and you cant watch them.) YOU PLAY THEM!
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The first edition of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (to give its full, original title) was the George M. Hill Company of Chicago, which published it in 1900. However, despite the runaway success of their new book, Hill declared bankruptcy a year later, and their assets transferred to the Bowen-Merrill Company in Indianapolis. They put out their first edition of the book, now titled "The New Wizard of Oz", in 1903 under the company's new name, Bobbs-Merrill. The "New" was quickly dropped from the cover (but remained on the title page), and Bobbs-Merrill was the main publisher of "The Wizard of Oz" until 1956, when the story entered public domain and anyone could publish it.
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I guess you meant 'boobs'. They usually itch when you're young(8-15, Im 12!)its only because of hormones telling them to grow. There's no other way for your boobs to tell you that thy're growing! Would you rather them to laugh? But ifi your older I its only nerves tingling, sort of like a twitch. -from Taylor
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/literature Answer #2George M. Hill Company of Chicago and New York, in Chicago, IL, in 1900. The book also is ka The Wizard of Oz, which was published by M.A. Donohue & Co Publishers, in Chicago. Copyright holders were listed as The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903; and L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow, 1899, 1903.
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Eugene Krushelnycky has written:
'Merging rule-based expertise: a financial management cost accounting system application'
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The original first edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Ozwas published by the George M. Hill Company of Chicago in 1900. Despite the success of the book, however, the company went into bankruptcy a year later, and their assets were bought up by the Bowen-Merrill Company of Indianapolis. By the time they issued their own version of the story in 1903, they had changed the name to The New Wizard of Oz (to take advantage of the hit stage play of the time, called simply The Wizard of Oz) - and the name of the company to Bobbs-Merrill. It wasn't long before the New was dropped from the cover, but it remained on the title page.
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In the 1930's, The New Deal years, has also been referred to as the New Deal Thought which New Dealers of the Roosevelt Era.
It was a period in American History when the nation 's leaders had "no clearly defined set of goals, beyond that of extricating the nation from the depression of 1929 - 1932... " as begins an excerpt from the anthology, "The New Deal Thought".
"The New Dealers themselves were articulate, humane, and on occasion, profound. ...In the course of easing the crisis, however, they found themselves -- pushed partly by the cries of alarm on all sides, partly by inner humanaitarian impulses, - creating new laws and institutions like The Tenessee VAlley Athourity, the social security system, farm subsidies, minimum wage standards, The National Labor Relations Board, and public housing"
"...among the New Dealers were famous movers and shakers of the 1930's such as Thurman Arnold, Henry Wallace, Rexford Tugwell, David Lilienthal, Harry Hopkns, Harold Ickes, Frances Perkins, John Maynard Keenes, and (Franlin D.) Roosevelt himself."
- from "The New Deal Thought" edited by Howard Zinn 1966 (Bobbs-Merril Company)
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The cast of The Hot Box - 1972 includes: Joe Alfasa as Medical Officer Roy Alvarez as Leyo Bobbs Alviola as The Guerrillas Carmen Argenziano as Flavio - the Guerrilla Carmen Barredo as Tomasa Dante Bernal as The Guerrillas Andrea Cagan as Bunny Kincaid Jing Caparas as The Guerrillas Boy Carreon as The Guerrillas Pmp Commandos as Themselves SOS Daredevils as Themselves Boy De Guzman as Soldier Bert de Meba as The Guerrillas Ching Dimadante as The Guerrillas Remo Huelar as The Guerrillas Elmo Katada as The Guerrillas Eustaquio Kavanan as Soldier Gina Laforteza as Florida Jerry Lapuz as Jerry Greg Luzano as Perde Margaret Markov as Lynn Forrest Rocco Montalban as Carragiero Alex Pascual as Alex Roger Pasion as Soldier Benny Pebtano as Benny Enrico Portugal as The Guerrillas Ely Prado as Soldier Ruben Ramos as Mimmo Rickey Richardson as Ellie St. George Robert Rivera as Pedro Jose Romulo as Crao Laurie Rose as Sue Pennwright Ruben Rustia Manuel Sagabaria as Stout Peasant Ignaz Sagem as The Guerrillas Fred Schomaker as The Guerrillas Rey Silad as Sgt. Sanchez Astrid Soreno as The Guerrillas Rene Vargas as Soldier in Warehouse Norma Vargas as The Guerrillas Dieso Viernes as Soldier Zaldy Zshornack as Ronaldo
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Pat Chrisman has: Played Stage Driver in "The Man from the East" in 1914. Played Miguel Garcia in "Foreman of Bar Z Ranch" in 1915. Played Minor Role in "Sage Brush Tom" in 1915. Performed in "Getting a Start in Life" in 1915. Played Joe Butler in "With the Aid of the Law" in 1915. Performed in "Bill Haywood, Producer" in 1915. Performed in "How Weary Went Wooing" in 1915. Played Lame Dog in "The Gold Dust and the Squaw" in 1915. Played Martin - the Ranch Owner in "The Impersonation of Tom" in 1915. Played Bill Herrick in "The Auction Sale of Run-Down Ranch" in 1915. Played Indian Chief in "Pals in Blue" in 1915. Performed in "Her Slight Mistake" in 1915. Performed in "The Heart of the Sheriff" in 1915. Performed in "Forked Trails" in 1915. Played Mexican Joe in "An Arizona Wooing" in 1915. Played Cowboy Leader in "A Matrimonial Boomerang" in 1915. Played Indian Chief in "Saved by Her Horse" in 1915. Played Mustang Pete in "The Taking of Mustang Pete" in 1915. Played Pedro Alvarez in "The Child, the Dog and the Villain" in 1915. Played Rustler Jack in "A Lucky Deal" in 1915. Performed in "Slim Higgins" in 1915. Played Bad Man Bobbs in "Bad Man Bobbs" in 1915. Played Griner in "The Race for a Gold Mine" in 1915. Played Bill Blevens in "The Golden Thought" in 1916. Played John Gatlin in "The Man Within" in 1916. Performed in "The Taming of Grouchy Bill" in 1916. Played Desert Joe in "The Desert Calls Its Own" in 1916. Played William Norris in "Crooked Trails" in 1916. Played Bill Tracy in "The Canby Hill Outlaws" in 1916. Played William Saunders in "Taking a Chance" in 1916. Performed in "A Mistake in Rustlers" in 1916. Played Happy Jack in "The Pony Express Rider" in 1916. Played Pat in "A Mix-Up in Movies" in 1916. Performed in "Mistakes Will Happen" in 1916. Performed in "Some Duel" in 1916. Played Jim Mathews in "An Eventful Evening" in 1916. Played Ginto in "Making Good" in 1916. Performed in "Local Color on the A-1 Ranch" in 1916. Performed in "A Corner in Water" in 1916. Played The Sheriff in "Legal Advice" in 1916. Played Jones in "A Close Call" in 1916. Played Col. Fields in "Tom and Jerry" in 1917. Played Harry in "Starring in Western Stuff" in 1917. Performed in "Hearts and Saddles" in 1917. Performed in "Six Cylinder Love" in 1917. Played Louis Cartier in "Ace High" in 1918. Played Ned Skinner in "Six Shooter Andy" in 1918. Played Juan in "Western Blood" in 1918. Played Yuma Ed in "The Coming of the Law" in 1919. Played Indian in "The Wilderness Trail" in 1919. Played Curly in "Rough-Riding Romance" in 1919. Played Mexican Villain in "The Daredevil" in 1920. Played Kilduff in "The Untamed" in 1920. Played Pasquale - Henchman in "Sky High" in 1922. Played Joe Bloss in "Catch My Smoke" in 1922. Played Sandy McNabb (in play) in "Up and Going" in 1922. Played White Eagle in "Romance Land" in 1923.
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APPETIZERS
Fruit cup
Broiled grapefruit
Melon ball cocktail
Sea food cocktail
Pastry snails
Dried beef rolls
Silver dollar hambugers
Bacon wrap-arounds
Herring-Appleteaser
Dips & chips/crackers: Lobster Newburg spread, Guacamole, Deviled Ham-Cheese Dip, Hollywood dunk
Canapes: Deviled ham, savory mushroom, hot cheese puffs, minature pizzas, hot clam
Cheerios cocktail snacks (something like Chex Mix)
Decorate your appetizer tray with celery trunks, stuffed cucumbers, grape clusters & fruit kabobs.
---Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, revised and enlarged, 2nd edition [McGraw-Hill:New York] 1956 (p. 57-66)
[NOTE: This 1950's classic cookbook was reprinted in facsimile edition in 1998 by the same publisher and is easy to obtain. Ask your librarian for help.]
Stuffed pecans or walnuts
Salted almonds
Filled Celery (with Roquefort and cream cheese)
Tidbits in blankets (surround cooked shrimp, oysters, stuffed olives, pickled onions, watermelon pickle, sauteed chicken livers, skinned grapefruit sections, dates stuffed with pineapple with thin strips of bacon, secure them with toothpicks. Broil them under moderate heat until the bacon is crisp.)
Glazed shrimp
Garlic olives
Sardine and bacon rolls
Marinated mushrooms
Cheese balls
Sausage and potato rolls
Ham and egg balls
Pineapple fingers and bacon
Broiled stuffed mushrooms (stuff with bread crumbs, shad roe, shrimp)
Shrimp puffs
Deviled eggs
Cheese for dipping potato chips
---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis] 1953 (p. 28-39)
[NOTE: there is a separate section devoted to canapes and sandwiches]
Barbecued short ribs
Toasted Tuna
Cocktail kabobs (button mushrooms and cocktail franks cut in half marinated in French dressing)
Broiled shrimp
Mix Trix (like Chex Mix)
Pumpernickel squares (crab meat, chili sauce, curry powder, mustard on pump)
Deviled almond rolls
Party pinwheels (dough, leftover meat, moistened with chili sauce, baked)
Cocktail knishes
Filled cream puffs (store-bought puffs filled with hot chicken salad, creamed shrimp, creamed turkey, served in a chafing dish)
Broiled mushroom caps
Baby pizzas (use English muffins!)
Sea-food celery (stuff flaked crab & mayo into cut celery. Garnish with paprika.)
Stuffed eggs (deviled eggs)
Sardine surprise (sardines mashed with hard cooked egg yolks, anchovy paste, dry mustard, butter, & spices. Served on squares on pumpernickel)
Ham rolls (boiled ham & liverwurst)
Dunks (aka dips): sour cream, shrimp, chive, horseradish, guacamole, pimiento, tuna
---Martha Deane's Cooking for Compliments, Martha Young Taylor [M. Barrows:New York] 1954 (p. 13-35)
SOUP & SALAD
Split pea soup
Easy chicken gumbo
Oxtail soup
Spicy tomato soup, Cream of tomato soup
Chicken and corn chowder
Pineapple fruit plate
Tomato stuffed with perfection salad
Bean (three-bean) salad
Orange-and-Bermuda onion salad
Melon boat salad
---Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, revised and enlarged, 2nd edition [McGraw-Hill:New York] 1956 (p. 377)
Mushroom or clam broth
Onion soup
Chicken (or beef, shrimp, crab) gumbo
Cream of celery soup
Cheese soup
Cole slaw
Chilled canned tomatoes
Lettuce or mixed salad with sour cream
Salad Caesar
Cucumber salad with French dressing
---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis] 1953
Consomme
Clam chowder
Cream of chicken
Asparagus soup
Cream of mushroom soup
Mixed green salad (French dressing or mayonnaise)
Stuffed tomatoes ravigote
Vegetables in sour cream
Potato salad (both hot and cold)
Gelatin & fruit salad molds (raspberry ring, grapefruit intrigue, sea siren salad)
---Martha Deane's Cooking for Compliments, Martha Young Taylor [M. Barrows:New York] 1954
MAIN COURSE
Grilled kabobs
Scalloped chicken supreme
Beef and corn casserole
American lasagne
Tuna-potato chip casserole
Savory meat pie
Welsh rarebit with tomato slices and little sausages
Swedish meat balls
Fluffy meat loaf
Baked ham with glaze
---Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, revised and enlarged, 2nd edition [McGraw-Hill:New York] 1956
Sukiyaki
Chicken a la king
Oysters baked in the half shell
Spaghetti with meat sauce
Turkey or chicken casserole with vegetables
Chicken pot pie
Hamburger-olive loaf
Chicken or veal croquettes
Baked fish
Souffle
---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis] 1953
Ham and vegetable casserole
Salmon steak
Orange sole
Corn-crust chicken
Sweet ham patties
Curried veal chops
Eggs foo young
Fricasseed trukey with wild rice
Lobster in patty shells
Salmon casserole
---Martha Deane's Cooking for Compliments, Martha Young Taylor [M. Barrows:New York] 1954
VEGETABLES
often served with butter, cream sauce, sour cream sauce, canned soup; topped with bread crumbs, dried onion flakes
Buttered vegetables (canned or frozen)
Creamed asparagus
Lima beans in sour cream
Broccoli-mushroom casserole
Mexican corn saute
---Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, revised and enlarged, 2nd edition [McGraw-Hill:New York] 1956
Mushrooms au gratin
Creamed onions (mushrooms, peas)
Baked zucchini
Potato volcano with cheese (mashed potato volcano!)
Baked beans
---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis] 1953
Green peas with sour cream
Baked acorn squash
Baked stuffed onions
Wax beans oriental (sweet and sour sauce)
Ginger-honey carrots
---Martha Deane's Cooking for Compliments, Martha Young Taylor [M. Barrows:New York] 1954
DESSERTS
Chiffon pie (lime, orange, pineapple, strawberry, chocolate)
Little pies (tart-sized portions of standard pies)
Coconut cake
Peppermint candy cake
Maraschino cherry cake
Chocolate cherry cake
Angel food
Banana chiffon cake
Easy caramel corn (made with General Mills cereals)
Marshmallow bars (made with General Mills cereals)
---Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book, revised and enlarged, 2nd edition [McGraw-Hill:New York] 1956
Chocolate cake with white icing
Velvet spice cake
Ice cream with cherries
Apricot souffle
Baked apples
Gold layer cake with caramel icing
Banana chocolate cake
Butterscotch brownies
German cherry cake
Peppermint ice cream with chocolate sauce
---The Joy of Cooking, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis] 1953
Angel food custard
Quick butterscotch-chocolate pie
Maraschino cherry pudding
Broiled or baked grapefruit
Cherries jubilee
Peppermint pie
Devil's cream cake
Baked Alaska
Melon balls and sherbert
Orange snow balls (hollowed orange halves packed with lemon sherbert)
---Martha Deane's Cooking for Compliments, Martha Young Taylor [M. Barrows:New York] 1954
BEVERAGES
Soda pop [in bottles if you can get it], Tang [this space drink is VERY 50s], fruit punch, fruit smoothies, milk shakes, hot cocoa, iced tea, coffee.
SIMPLE HOME MENUS: 1952 (all include "a beverage.")
Breakfast
1. Orange juice, sauteed eggs and bacon, cinnamon toast
2. Apple jucie, sausage-meat cakes, popovers, jelly.
3. Chilled grapefruit, waffles, hone cream
4. Sliced peaches, omelet or scrambled eggs, drop biscuits, marmelade
5. Tomato juice, French toast with applesauce
Lunch
1. Broiled hamburger sandwiches, wilted lettuce, sanned or stewed fruit
2. Cold sliced ham, hot potato salad, toast, applesauce
3. Pan-fried fish, broiled potates, tossed green salad with French dressing, muffins, grapefruit jelly
4. Chili con carne, creamed spinach, sweet muffins with nuts 5. French ham toast, avocado on lettuce with French dressing, gingersnaps
Dinner
1. Meat balls with spaghetti, green peas, sliced oranges, peanut-butter cookies
2. Pigs in blankets, baked tomatoes with cheese, banana sherbet, butterscotch brownies
3. Salmon in casserole, potato chips, green salad with French dressing, lemon milk sherbet, chocolate-chip drop cookies
4. Eggplant filled with leftover foods, boiled carrots, hot rolls, preserves, quick method white cake with lemon icing
5. Pork chops with scalloped potatoes, French bread, Harvard beets, apple crunch"
---A Cookbook for Girls and Boys, Irma S. Rombauer [Bobbs-Merrill:Indianapolis] 1952 (p. 223-228)
SUGGESTED DINNER PARTY MENUS: 1955
Chilled Melon, Lobster Newberg in Croustades, Crown Roast of Lamb, Potatoes with Parsley Butter, Peas with Mint Cream, Chestnut Cream, Coffee
Hors d'oeuvres Tray, Relishes, Roast Turkey, Cranberry Jelly, Potato Puff, Spinach Ring with Baby Lima Beans, Grapefruit and Endive Salad, Vanilla Ice Cream with Tutti Fruitti, Small Cakes, Coffee
Consomme Bellevue, Relishes, Filet Migning, Bordelaise Sauce, Chestnut Puree, String Beans with Celery, Mixed Green Salad, Chocolate Souffle, Coffee
Littleneck Clams, Relishes, Roast Duck, Orange Sauce, Wild Rice with Mushrooms, Buttered Asparagus, Bombe of raspberry Ice and Vanilla Ice Cream, Small Cakes, Coffee
Oysters in the Half Shell, Roast Chicken, Whole Hominy with Sherry, Broccoli with Brown Crumbs, Macaroon Cream with Sliced Peaches, Coffee
Fish Fillets with Normandie Sauce, Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, Braised Celery, Mixed Vegetable Salad, Mincemeat Turnovers, Coffee
Consomme Madrilene, Relishes, Baked Virginia Ham, Grilled Sweet Potatoes, Cauliflour with Lemon Butter, Romaine with Roquefort Dressing, Wine Jelly with Whipped Cream, Coffee"
---Silver Jubilee Super Market Cook Book, Edith Barber [Super Market Publishing:New York] 1955 (p. 37-8)
"THEME" DINNERS WERE POPULAR IN THE 1950ssamples here:
"Hawaiian buffet luncheon or supper
For table decorations, use lemon leaves, ferns, pineapple, bananas. Flowers (including lei for each guest) would be everywhere. Soft strains of Hawaiian music lend atmosphere: Tropical fruit salad, (avocado sections, orange slices, whole ripe olives...on bed of shredded lettuce) with lime or lemon dressing, http://www.foodtimeline.org/fooddecades....
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/literature Answer #2George M. Hill Company of Chicago and New York, in Chicago, IL, in 1900. The book also is ka The Wizard of Oz, which was published by M.A. Donohue & Co Publishers, in Chicago. Copyright holders were listed as The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903; and L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow, 1899, 1903.
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Dr. Wally Hastings - Northern State University
Walter Dean Myers
1937-
Life:
Myers was born into a large West Virginia family in 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression. Two years after his birth, his mother died, leaving his father with eight children to care for and no job. In 1939, his father's previous wife, a mixed-race (white/Native American) woman from whom he had been divorced due to family pressures, came to take her two daughters with her to New York, where she now lived with her second husband, Herbert Dean. The Deans decided to adopt Walter along with his half-sisters, and so he came to grow up in Harlem.
Though poorly educated themselves, the Deans taught Walter to read by the time he was four. His mother had Walter read to her every day from True Romance magazine and eventually from other sources, and his father and grandfather told him stories. Despite his obvious ability, though, young Walter had trouble on the playground because of a speech impediment; he was frequently involved in fights when the other children teased him, so much so that by the time he was in fourth grade, he was threatened with suspension. Fortunately, his fifth grade teacher recognized his writing ability and channeled his energy into creative writing.
Walter's childhood life revolved around the church, which was not just a place of worship but an activity center where he learned basketball and dance. He says, "I am a product of Harlem and of the values, color, toughness, and caring that I found there as a child."
His talents brought Walter a place in an accelerated junior high program and ultimately at Stuyvesant High School, a strong academic environment (the same school that Steve Harmon attends in Monster). Again, one of his teachers encouraged his writing, and he received some writing awards; but his school attendance became spotty as he would spend days reading and writing in the park rather than attending class.
Myers began hanging with the "wrong crowd," and, knowing his family couldn't afford college, dropped out of high school at 15. He soon returned but then left again, and at the age of 17 joined the army to escape. After three years, he returned to civilian life, taking a factory job in New Jersey and then a position with the Post Office. He married a woman he met in the Post Office job and began once again to write - publishing stories and poetry in (mostly) black-oriented magazines.
Myers took college classes but did not finish school; meanwhile, his first marriage was falling apart under the strain. In 1970, he was hired as an acquisitions editor for Bobbs Merrill, a publisher interested in developing more black writers for young people. Already, he had published his first children's book, a picture book published by Parents Magazine Press. Myers had written it for a contest, "more because I wanted to write anything than because I wanted to write a picture book." In 1975, he wrote his first young adult novel, Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff. Two years later, he left Bobbs Merrill and undertook to write full time.
Supporting oneself by writing alone requires discipline. Myers' daily routine begins with early rising, usually before 5 a.m., for a daily 5-mile walk. He returns home and showers, then starts into work by about 7: "I try to get ten pages done. Once I do my ten pages, that's it."
The idea for Monster goes back to a series of interviews with prisoners Myers did during one of his attempts at college, in the late '70s:I did 600 pages of interviews with prisoners in New York and New Jersey. And patterns began to emerge. They all knew why they were in jail; they knew what crimes they had committed or had been accused of committing, but they never seemed to be really sure of the path that had got thm there. . . . All these people felt that they were good people. They were always talking about whether they were guilty or innocent, and the discussion were legal arguments. (Rochman)
Later, he witnessed the trial of a 17-year-old charged with armed robbery and attempted murder, right across the street from a high school, and was struck by the short distance between those ordinary students and this young man's situation.
Walter Dean Myers twice received Newbery Honor recognition (for Scorpions, 1989, and Somewhere in the Darkness, 1993) and is a three-time recipient of the Coretta Scott King Award. In 2000, Monster (a Coretta Scott King Honor book) was named the first winner of the Michael L. Printz Award for "literary excellence in young adult literature."
Monster:
The question of guilt or innocence: Do we think Steve is guilty or innocent? We have been given pretty much all of the evidence that the jury is considering (plus a little more conveyed by his journal writing) - so if we were on the jury, how would we judge?
Myers avoids a simplistic view of his character's role. We know that Steve was in the store the day of the killing, and that he had discussed his role with James King. Steve says he did not signal the others; they say he did. We are never shown directly what happened when Steve emerged from the store. Steve's own father and his defense attorney both seem to have doubts about his innocence. Under the law, if he conspired with others to commit a felony (the robbery), and someone dies in the course of that felony (no matter how the death occurs), all of the conspirators may be guilty of felony murder. So there are hints that he may be guilty.
On the other hand, we have ample testimony that he is basically a good kid - his teacher, his mother, his relationship with his little brother. We don't see him actually agree to take part, just that he was present when the job was planned. If we believe that his job was to signal the others that the coast was clear, we have to accept a relatively far-fetched argument that "no signal" was the signal. And he never received his "taste" of the proceeds. Is this enough doubt to find him not guilty? If he is "not guilty," is he also necessarily "innocent"?
Additionally, there is the question of proportionate punishment. Even though some may conclude that he is guilty under the law, life in prison seems a pretty stiff penalty for a first offense, when he himself wasn't even present at the time the killing occurred.
Myers says that when he talks to young people about Monster, their responses are interesting: "When I ask them, 'So what's the story with Steve?' they come up with various answers about his legal guilt, but eventually some kid does say that whether Steve's legally guilty or innocent doesn't make any difference; he is guilty. And to me, that's the essence of the book. Apart from legal machinations, is he accepting his moral responsibility for what he's done or is he just trying to avoid it?" (Rochman)
The issue of the novel's form: Myers uses the two types of narration - Steve's journals and his film script - as a means of showing how people create distance between their sense of themselves and their actions. When Steve writes in the journal, we get an insight into how he feels; when he writes about his crime, he uses the film script to distance himself from this act
That, at any rate, is what the author tries to do. Does it work? We are accustomed to watching movies, and a film script - which provides cues as to closeup, long shot, and other details of scene that a play script cannot - is a bit closer to traditional narration as well in its ability to set the scene and mood. But it is still often more difficult to read a dramatic text, which is normally intended to be performed, than a typical narration. Here, Myers is writing what looks like a dramatic text, but what is intended to be read, not actually filmed. Does this create a degree of difficulty in our understanding the book?
Between journal entries and the film script, we get a number of shifts back and forth across time. This is not a simple narrative in chronological sequence. What effect does that have on our reading experience?
The matter of Steve Harmon's identity: We get various testimonials as to who other people see Steve as being - the prosecutor describes him as a monster, his teacher sees him as a gifted student and a gentle soul, etc. But, as always with the adolescent novel, the great task of this character is to determine for himself who he is. What kind of evidence is there?
He seems to accept the prosecutor's characterization when he names his film, "Monster," and again when he writes the word over and over on his scratch pad, until his lawyer makes him stop and tells him, "You have to believe in yourself if we're going to convince a jury that you're innocent" (24). Interestingly, she doesn't seem to believe him, either, since she never states that he is innocent during her summation, only that he should be found "not guilty," and she shrinks back from his attempt to hug her after his acquittal.
His brother Jerry admires him, and to Jerry, Steve says he would like to be Superman - but his motive is that as Superman, "I'd kick butt" (58). This scene comes not long after one in which he throws a rock and hits a tough guy, then runs away (42-43). Which is Steve's true "secret identity" - the guy who runs away, or the butt-kicking Superman?
In his journal, Steve writes: "I want to look like a good person. I want to feel like I'm a good person because I believe I am. But being in here with these guys makes it hard to think about yourself as being different. We look about the same, and even though I'm younger than they are, it's hard not to notice that we are all pretty young." (62) Steve has to deal with some strong prejudicial stereotypes that may affect jurors (and readers) - the fact that so many young black men are or have been in prison, for instance, may predispose some observers to conclude that they are all "monsters"; as Ms. O'Brien says, "You're young, you're black, and you're on trial. What else do they need to know?" (79) Steve is in danger, here and elsewhere, of accepting the negative stereotype as his actual identity. At one point, he says that he feels like the word "Monster" has been stamped on his forehead.
Steve's sense of his self-identity is further strained when he realizes that his father is no longer sure of who he is. When Steve asks his father if he believes that Steve did nothing wrong, the father is unable to give him the reassurance he asks for, and instead tells him about his own aspirations for Steve, along with his failure ever to imagine visiting his son in prison (111-12).
Sources: "Author Profile: Walter Dean Myers," Teenreads.com, http;//www.teenreads.com/authors/au-Myers-walterdean.asp; Rudine Sims Bishop, Presenting Walter Dean Myers, Boston: Twayne, 1991; Hazel Rochman, "The Booklist Interview: Walter Dean Myers," Booklist 96 (February 15, 2000), http://www.ala.org/booklist/v96/youth/fe2/69interv.htm; "Walter Dean Myers," Contemporary Authors Online, The Gale Group, 2001; "Walter Dean Myers," http://www.aalbc.com/authors/walter1.htm)
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Walter Dean Myers
1937-
Life:
Myers was born into a large West Virginia family in 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression. Two years after his birth, his mother died, leaving his father with eight children to care for and no job. In 1939, his father's previous wife, a mixed-race (white/Native American) woman from whom he had been divorced due to family pressures, came to take her two daughters with her to New York, where she now lived with her second husband, Herbert Dean. The Deans decided to adopt Walter along with his half-sisters, and so he came to grow up in Harlem.
Though poorly educated themselves, the Deans taught Walter to read by the Tim
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The first Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded in 1918 under the category name "Novel." The Pulitzer Prize Board changed "Novel" to "Fiction" in 1948, and allowed short story collections to be submitted for consideration.
There have been 85 Pulitzer Prizes awarded to 82 authorssince 1917. Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and John Updike each won two Pulitzers for their writing.
Novel
1917 (No Award)
1918 His Family by Ernest Poole (Macmillan)
1919 The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1920 (No Award)
1921 The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Appleton)
1922 Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday)
1923 One of Ours by Willa Cather (Knopf)
1924 The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Harper)
1925 So Big by Edna Ferber (Doubleday)
1926 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt)
1927 Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield (Stokes)
1928 The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (Boni)
1929 Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin (Bobbs)
1930 Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge (Houghton)
1931 Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes (Houghton)
1932 The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (John Day)
1933 The Store by T. S. Stribling (Doubleday)
1934 Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Harper)
1935 Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
1936 Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (Harper)
1937 Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (Macmillan)
1938 The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand (Little)
1939 The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Scribner)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Viking)
1941 (No Award)
1942 In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow (Harcourt)
1943 Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair (Viking)
1944 Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin (Harper)
1945 A Bell for Adano by John Hersey (Knopf)
1946 (No Award)
1947 All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (Harcourt)
Fiction
1948 Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener (Macmillan)
1949 Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens (Harcourt)
1950 The Way West by A. B. Guthrie (Sloane)
1951 The Town by Conrad Richter (Knopf)
1952 The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (Doubleday)
1953 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (Scribner)
1954 (No Award)
1955 A Fable by William Faulkner (Random)
1956 Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor (World)
1957 (No Award)
1958 A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication) (McDowell, Obolensky)
1959 The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor (Doubleday)
1960 Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (Doubleday)
1961 To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Lippincott)
1962 The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor (Little)
1963 The Reivers by William Faulkner (Random)
1964 (No Award)
1965 The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (Random)
1966 Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter (Harcourt)
1967 The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (Farrar)
1968 The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (Random)
1969 House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (Harper)
1970 Collected Stories by Jean Stafford (Farrar)
1971 (No Award)
1972 Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (Doubleday)
1973 The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty (Random)
1974 (No Award)
1975 The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara (McKay)
1976 Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow (Viking)
1977 (No Award)
1978 Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson (Atlantic Monthly Press)
1979 The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (Knopf)
1980 The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (Little)
1981 A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication) (Louisiana State U. Press)
1982 Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike (Knopf)
1983 The Color Purple by Alice Walker (Harcourt Brace)
1984 Ironweed by William Kennedy (Viking)
1985 Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie (Random House)
1986 Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster)
1987 A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf)
1988 Beloved by Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf)
1989 Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler (Alfred A. Knopf)
1990 The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (Farrar)
1991 Rabbit At Rest by John Updike (Alfred A. Knopf)
1992 A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf)
1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (Henry Holt)
1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx (Charles Scribner's Sons)
1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (Viking)
1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford (Alfred A. Knopf)
1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown)
1998 American Pastoral by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
1999 The Hours by Michael Cunningham (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
2000 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
2003 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar)
2004 The Known World by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/ HarperCollins)
2005 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar)
2006 March by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
2007 The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Alfred A. Knopf)
2008 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)
2009 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
2010 Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue Literary Press)
2011 A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)
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Criteria for Entry:
Books first published in the United States during [the previous year]. All entries must be made available for purchase by the general public in either hardcover or bound paperback book form. In the Fiction, Biography and General Nonfiction categories, authors must be United States citizens. In the History category, the author may be of any nationality but the subject of the book must be U.S. history. In the Poetry category, the award is for original verse by an American author.
Criteria for Winning:
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
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Sid Jordan has: Played Sheriff in "The Child of the Prairies" in 1913. Played Soda Water Sam in "Cupid in the Cow Camp" in 1913. Played Sheriff in "The Escape of Jim Dolan" in 1913. Performed in "Marrying Gretchen" in 1914. Performed in "The Moving Picture Cowboy" in 1914. Played Olaf Olsen in "A Ticket to Happiness" in 1914. Played The Foreman in "A Romance of the Forest Reserve" in 1914. Played Chalmers Brown in "The Rival Stage Lines" in 1914. Played John Meade in "The Race for a Gold Mine" in 1915. Played Frank Scott in "The Man from Texas" in 1915. Played Lieutenant Manning in "Pals in Blue" in 1915. Played Squinty in "The Chef at Circle G" in 1915. Played Buck Gibson in "The Heart of the Sheriff" in 1915. Played Jordan in "On the Eagle Trail" in 1915. Played Big Pete in "The Girl and the Mail Bag" in 1915. Played Jim Brown in "The Brave Deserve the Fair" in 1915. Played Dick in "Roping a Bride" in 1915. Performed in "The Conversion of Smiling Tom" in 1915. Played Jeff Smith in "With the Aid of the Law" in 1915. Played Doc in "A Lucky Deal" in 1915. Performed in "The Grizzly Gulch Chariot Race" in 1915. Played Ned in "The Impersonation of Tom" in 1915. Played Jack in "The Stagecoach Guard" in 1915. Played Captain of the Cavalry in "Saved by Her Horse" in 1915. Performed in "A Child of the Prairie" in 1915. Performed in "Bill Haywood, Producer" in 1915. Performed in "How Weary Went Wooing" in 1915. Played John Temple in "The Child, the Dog and the Villain" in 1915. Played Bob in "The Gold Dust and the Squaw" in 1915. Performed in "Forked Trails" in 1915. Played Bloody Bill in "Bad Man Bobbs" in 1915. Performed in "An Arizona Wooing" in 1915. Played Jerry in "Getting a Start in Life" in 1915. Played Robber in "Five Thousand-Dollar Elopement" in 1916. Played Sam Gillison in "A Close Call" in 1916. Played Ranch Hand in "An Angelic Attitude" in 1916. Played The Prospector in "The Passing of Pete" in 1916. Played Ed Wilson in "The Pony Express Rider" in 1916. Played Ranch Hand in "Local Color on the A-1 Ranch" in 1916. Played Sheriff Billy in "The Desert Calls Its Own" in 1916. Played Ranch Hand in "Legal Advice" in 1916. Played John Robertson in "Crooked Trails" in 1916. Performed in "A Western Masquerade" in 1916. Played Gaffney in "The Man Within" in 1916. Played Jim Grant in "The Canby Hill Outlaws" in 1916. Played Grouchy Bill in "The Taming of Grouchy Bill" in 1916. Played Sheriff Wilson in "Shooting Up the Movies" in 1916. Played Hiram in "When Cupid Slipped" in 1916. Played Sid Taylor, a Cowpuncher in "Roping a Sweetheart" in 1916. Played Buck Miller in "Along the Border" in 1916. Performed in "A Bear of a Story" in 1916. Played Doc Breede in "The Golden Thought" in 1916. Played Sid in "A Mix-Up in Movies" in 1916. Played Jordan in "Some Duel" in 1916. Performed in "Taking a Chance" in 1916. Played Buck in "A Mistake in Rustlers" in 1916. Performed in "Mistakes Will Happen" in 1916. Played Bill Spruce in "Starring in Western Stuff" in 1917. Played Coyote Tim in "A Roman Cowboy" in 1917. Played Steve Jordan in "Six Cylinder Love" in 1917. Played Carey in "The Luck That Jealousy Brought" in 1917. Played The Sheriff in "Tom and Jerry" in 1917. Played The Villain in "A Soft Tenderfoot" in 1917. Performed in "Hearts and Saddles" in 1917. Played Sergius in "The Wilderness Trail" in 1919. Played Pat Leary in "Rough-Riding Romance" in 1919. Played Jim Bleyer in "Fighting for Gold" in 1919. Played Bill Brady in "The Feud" in 1919. Played Neal Norton in "The Coming of the Law" in 1919. Played Hal Purvis in "The Untamed" in 1920. Played Boots in "Three Gold Coins" in 1920. Played Black Donlin in "The Daredevil" in 1920. Played Jack Purdy in "Prairie Trails" in 1920. Played Jack Purdy in "The Texan" in 1920. Played Buck Daniels in "The Night Horsemen" in 1921. Played Manuel Garcia in "The Rough Diamond" in 1921. Played Pete Dinsmore in "Hands Off" in 1921. Played Tex Marole in "After Your Own Heart" in 1921. Played Andrew Bates in "Sky High" in 1922. Played Velvet Joe in "Chasing the Moon" in 1922. Played Louis Patie (in play) in "Up and Going" in 1922. Played Bill Dozier in "The Fighting Streak" in 1922. Played Scott Mason in "For Big Stakes" in 1922. Played Warren Zome in "The Boss of Camp Four" in 1922. Played Tom Cutter in "Bells of San Juan" in 1922. Played Bill Spray in "Men in the Raw" in 1923. Played Horgan in "Eyes of the Forest" in 1923. Played Gunfighter in "The Iron Horse" in 1924. Played Need - in play in "The Deadwood Coach" in 1924. Played Highway Patrol Leader in "Dick Turpin" in 1925. Played Mullins in "The Johnstown Flood" in 1926. Played Jack Mason in "Rustling for Cupid" in 1926. Played Ranger Captain in "Mystery Ranch" in 1932. Played Henchman Dunk in "The Dude Ranger" in 1934. Played Fighter in "Wild Gold" in 1934. Played Stagecoach Driver in "Bar 20 Rides Again" in 1935. Played Wrangler in "Hop-a-long Cassidy" in 1935. Played Warns Leavitt in "Thunder Mountain" in 1935. Played Minor Role in "Banjo on My Knee" in 1936. Played Cowhand in "Secret Valley" in 1937. Played Ranch hand Morgan in "Hollywood Cowboy" in 1937. Played Foreman in "Checkers" in 1937. Played Buck - Stage Driver in "The Fighting Gringo" in 1939. Played Henchman in "The Marshal of Mesa City" in 1939. Played Sam Brill in "Timber Stampede" in 1939. Played Minor Role in "Lucky Cisco Kid" in 1940. Played Henchman in "Legion of the Lawless" in 1940. Played Cheated Miner in "Stage to Chino" in 1940. Played Posse Rider in "Western Union" in 1941. Played 2nd Stage Driver in "Robbers of the Range" in 1941. Played Shack Guard in "Sundown Jim" in 1942. Played Henchman in "Riding the Wind" in 1942. Played Driver in "The Iron Major" in 1943. Played Militiaman in "Calling Wild Bill Elliott" in 1943. Played Stagecoach Driver in "Lucky Cowboy" in 1944.
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Sure! Qualitative research involves exploring and understanding phenomena through methods like interviews, observations, and focus groups. For example, in a study about the impact of social media on mental health, researchers might conduct in-depth interviews with participants to gather insights and perspectives on how social media use influences their well-being.
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